Hi Miriam, welcome to the Git project! On Sun, 8 Dec 2019, Miriam Rubio wrote: > From: Tanushree Tumane <tanushreetumane@xxxxxxxxx> Is this really a patch authored by Tanushree, or is this a fix written by you, intended to fix a patch authored by Tanushree? If it is the latter, please use a completely new commit message and take the authorship yourself. > Move `error("...%s...", branch.buf);` before `strbuf_release(&branch);` > to release string buffer `branch` and the memory it used. This describes the "what?", but the patch already does that. The commit message should be more about the "why?". In this instance, I believe that the commit message should read more like this: -- snip -- bisect--helper: avoid free-after-use In 5e82c3dd22a (bisect--helper: `bisect_reset` shell function in C, 2019-01-02), the `git bisect reset` subcommand was ported to C. When the call to `git checkout` failed, an error message was reported to the user. However, this error message used the `strbuf` that had just been released already. Let's switch that around: first use it, then release it. Signed-off-by: Miriam Rubio <mirucam@xxxxxxxxx> -- snap -- > > Mentored-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> > Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Tanushree Tumane <tanushreetumane@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Miriam Rubio <mirucam@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > builtin/bisect--helper.c | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/bisect--helper.c b/builtin/bisect--helper.c > index 1fbe156e67..3055b2bb50 100644 > --- a/builtin/bisect--helper.c > +++ b/builtin/bisect--helper.c > @@ -169,11 +169,12 @@ static int bisect_reset(const char *commit) > > argv_array_pushl(&argv, "checkout", branch.buf, "--", NULL); > if (run_command_v_opt(argv.argv, RUN_GIT_CMD)) { > + error(_("could not check out original" > + " HEAD '%s'. Try 'git bisect" > + " reset <commit>'."), branch.buf); > strbuf_release(&branch); > argv_array_clear(&argv); > - return error(_("could not check out original" > - " HEAD '%s'. Try 'git bisect" > - " reset <commit>'."), branch.buf); > + return -1; The patch looks good. Thanks! Johannes > } > argv_array_clear(&argv); > } > -- > 2.21.0 (Apple Git-122.2) > >