From 6eb855984775329078dc30c83996b5d306bbbe67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:02:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] checkout: fix memory leak

Discovered via Coverity.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 builtin/checkout.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 81f07c3ef2..fd273cdf2a 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ static int checkout_merged(int pos, const struct checkout *state)
 	if (!ce)
 		die(_("make_cache_entry failed for path '%s'"), path);
 	status = checkout_entry(ce, state, NULL);
+	free(ce);
 	return status;
 }