builtin-commit: fix reflog message generation

Instead of strdup()ing, we can just reuse the buffer in which the
commit message is stored, and which is supposed to hold the reflog
message anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c
index 669cc6b6f1..c8f79a88fb 100644
--- a/builtin-commit.c
+++ b/builtin-commit.c
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	int header_len, parent_count = 0;
 	struct strbuf sb;
 	const char *index_file, *reflog_msg;
-	char *nl, *header_line;
+	char *nl;
 	unsigned char commit_sha1[20];
 	struct ref_lock *ref_lock;
 
@@ -585,12 +585,13 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 					   0);
 
 	nl = strchr(sb.buf + header_len, '\n');
-	header_line = xstrndup(sb.buf + header_len,
-			       nl - (sb.buf + header_len));
-	strbuf_release(&sb);
-	strbuf_addf(&sb, "%s: %s\n", reflog_msg, header_line);
-	strbuf_addch(&sb, '\0');
-	free(header_line);
+	if (nl)
+		strbuf_setlen(&sb, nl + 1 - sb.buf);
+	else
+		strbuf_addch(&sb, '\n');
+	strbuf_remove(&sb, 0, header_len);
+	strbuf_insert(&sb, 0, reflog_msg, strlen(reflog_msg));
+	strbuf_insert(&sb, strlen(reflog_msg), ": ", 2);
 
 	if (!ref_lock)
 		die("cannot lock HEAD ref");