reduce_heads: fix memory leaks

We currently have seven callers of `reduce_heads(foo)`. Six of them do
not use the original list `foo` again, and actually, all six of those
end up leaking it.

Introduce and use `reduce_heads_replace(&foo)` as a leak-free version of
`foo = reduce_heads(foo)` to fix several of these. Fix the remaining
leaks using `free_commit_list()`.

While we're here, document `reduce_heads()` and mark it as `extern`.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 1e0e633790..cab8d4455b 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -1090,6 +1090,13 @@ struct commit_list *reduce_heads(struct commit_list *heads)
 	return result;
 }
 
+void reduce_heads_replace(struct commit_list **heads)
+{
+	struct commit_list *result = reduce_heads(*heads);
+	free_commit_list(*heads);
+	*heads = result;
+}
+
 static const char gpg_sig_header[] = "gpgsig";
 static const int gpg_sig_header_len = sizeof(gpg_sig_header) - 1;