(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #3) > (In reply to Jiri Slaby from comment #1) > > > > Provided it comes from parse_merge_name(): > > 602 static char buf[MAXPATHLEN]; > > ... > > 653 return buf; > > > > according to valgrind it comes from setup_merge_file (exclude.c:737) Which obtains the buffer from parse_merge_name() above -- see line 693 -- if I am looking correctly?