Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > + struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; > + char *ref_git = compute_alternate_path(item->string, &sb); Who owns the memory for ref_git? > - if (!access(mkpath("%s/shallow", ref_git), F_OK)) > - die(_("reference repository '%s' is shallow"), item->string); > + if (!ref_git) > + die("%s", sb.buf); Presumably the second argument to compute_alternate_path() is a strbuf to receive the error message? It is unfortunate that the variable used for this purpose is a bland "sb", but perhaps that cannot be helped as you would reuse that strbuf for a different purpose (i.e. not to store the error message, but to formulate a pathname). > - if (!access(mkpath("%s/info/grafts", ref_git), F_OK)) > - die(_("reference repository '%s' is grafted"), item->string); > + strbuf_addf(&sb, "%s/objects", ref_git); > + add_to_alternates_file(sb.buf); > > - strbuf_addf(&alternate, "%s/objects", ref_git); > - add_to_alternates_file(alternate.buf); > - strbuf_release(&alternate); > - free(ref_git); > + strbuf_release(&sb); I am wondering about the loss of free() here in the first comment. > +/* > + * Compute the exact path an alternate is at and returns it. In case of > + * error NULL is returned and the human readable error is added to `err` > + * `path` may be relative and should point to $GITDIR. > + * `err` must not be null. > + */ > +char *compute_alternate_path(const char *path, struct strbuf *err) > +{ > + char *ref_git = NULL; > + const char *repo, *ref_git_s; > + struct strbuf err_buf = STRBUF_INIT; Why do you need "err_buf", instead of directly writing the error to "err", especially if "err" is not optional? > + ... > +out: > + if (err_buf.len) { > + strbuf_addbuf(err, &err_buf); > + free(ref_git); > + ref_git = NULL; > + } > + > + strbuf_release(&err_buf); > + return ref_git; > +} So ref_git is a piece of memory on heap, and the caller is responsible for not leaking it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html