builtin/mv: refactor to use `struct strvec`

Memory allocation patterns in git-mv(1) are extremely hard to follow:
We copy around string pointers into manually-managed arrays, some of
which alias each other, but only sometimes, while we also drop some of
those strings at other times without ever daring to free them.

While this may be my own subjective feeling, it seems like others have
given up as the code has multiple calls to `UNLEAK()`. These are not
sufficient though, and git-mv(1) is still leaking all over the place
even with them.

Refactor the code to instead track strings in `struct strvec`. While
this has the effect of effectively duplicating some of the strings
without an actual need, it is way easier to reason about and fixes all
of the aliasing of memory that has been going on. It allows us to get
rid of the `UNLEAK()` calls and also fixes leaks that those calls did
not paper over.

Mark tests which are now leak-free accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t6426-merge-skip-unneeded-updates.sh b/t/t6426-merge-skip-unneeded-updates.sh
index b059475ed0..62f0180325 100755
--- a/t/t6426-merge-skip-unneeded-updates.sh
+++ b/t/t6426-merge-skip-unneeded-updates.sh
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ test_description="merge cases"
 #                     underscore notation is to differentiate different
 #                     files that might be renamed into each other's paths.)
 
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-merge.sh