Re: [PATCH 5/5] commit-graph: prepare commit graph

On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 05:15:07PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:

From: Derrick Stolee <redacted>

Before checking if the repository has a commit-graph loaded, be sure
to run prepare_commit_graph(). This is necessary because without this
instance we would not initialize the topo_levels slab for each of the
struct commit_graphs in the chain before we start to parse the
commits. This leads to possibly recomputing the topological levels for
commits in lower layers even when we are adding a small number of
commits on top.

I think that the situation arises as follows:

  - Prior to this patch, we didn't always prepare the commit-graph, so
    the topo_levels slab wasn't initialized either.

  - Then we try and compute the topo levels for new commits (which are
    likely to be decendants of older ones that are in commit-graphs and
    have their topo-levels already computed).

  - But in the course of computing topo-levels for the new commits, we
    have to recur on their ancestors, which *look* like they have
    uncomputed topo levels.

That all makes sense, but it may be worth cutting and pasting what I
wrote into your patch to make it clearer.

By properly initializing the topo_slab, we fix the previously broken
case of a split commit graph where a base layer has the
generation_data_overflow chunk.

Makes sense.

Terrific :-).

Thanks,
Taylor