merge: fix leak with merge.defaultToUpstream

By default the setting 'merge.defaultToUpstream' for git-merge(1) is set
to 'true', which means when `git merge` is invoked with no arguments it
merges the upstream branch configured for the current branch.

With this configuration set to 'true', setup_with_upstream() is called.
That function allocates an array of arguments and hands it back to
cmd_merge() via its `argv` parameter. This array is never freed, so
cmd_merge() leaks it on every invocation.

Track the allocated array in a separate variable and free it at the end.

The leak has been present since 93e535a5b7 (merge: merge with the
default upstream branch without argument, 2011-03-24). Although the leak
sanitizer was enabled for tests in fc1ddf42af (t: remove
TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK annotations, 2024-11-21), it went unnoticed
because no test calls `git merge` without arguments, exercising the
default-to-upstream path. Add such a test in t7600, which fails under
the leak sanitizer without this fix.

Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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