Hi Junio,

On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > The sequencer is our attempt to lib-ify cherry-pick. Yet it behaves
> > like a one-shot command when it reads its configuration: memory is
> > allocated and released only when the command exits.
> >
> > This is kind of okay for git-cherry-pick, which *is* a one-shot
> > command. All the work to make the sequencer its work horse was
> > done to allow using the functionality as a library function, though,
> > including proper clean-up after use.
> >
> > To remedy that, we now take custody of the option values in question,
> > requiring those values to be malloc()ed or strdup()ed
> 
> That is the approach this patch takes, so "eventually release" in
> the title is no longer accurate, I would think.

To the contrary, we now free() things in remove_state(), so we still
"eventually release" the memory.

> > Sadly, the current approach makes the code uglier, as we now have to
> > take care to strdup() the values passed via the command-line.
> 
> I obviously disagree with that statement and the _entrust was too
> ugly to live, but it is obviously subjective, and it boils down to
> who has a better taste.  Let's not go there.

Changed.

Thanks,
Dscho

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