Re: [PATCH] t0006: date_mode can leak .strftime_fmt member

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 16, 2021, 19:04 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqlf1napn4.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <patch-1.1-15f5bd3e4f4-20211116T183025Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> As there is no date_mode_release() API function, and given the
> set of current callers it probably is not worth adding one, let's
> release the .strftime_fmt member that is obtained from strdup()
> before the caller of show_date() is done with it.

I do not know what the last line exactly wants to say. Perhaps the original author meant "after", not "before"? ;-)

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