Move the existing code for invoking free_commit_list() and setting revs->commits to NULL into a new release_revisions_commit_list() function. This will be used as part of a general free()-ing mechanism for "struct rev_info". Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- revision.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c index 2646b78990e..303d1188207 100644 --- a/revision.c +++ b/revision.c @@ -2923,6 +2923,16 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, struct s return left; } +static void release_revisions_commit_list(struct rev_info *revs) +{ + struct commit_list *commits = revs->commits; + + if (!commits) + return; + free_commit_list(commits); + revs->commits = NULL; +} + static void add_child(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *parent, struct commit *child) { struct commit_list *l = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*l)); @@ -4080,10 +4090,7 @@ static void create_boundary_commit_list(struct rev_info *revs) * boundary commits anyway. (This is what the code has always * done.) */ - if (revs->commits) { - free_commit_list(revs->commits); - revs->commits = NULL; - } + release_revisions_commit_list(revs); /* * Put all of the actual boundary commits from revs->boundary_commits -- 2.35.1.1452.ga7cfc89151f