Am 05.08.2024 um 10:36 schrieb Patrick Steinhardt:

That does highlight that `packed_ref_store_init()` is misnamed and
really should be called `packed_ref_store_new()`, as it also allocates
the structure itself. But that's a #leftoverbit for another day, I'd
say.

This would also be true for ref for `files_ref_store_init` and 
`reftable_be_init`.

Out of curiosity, did you hit this memory leak in some of our tests, or
did you just happen to stumble over it by chance?

I found this while working on TortoiseGit which also uses libgit internally.

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