diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/blame/BlameGenerator.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/blame/BlameGenerator.java
index 5b02ce6c9..d90d59824 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/blame/BlameGenerator.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/blame/BlameGenerator.java
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ public class BlameGenerator {
 	private int remaining;
 
 	/** Blame is currently assigned to this source. */
-	private Candidate currentSource;
+	private Candidate outCandidate;
+	private Region outRegion;
 
 	/**
 	 * Create a blame generator for the repository and path (relative to
@@ -466,19 +467,19 @@ public BlameResult computeBlameResult() throws IOException {
 	 */
 	public boolean next() throws IOException {
 		// If there is a source still pending, produce the next region.
-		if (currentSource != null) {
-			Region r = currentSource.regionList;
-			Region n = r.next;
+		if (outRegion != null) {
+			Region r = outRegion;
 			remaining -= r.length;
-			if (n != null) {
-				currentSource.regionList = n;
+			if (r.next != null) {
+				outRegion = r.next;
 				return true;
 			}
 
-			if (currentSource.queueNext != null)
-				return result(currentSource.queueNext);
+			if (outCandidate.queueNext != null)
+				return result(outCandidate.queueNext);
 
-			currentSource = null;
+			outCandidate = null;
+			outRegion = null;
 		}
 
 		// If there are no lines remaining, the entire result is done,
@@ -520,7 +521,8 @@ private boolean done() {
 	private boolean result(Candidate n) throws IOException {
 		if (n.sourceCommit != null)
 			revPool.parseBody(n.sourceCommit);
-		currentSource = n;
+		outCandidate = n;
+		outRegion = n.regionList;
 		return true;
 	}
 
@@ -847,12 +849,12 @@ private boolean processMerge(Candidate n) throws IOException {
 	 * @return current revision being blamed.
 	 */
 	public RevCommit getSourceCommit() {
-		return currentSource.sourceCommit;
+		return outCandidate.sourceCommit;
 	}
 
 	/** @return current author being blamed. */
 	public PersonIdent getSourceAuthor() {
-		return currentSource.getAuthor();
+		return outCandidate.getAuthor();
 	}
 
 	/** @return current committer being blamed. */
@@ -863,12 +865,12 @@ public PersonIdent getSourceCommitter() {
 
 	/** @return path of the file being blamed. */
 	public String getSourcePath() {
-		return currentSource.sourcePath.getPath();
+		return outCandidate.sourcePath.getPath();
 	}
 
 	/** @return rename score if a rename occurred in {@link #getSourceCommit}. */
 	public int getRenameScore() {
-		return currentSource.renameScore;
+		return outCandidate.renameScore;
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -878,7 +880,7 @@ public int getRenameScore() {
 	 *         {@link #getSourcePath()}.
 	 */
 	public int getSourceStart() {
-		return currentSource.regionList.sourceStart;
+		return outRegion.sourceStart;
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -888,7 +890,7 @@ public int getSourceStart() {
 	 *         {@link #getSourcePath()}.
 	 */
 	public int getSourceEnd() {
-		Region r = currentSource.regionList;
+		Region r = outRegion;
 		return r.sourceStart + r.length;
 	}
 
@@ -897,7 +899,7 @@ public int getSourceEnd() {
 	 *         blamed for providing. Line numbers use 0 based indexing.
 	 */
 	public int getResultStart() {
-		return currentSource.regionList.resultStart;
+		return outRegion.resultStart;
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -908,7 +910,7 @@ public int getResultStart() {
 	 *         than {@link #getResultStart()}.
 	 */
 	public int getResultEnd() {
-		Region r = currentSource.regionList;
+		Region r = outRegion;
 		return r.resultStart + r.length;
 	}
 
@@ -919,7 +921,7 @@ public int getResultEnd() {
 	 *         {@code getSourceEnd() - getSourceStart()}.
 	 */
 	public int getRegionLength() {
-		return currentSource.regionList.length;
+		return outRegion.length;
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -930,7 +932,7 @@ public int getRegionLength() {
 	 *         applications will want the result contents for display to users.
 	 */
 	public RawText getSourceContents() {
-		return currentSource.sourceText;
+		return outCandidate.sourceText;
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -951,7 +953,8 @@ public RawText getResultContents() throws IOException {
 	public void release() {
 		revPool.release();
 		queue = null;
-		currentSource = null;
+		outCandidate = null;
+		outRegion = null;
 	}
 
 	private boolean find(RevCommit commit, PathFilter path) throws IOException {