| commit | 548009c0d58c74dde2c51f675b369b4c50878f1b | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | Mon Aug 01 13:44:53 2016 +0200 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Mon Aug 01 11:45:30 2016 -0700 |
| tree | 8f67f25695a6b87eea5067fce0ba179e1aea4fd9 | |
| parent | f1e2426b28399b563527d110c849acd65b680de6 [diff] |
merge_trees(): ensure that the callers release output buffer The recursive merge machinery accumulates its output in an output buffer, to be flushed at the end of merge_recursive(). At this point, we forgot to release the output buffer. When calling merge_trees() (i.e. the non-recursive part of the recursive merge) directly, the output buffer is never flushed because the caller may be merge_recursive() which wants to flush the output itself. For the same reason, merge_trees() cannot release the output buffer: it may still be needed. Forgetting to release the output buffer did not matter much when running git-checkout, or git-merge-recursive, because we exited after the operation anyway. Ever since cherry-pick learned to pick a commit range, however, this memory leak had the potential of becoming a problem. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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