Convert the name member of struct merge_remote_desc to a FLEX_ARRAY and
use FLEX_ALLOC_STR to build the struct.  This halves the number of
memory allocations, saves the storage for a pointer and avoids an
indirection when reading the name.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l....@web.de>
---
 commit.c | 3 +--
 commit.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 8bad713..ba6dee3 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -1580,9 +1580,8 @@ void set_merge_remote_desc(struct commit *commit,
                           const char *name, struct object *obj)
 {
        struct merge_remote_desc *desc;
-       desc = xmalloc(sizeof(*desc));
+       FLEX_ALLOC_STR(desc, name, name);
        desc->obj = obj;
-       desc->name = xstrdup(name);
        commit->util = desc;
 }
 
diff --git a/commit.h b/commit.h
index 84bb507..32e1a11 100644
--- a/commit.h
+++ b/commit.h
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ extern void for_each_mergetag(each_mergetag_fn fn, struct 
commit *commit, void *
 
 struct merge_remote_desc {
        struct object *obj; /* the named object, could be a tag */
-       const char *name;
+       char name[FLEX_ARRAY];
 };
 #define merge_remote_util(commit) ((struct merge_remote_desc 
*)((commit)->util))
 extern void set_merge_remote_desc(struct commit *commit,
-- 
2.9.3

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