[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/3] avcodec/cfhd: remove unused function

James Almer jamrial at gmail.com
Thu Jun 27 16:52:31 EEST 2019


On 6/27/2019 10:44 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
> Kieran Kunhya (12019-06-27):
>> I'm happy to do it now that I am aware of the issue. I will do it when I am
>> at home in a few days.
> 
> Thanks. I am sure Steven will not mind waiting a few days.
> 
>> This absolutism is absurd.
> 
> Do you have an example of situation where dead code is good?

At least for this specific case, not littering the git history with
commits removing something that's going to be readded in a couple days
when a proper fix to a known bug is implemented instead, and not ruining
the usefulness of git blame for debug/bisect/backtracking purposes.


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