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The refspec struct keeps two matched arrays: one for the refspec_item
structs and one for the original raw refspec strings. The main reason
for this is that there are other users of refspec_item that do not care
about the raw strings. But it does make managing the refspec struct
awkward, as we must keep the two arrays in sync. This has led to bugs in
the past (both leaks and double-frees).
Let's just store a copy of the raw refspec string directly in each
refspec_item struct. This simplifies the handling at a small cost:
1. Direct callers of refspec_item_init() will now get an extra copy of
the refspec string, even if they don't need it. This should be
negligible, as the struct is already allocating two strings for the
parsed src/dst values (and we tend to only do it sparingly anyway
for things like the TAG_REFSPEC literal).
2. Users of refspec_appendf() will now generate a temporary string,
copy it, and then free the result (versus handing off ownership of
the temporary string). We could get around this by having a "nodup"
variant of refspec_item_init(), but it doesn't seem worth the extra
complexity for something that is not remotely a hot code path.
Code which accesses refspec->raw now needs to look at refspec->item.raw.
Other callers which just use refspec_item directly can remain the same.
We'll free the allocated string in refspec_item_clear(), which they
should be calling anyway to free src/dst.
One subtle note: refspec_item_init() can return an error, in which case
we'll still have set its "raw" field. But that is also true of the "src"
and "dst" fields, so any caller which does not _clear() the failed item
is already potentially leaking. In practice most code just calls die()
on an error anyway, but you can see the exception in valid_fetch_refspec(),
which does correctly call _clear() even on error.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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