Re: history: 'reword HEAD' surfaces a memory leak

["Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2026, at 14:12, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 05:16:44PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
>> On 9/7/26 16:43, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
>> >
>> > This feels familiar, even though it doesn't reproduce on my machine. Do
>> > you have "i18n.commitencoding" set? In any case, I think the following
>> > patch should fix it:
>> >
>> >[snip]
>> >
>>
>> My bad, I suppose. There was a suggestion by Peff that the commit message
>> was misleading. Per [2], the leak only happens when we get a commit that
>> isn't cached in the commit slab. I was trying to identify the specific case
>> in which we get a commit that's not cached in the slab but eventually got
>> busy with other work. I will get around to it soon and send a long pending
>> re-roll.
>>
>> [[ References ]]
>>
>> [2]:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/git/94b0bed5-c86a-4291-b958-52f09faebd29@gmail.com/
>
> Awesome, thanks!

Thanks, everyone. It makes sense that the commit graph was the
triggering factor.