From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 20:50:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/12] bisect--helper: reimplement `bisect_autostart` shell function in C
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2005222247500.56@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2005222058380.56@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Hi Miriam,

On Fri, 22 May 2020, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Miriam Rubio wrote:
>
> > +	/*
> > +	 * TRANSLATORS: Make sure to include [Y] and [n] in your
> > +	 * translation. The program will only accept English input
> > +	 * at this point.
> > +	 */
> > +	yesno = git_prompt(_("Do you want me to do it for you "
> > +			     "[Y/n]? "), PROMPT_ECHO);
>
> [...]
>
> I still think that we need to call `free(yesno);` or we leak memory.

Never mind. I got fooled by the fact that `git_prompt()` returns `char *`.
It actually returns the pointer `buf.buf` of a `static `strbuf buf`, so
there is nothing to `free()` here.

Sorry for the noise,
Dscho