Re: [PATCH v5] branch: support for shortcuts like @{-1}, completed

["Rubén Justo" <rjusto@gmail.com>]

On 10/10/22 2:38, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Mmm, I don't feel the same here, we already discussed about this. Maybe?:
>>
>> diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
>> index 17853225fa..307073cc47 100644
>> --- a/builtin/branch.c
>> +++ b/builtin/branch.c
>> @@ -817,7 +817,8 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>                 strbuf_release(&branch_ref);
>>                 strbuf_release(&buf);
>>  
>> -               return ret;
>> +               if (ret)
>> +                       return ret; /* some failure happened */
>>         } else if (copy) {
>>                 if (!argc)
>>                         die(_("branch name required"));
> 
> Before the above change, the body of the "else if" clause for the
> option was self contained.  With the above change, the reader has to
> follow to the end of the long top-level cascade to see the rest of
> the function does not do anything funny.
> 
> If we have a big common clean-up after each operation, then, falling
> through in the success case might be good, but that is not what I am
> seeing here.  So...
> 

I would like to see some kind of free(head) in a clean-up to not get
distracted with that.  Not a proper leak though and the leak checkers
does not refer to that as leak.  So not important.  We can go with the
unconditional return and let the dust settle.