On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:05:38AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > Not sure what triggered the new finding of coverity as seen below as the > parse_commit() was not touched. Junios series regarding the merge base > optimization touches a bit of code nearby though.
I have noticed that "old" problems sometimes reappear when nearby code changes. I assume that they have some kind of heuristic to identify the location of a defect, that it probably includes the line number in the file, and that it can be fooled by too much code appearing nearby. -Peff
