Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 01:49:24PM +0200, Remi Galan Alfonso wrote:
>
>> Hi Peff,
>> 
>> Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
>> > @@ -413,7 +411,7 @@ static int write_tar_archive(const struct archiver *ar,
>> >  {
>> >          int err = 0;
>> >  
>> > -        err = write_global_extended_header(args);
>> > +        write_global_extended_header(args);
>> >          if (!err)
>> >                  err = write_archive_entries(args, write_tar_entry);
>> 
>> If we drop the error code from 'write_global_extended_header' then the
>> above 'if (!err)' becomes useless (always evaluates to 'true' since
>> 'err' is set to '0').
>
> Thanks, you're right.
>
> I wondered if we could drop "err" entirely, but write_archive_entries()
> does indeed have some error code paths (everybody uses write_or_die, but
> we return an error for things like unknown file types).

You could if you did this ;-)

Which I do not necessarily think is a good idea.

This may be easier to read

        write_global_extended_header(args)
        err = write_archive_entries(args, write_tar_entry);
        if (!err)
                write_trailer();
        return err;

though.

 archive-tar.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/archive-tar.c b/archive-tar.c
index 903b74d..eed2c96 100644
--- a/archive-tar.c
+++ b/archive-tar.c
@@ -412,11 +412,9 @@ static int write_tar_archive(const struct archiver *ar,
        int err = 0;
 
        write_global_extended_header(args);
-       if (!err)
-               err = write_archive_entries(args, write_tar_entry);
-       if (!err)
-               write_trailer();
-       return err;
+
+       return (write_archive_entries(args, write_tar_entry) ||
+               write_trailer());
 }
 
 static int write_tar_filter_archive(const struct archiver *ar,
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