checkout: do not write bogus reflog entry out

As resolve_ref() returns a static buffer that is local to the function,
the caller needs to be sure that it will not have any other calls to the
function before it uses the returned value, or store it away with a
strdup().  The code used old.path to record which branch it used to be on,
so that it can say between which branches the switch took place in the
reflog, but sometimes it failed to do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: gitster

builtin-checkout.c

@@ -342,10 +342,12 @@ static int switch_branches(struct checkout_opts *opts,
 	unsigned char rev[20];
 	int flag;
 	memset(&old, 0, sizeof(old));
-	old.path = resolve_ref("HEAD", rev, 0, &flag);
+	old.path = xstrdup(resolve_ref("HEAD", rev, 0, &flag));
 	old.commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(rev, 1);
-	if (!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF))
+	if (!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF)) {
+		free((char *)old.path);
 		old.path = NULL;
+	}
 
 	if (old.path && !prefixcmp(old.path, "refs/heads/"))
 		old.name = old.path + strlen("refs/heads/");
@@ -381,7 +383,7 @@ static int switch_branches(struct checkout_opts *opts,
 		return ret;
 
 	update_refs_for_switch(opts, &old, new);
-
+	free((char *)old.path);
 	return post_checkout_hook(old.commit, new->commit, 1);
 }