From d6f7788935536700aca9aa9fce60b43afb494d4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Drew Jaynes <info@drewapicture.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 05:19:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove an unnecessary initialization of `$description` due to
 the else condition in `get_the_archive_description()`.

See [40976]. See #38487.

Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@40977


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@40827 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/general-template.php | 2 --
 wp-includes/version.php          | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/general-template.php b/wp-includes/general-template.php
index e4516328bf..5ee4e20b4b 100644
--- a/wp-includes/general-template.php
+++ b/wp-includes/general-template.php
@@ -1551,8 +1551,6 @@ function the_archive_description( $before = '', $after = '' ) {
  * @return string Archive description.
  */
 function get_the_archive_description() {
-	$description = '';
-
 	if ( is_author() ) {
 		$description = get_the_author_meta( 'description' );
 	} elseif ( is_post_type_archive() ) {
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 4ddf431a87..786fc01472 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '4.9-alpha-40976';
+$wp_version = '4.9-alpha-40977';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.