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67 changes: 53 additions & 14 deletions change-proneness-ranker/src/main/java/org/hjug/git/GitLogReader.java
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import org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.GitAPIException;
import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.DiffEntry;
import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.DiffFormatter;
import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.MissingObjectException;
import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.RevWalkException;
import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.*;
import org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk.*;
import org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file.FileRepositoryBuilder;
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public ScmLogInfo fileLog(String path) throws GitAPIException, IOException {
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
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int commitCount = 0;
int earliestCommit = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
int mostRecentCommit = 0;
if (stats.commitCount == 0) {
return new ScmLogInfo(path, null, stats.earliestCommit, stats.earliestCommit, stats.commitCount);
}

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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commitCount++;
}

if (commitCount == 0) {
return new ScmLogInfo(path, null, earliestCommit, earliestCommit, commitCount);
return stats;
}

private static boolean isCausedByMissingObject(Throwable throwable) {
while (throwable != null) {
if (throwable instanceof MissingObjectException) {
return true;
}
throwable = throwable.getCause();
}
return false;
}

return new ScmLogInfo(path, null, earliestCommit, mostRecentCommit, commitCount);
private static class CommitWalkStats {
int commitCount = 0;
int earliestCommit = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
int mostRecentCommit = 0;
}

// based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27361538/how-to-show-changes-between-commits-with-jgit
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package org.hjug.git;

import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.any;
import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.anyString;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git;
import org.eclipse.jgit.api.LogCommand;
import org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.GitAPIException;
import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.MissingObjectException;
import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.RevWalkException;
import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.ObjectId;
import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Repository;
import org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk.RevCommit;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
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Assertions.assertEquals(secondCommit.getCommitTime(), scmLogInfo.getMostRecentCommit());
}

@Test
void testFileLogReturnsPartialResultsWhenWalkFailsMidIteration() throws Exception {
// A missing tree encountered mid-walk (e.g. in a partial clone) must not
// discard the commits that were already read: fileLog should return the
// partial results gathered before the walk failed.
String attributeHandler = "AttributeHandler.java";
InputStream resourceAsStream = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(attributeHandler);
String contents = convertInputStreamToString(resourceAsStream);

writeFile(attributeHandler, contents);
git.add().addFilepattern(".").call();
git.commit().setMessage("message").call();

Thread.sleep(1000);

writeFile(attributeHandler, contents + "\n// second revision\n");
git.add().addFilepattern(".").call();
RevCommit newestCommit = git.commit().setMessage("message").call();

Iterable<RevCommit> failingWalk = walkYieldingThenThrowing(
List.of(newestCommit), new RevWalkException(new MissingObjectException(headId(), Constants.OBJ_TREE)));

GitLogReader gitLogReader = new GitLogReader(gitWithLogs(failingWalk));

ScmLogInfo scmLogInfo = Assertions.assertDoesNotThrow(() -> gitLogReader.fileLog(attributeHandler));

Assertions.assertEquals(1, scmLogInfo.getCommitCount());
Assertions.assertEquals(newestCommit.getCommitTime(), scmLogInfo.getEarliestCommit());
Assertions.assertEquals(newestCommit.getCommitTime(), scmLogInfo.getMostRecentCommit());
}

@Test
void testFileLogRethrowsNonMissingObjectWalkFailures() throws Exception {
// Guard against silencing unrelated walk failures: only missing objects
// should be tolerated, anything else must still propagate.
String attributeHandler = "AttributeHandler.java";
InputStream resourceAsStream = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(attributeHandler);
writeFile(attributeHandler, convertInputStreamToString(resourceAsStream));
git.add().addFilepattern(".").call();
git.commit().setMessage("message").call();

Iterable<RevCommit> failingWalk =
walkYieldingThenThrowing(Collections.emptyList(), new RevWalkException(new IOException("disk I/O")));

GitLogReader gitLogReader = new GitLogReader(gitWithLogs(failingWalk));

Assertions.assertThrows(RevWalkException.class, () -> gitLogReader.fileLog("AttributeHandler.java"));
}

/**
* A Git whose log command returns the given iterable; the underlying
* repository is real so that HEAD resolution works.
*/
private final Git gitWithLogs(Iterable<RevCommit> revCommits) throws IOException, GitAPIException {
Git mockGit = mock(Git.class);
when(mockGit.getRepository()).thenReturn(repository);
LogCommand logCommand = mock(LogCommand.class);
when(logCommand.add(any(ObjectId.class))).thenReturn(logCommand);
when(logCommand.addPath(anyString())).thenReturn(logCommand);
when(logCommand.call()).thenReturn(revCommits);
when(mockGit.log()).thenReturn(logCommand);
return mockGit;
}

/** An iterable that yields the given commits and then fails, mimicking a truncated walk. */
private static Iterable<RevCommit> walkYieldingThenThrowing(List<RevCommit> commits, RuntimeException failure) {
return () -> new Iterator<RevCommit>() {
private final Iterator<RevCommit> delegate = commits.iterator();

@Override
public boolean hasNext() {
return true;
}

@Override
public RevCommit next() {
if (delegate.hasNext()) {
return delegate.next();
}
throw failure;
}
};
}

private ObjectId headId() throws IOException {
ObjectId head = repository.resolve("HEAD");
return head == null ? ObjectId.fromString("1111111111111111111111111111111111111111") : head;
}

@Test
void testFileLogReturnsOnlyVerifiedPartialPathHistoryWhenFilteredWalkYieldsNothingDueToMissingObjects()
throws Exception {
String attributeHandler = "AttributeHandler.java";
InputStream resourceAsStream = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(attributeHandler);
writeFile(attributeHandler, convertInputStreamToString(resourceAsStream));
git.add().addFilepattern(".").call();
RevCommit onlyCommit = git.commit().setMessage("message").call();

Iterable<RevCommit> failingFilteredWalk = walkYieldingThenThrowing(
Collections.emptyList(),
new RevWalkException(new MissingObjectException(headId(), Constants.OBJ_TREE)));

GitLogReader gitLogReader = new GitLogReader(gitWithLogs(failingFilteredWalk));

ScmLogInfo scmLogInfo = Assertions.assertDoesNotThrow(() -> gitLogReader.fileLog(attributeHandler));

// When the filtered walk yields nothing due to missing objects, return only the verified partial results
// (which in this case is zero commits) rather than falling back to total repository history
Assertions.assertEquals(0, scmLogInfo.getCommitCount());
}

@Test
void testFileLogReturnsOnlyVerifiedPartialPathHistoryWithMissingTree() throws Exception {
// Simulates a shallow clone whose tree objects are missing: the filtered walk
// may yield zero results due to missing objects, but should not fall back to total history.
GitLogReader gitLogReader = new GitLogReader(git);

String attributeHandler = "AttributeHandler.java";
InputStream resourceAsStream = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(attributeHandler);
String contents = convertInputStreamToString(resourceAsStream);

writeFile(attributeHandler, contents);
git.add().addFilepattern(".").call();
RevCommit firstCommit = git.commit().setMessage("message").call();

Thread.sleep(1000);

writeFile(attributeHandler, contents + "\n// second revision\n");
git.add().addFilepattern(".").call();
RevCommit secondCommit = git.commit().setMessage("message").call();

deleteLooseObject(secondCommit.getTree());

ScmLogInfo scmLogInfo = Assertions.assertDoesNotThrow(() -> gitLogReader.fileLog(attributeHandler));

// With missing tree objects, the filtered walk may yield zero verified partial results
// rather than falling back to total repository history
Assertions.assertEquals(0, scmLogInfo.getCommitCount());
}

@Test
void testFileLogDoesNotFabricateHistoryForFileNeverCommitted() throws Exception {
// An empty filtered walk with NO missing objects means the file simply has no
// history: the total commit count must NOT be substituted.
GitLogReader gitLogReader = new GitLogReader(git);

String attributeHandler = "AttributeHandler.java";
InputStream resourceAsStream = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(attributeHandler);
writeFile(attributeHandler, convertInputStreamToString(resourceAsStream));
git.add().addFilepattern(".").call();
git.commit().setMessage("message").call();

ScmLogInfo scmLogInfo = Assertions.assertDoesNotThrow(() -> gitLogReader.fileLog("NeverCommitted.java"));

Assertions.assertEquals(0, scmLogInfo.getCommitCount());
}

private void deleteLooseObject(ObjectId objectId) throws IOException {
String objectName = objectId.getName();
File looseObject = new File(
new File(repository.getDirectory(), "objects"),
objectName.substring(0, 2) + '/' + objectName.substring(2));
org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions.assumeTrue(
looseObject.exists(), "loose object " + objectName + " should exist in a fresh repository");
if (!looseObject.delete()) {
throw new IOException("Unable to delete loose object " + looseObject);
}
}

@Test
void testWalkFirstCommit() throws IOException, GitAPIException {
GitLogReader gitLogReader = new GitLogReader(git);
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