Merge branch 'maint'

diff --git a/exec_cmd.c b/exec_cmd.c
index 698e7526c40749fd333367018c192537cf6b4562..8ab37b5f74f360abf8ff4d689b4ff4f3d29cf785 100644 (file)
--- a/exec_cmd.c
+++ b/exec_cmd.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 static const char *argv_exec_path;
 static const char *argv0_path;
 
-const char *system_path(const char *path)
+char *system_path(const char *path)
 {
 #ifdef RUNTIME_PREFIX
        static const char *prefix;
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ const char *system_path(const char *path)
        struct strbuf d = STRBUF_INIT;
 
        if (is_absolute_path(path))
-               return path;
+               return xstrdup(path);
 
 #ifdef RUNTIME_PREFIX
        assert(argv0_path);
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ const char *system_path(const char *path)
 #endif
 
        strbuf_addf(&d, "%s/%s", prefix, path);
-       path = strbuf_detach(&d, NULL);
-       return path;
+       return strbuf_detach(&d, NULL);
 }
 
 const char *git_extract_argv0_path(const char *argv0)