How to repeat:
env:
git version: 2.36.1 os : center os memory 8G
When you execute "git checkout .” to chekout a very large lfs-file, Which is larger than your memory. It would throw “Out of memory, realloc failed” exception.
reason of the bug:
When you execute git checkout, Which have to checkout a lfs-file to the worktree. Git would execute "convert.c apply_multi_file_filter()" to convert lfs pointer from git-object to the lfs file. It will execute a subprocess to convert this file. But It is strange that git would read all of the file into memory When finish the git-lfs subprocess. (The code is about pkt-line.c read_packetized_to_strbut()). Lfs usually is a very large file even more than the memory. So it would throw out of memory exception.
With this bug, it would have trouble to use sparse-chekout in a repository with large lfs-file. Because you must init the repository first and set the sparse-chekout config, than use git pull/merge/checkout to checkout your subset worktree. It would out of memory when you checkout it.
I think git don’t need to read all of the file in memory. It can use a stream to finish the checkout.