From 523038336e45198862075bb7a840adff2d4ac0ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Drew Herren <drewherrenopensource@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 17:39:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Removed errant overwrite of num_deleted_nodes on JSON
 deserialization

---
 src/tree.cpp | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tree.cpp b/src/tree.cpp
index 3bc85c74..32c51475 100644
--- a/src/tree.cpp
+++ b/src/tree.cpp
@@ -665,7 +665,6 @@ void Tree::from_json(const json& tree_json) {
   tree_json.at("has_categorical_split").get_to(this->has_categorical_split_);
   tree_json.at("output_dimension").get_to(this->output_dimension_);
   tree_json.at("is_log_scale").get_to(this->is_log_scale_);
-  this->num_deleted_nodes = 0;
   
   // Unpack the array based fields
   JsonToTreeNodeVectors(tree_json, this);