From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:23:44 GMT
Subject: [BUG] Out of memory on git log --simplify-by-decoration --first-parent
Message-ID: <4FD24330.2030805@lyx.org>

git dies after calling the following command on the git repo:

$ git log f623ca1c...b9cfa4e9 --simplify-by-decoration --first-parent

This happens in simplify_merges () in revision.c. The list below shows 
the number of times the "while (list) { ..}" block is executed until git 
dies:

1475
3544
8274
19588
45689
106077
245329
565153
1269244
2614903
5871845
13138892
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 8 bytes)

Verified with msysgit and on Ubuntu Linux.

Vincent