On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 01:44:01PM -0500, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> On 2/28/2022 11:59 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:23:38AM -0500, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> >> On 2/28/2022 10:18 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> >>> I haven't yet found the time to dig deeper into why this is happening.
> >>> While the repository is publicly accessible at [1], unfortunately the
> >>> bug seems to be triggered by a commit that's only kept alive by an
> >>> internal reference.
> >>>
> >>> Patrick
> >>>
> >>> [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com.git
> >>
> >> Thanks for including this information. Just to be clear: did you
> >> include patch 4 in your tests, or not? Patch 4 includes a fix
> >> related to overflow values, so it would be helpful to know if you
> >> found a _different_ bug or if it is the same one.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> -Stolee
> > 
> > I initially only applied the first three patches, but after having hit
> > the fatal error I also applied the rest of this series to have a look at
> > whether it is indeed fixed already by one of your later patches. The
> > error remains the same though.
> 
> Thanks for this extra context. Is this a commit-graph that you wrote
> with the first three patches and then you get an error when reading it?
> 
> Do you get the same error when deleting that file and rewriting it with
> all patches included?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Stolee

Yes, I do. I've applied all four patches from v2 on top of 715d08a9e5
(The eighth batch, 2022-02-25) and still get the same results:

    $ find objects/info/commit-graphs/
    objects/info/commit-graphs/
    objects/info/commit-graphs/graph-607e641165f3e83a82d5b14af4e611bf2a688f35.graph
    objects/info/commit-graphs/commit-graph-chain
    objects/info/commit-graphs/graph-5f357c7573c0075d42d82b28e660bc3eac01bfe8.graph
    objects/info/commit-graphs/graph-e0c12ead1b61c7c30720ae372e8a9f98d95dfb2d.graph
    objects/info/commit-graphs/graph-c96723b133c2d81106a01ecd7a8773bb2ef6c2e1.graph

     $ git commit-graph verify
    fatal: commit-graph requires overflow generation data but has none

     $ git commit-graph write
    Finding commits for commit graph among packed objects: 100% (10235119/10235119), done.
    Expanding reachable commits in commit graph: 2197197, done.
    Finding extra edges in commit graph: 100% (2197197/2197197), done.
    fatal: commit-graph requires overflow generation data but has none

     $ rm -rf objects/info/commit-graphs/

     $ git commit-graph write
    Finding commits for commit graph among packed objects: 100% (10235119/10235119), done.
    Expanding reachable commits in commit graph: 2197197, done.
    Finding extra edges in commit graph: 100% (2197197/2197197), done.
    fatal: commit-graph requires overflow generation data but has none)

So even generating them completely anew doesn't seem to generate the
overflow generation data.

Patrick