Merge branch 'jc/c99-var-decl-in-for-loop'

Weather balloon to find compilers that do not grok variable
declaration in the for() loop.

* jc/c99-var-decl-in-for-loop:
  revision: use C99 declaration of variable in for() loop

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 1981a0859f..5390a479b3 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -44,10 +44,15 @@ static inline int want_ancestry(const struct rev_info *revs);
 
 void show_object_with_name(FILE *out, struct object *obj, const char *name)
 {
-	const char *p;
-
 	fprintf(out, "%s ", oid_to_hex(&obj->oid));
-	for (p = name; *p && *p != '\n'; p++)
+	/*
+	 * This "for (const char *p = ..." is made as a first step towards
+	 * making use of such declarations elsewhere in our codebase.  If
+	 * it causes compilation problems on your platform, please report
+	 * it to the Git mailing list at git@vger.kernel.org. In the meantime,
+	 * adding -std=gnu99 to CFLAGS may help if you are with older GCC.
+	 */
+	for (const char *p = name; *p && *p != '\n'; p++)
 		fputc(*p, out);
 	fputc('\n', out);
 }