On 05/09, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> the_repository is special. One of the special things about it is that
> it does not allocate a new index_state object like submodules but
> points to the global the_index variable instead. As a global variable,
> the_index cannot be free()'d.
>
> Add an exception for this in repo_clear(). In the future perhaps we
> would be able to allocate the_repository's index on heap too. Then we
> can remove revert this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com>
> ---
> I was trying to test the new parsed_object_pool_clear() and found this.
This looks good and I do hope we can get to a state soon where we can
not have to special case the_repository.
>
> repository.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/repository.c b/repository.c
> index a4848c1bd0..f44733524a 100644
> --- a/repository.c
> +++ b/repository.c
> @@ -238,7 +238,9 @@ void repo_clear(struct repository *repo)
>
> if (repo->index) {
> discard_index(repo->index);
> - FREE_AND_NULL(repo->index);
> + if (repo->index != &the_index)
> + free(repo->index);
> + repo->index = NULL;
> }
> }
>
> --
> 2.17.0.705.g3525833791
>
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Brandon Williams
