Lots of memory usage with GBs sized files in diff
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Description
**Describe the bug**
Opening the app in a repo containing a large uncommitted file has gitui quickly consuming all available memory on my system. I have to quit quickly before my system halts.
**To Reproduce**
1. place a multi GB file in a repo
2. open `gitui`
3. scroll down and select this file
4. (optional) scroll away and select another file, notice that memory usage continues to climb
**Expected behaviour**
It took me a while to notice the issue, as it was taking down my machine before I could play-around, I was assuming it was another cause.
It appears that gitui was trying to present the diff of the new uncommitted file to me. I believe the flame graph below confirms that `git_diff_file_content__init_from_src()`.
Some potential solutions:
1. Perhaps have a limit on the size of file contents we're willing to present to the user in the diff viewer
2. or perhaps only present the file content on-focus of the diff viewer (on the right)
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**Context (please complete the following information):**
- Fedora Linux 38.20230520.0 (Silverblue)
- gitui 0.20.1
- Rust version: 1.69.0
**Additional context**
`make profile` which produced the following flamegraph:

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