wt-status: use separate variable for result of shorten_unambiguous_ref

diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index 068de38b510f51ba216e7bfdfe969c526064aef7..fd863c81fc572f52843340ab7f57ae9a84436818 100644 (file)
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -1735,6 +1735,7 @@ static void wt_shortstatus_print_tracking(struct wt_status *s)
        const char *branch_color_remote = color(WT_STATUS_REMOTE_BRANCH, s);
 
        const char *base;
+       char *short_base;
        const char *branch_name;
        int num_ours, num_theirs;
        int upstream_is_gone = 0;
@@ -1769,10 +1770,10 @@ static void wt_shortstatus_print_tracking(struct wt_status *s)
                upstream_is_gone = 1;
        }
 
-       base = shorten_unambiguous_ref(base, 0);
+       short_base = shorten_unambiguous_ref(base, 0);
        color_fprintf(s->fp, header_color, "...");
-       color_fprintf(s->fp, branch_color_remote, "%s", base);
-       free((char *)base);
+       color_fprintf(s->fp, branch_color_remote, "%s", short_base);
+       free(short_base);
 
        if (!upstream_is_gone && !num_ours && !num_theirs)
                goto conclude;