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patchbuiltin-shortlog.c: do not unnecessarily strdup before insertion in list

Subject: [PATCH] builtin-shortlog.c: do not unnecessarily strdup before insertion in list

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One message between Dec 24, 2008 and Dec 24, 2008. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Adeodato Simó· Dec 24, 2008, 16:34 UTC · lore

The log->list always has "strdup_strings" activated, hence strdup'ing namebuf was unnecessary. This change also removes a latent memory leak in the old code.

Signed-off-by: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
---
 builtin-shortlog.c |    5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Show changes to builtin-shortlog.c +1 −4
diff --git a/builtin-shortlog.c b/builtin-shortlog.c
index 4c5d761..90e76ae 100644
--- a/builtin-shortlog.c
+++ b/builtin-shortlog.c
@@ -67,12 +67,9 @@ static void insert_one_record(struct shortlog *log,
 		snprintf(namebuf + len, room, " %.*s", maillen, boemail);
 	}
 
-	buffer = xstrdup(namebuf);
-	item = string_list_insert(buffer, &log->list);
+	item = string_list_insert(namebuf, &log->list);
 	if (item->util == NULL)
 		item->util = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct string_list));
-	else
-		free(buffer);
 
 	/* Skip any leading whitespace, including any blank lines. */
 	while (*oneline && isspace(*oneline))
-- 
1.6.0.4

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