On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:23:27PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote: > diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c > index 79fd97074e..60293ff536 100644 > --- a/unpack-trees.c > +++ b/unpack-trees.c > @@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ void setup_unpack_trees_porcelain(struct unpack_trees_options *opts, > const char **msgs = opts->msgs; > const char *msg; > > + opts->msgs_to_free.strdup_strings = 0; > + > [...] > +void clear_unpack_trees_porcelain(struct unpack_trees_options *opts) > +{ > + opts->msgs_to_free.strdup_strings = 1; > + string_list_clear(&opts->msgs_to_free, 0); I like this string_list approach much better, but it's too bad we have to go through these contortions with the strdup flag to get the memory ownership right. If we had a string_list_appendf(), then we could just leave that flag alone and this: > @@ -118,8 +120,9 @@ void setup_unpack_trees_porcelain(struct unpack_trees_options *opts, > ? _("Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by %s:\n%%s" > "Please commit your changes or stash them before you %s.") > : _("Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by %s:\n%%s"); > - msgs[ERROR_WOULD_OVERWRITE] = msgs[ERROR_NOT_UPTODATE_FILE] = > - xstrfmt(msg, cmd, cmd); > + msg = xstrfmt(msg, cmd, cmd); > + msgs[ERROR_WOULD_OVERWRITE] = msgs[ERROR_NOT_UPTODATE_FILE] = msg; > + string_list_append(&opts->msgs_to_free, msg); would become: msgs[ERROR_WOULD_OVERWRITE] = msgs[ERROR_NOUPTODATE_FILE] = string_list_appendf(&opts->msgs_to_free, msg, cmd, cmd)->string; I don't know if that's worth it or not (I suspect that there are other places where appendf would be handy, but I didn't poke around). -Peff