We declare the --object-dir option like: OPT_CALLBACK(0, "object-dir", &opts.object_dir, ...); but the pointer to opts.object_dir is completely unused. Instead, the callback writes directly to a global. Which fortunately happens to be opts.object_dir. So everything works as expected, but it's unnecessarily confusing. Instead, let's have the callback write to the option value pointer that has been passed in. This also quiets a -Wunused-parameter warning (since we don't otherwise look at "opt"). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- builtin/multi-pack-index.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/multi-pack-index.c b/builtin/multi-pack-index.c index 9b126d6ce0..9a18a82b05 100644 --- a/builtin/multi-pack-index.c +++ b/builtin/multi-pack-index.c @@ -56,11 +56,12 @@ static struct opts_multi_pack_index { static int parse_object_dir(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset) { - free(opts.object_dir); + char **value = opt->value; + free(*value); if (unset) - opts.object_dir = xstrdup(get_object_directory()); + *value = xstrdup(get_object_directory()); else - opts.object_dir = real_pathdup(arg, 1); + *value = real_pathdup(arg, 1); return 0; } -- 2.38.0.661.g581b1c9920