This change addresses part of the NEEDSWORK comment above the code, therefore the comment needs to be adjusted, too. Discovered via Coverity. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- builtin/checkout.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index bfa5419f335..5faea3a05fa 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -235,14 +235,14 @@ static int checkout_merged(int pos, const struct checkout *state) /* * NEEDSWORK: * There is absolutely no reason to write this as a blob object - * and create a phony cache entry just to leak. This hack is - * primarily to get to the write_entry() machinery that massages - * the contents to work-tree format and writes out which only - * allows it for a cache entry. The code in write_entry() needs - * to be refactored to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode> - * instead of a cache entry. Such a refactoring would help - * merge_recursive as well (it also writes the merge result to the - * object database even when it may contain conflicts). + * and create a phony cache entry. This hack is primarily to get + * to the write_entry() machinery that massages the contents to + * work-tree format and writes out which only allows it for a + * cache entry. The code in write_entry() needs to be refactored + * to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode> instead of a cache + * entry. Such a refactoring would help merge_recursive as well + * (it also writes the merge result to the object database even + * when it may contain conflicts). */ if (write_sha1_file(result_buf.ptr, result_buf.size, blob_type, oid.hash)) @@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ static int checkout_merged(int pos, const struct checkout *state) if (!ce) die(_("make_cache_entry failed for path '%s'"), path); status = checkout_entry(ce, state, NULL); + free(ce); return status; } -- 2.12.2.windows.2.800.gede8f145e06