Re: git diff-tree commit detail bug in 2.0.2 and 2.0.3

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 07:42:16PM +1000, Bryan Turner wrote:
>
>> Running a git bisect between v2.0.1, which does not manifest this
>> issue, and v2.0.2 fingers the following commit:
>> bturner@ubuntu:~/Development/oss/git/git$ git bisect bad
>> c1b3c71f4b4571abb2b2a457122fd100dc9f7eb0 is the first bad commit
>> commit c1b3c71f4b4571abb2b2a457122fd100dc9f7eb0
>> Author: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>> Date:   Tue Jun 10 17:43:02 2014 -0400
>> 
>>     commit: convert commit->buffer to a slab
>
> I haven't reproduced here yet, but this is almost certainly the bug
> where lookup_unknown_object causes a bogus commit->index field (and
> prior to the commit you found, diff-tree did not use commit->index).
>
> The series that Junio has in jk/alloc-commit-id should fix the problem
> (it's in master already, and slated for v2.1.0).
>
> Junio, we should consider a v2.0.4 with that series, I think. This is a
> pretty serious regression in diff-tree (I didn't even realize that the
> buffer-slab work went into the maint series; that may have been a little
> ambitious).