On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 02:27:20PM -0700, Pratik Karki via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Pratik Karki <[email protected]>
>
> When running a rebase on a detached HEAD, we currently store the string
> "detached HEAD" in options.head_name. That is a faithful translation of
> the shell script version, and we still kind of need it for the purposes of
> the scripted backends.
>
> It is poor style for C, though, where we would really only want a valid,
> fully-qualified ref name as value, and NULL for detached HEADs, using
> "detached HEAD" for display only. Make it so.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pratik Karki <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
> ---
> builtin/rebase.c | 11 ++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/rebase.c b/builtin/rebase.c
> index d45f8f9008..afc75fe731 100644
> --- a/builtin/rebase.c
> +++ b/builtin/rebase.c
> @@ -575,7 +579,8 @@ int cmd_rebase(int argc, const char **argv, const char
> *prefix)
> branch_name = options.head_name;
>
> } else {
> - options.head_name = xstrdup("detached HEAD");
> + free(options.head_name);
> + options.head_name = NULL;
Please use FREE_AND_NULL(options.head_name) here.
> branch_name = "HEAD";
> }
> if (get_oid("HEAD", &options.orig_head))
> --
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