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corrupt object memory allocation error

From
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date
Nov 20, 2013, 20:33 UTC
Message-ID
<20131120203350.GA31139@kitenet.net>

I've got a git repository of < 2 mb, where git wants to allocate a rather insane amount of memory:

>git fsck

Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done. fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 124865231165 bytes)

> git show 11644b5a075dc1425e01fbba51c045cea2d0c408
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 124865231165 bytes)

The problem seems to be the attached object file, which has gotten corrupted, presumably in the header that git reads to see how large it is. Thought I'd report this in case there is some easy way to add a sanity check.

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