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Handle files with missing Git objects


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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved history analysis for shallow or partial Git clones by returning verified commit data when some Git objects are missing.
    • Preserved partial results gathered before a history-reading failure.
    • Prevented missing or unreadable file history from being supplemented with unrelated repository-wide history.
    • Preserved error reporting for failures unrelated to missing Git objects.
    • Correctly reports zero commits when no verified path-specific history is available.

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GitLogReader.fileLog now returns verified partial history when a commit walk encounters missing Git objects. Other walk failures still propagate. Tests cover partial results, missing trees, empty walks, and non-missing-object failures.

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Git history resilience

Layer / File(s) Summary
Commit walk error handling
change-proneness-ranker/src/main/java/org/hjug/git/GitLogReader.java
fileLog delegates statistics collection to walkCommits. Missing-object failures truncate the walk and log a warning. Other RevWalkException failures are rethrown.
Git log validation tests
change-proneness-ranker/src/test/java/org/hjug/git/GitLogReaderTest.java
Tests verify partial results, propagated failures, zero results for incomplete or empty filtered walks, and no fabricated history for files that were never committed.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0c554

The history reader now returns verified partial results for incomplete Git object data without fabricating file history or hiding unrelated failures. No actionable merge risk remains.

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In `@change-proneness-ranker/src/main/java/org/hjug/git/GitLogReader.java`:
- Line 137: Update both log-command paths in GitLogReader, including the
filtered walk around walkCommits and its fallback, to catch
MissingObjectException thrown directly by LogCommand.add(branchId) and apply the
existing missing-object policy. Add a test covering direct LogCommand.add
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ObjectId branchId = gitRepository.resolve("HEAD");
Iterable<RevCommit> revCommits = git.log().add(branchId).addPath(path).call();
CommitWalkStats stats =
walkCommits(git.log().add(branchId).addPath(path).call());

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle a missing start commit in both log commands.

When branchId refers to a missing commit, JGit 7.7.0.202606012155-r LogCommand.add(AnyObjectId) throws MissingObjectException directly. Java evaluates both git.log().add(branchId) calls before walkCommits receives the iterable, so the current missing-object policy does not handle either path. Catch this exception for both the filtered walk and the fallback walk, and add a test for a direct LogCommand.add failure.

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In `@change-proneness-ranker/src/main/java/org/hjug/git/GitLogReader.java` at line
137, Update both log-command paths in GitLogReader, including the filtered walk
around walkCommits and its fallback, to catch MissingObjectException thrown
directly by LogCommand.add(branchId) and apply the existing missing-object
policy. Add a test covering direct LogCommand.add failure while preserving
normal traversal behavior.

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Comment on lines 139 to 147

for (RevCommit revCommit : revCommits) {
int commitTime = revCommit.getCommitTime();
if (commitCount == 0) {
mostRecentCommit = commitTime;
return new ScmLogInfo(path, null, stats.earliestCommit, stats.mostRecentCommit, stats.commitCount);
}

/**
* Counts commits over the given walk. A missing Git object (e.g. in a shallow or
* partial clone) must not fail the whole walk; the walk is truncated and the
* commits read so far are returned instead.
*/
private static CommitWalkStats walkCommits(Iterable<RevCommit> revCommits) {
CommitWalkStats stats = new CommitWalkStats();

try {
for (RevCommit revCommit : revCommits) {
int commitTime = revCommit.getCommitTime();
if (stats.commitCount == 0) {
stats.mostRecentCommit = commitTime;
}
if (commitTime < stats.earliestCommit) {
stats.earliestCommit = commitTime;
}
stats.commitCount++;
}
if (commitTime < earliestCommit) {
earliestCommit = commitTime;
} catch (RevWalkException e) {
// JGit wraps checked exceptions thrown mid-walk in a RevWalkException.
if (isCausedByMissingObject(e)) {
log.warn(
"Missing Git object while reading history (shallow or partial clone?); "
+ "reporting the {} commit(s) that could be read. Cause: {}",
stats.commitCount,
e.getMessage());
} else {
throw e;
}

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🟡 Unreadable histories receive top rank

When fileLog hits a missing object before any commit, earliestCommit stays Integer.MAX_VALUE and commitCount stays zero. rankChangeProneness produces NaN, which sorts after every finite score. Affected files receive the highest ranks despite having no verified history.

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A path walk can fail on its first missing tree, leaving the default statistics untouched. fileLog now returns those defaults directly: zero commits and Integer.MAX_VALUE as the creation timestamp. rankChangeProneness finds no repository changes at or after that timestamp, then evaluates 0 / 0 as Float.NaN. Java's float comparator orders NaN after finite values, and the ascending rank loop assigns later entries larger ranks.

Example: File A has ten verified commits and a finite change-proneness score. File B's first tree is missing, so its score becomes NaN. Sorting places File B after File A, and File B receives the larger change-proneness rank.

Recommended fix: Preserve whether the walk was truncated, and represent an unreadable zero-result history separately from a verified empty history. Update ChangePronenessRanker.rankChangeProneness to assign that state a defined non-NaN score or exclude it from ranking; also avoid exposing Integer.MAX_VALUE as a real commit timestamp.

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