From 8565a52fb03617ed73d5de4b2f59c1c5e8bb03ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:44:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary variable initialization. Props nbachiyski.
 fixes #10736

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@12194 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/post-template.php | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/post-template.php b/wp-includes/post-template.php
index 37b0e782cf..5add75927a 100644
--- a/wp-includes/post-template.php
+++ b/wp-includes/post-template.php
@@ -247,7 +247,6 @@ function the_excerpt() {
  */
 function get_the_excerpt($deprecated = '') {
 	global $post;
-	$output = '';
 	$output = $post->post_excerpt;
 	if ( post_password_required($post) ) {
 		$output = __('There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.');