Merge branch 'ab/free-and-null'

A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.

* ab/free-and-null:
  *.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro
  coccinelle: make use of the "expression" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
  coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
  coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
  coccinelle: add a rule to make "type" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
  git-compat-util: add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper around free(ptr); ptr = NULL

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/ref-filter.c b/ref-filter.c
index ab32bc9c31..72e6cb8ecc 100644
--- a/ref-filter.c
+++ b/ref-filter.c
@@ -1891,8 +1891,7 @@ void ref_array_clear(struct ref_array *array)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < array->nr; i++)
 		free_array_item(array->items[i]);
-	free(array->items);
-	array->items = NULL;
+	FREE_AND_NULL(array->items);
 	array->nr = array->alloc = 0;
 }