Avoid unnecessary "if-before-free" tests.

This change removes all obvious useless if-before-free tests.
E.g., it replaces code like this:

        if (some_expression)
                free (some_expression);

with the now-equivalent:

        free (some_expression);

It is equivalent not just because POSIX has required free(NULL)
to work for a long time, but simply because it has worked for
so long that no reasonable porting target fails the test.
Here's some evidence from nearly 1.5 years ago:

    http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-October/031544.html

FYI, the change below was prepared by running the following:

  git ls-files -z | xargs -0 \
  perl -0x3b -pi -e \
    's/\bif\s*\(\s*(\S+?)(?:\s*!=\s*NULL)?\s*\)\s+(free\s*\(\s*\1\s*\))/$2/s'

Note however, that it doesn't handle brace-enclosed blocks like
"if (x) { free (x); }".  But that's ok, since there were none like
that in git sources.

Beware: if you do use the above snippet, note that it can
produce syntactically invalid C code.  That happens when the
affected "if"-statement has a matching "else".
E.g., it would transform this

  if (x)
    free (x);
  else
    foo ();

into this:

  free (x);
  else
    foo ();

There were none of those here, either.

If you're interested in automating detection of the useless
tests, you might like the useless-if-before-free script in gnulib:
[it *does* detect brace-enclosed free statements, and has a --name=S
 option to make it detect free-like functions with different names]

  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=build-aux/useless-if-before-free

Addendum:
  Remove one more (in imap-send.c), spotted by Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-branch.c b/builtin-branch.c
index 9edf2eb81..79177007e 100644
--- a/builtin-branch.c
+++ b/builtin-branch.c
@@ -126,8 +126,7 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds)
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		if (name)
-			free(name);
+		free(name);
 
 		name = xstrdup(mkpath(fmt, argv[i]));
 		if (!resolve_ref(name, sha1, 1, NULL)) {
@@ -172,8 +171,7 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (name)
-		free(name);
+	free(name);
 
 	return(ret);
 }
@@ -490,8 +488,7 @@ static void create_branch(const char *name, const char *start_name,
 	if (write_ref_sha1(lock, sha1, msg) < 0)
 		die("Failed to write ref: %s.", strerror(errno));
 
-	if (real_ref)
-		free(real_ref);
+	free(real_ref);
 }
 
 static void rename_branch(const char *oldname, const char *newname, int force)