Git-commit-id-maven-plugin: Can't "calculate distance"

[Randgalt]

Describe the bug

Using the Maven plugin under Java 16 produces:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal pl.project13.maven:git-commit-id-plugin:4.0.0:revision (default) on project missioncontrol-ui: Could not complete Mojo execution...: Unable to calculate distance between [commit f976ff5a182d64ad40c3fddd5a26c52a01c35b87 1615476615 ----sp] and [commit 88c9bb3a19a570c30f2e55ab7f9a74d2647ef221 1615471284 ----sp]: Missing commit 8cb5a9485154c19fc4eb6866653394f34bbf6f5d -> [Help 1]

Steps to Reproduce

            <plugin>
                <groupId>pl.project13.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>git-commit-id-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>4.0.4</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>get-the-git-infos</id>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>revision</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <phase>initialize</phase>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
                <configuration>
                    <generateGitPropertiesFile>true</generateGitPropertiesFile>
                    <generateGitPropertiesFilename>${project.build.outputDirectory}/git.properties</generateGitPropertiesFilename>
                    <includeOnlyProperties>
                        <includeOnlyProperty>^git.build.(time|version)$</includeOnlyProperty>
                        <includeOnlyProperty>^git.commit.id.(abbrev|full)$</includeOnlyProperty>
                        <includeOnlyProperty>^git.branch$</includeOnlyProperty>
                        <includeOnlyProperty>^git.tags$</includeOnlyProperty>
                    </includeOnlyProperties>
                    <commitIdGenerationMode>full</commitIdGenerationMode>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

[TheSnoozer]

Hi,
thanks for reporting your problem! Just curious:

• Have you tested the issue occurs with other java versions too? E.g. java 12? For me this sounds unrelated to the java version used.
• Are you operating on a shallow clone? Or rebased recently?
• Does the problem still exists when running the plugin with the native git binary? E.g. by adding <useNativeGit>false</useNativeGit> to the configuration section?

[roman-svystun]

Today I got this error for the first time in 3 years.

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal pl.project13.maven:git-commit-id-plugin:3.0.1:revision (get-the-git-infos) on project integration-test-base: Could not complete Mojo execution...: Unable to calculate distance between [commit 588c76345f1fffc5d159cfe90a22cca5ceb162cc 1627017891 ----sp] and [commit 8f67ef47a6d465675f4559306bfa25d3530069a0 1626458946 ----sp]: Missing commit 14c7b7588854455277cc09839911a22ea96851cd

The commit 14c7b7588854455277cc09839911a22ea96851cd is a 4 month old commit that is definitely present - I can checkout a new branch from it.

Java 11, git-commit-id-plugin v 2.2.6 and 3.0.1.

With <useNativeGit>false</useNativeGit> it fails with the same error.

With <useNativeGit>true</useNativeGit> it all works without an issue.

My machine has git version 2.32.0.

[TheSnoozer]

Hi,
thanks for the follow-up and sorry that the JGit Implementation breaks.
Are you perhaps performing a shallow clone?
I rephrased the name of the ticket, since it's not a Java 16 issue...it's a general issue with the plugin.

[roman-svystun]

It's not a shallow clone.

The system that has this issue also has git maintenance running regularly.

0 1-23 * * * "/usr/lib/git-core/git" --exec-path="/usr/lib/git-core" for-each-repo --config=maintenance.repo maintenance run --schedule=hourly
0 0 * * 1-6 "/usr/lib/git-core/git" --exec-path="/usr/lib/git-core" for-each-repo --config=maintenance.repo maintenance run --schedule=daily
0 0 * * 0 "/usr/lib/git-core/git" --exec-path="/usr/lib/git-core" for-each-repo --config=maintenance.repo maintenance run --schedule=weekly

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-maintenance

I think this maintenance has overly compacted something and now JGit fails.

On another system without git maintenance there is no issue.
Also if I do a fresh clone - again there is no issue.

[TheSnoozer]

Interesting. Thanks for the update. It seems that a while back we also had this issue appearing in the wild (https://github.com/git-commit-id/git-commit-id-maven-plugin/issues/63). However it seems that "we" never really understood it's root cause.
Let me keep this open and explore it when I have more free time again :-)