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When fetching, there is a step in which sought objects are first checked
against the local repository; only objects that are not in the local
repository are then fetched. This check first looks up the commit graph
file, and returns "present" if the object is in there.
However, the action of first looking up the commit graph file is not
done everywhere in Git, especially if the type of the object at the time
of lookup is not known. This means that in a repo corruption situation,
a user may encounter an "object missing" error, attempt to fetch it, and
still encounter the same error later when they reattempt their original
action, because the object is present in the commit graph file but not in
the object DB.
Therefore, make it a fatal error when this occurs. (Note that we cannot
proceed to include this object in the list of objects to be fetched
without changing at least the fetch negotiation code: what would happen
is that the client will send "want X" and "have X" and when I tested
at $DAYJOB with a work server that uses JGit, the server reasonably
returned an empty packfile. And changing the fetch negotiation code to
only use the object DB when deciding what to report as "have" would be
an unnecessary slowdown, I think.)
This was discovered when a lazy fetch of a missing commit completed with
nothing actually fetched, and the writing of the commit graph file after
every fetch then attempted to read said missing commit, triggering a
lazy fetch of said missing commit, resulting in an infinite loop with no
user-visible indication (until they check the list of processes running
on their computer). With this fix, there is no infinite loop. Note that
although the repo corruption we discovered was caused by a bug in GC in
a partial clone, the behavior that this patch teaches Git to warn about
applies to any repo with commit graph enabled and with a missing commit,
whether it is a partial clone or not.
t5330, introduced in 3a1ea94a49 (commit-graph.c: no lazy fetch in
lookup_commit_in_graph(), 2022-07-01), tests that an interaction between
fetch and the commit graph does not cause an infinite loop. This patch
changes the exit code in that situation, so that test had to be changed.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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