void repo_set_gitdir(struct repository *repo, const char *path)
{
const char *gitfile = read_gitfile(path);
+ char *old_gitdir = repo->gitdir;
- /*
- * NEEDSWORK: Eventually we want to be able to free gitdir and the rest
- * of the environment before reinitializing it again, but we have some
- * crazy code paths where we try to set gitdir with the current gitdir
- * and we don't want to free gitdir before copying the passed in value.
- */
repo->gitdir = xstrdup(gitfile ? gitfile : path);
-
repo_setup_env(repo);
+
+ free(old_gitdir);
}
/*
if (getenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT))
setenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, ".", 1);
- /*
- * NEEDSWORK: this call can essentially be set_git_dir(get_git_dir())
- * which can cause some problems when trying to free the old value of
- * gitdir.
- */
set_git_dir(remove_leading_path(git_dir, work_tree));
initialized = 1;
}