diff --git a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
--- a/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -337,6 +337,9 @@
   (`#62296 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/62296>`_)
 - Fix a stack overflow issue when evaluating ``consteval`` default arguments.
   (`#60082` <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/60082>`_)
+- Fix the assertion hit when generating code for global variable initializer of
+  _BitInt(1) type.
+  (`#62207 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/62207>`_)
 
 Bug Fixes to Compiler Builtins
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGExprConstant.cpp b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGExprConstant.cpp
--- a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGExprConstant.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGExprConstant.cpp
@@ -1730,7 +1730,7 @@
   }
 
   // Zero-extend bool.
-  if (C->getType()->isIntegerTy(1)) {
+  if (C->getType()->isIntegerTy(1) && !destType->isBitIntType()) {
     llvm::Type *boolTy = CGM.getTypes().ConvertTypeForMem(destType);
     return llvm::ConstantExpr::getZExt(C, boolTy);
   }
diff --git a/clang/test/CodeGen/ext-int.c b/clang/test/CodeGen/ext-int.c
--- a/clang/test/CodeGen/ext-int.c
+++ b/clang/test/CodeGen/ext-int.c
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 // RUN: %clang_cc1 -triple i386-gnu-linux -O3 -disable-llvm-passes -emit-llvm -o - %s | FileCheck %s --check-prefixes=CHECK,LIN32
 // RUN: %clang_cc1 -triple i386-windows-pc -O3 -disable-llvm-passes -emit-llvm -o - %s | FileCheck %s --check-prefixes=CHECK,WIN32
 
+//GH62207
+unsigned _BitInt(1) GlobSize1 = 0;
+// CHECK: @GlobSize1 = {{.*}}global i1 false
+
 void GenericTest(_BitInt(3) a, unsigned _BitInt(3) b, _BitInt(4) c) {
   // CHECK: define {{.*}}void @GenericTest
   int which = _Generic(a, _BitInt(3): 1, unsigned _BitInt(3) : 2, _BitInt(4) : 3);