Why is lint giving a warning ineffectual assignment to (ineffassign)

Getting a lint warning ineffectual assignment to "cfg" at line cfg := &utils.Config{}. Why is that ? After the following if statement, cfg is written, thus the value assigned to cfg using cfg := &utils.Config{} is never used. You are using an assignment where a declaration would do.

Getting a lint warning ineffectual assignment to "cfg" at line cfg := &utils.Config{}. Why is that ?

 cfg := &utils.Config{} env := os.Getenv("TEST") if strings.EqualFold(env, "INT") { cfg = utils.GetIntConfig() } else { cfg = utils.GetConfig() } cgw.Cgw(cfg)
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After the following if statement, cfg is written, thus the value assigned to cfg using cfg := &utils.Config{} is never used. You are using an assignment where a declaration would do.

var cfg *utils.Config ...
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