The intention here seems to be that $prev may be undefined, and the
only way that can legitimately happen is for $params{token} to be
undefined too.
(cherry picked from commit
fd14cd2a4355684951bb40a1e72e8b0960a674fd)
# Check to see if the page has been changed by someone else since
# rcs_prepedit was called.
my $cur = git_sha1_file($params{file});
- my ($prev) = $params{token} =~ /^($sha1_pattern)$/; # untaint
+ my $prev;
+ if (defined $params{token}) {
+ ($prev) = $params{token} =~ /^($sha1_pattern)$/; # untaint
+ }
if (defined $cur && defined $prev && $cur ne $prev) {
my $conflict = merge_past($prev, $params{file}, $dummy_commit_msg);