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Re: [BUG] Out of memory in Git.pm

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AMAlexander Miseler <alexander@miseler.de>
Date
Mar 3, 2011, 08:37 UTC
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Robert Wruck <wruck <at> tweerlei.de> writes:
> 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

There already seems to be a fix for this in git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw/4msysgit.git but I couldn't find the commit in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git:

Author: Gregor Uhlenheuer (kongo2002@googlemail.com) Author date: 13 days ago (Fri Feb 18 11:42:12 2011 +0100) Committer: Johannes Schindelin (johannes.schindelin@gmx.de) Commit date: 13 days ago (Fri Feb 18 17:09:08 2011 +0100) Commit hash: e91fdbabfe29b6e37f1bc582316a82f7784a0275

Git.pm: Use stream-like writing in cat_blob()

This commit fixes the issue with the handling of large files causing an 'Out of memory' perl exception. Instead of reading and writing the whole blob at once now the blob is written in small pieces.

The problem was raised and discussed in this mail to the msysGit mailing list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/12080

Signed-off-by: Gregor Uhlenheuer <kongo2002@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

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