From: Robert Wruck <wruck@tweerlei.de>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:01:43 GMT
Subject: [BUG] Out of memory in Git.pm
Message-ID: <4D6E3FB7.60600@tweerlei.de>

Hi,

there seems to be a problem in Git.pm (git-1.7.4.1, sub cat_blob, line 
891) where the whole object is read into memory ($blob) before writing 
to $fh:

	my $blob;
	my $bytesRead = 0;

	while (1) {
		my $bytesLeft = $size - $bytesRead;
		last unless $bytesLeft;

		my $bytesToRead = $bytesLeft < 1024 ? $bytesLeft : 1024;
		my $read = read($in, $blob, $bytesToRead, $bytesRead);
		unless (defined($read)) {
			$self->_close_cat_blob();
			throw Error::Simple("in pipe went bad");
		}

		$bytesRead += $read;
	}

Maybe it would be better to write each chunk directly to $fh ?
If so, I could create a patch.

-Robert