set_git_dir: handle feeding gitdir to itself
authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:05:01 +0000 (09:05 -0400)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 6 Sep 2017 09:06:26 +0000 (18:06 +0900)
Ideally we'd free the existing gitdir field before assigning
the new one, to avoid a memory leak. But we can't do so
safely because some callers do the equivalent of:

set_git_dir(get_git_dir());

We can detect that case as a noop, but there are even more
complicated cases like:

set_git_dir(remove_leading_path(worktree, get_git_dir());

where we really do need to do some work, but the original
string must remain valid.

Rather than put the burden on callers to make a copy of the
string (only to free it later, since we'll make a copy of it
ourselves), let's solve the problem inside set_git_dir(). We
can make a copy of the pointer for the old gitdir, and then
avoid freeing it until after we've made our new copy.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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