On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> wrote:
> `value` is just a temporary scratchpad, so we need to make sure it doesn't
> leak. It is xstrdup'd in `git_config_get_string_const` and
> `parse_notes_merge_strategy` just compares the string against predefined
> values, so no need to keep it around longer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/builtin/notes.c b/builtin/notes.c
> @@ -751,6 +751,7 @@ static int git_config_get_notes_strategy(const char *key,
>         if (parse_notes_merge_strategy(value, strategy))
>                 git_die_config(key, "unknown notes merge strategy %s", value);
>
> +       free((void*)value);

I wonder if the intent would be clearer if you gave 'value' type 'char
*' rather than 'const char *', and called git_config_get_string()
rather than git_config_get_string_const().

>         return 0;
>  }
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