[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""comment 1"""
 date="2019-02-05T18:04:51Z"
 content="""
This appears to be the same bug in git as 
<http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/v7_unlock_big_file__58___out_of_memory/>
and I suppose that the simple patch to git to make it avoid an excessive
malloc of memory it never actually needs to use would also fix this case.
"""]]
