remove redundant type casts

Author: cscheid

src/command/render/pandoc.ts

@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ export async function runPandoc(
 
   // generate defaults and capture defaults to be printed
   let allDefaults = (await generateDefaults(options)) || {};
-  let printAllDefaults = safeCloneDeep(allDefaults) as FormatPandoc;
+  let printAllDefaults = safeCloneDeep(allDefaults);
 
   // capture any filterParams in the FormatExtras
   const formatFilterParams = {} as Record<string, unknown>;
@@ -1689,7 +1689,7 @@ function runPandocMessage(
 
   const keys = Object.keys(metadata);
   if (keys.length > 0) {
-    const printMetadata = safeCloneDeep(metadata) as Metadata;
+    const printMetadata = safeCloneDeep(metadata);
     delete printMetadata.format;
 
     // print message

src/command/render/render-contexts.ts

@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ export async function renderContexts(
     // we make it optional because some of the callers have
     // actually just cloned it themselves and don't need to preserve
     // the original
-    options = safeCloneDeep(options) as RenderOptions;
+    options = safeCloneDeep(options);
   }
 
   const { engine, target } = await fileExecutionEngineAndTarget(

src/render/notebook/notebook-contributor-html.ts

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ function resolveHtmlNotebook(
   executedFile: ExecutedFile,
   notebookMetadata?: NotebookMetadata,
 ) {
-  const resolved = safeCloneDeep(executedFile) as ExecutedFile;
+  const resolved = safeCloneDeep(executedFile);
 
   // Set the output file
   resolved.recipe.format.pandoc[kOutputFile] = `${outputFile(nbAbsPath)}`;