From: D Harithamma <harithamma.d@xxxxxxx> This fix avoids high memory footprint when adding files that require conversion. Git has a trace_encoding routine that prints trace output when GIT_TRACE_WORKING_TREE_ENCODING=1 is set. This environment variable is used to debug the encoding contents. When a 40MB file is added, it requests close to 1.8GB of storage from xrealloc which can lead to out of memory errors. However, the check for GIT_TRACE_WORKING_TREE_ENCODING is done after the string is allocated. This resolves high memory footprints even when GIT_TRACE_WORKING_TREE_ENCODING is not active. This fix adds an early exit to avoid the unnecessary memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Haritha D <harithamma.d@xxxxxxx> --- Fix to avoid high memory footprint This fix avoids high memory footprint when adding files that require conversion Git has a trace_encoding routine that prints trace output when GIT_TRACE_WORKING_TREE_ENCODING=1 is set. This environment variable is used to debug the encoding contents. When a 40MB file is added, it requests close to 1.8GB of storage from xrealloc which can lead to out of memory errors. However, the check for GIT_TRACE_WORKING_TREE_ENCODING is done after the string is allocated. This resolves high memory footprints even when GIT_TRACE_WORKING_TREE_ENCODING is not active. This fix adds an early exit to avoid the unnecessary memory allocation. Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1744%2FHarithaIBM%2FmemFootprintFix-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1744/HarithaIBM/memFootprintFix-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1744 convert.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/convert.c b/convert.c index d8737fe0f2d..e765bcd53d6 100644 --- a/convert.c +++ b/convert.c @@ -324,6 +324,11 @@ static void trace_encoding(const char *context, const char *path, struct strbuf trace = STRBUF_INIT; int i; + // If tracing is not on, exit early to avoid high memory footprint + if (!trace_pass_fl(&coe)) { + return; + } + strbuf_addf(&trace, "%s (%s, considered %s):\n", context, path, encoding); for (i = 0; i < len && buf; ++i) { strbuf_addf( base-commit: 557ae147e6cdc9db121269b058c757ac5092f9c9 -- gitgitgadget