wt-status.c: fix a memleak

wt_shortstatus_print_tracking() calls shorten_unambiguous_ref(),
which returns a newly allocated memory the caller takes ownership
of; it is necessary to free `base` when the function is done with
it.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index ec7344e508..3ec4383ae9 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -1541,6 +1541,7 @@ static void wt_shortstatus_print_tracking(struct wt_status *s)
 	base = shorten_unambiguous_ref(base, 0);
 	color_fprintf(s->fp, header_color, "...");
 	color_fprintf(s->fp, branch_color_remote, "%s", base);
+	free((char *)base);
 
 	if (!upstream_is_gone && !num_ours && !num_theirs) {
 		fputc(s->null_termination ? '\0' : '\n', s->fp);