On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 02:34:16PM -0700, Jonathan Tan wrote: > @@ -99,6 +94,11 @@ static int promisor_remote_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *data > size_t namelen; > const char *subkey; > > + if (!strcmp(var, "extensions.partialclone")) { > + repository_format_partial_clone = xstrdup(value); Can value ever be NULL here? I think the answer is "no, because we check earlier in setup.c:handle_extension_v0()", but there is an implicit conversion from xstrdup_or_null() to just xstrdup(), which would fault if value were to be NULL. Looking deeper, this path is a little confusing to me, since (in the pre-image), handle_extension_v0() makes a copy of value and binds it to data->partial_clone. But then check_repository_format_gently() makes another copy of canidate->partial_clone (which is the same location as data->partial_clone). So, the extra copy is a little strange to me, because even though the copy in handle_extension_v0() is definitely necessary, I'm not certain that the one in set_repository_format_partial_clone() is. And this patch removes the latter one, which I think is good. But we never free repository_format_partial_clone. Maybe that is added in a later patch, let's see... Thanks, Taylor