Karthik Nayak [off-list ref] writes:
... To ensure that the feature should
work with corrupt repositories with stale commit-graph, I'm thinking of
disabling the commit-graph whenever the `--missing` option is used.
Just to avoid giving anybody a wrong guideline, for most of the
other features, we should assume that the commit-graph accurately
represents the reality in the object database and take advantage of
it, leaving it to "git fsck" to ensure that the commit-graph is
healthy.
But "rev-list --missing", especially when used with actions other
than allow-promisor or allow-any, is a feature that is only useful
when one wants to really notice objects that are available in the
object store, and it would be a bug for it to pretend as if objects
the commit-graph has heard of exists without checking.