summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/builtin/checkout.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/checkout.c')
-rw-r--r--builtin/checkout.c18
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 65877ba..b6249a3 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -235,22 +235,24 @@ static int checkout_merged(int pos, const struct checkout *state)
/*
* NEEDSWORK:
* There is absolutely no reason to write this as a blob object
- * and create a phony cache entry just to leak. This hack is
- * primarily to get to the write_entry() machinery that massages
- * the contents to work-tree format and writes out which only
- * allows it for a cache entry. The code in write_entry() needs
- * to be refactored to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode>
- * instead of a cache entry. Such a refactoring would help
- * merge_recursive as well (it also writes the merge result to the
- * object database even when it may contain conflicts).
+ * and create a phony cache entry. This hack is primarily to get
+ * to the write_entry() machinery that massages the contents to
+ * work-tree format and writes out which only allows it for a
+ * cache entry. The code in write_entry() needs to be refactored
+ * to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode> instead of a cache
+ * entry. Such a refactoring would help merge_recursive as well
+ * (it also writes the merge result to the object database even
+ * when it may contain conflicts).
*/
if (write_sha1_file(result_buf.ptr, result_buf.size,
blob_type, oid.hash))
die(_("Unable to add merge result for '%s'"), path);
+ free(result_buf.ptr);
ce = make_cache_entry(mode, oid.hash, path, 2, 0);
if (!ce)
die(_("make_cache_entry failed for path '%s'"), path);
status = checkout_entry(ce, state, NULL);
+ free(ce);
return status;
}