This has been unused since #29648. Noticed while running a newer version of clang-tidy (19.1.1):
0[127/391][6.2s] /opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin/clang-tidy -p=build -quiet --config-file=/bitcoin/src/.clang-tidy /bitcoin/src/test/script_tests.cpp
1bitcoin/src/test/script_tests.cpp:126:25: error: local copy 'tx2' of the variable 'tx' is never modified and never used; consider removing the statement [performance-unnecessary-copy-initialization,-warnings-as-errors]
2 126 | CMutableTransaction tx2 = tx;
3 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~
4 127 | BOOST_CHECK_MESSAGE(VerifyScript(scriptSig, scriptPubKey, &scriptWitness, flags, MutableTransactionSignatureChecker(&tx, 0, txCredit.vout[0].nValue, MissingDataBehavior::ASSERT_FAIL), &err) == expect, message);
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