Re: [PATCH 7/7] unpack-trees: free cache_entry array members for merges

Am 30.05.2013 14:04, schrieb Felipe Contreras:

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:34 AM, René Scharfe
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

The merge functions duplicate entries as needed and they don't free
them.  Release them in unpack_nondirectories, the same function
where they were allocated, after we're done.

Ah, you beat me to this change, but..

quoted

@@ -600,9 +600,14 @@ static int unpack_nondirectories(int n, unsigned long mask,
                 src[i + o->merge] = create_ce_entry(info, names + i, stage);
         }

-       if (o->merge)
-               return call_unpack_fn((const struct cache_entry * const *)src,
-                                     o);
+       if (o->merge) {
+               int rc = call_unpack_fn((const struct cache_entry * const *)src,
+                                       o);
+               for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
+                       if (src[i] && src[i] != o->df_conflict_entry)
+                               free(src[i]);

Doesn't it make more sense to follow the code above and do src[i + o->merge]?

Not sure I understand.  Is the goal to avoid confusion for code readers 
by using the same indexing method for allocation and release?  Or are 
you worried about o->merge having a different value than 1 in that loop?

We'd have to add 1 (== o->merge) to each index variable usage with a 
zero-based loop.  A one-based loop avoids that, and while it's not 
pretty it's also not too complicated, I think.

René