# Re: \[PATCH\] t0006: date\_mode can leak .strftime\_fmt member

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-11-16 19:04:20 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/11/7911636
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/11/7911636/t.md

```text
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [ref] writes:

> As there is no date_mode_release() API function, and given the
> set of current callers it probably is not worth adding one, let's
> release the .strftime_fmt member that is obtained from strdup()
> before the caller of show_date() is done with it.

I do not know what the last line exactly wants to say.  Perhaps the
original author meant "after", not "before"? ;-)
```