grep: do not segfault when -f is used

[git.git] / commit.c

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index f69525a089de906f76046952824f5ba5c73f3537..e2bcbe814936989e7a86018e46ed6ca86f4c1f10 100644 (file)
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ struct commit *lookup_commit(const unsigned char *sha1)
 
 static unsigned long parse_commit_date(const char *buf, const char *tail)
 {
-       unsigned long date;
        const char *dateptr;
 
        if (buf + 6 >= tail)
@@ -73,10 +72,7 @@ static unsigned long parse_commit_date(const char *buf, const char *tail)
        if (buf >= tail)
                return 0;
        /* dateptr < buf && buf[-1] == '\n', so strtoul will stop at buf-1 */
-       date = strtoul(dateptr, NULL, 10);
-       if (date == ULONG_MAX)
-               date = 0;
-       return date;
+       return strtoul(dateptr, NULL, 10);
 }
 
 static struct commit_graft **commit_graft;