Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > You may already have noticed this, but with this topic merged, > 'seen' seems to start failing leak checker jobs e.g. > > https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/11642458705 > https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/11642458705/job/32422074222#step:4:1964 > https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/11642458705/job/32422074132#step:4:1963 With this patch, t5300 no longer seems to leak (when the topic is tested alone, at least). builtin/index-pack.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git c/builtin/index-pack.c w/builtin/index-pack.c index e4afd6725f..08b340552f 100644 --- c/builtin/index-pack.c +++ w/builtin/index-pack.c @@ -1821,6 +1821,7 @@ static void repack_local_links(void) if (finish_command(&cmd)) die(_("could not finish pack-objects to repack local links")); strbuf_release(&line); + free(base_name); } int cmd_index_pack(int argc,