Re: [PATCH] MyFirstObjectWalk: remove unnecessary conditional statement

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On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 03:19:13PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
> 
> In the given example, `commit` cannot be `NULL` (because this is the
> loop condition: if it was `NULL`, the loop body would not be entered at
> all). It took this developer a moment or two to see that this is
> therefore dead code.

Nice catch. Thanks.

> 
> Let's remove it, to avoid puzzling future readers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>     MyFirstObjectWalk: remove unnecessary conditional statement
>     
>     Our introductory documentation made me scratch my head because our
>     example contains dead code. I'd like to remove it lest we confuse future
>     contributors.
> 
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-589%2Fdscho%2Fgit-walken-head-scratcher-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-589/dscho/git-walken-head-scratcher-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/589
> 
>  Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt b/Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt
> index aa828dfdc44..c3f2d1a831e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt
> @@ -357,9 +357,6 @@ static void walken_commit_walk(struct rev_info *rev)
>  	...
>  
>  	while ((commit = get_revision(rev))) {
> -		if (!commit)
> -			continue;
> -
>  		strbuf_reset(&prettybuf);
>  		pp_commit_easy(CMIT_FMT_ONELINE, commit, &prettybuf);
>  		puts(prettybuf.buf);
> 
> base-commit: 3bab5d56259722843359702bc27111475437ad2a
> -- 
> gitgitgadget



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