diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCheckout.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCheckout.java
index 07f97d9b6..e4d5b7698 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCheckout.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/dircache/DirCacheCheckout.java
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ package org.eclipse.jgit.dircache;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
-import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
 import java.text.MessageFormat;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -59,7 +57,6 @@ import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.CorruptObjectException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.IncorrectObjectTypeException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.IndexWriteException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.MissingObjectException;
-import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.FileMode;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.ObjectId;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.ObjectLoader;
@@ -836,21 +833,11 @@ public class DirCacheCheckout {
 	public static void checkoutEntry(final Repository repo, File f, DirCacheEntry entry,
 			boolean config_filemode) throws IOException {
 		ObjectLoader ol = repo.open(entry.getObjectId());
-		if (ol == null)
-			throw new MissingObjectException(entry.getObjectId(),
-					Constants.TYPE_BLOB);
-
-		byte[] bytes = ol.getCachedBytes();
-
 		File parentDir = f.getParentFile();
 		File tmpFile = File.createTempFile("._" + f.getName(), null, parentDir);
-		FileChannel channel = new FileOutputStream(tmpFile).getChannel();
-		ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes);
+		FileOutputStream channel = new FileOutputStream(tmpFile);
 		try {
-			int j = channel.write(buffer);
-			if (j != bytes.length)
-				throw new IOException(MessageFormat.format(
-						JGitText.get().couldNotWriteFile, tmpFile));
+			ol.copyTo(channel);
 		} finally {
 			channel.close();
 		}