Re: [PATCH] Remove useless if-before-free tests.

Jim Meyering [off-list ref] writes:

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Thanks.  I'll queue this probably in 'next' for now, but we
would want a conditional workaround for git-compat-util.h before
we push it out to 'master'.

Ok.
Would you like an autoconf test to check for working free?

Sure, but that could be left for later rounds.

We usually first add manual configuration option to Makefile
(say, NO_FREE_NULL=Unfortunately) and then set that symbol via
autoconf only when somebody really cares about.