Re: [PATCH] commit: Fix a memory leak in determine_author_info

> The date variable is assigned new memory via xmemdupz and 2 lines later
> it is assigned new memory again via xmalloc, but the first assignment
> is never freed nor used.
> ---
>  builtin/commit.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
> index 790e5ab..00da83c 100644
> --- a/builtin/commit.c
> +++ b/builtin/commit.c
> @@ -534,7 +534,6 @@ static void determine_author_info(struct strbuf *author_ident)
>  					(lb - strlen(" ") -
>  					 (a + strlen("\nauthor "))));
>  		email = xmemdupz(lb + strlen("<"), rb - (lb + strlen("<")));
> -		date = xmemdupz(rb + strlen("> "), eol - (rb + strlen("> ")));
>  		len = eol - (rb + strlen("> "));
>  		date = xmalloc(len + 2);
>  		*date = '@';