commit-graph: introduce `commit_graph_generation_from_graph()`

In 2ee11f7261 (commit-graph: return generation from memory, 2023-03-20),
the `commit_graph_generation()` function stopped returning zeros when
asked to locate the generation number of a given commit.

This was done at the time to prepare for a later change which set
generation values in memory, meaning that we could no longer rely on
`graph_pos` alone to tell us whether or not to trust the generation
number returned by this function.

In 2ee11f7261, it was noted that this change only impacted very old
commit-graphs, which were written with all commits having generation
number 0. Indeed, zero is not a valid generation number, so we should
never expect to see that value outside of the aforementioned case.

The test fallout in 2ee11f7261 indicated that we were no longer able to
fsck a specific old case of commit-graph corruption, where we see a
non-zero generation number after having seen a generation number of 0
earlier.

Introduce a variant of `commit_graph_generation()` which behaves like
that function did prior to 2ee11f7261, known as
`commit_graph_generation_from_graph()`. Then use this function in the
context of `verify_one_commit_graph()`, where we only want to trust the
values from the graph.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
index 4df76173a8..4e70820c74 100755
--- a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
+++ b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ test_expect_success 'detect incorrect generation number' '
 
 test_expect_success 'detect incorrect generation number' '
 	corrupt_graph_and_verify $GRAPH_BYTE_COMMIT_GENERATION "\01" \
-		"commit-graph generation for commit"
+		"but zero elsewhere"
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'detect incorrect commit date' '