On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Coverity points out that this is a leak (xgetcwd returns an allocated >> buffer). > > I saw that quite recently and was wondering why it reported it this > late. It has been in 'master' for more than a month. Because the repo/script for coverity was broken. It was missing a hard reset, such that the merge conflict that occurred once upon a time stayed in the repo and the checkout and merge of the newer version did not succeed for quite some time. I fixed it yesterday and will monitor the script more carefully now. Stefan