Re: [RFC/PATCH] bisect--helper: `bisect_clean_state` shell function in C

> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ---
>> This patch contains a bug. I have tried to identify the bug and I suppose it
>> exists in do_for_each_entry_in_dir(). I have reproduced the debugging session
>> at this link[1]. I have seen that some patches in mailing list regarding
>> iterating over refs. Will those affect this? Or is this bug fixed in those
>> patches?
>>
>> [1]: http://paste.ubuntu.com/16830752/
>
> The debug session seems to use code source from a previous version of
> this patch.
> Also it is not cear in which context you run git under gdb. What have
> you done before?
> And we don't see a crash. Could you show the crash and run the "bt"
> command in gdb to get a backtrace?

>> @@ -79,11 +90,42 @@ int write_terms(const char *bad, const char *good)
>>         strbuf_release(&content);
>>         return (res < 0) ? -1 : 0;
>>  }
>> +
>> +int remove_bisect_ref(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid,
>> +                      int flag, void *cb_data)
>> +{
>> +       char *ref;
>> +       ref = xstrfmt("refs/bisect/%s", refname);
>
> You could save one line by concatenating the 2 above lines.

>> +       if (delete_ref(ref, oid->hash, flag))
>> +               return error(_("couldn't delete the ref %s\n"), ref);
>> +       return 0;
>
> You need to free "ref".