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As discovered by Ævar, we cannot increment graph version to
distinguish between generation numbers v1 and v2 [1]. Thus, one of
pre-requistes before implementing generation number was to distinguish
between graph versions in a backwards compatible manner.
We are going to introduce a new chunk called Generation Data chunk (or
GDAT). GDAT stores generation number v2 (and any subsequent versions),
whereas CDAT will still store topological level.
Old Git does not understand GDAT chunk and would ignore it, reading
topological levels from CDAT. New Git can parse GDAT and take advantage
of newer generation numbers, falling back to topological levels when
GDAT chunk is missing (as it would happen with a commit graph written
by old Git).
We introduce a test environment variable 'GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_NO_GDAT'
which forces commit-graph file to be written without generation data
chunk to emulate a commit-graph file written by old Git.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <[email protected]>
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