Re: [PATCH v7 01/11] dir: free untracked cache when removing it

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
>> ---
>>  builtin/update-index.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/builtin/update-index.c b/builtin/update-index.c
>> index 7431938..a6fff87 100644
>> --- a/builtin/update-index.c
>> +++ b/builtin/update-index.c
>> @@ -1123,6 +1123,7 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>                 add_untracked_ident(the_index.untracked);
>>                 the_index.cache_changed |= UNTRACKED_CHANGED;
>>         } else if (!untracked_cache && the_index.untracked) {
>> +               free_untracked_cache(the_index.untracked);
>
> Do we need to free its members, too? (Or is it empty enough here,
> that there are no memleaks in there? If this were the case a hint in
> the commit message would be helpful)

free_untracked_cache() takes care of freeing the members of the struct
it is passed. If it doesn't free them all it's probably a bug. Many
free_*() functions in the Git code base do the same thing. And yeah I
think it is safer to free everything.