Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> sequencer.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
>> index b98690ecd41..aba03e9429a 100644
>> --- a/sequencer.c
>> +++ b/sequencer.c
>> @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static int git_sequencer_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
>> warning(_("invalid commit message cleanup mode '%s'"),
>> s);
>>
>> + free(s);
>> return status;
>> }
>
> Shouldn't 's' now lose 'const'? After all, git_config_string()
> gives you an allocated memory so...
Yikes. Should git_config_string() and git_config_pathname() take
"char **dst" instead of "const char **" as their out-location
parameter? They both assign a pointer to an allocated piece of
memory for the caller to own or dispose of, but because of
const-ness of the pointee their first parameter has, a caller like
this one must declare "const char *s" yet is forced to call free()
not to leak the value when it is done.
