Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix small issues in alias subsection handling

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:00:24 -0800

Jonatan Holmgren <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I have two small patches related to the handling of alias subsections. 
> The first one is a documentation fix for the example showing the equivalence
> between alias.last and alias.last.command, which was missing list continuation marks. 
> The second patch addresses a compatibility issue where an empty subsection ([alias ""])
> was not treated as a plain [alias], 
> causing existing entries stored this way to be ignored.
>
> Thanks for considering these patches!
>
> Jonatan Holmgren (2):
>   doc: fix list continuation in alias subsection example
>   alias: treat empty subsection [alias ""] as plain [alias]
>
>  Documentation/config/alias.adoc |  7 ++++---
>  alias.c                         |  4 ++++
>  t/t0014-alias.sh                | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Memory leaks have been reported for these patches, e.g.,

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/

I _think_ the following would be sufficient to plug it, but please
double check and then send in updated version of these two patches
incorporating them.

Thanks.

 git.c  | 2 +-
 help.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index c5fad56813..b5eb740e83 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static int list_cmds(const char *spec)
 	}
 	for (size_t i = 0; i < list.nr; i++)
 		puts(list.items[i].string);
-	string_list_clear(&list, 0);
+	string_list_clear(&list, 1);
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 82fb2eaa3f..725e92a195 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ void list_cmds_by_config(struct string_list *list)
 		return;
 
 	string_list_sort(list);
-	string_list_remove_duplicates(list, 0);
+	string_list_remove_duplicates(list, 1);
 
 	while (*cmd_list) {
 		struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
-- 
2.53.0-517-g7bf7f89b4a