When calling either the recursive or the ORT merge machineries we need
to provide a list of merge bases. The ownership of that parameter is
then implicitly transferred to the callee, which is somewhat fishy.
Furthermore, that list may leak in some cases where the merge machinery
runs into an error, thus causing a memory leak.
Refactor the code such that we stop transferring ownership. Instead, the
merge machinery will now create its own local copies of the passed in
list as required if they need to modify the list. Free the list at the
callsites as required.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a few differences between the new API in merge-ort and the old
API in merge-recursive. While the new API is more flexible, it might
feel like more work at times than the old API. merge-ort-wrappers
creates two convenience wrappers taking the exact same arguments as the
old merge_trees() and merge_recursive() functions and implements them
via the new API. This makes converting existing callsites easier, and
serves to highlight some of the differences in the API.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
