lei_ale: do not create store unnecessarily

We want to be able to read blobs without writing anything to
disk.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiALE.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiALE.pm
index 45748435..cb570ab4 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiALE.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiALE.pm
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ sub new {
         my ($self, $lei) = @_;
         ref($self) or $self = _new($lei->cache_dir . '/all_locals_ever.git');
         my $lxs = PublicInbox::LeiXSearch->new;
-        $lxs->prepare_external($lei->_lei_store(1)->search);
+        my $sto = $lei->_lei_store;
+        $lxs->prepare_external($sto->search) if $sto;
         for my $loc ($lei->externals_each) { # locals only
                 $lxs->prepare_external($loc) if -d $loc;
         }