From c5b8bab5b495e24df42f55cdecb07c0395b4f9fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Gilder <tomgilder@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 23:16:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Patch for 3592: unnecessary instantiation of User

---
 includes/User.php | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/includes/User.php b/includes/User.php
index dada941ad5..2aea2e9e96 100644
--- a/includes/User.php
+++ b/includes/User.php
@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ class User {
 	 * @static
 	 */
 	function newFromName( $name ) {
-		$u = new User();
-
 		# Force usernames to capital
 		global $wgContLang;
 		$name = $wgContLang->ucfirst( $name );
@@ -71,6 +69,7 @@ class User {
 			return null;
 		}
 
+		$u = new User();
 		$u->setName( $canonicalName );
 		$u->setId( $u->idFromName( $canonicalName ) );
 		return $u;
-- 
2.20.1