Re: [PATCH 06/11] branch: fix a leak in cmd_branch

> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 08:50:05PM +0200, Rubén Justo wrote:
> 
> > We don't have a common clean-up section in cmd_branch().  To avoid
> > refactoring and keep the fix simple, and while we find a better
> > solution, let's silence the leak-hunter making the list static.
> 
> Gross. :)

> 
> If we are just going to annotate here, I'd prefer to use UNLEAK(). It
> makes it more obvious this is about leak-checking, and doesn't imply
> that we otherwise care about the lifetime of this field. Like:
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
> index e6c2655af6..075e580d22 100644
> --- a/builtin/branch.c
> +++ b/builtin/branch.c
> @@ -832,6 +832,8 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  	if (list)
>  		setup_auto_pager("branch", 1);
>  
> +	UNLEAK(sorting_options);
> +
>  	if (delete) {
>  		if (!argc)
>  			die(_("branch name required"));