Free all used references in the source tree

Since references are not owned by the repository anymore we have to free
them manually now.

Signed-off-by: schu <schu-github@schulog.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/commit.c b/src/commit.c
index 1010fdc56..83bc9fc4c 100644
--- a/src/commit.c
+++ b/src/commit.c
@@ -145,8 +145,10 @@ int git_commit_create(
 
 		error = git_reference_resolve(&target, head);
 		if (error < GIT_SUCCESS) {
-			if (error != GIT_ENOTFOUND)
+			if (error != GIT_ENOTFOUND) {
+				git_reference_free(head);
 				return git__rethrow(error, "Failed to create commit");
+			}
 		/*
 		 * The target of the reference was not found. This can happen
 		 * just after a repository has been initialized (the master
@@ -154,10 +156,19 @@ int git_commit_create(
 		 * point to) or after an orphan checkout, so if the target
 		 * branch doesn't exist yet, create it and return.
 		 */
-			return git_reference_create_oid(&head, repo, git_reference_target(head), oid, 1);
+			error = git_reference_create_oid(&target, repo, git_reference_target(head), oid, 1);
+
+			git_reference_free(head);
+			if (error == GIT_SUCCESS)
+				git_reference_free(target);
+
+			return error;
 		}
 
 		error = git_reference_set_oid(target, oid);
+
+		git_reference_free(head);
+		git_reference_free(target);
 	}
 
 	if (error < GIT_SUCCESS)