From: D Harithamma <harithamma.d@xxxxxxx>
When Git adds a file requiring encoding conversion and tracing of encoding
conversion is not requested via the GIT_TRACE_WORKING_TREE_ENCODING
environment variable, the `trace_encoding()` function still allocates &
prepares "human readable" copies of the file contents before and after
conversion to show in the trace. This results in a high memory footprint
and increased runtime without providing any user-visible benefit.
This fix introduces an early exit from the `trace_encoding()` function
when tracing is not requested, preventing unnecessary memory allocation
and processing.
Signed-off-by: Harithamma 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-v5
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1744/HarithaIBM/memFootprintFix-v5
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1744
Range-diff vs v4:
1: 50758a4fb94 ! 1: e2518b28f1c convert: avoid high memory footprint
@@ Metadata
Author: D Harithamma <harithamma.d@xxxxxxx>
## Commit message ##
- convert: avoid high memory footprint
+ convert: return early when not tracing
When Git adds a file requiring encoding conversion and tracing of encoding
conversion is not requested via the GIT_TRACE_WORKING_TREE_ENCODING
convert.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/convert.c b/convert.c
index d8737fe0f2d..c4ddc4de81b 100644
--- a/convert.c
+++ b/convert.c
@@ -324,6 +324,9 @@ static void trace_encoding(const char *context, const char *path,
struct strbuf trace = STRBUF_INIT;
int i;
+ if (!trace_want(&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
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