Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > The `obuf` member of `struct merge_options` is used to buffer output in > some cases. In order to not discard its allocated memory we only release > its contents in `merge_finalize()` when we're not currently recursing > into a subtree. > > This results in some situations where we seemingly do not release the > buffer reliably. We thus have calls to `strbuf_release()` for this > buffer scattered across the codebase. But we're missing one callsite in > git-merge(1), which causes a memory leak. > > We should ideally refactor this interface so that callers don't have to > know about any such internals. But for now, paper over the issue by > adding one more `strbuf_release()` call. Shall we mark this as #leftoverbits? -- Toon
