The Generation Data (GDAT) and Generation Data Overflow (GDOV) chunks
store corrected commit date offsets, used for generation number v2.
Recent changes have demonstrated that previous versions of Git were
incorrectly parsing data from these chunks, but might have also been
writing them incorrectly.
I asserted [1] that the previous fixes were sufficient because the known
reasons for incorrectly writing generation number v2 data relied on
parsing the information incorrectly out of a commit-graph file, but the
previous versions of Git were not reading the generation number v2 data.
However, Patrick demonstrated [2] a case where in split commit-graphs
across an alternate boundary (and possibly some other special
conditions) it was possible to have a commit-graph that was generated by
a previous version of Git have incorrect generation number v2 data which
results in errors like the following:
commit-graph generation for commit <oid> is 1623273624 < 1623273710
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/f50e74f0-9ffa-f4f2-4663-269801495ed3@github.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/Yh93vOkt2DkrGPh2@ncase/
Clearly, there is something else going on. The situation is not
completely understood, but the errors do not reproduce if the
commit-graphs are all generated by a Git version including these recent
fixes.
If we cannot trust the existing data in the GDAT and GDOV chunks, then
we can alter the format to change the chunk IDs for these chunks. This
causes the new version of Git to silently ignore the older chunks (and
disabling generation number v2 in the process) while writing new
commit-graph files with correct data in the GDA2 and GDO2 chunks.
Update commit-graph-format.txt including a historical note about these
deprecated chunks.
Reported-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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