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attr: drop misguided defensive coding
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In prepare_attr_stack, we pop the old elements of the stack
(which were left from a previous lookup and may or may not
be useful to us). Our loop to do so checks that we never
reach the top of the stack. However, the code immediately
afterwards will segfault if we did actually reach the top of
the stack.

Fortunately, this is not an actual bug, since we will never
pop all of the stack elements (we will always keep the root
gitattributes, as well as the builtin ones). So the extra
check in the loop condition simply clutters the code and
makes the intent less clear. Let's get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King authored and Junio C Hamano committed Jan 10, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static void prepare_attr_stack(const char *path, int dirlen)
* Pop the ones from directories that are not the prefix of
* the path we are checking.
*/
while (attr_stack && attr_stack->origin) {
while (attr_stack->origin) {
int namelen = strlen(attr_stack->origin);

elem = attr_stack;
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