clone: fix a memory leak of the "git_dir" variable
At this point in cmd_clone the "git_dir" is always either an xstrdup()'d string, or something we got from mkpathdup(). Let's free() it before we clobber it. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason committed
Oct 22, 2021 at 10:55 UTC
27ff1fbc5dd5ca5f03a65bfc734c913703e8cdf7
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builtin/clone.c
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index 559acf9e03..fb377b2765 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -1040,8 +1040,10 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
init_db(git_dir, real_git_dir, option_template, GIT_HASH_UNKNOWN, NULL,
INIT_DB_QUIET);
- if (real_git_dir)
+ if (real_git_dir) {
+ free((char *)git_dir);
git_dir = real_git_dir;
+ }
/*
* additional config can be injected with -c, make sure it's included