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-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/LeiBlob.pm11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiBlob.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiBlob.pm
index 127cc81e..00697097 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiBlob.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiBlob.pm
@@ -119,14 +119,17 @@ sub lei_blob {
                 } else {
                         open $rdr->{2}, '>', '/dev/null' or die "open: $!";
                 }
-                my $cmd = [ 'git', '--git-dir='.$lei->ale->git->{git_dir},
-                                'cat-file', 'blob', $blob ];
+                my $cmd = $lei->ale->git->cmd('cat-file', 'blob', $blob);
+                my $cerr;
                 if (defined $lei->{-attach_idx}) {
                         my $buf = run_qx($cmd, $lei->{env}, $rdr);
                         return extract_attach($lei, $blob, \$buf) unless $?;
+                        $cerr = $?;
+                } else {
+                        $rdr->{1} = $lei->{1}; # write directly to client
+                        $cerr = run_wait($cmd, $lei->{env}, $rdr) or return;
                 }
-                $rdr->{1} = $lei->{1};
-                my $cerr = run_wait($cmd, $lei->{env}, $rdr) or return;
+                # fall back to unimported ('lei index') and inflight blobs
                 my $lms = $lei->lms;
                 my $bref = ($lms ? $lms->local_blob($blob, 1) : undef) // do {
                         my $sto = $lei->{sto} // $lei->_lei_store;