Teach notes code to free its internal data structures on request

There's no need to be rude to memory-concious callers...

This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Junio C Hamano: avoid old-style declaration

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/notes.c b/notes.c
index b7d79e1900..a5d888d772 100644
--- a/notes.c
+++ b/notes.c
@@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ static unsigned char *lookup_notes(const unsigned char *commit_sha1)
 	return hash_map.entries[index].notes_sha1;
 }
 
+void free_notes(void)
+{
+	free(hash_map.entries);
+	memset(&hash_map, 0, sizeof(struct hash_map));
+	initialized = 0;
+}
+
 void get_commit_notes(const struct commit *commit, struct strbuf *sb,
 		const char *output_encoding, int flags)
 {