commit-graph: drop COMMIT_GRAPH_WRITE_CHECK_OIDS flag

Since 7c5c9b9c57 (commit-graph: error out on invalid commit oids in
'write --stdin-commits', 2019-08-05), the commit-graph builtin dies on
receiving non-commit OIDs as input to '--stdin-commits'.

This behavior can be cumbersome to work around in, say, the case of
piping 'git for-each-ref' to 'git commit-graph write --stdin-commits' if
the caller does not want to cull out non-commits themselves. In this
situation, it would be ideal if 'git commit-graph write' wrote the graph
containing the inputs that did pertain to commits, and silently ignored
the remainder of the input.

Some options have been proposed to the effect of '--[no-]check-oids'
which would allow callers to have the commit-graph builtin do just that.
After some discussion, it is difficult to imagine a caller who wouldn't
want to pass '--no-check-oids', suggesting that we should get rid of the
behavior of complaining about non-commit inputs altogether.

If callers do wish to retain this behavior, they can easily work around
this change by doing the following:

     git for-each-ref --format='%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(*objecttype)' |
     awk '
       !/commit/ { print "not-a-commit:"$1 }
        /commit/ { print $1 }
     ' |
     git commit-graph write --stdin-commits

To make it so that valid OIDs that refer to non-existent objects are
indeed an error after loosening the error handling, perform an extra
lookup to make sure that object indeed exists before sending it to the
commit-graph internals.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
index 89020d3d44..e77244c39b 100755
--- a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
+++ b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
@@ -84,11 +84,18 @@ graph_read_expect() {
 
 test_expect_success 'exit with correct error on bad input to --stdin-commits' '
 	cd "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/full" &&
-	echo HEAD | test_expect_code 1 git commit-graph write --stdin-commits 2>stderr &&
+	# invalid, non-hex OID
+	echo HEAD >in &&
+	test_expect_code 1 git commit-graph write --stdin-commits <in 2>stderr &&
 	test_i18ngrep "unexpected non-hex object ID: HEAD" stderr &&
-	# valid tree OID, but not a commit OID
-	git rev-parse HEAD^{tree} | test_expect_code 1 git commit-graph write --stdin-commits 2>stderr &&
-	test_i18ngrep "invalid commit object id" stderr
+	# non-existent OID
+	echo $ZERO_OID >in &&
+	test_expect_code 1 git commit-graph write --stdin-commits <in 2>stderr &&
+	test_i18ngrep "invalid object" stderr &&
+	# valid commit and tree OID
+	git rev-parse HEAD HEAD^{tree} >in &&
+	git commit-graph write --stdin-commits <in &&
+	graph_read_expect 3
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'write graph' '