We may remove elements from the list while we are iterating,
which requires using a second temporary pointer. Otherwise
stepping to the next element of the list might involve
looking at freed memory (which generally works in practice,
as we _just_ freed it, but of course is wrong to rely on;
valgrind notices it).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>