Bug report: git -L requires excessive memory.

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What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) git log -L /regex/,/regex/:myfile to a repo in which 2MB text file is committed about 2800 times.

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) get the result.

What happened instead? (Actual behavior) fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 2346801 bytes)

What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? The function requires too much memory. -n option should work for -L function.

Anything else you want to add: I made a script to reproduce this. Please run the script below. Results in each environments are in its header. A workaround which is given in other BBS is included also.

#!/bin/bash # # Bug report: git -L requires excessive memory. # Run this script to reproduce # # MINGW32(git version 2.38.1.windows.1) fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 2346801 bytes) # MINGW64(git version 2.38.1.windows.1) requires 8.6GB # Linux64(git version 2.20.1 ) requires 13.1GB #

git --version

if [ ! -d .git ]; then
  git init
  c=${1:-3000}
  for (( i=0;i<c;i++)); do
    gawk -v r="$i" '
      BEGIN{
        for (i=0;i<100;i++) {
          if (r>=i) {
            printf("function func_%03d(){ // revised at %d\n",i,
int((r-i)/100)*100+i%100)
            printf("  // contents of function\n")
            printf("}\n")
            make_subfuncs(i);
          }
        }
        exit
      }
      function make_subfuncs(i,    j){
        for (j=0;j<300;j++) {
          printf("function func_%03d_sub%03d(){\n",i,j)
          printf("  // contents of sub functions are NOT revised.\n")
          printf("}\n")
        }
      }' > test.txt
    git add test.txt
    git commit -m "revision $i"
  done
  git gc
fi

git log -L /func_007\(/,/}$/:test.txt # this command requires excessive memory. git log -L /func_007\(/,/}$/:test.txt -n 10 # -n option doesn't work also. #git log -L /func_007\(/,/}$/:test.txt HEAD~10..HEAD~0 # this works.

#
# This can be a workaround
#
step=50
num=`git log | grep -c commit`
for ((i=0;i<$num;i+=$step)); do
  end=$((i+$step))
  range=HEAD~$end..HEAD~$i
  if [ $end -ge $num ]; then
    range=HEAD~$i
  fi
#  echo $range
  git --no-pager log -L /func_007\(/,/}$/:test.txt $range
done

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