From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:51:04 GMT
Subject: Re: git remote rename, why dosen't it exists?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806041649270.13507@racer.site.net>
In-Reply-To: <1212591245.30731.17.camel@omicron.ep.petrobras.com.br>

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Victor Bogado da Silva Lins wrote:

> I trying to refactor [in builtin-remote.c] rm into rm_or_rename, but I 
> stumbled into a problem, how do I free a remote struct obtained with 
> "remote_get"?

At the moment, there is no way to do that.

> Another possibility would be another way to check if a remote already 
> exists without allocating it in case it does. The need comes from 
> testing whether the destination name already exists, if it does exists I 
> must free the remote_get and bail_out.

I think in the first step, you can just _not_ free() it, just die().

Ciao,
Dscho