Merge branch 'sb/mailmap-freeing-NULL-is-ok'

* sb/mailmap-freeing-NULL-is-ok:
  mailmap: remove redundant check for freeing memory

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mailmap.c b/mailmap.c
index 3061434321..a7969c4c2e 100644
--- a/mailmap.c
+++ b/mailmap.c
@@ -153,8 +153,7 @@ static void read_mailmap_line(struct string_list *map, char *buffer,
 		if (!strncmp(buffer, abbrev, abblen)) {
 			char *cp;
 
-			if (repo_abbrev)
-				free(*repo_abbrev);
+			free(*repo_abbrev);
 			*repo_abbrev = xmalloc(len);
 
 			for (cp = buffer + abblen; isspace(*cp); cp++)