transport: simplify duplicating a substring in transport_get() using xmemdupz()

diff --git a/sha1-lookup.c b/sha1-lookup.c
index 2dd851598a9d1444fe479d149ee3c2cb93e8cba9..5f069214d9060da8ceb001e6c037607c1d0096bf 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1-lookup.c
+++ b/sha1-lookup.c
@@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ int sha1_pos(const unsigned char *sha1, void *table, size_t nr,
                                die("BUG: assertion failed in binary search");
                        }
                }
-               if (18 <= ofs)
-                       die("cannot happen -- lo and hi are identical");
        }
 
        do {