"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > When upgrading to a commit-graph with corrected commit dates from > one without, there are a few things that need to be considered. > > When computing generation numbers for the new commit-graph file that > expects to add the generation_data chunk with corrected commit > dates, we need to ensure that the 'generation' member of the > commit_graph_data struct is set to zero for these commits. > > Unfortunately, the fallback to use topological level for generation > number when corrected commit dates are not available are causing us > harm here: parsing commits notices that read_generation_data is > false and populates 'generation' with the topological level. > > The solution is to iterate through the commits, parse the commits > to populate initial values, then reset the generation values to > zero to trigger recalculation. This loop only occurs when the > existing commit-graph data has no corrected commit dates. > > While this improves our situation somewhat, we have not completely > solved the issue for correctly computing generation numbers for mixes "mixed"? (will not touch locally). > layers. That follows in the next change. > > Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > commit-graph.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) The hunks that mention trust_generation_numbers match what the commit log message says what the patch does, but other two hunks that make sure that some code that used to run regardless of the value of "ctx->write_generation_data" are now run only when the member is nonzero smells like an unrelated change. Thanks.