We have two exits from the function: either we jump to the out_stale
label or not. But in both exits we repeat our cleanup, and the only
difference is our return value. Let's just use a variable for the return
value to avoid repeating ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>