diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/PackWriterTest.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/PackWriterTest.java
index 01d6ee68e..63a307285 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/PackWriterTest.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/file/PackWriterTest.java
@@ -342,12 +342,13 @@ public class PackWriterTest extends SampleDataRepositoryTestCase {
 				ObjectId.fromString("902d5476fa249b7abc9d84c611577a81381f0327"),
 				ObjectId.fromString("5b6e7c66c276e7610d4a73c70ec1a1f7c1003259"),
 				ObjectId.fromString("6ff87c4664981e4397625791c8ea3bbb5f2279a3") };
-		final RevWalk parser = new RevWalk(db);
-		final RevObject forcedOrderRevs[] = new RevObject[forcedOrder.length];
-		for (int i = 0; i < forcedOrder.length; i++)
-			forcedOrderRevs[i] = parser.parseAny(forcedOrder[i]);
+		try (final RevWalk parser = new RevWalk(db)) {
+			final RevObject forcedOrderRevs[] = new RevObject[forcedOrder.length];
+			for (int i = 0; i < forcedOrder.length; i++)
+				forcedOrderRevs[i] = parser.parseAny(forcedOrder[i]);
 
-		createVerifyOpenPack(Arrays.asList(forcedOrderRevs));
+			createVerifyOpenPack(Arrays.asList(forcedOrderRevs));
+		}
 
 		assertEquals(forcedOrder.length, writer.getObjectCount());
 		verifyObjectsOrder(forcedOrder);