diff -r 1f0f84660dea -r 810ca383da9c mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Tue Oct 28 19:07:14 2008 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Tue Oct 28 19:25:26 2008 +0100
@@ -1154,7 +1154,6 @@
     if pats:
         modified, added, removed = repo.status(match=m)[:3]
         files = util.sort(modified + added + removed)
-        slist = None
 
         def is_dir(f):
             name = f + '/'