Please ignore this patch as well.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:47:12PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
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> The loop iterating over the parent commits in the name_rev() function
> contains two xstrfmt() calls, and their result is leaked if the parent
> commit is not processed further (because that parent has already been
> visited before, and this further visit doesn't result in a better name
> for its ancestors).
>
> Make sure that the result of those xstrfmt() calls is free()d if the
> parent commit is not processed further.
>
> This results in slightly but measurably lower memory usage: the
> avarage maximum resident size of 5 'git name-rev --all' invocations in
> 'linux.git' shrinks from 3256124kB to 319990kB, just about 2% less.
>
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
> ---
> builtin/name-rev.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/name-rev.c b/builtin/name-rev.c
> index f867d45f0b..d65de04918 100644
> --- a/builtin/name-rev.c
> +++ b/builtin/name-rev.c
> @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ static void name_rev(struct commit *start_commit,
> struct commit *parent = parents->item;
> const char *new_name;
> int generation, distance;
> + const char *new_name_to_free = NULL;
>
> parse_commit(parent);
> if (parent->date < cutoff)
> @@ -158,6 +159,7 @@ static void name_rev(struct commit *start_commit,
> new_name = xstrfmt("%.*s^%d", (int)len,
> name->tip_name,
> parent_number);
> + new_name_to_free = new_name;
> generation = 0;
> distance = name->distance + MERGE_TRAVERSAL_WEIGHT;
> } else {
> @@ -171,6 +173,8 @@ static void name_rev(struct commit *start_commit,
> from_tag))
> last_new_parent = commit_list_append(parent,
> last_new_parent);
> + else
> + free((char*) new_name_to_free);
> }
>
> *last_new_parent = list;
> --
> 2.23.0.331.g4e51dcdf11
> SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>