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driusan/dgit: git/packobjects.go; 22 LoC
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Found a possible issue in [driusan/dgit](https://www.github.com/driusan/dgit) at [git/packobjects.go](https://github.com/driusan/dgit/blob/df0293e1c8bb4c484a2ca1790567a270d65016a6/git/packobjects.go#L72-L93)
Below is the message reported by the analyzer for this snippet of code. Beware that the analyzer only reports the first issue it finds, so please do not limit your consideration to the contents of the below message.
> reference to tryobj is reassigned at line 88
[Click here to see the code in its original context.](https://github.com/driusan/dgit/blob/df0293e1c8bb4c484a2ca1790567a270d65016a6/git/packobjects.go#L72-L93)
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```go
for _, tryobj := range window {
basebytes := tryobj.cache
if tryobj.typ != otypreal {
continue
}
var newdelta bytes.Buffer
if err := delta.CalculateWithIndex(tryobj.index, &newdelta, basebytes, objbytes, len(best)/2); err == nil {
if d := newdelta.Bytes(); len(d) < len(best) {
best = d
if opts.DeltaBaseOffset {
otyp = OBJ_OFS_DELTA
} else {
otyp = OBJ_REF_DELTA
}
ref = &tryobj
}
} else {
log.Println(err)
}
}
```
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commit ID: df0293e1c8bb4c484a2ca1790567a270d65016a6
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