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Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/checkout.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/checkout.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index 2837195491..bba64108af 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -1120,8 +1120,10 @@ static void setup_new_branch_info_and_source_tree( if (!check_refname_format(new_branch_info->path, 0) && !read_ref(new_branch_info->path, &branch_rev)) oidcpy(rev, &branch_rev); - else + else { + free((char *)new_branch_info->path); new_branch_info->path = NULL; /* not an existing branch */ + } new_branch_info->commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(the_repository, rev, 1); if (!new_branch_info->commit) { |