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Why

Phase 2 of #364: with the binary shipped and unreachable (#401), the next step that cannot lose anybody's work is reading. If git status and statusMatrix disagree about what is dirty, the app finds out here, against repositories nothing has written to with the new engine, rather than three flows into the write swap. The case is made on #384; this PR does not re-argue it.

What changes

  • src/git-run.cjs, the only place the binary is spawned. Explicit cwd or a TypeError; --no-optional-locks so a read never writes .git/index; safe.directory pinned to the one directory in use (both spellings on Windows); stdout as bytes under a cap that becomes an error instead of an out-of-memory; a GitError with exit code, stderr and arguments. spawn rather than execFile so a later phase can stream and kill the child.
  • src/git-read.cjs, one parser per porcelain format (status --porcelain=v2 -z, diff --name-status -z, cat-file --batch, ls-tree -z, for-each-ref) and the read functions, returning the shapes the isomorphic-git calls returned, status rows included. crlfArgs carries the Windows-only autocrlf view that createCrlfCompatibleFs gives isomorphic-git.
  • The swap, behind unchanged signatures: readTrunkInfo, collectDirtyFiles, currentBranchName, listTicketBranches, scanWorktree (and so hasChangesAgainst, countChangesAgainst), collectChangedFiles, baseProvenance, modeInCommit. The renderer and the IPC layer are untouched.
  • Cheaper on the way: base blobs for the patch come from one cat-file --batch spawn instead of one object read per file; a file's recorded mode is one ls-tree instead of a tree walk.
  • Tests: tests/unit/helpers/git.cjs (shared bundled-Git helper), parser tests on fixture bytes, runner tests with an injected spawn, and two cross-engine tests (detached HEAD, a hand-made branch). Every existing integration test builds its repository with isomorphic-git and now reads it through the binary, unchanged. One journey (patch-apply revert) waited on the wrong signal and only passed because in-process reads were faster than Playwright; it now waits for the next-step line to move on. Its assertions are unchanged.

Deliberately not here: any write, the clone, --filter=blob:none, retiring ensureAutocrlf (still used by the remaining isomorphic-git writes and by patch-apply.js). Those are #385 and #386, stacked above.

How to test this

Platforms: macOS and Windows. Reads run on both; the CRLF view only exists on Windows.

Starting state: the Buildkite artifact for the current head installed, and a site created by an earlier version of the app (an isomorphic-git clone), with a ticket linked and a few edits: one modified file, one new file, one deleted file.

  1. Open the site. Expected: the sidebar shows the same trunk date as before the update. Nothing on screen changed.
  2. Open the patch. Expected: the same three files, same hunks, as the previous version produced. Base commit unchanged.
  3. Switch to another ticket and back. Expected: the "carried work" count matches the number of edited files; the substrate (node_modules) is untouched.
  4. In the site's folder, with the app closed, run your own git checkout --detach and reopen the app. Expected: the app reports no active branch rather than crashing or inventing one.
  5. Windows only: in a site checked out by a host Git with core.autocrlf=true (CRLF on disk, no local autocrlf setting), the patch panel must not list every text file as modified.

What must not have happened: .git/index modified by opening the app or the patch panel (check its mtime); any git from PATH spawned (unset it and repeat step 2); a change in the files the patch names between the previous version and this one.

Cannot be tested by hand yet: the aged-site comparison on a months-old wordpress-develop clone is recorded on #384 (below), not reproducible from a fresh install.

Risks and limitations

  • One documented divergence from isomorphic-git: a file staged and then edited back to its HEAD content reads as modified here (Git reports the index difference; isomorphic-git hashed). Every consumer that acts on the file byte-compares afterwards, so only a count can differ, and only for a user who staged with their own client.
  • --no-optional-locks means stat-dirty entries are re-hashed on every scan until a write refreshes the index. Measured on the aged site: 83 ms then 63 ms for a full scan, against 4.2 s with isomorphic-git, so it stays.
  • safe.directory is passed per call in both path spellings on Windows; if Git's normalised form matches neither, every command fails with exit 128 on a "dubiously owned" folder. Step 5 territory; a fallback to * is one line.
  • Review: 6 [fix here] · 4 [follow-up]; all 6 fixed plus 2 of the follow-ups. Two deferred (chunking the blob batch; a runner timeout for a contended .git lock), both belong with Phase 3: the app writes its repositories through the bundled Git, one flow at a time #385's cancellation work. Details below.

Related

Part of #364. Fixes #384. Stacked on #401 (merge that first). Next: #385 (writes, four PRs) and #386.


Design decisions and alternatives considered
  • Status rows kept as the internal shape rather than a new one: stageWorktree (a write, Phase 3: the app writes its repositories through the bundled Git, one flow at a time #385) and staleStagedPaths read the stage column, and the pure rules in git-update.cjs are tested against it. The row contract is now the app's; the comment there says so.
  • git diff <commit> + ls-files --others for the scan against a ticket's branch point (not HEAD once work is parked): it hashes stat-dirty entries and writes nothing. Rejected diff-index (stat-only false positives), a temporary index via GIT_INDEX_FILE (a write, and the variable is forbidden by REDIRECT_ENV), and status after moving HEAD (a write).
  • %ct not %cI for dates: the stored string has always been UTC; %cI carries the committer's offset.
  • symbolic-ref --quiet for the branch name: rev-parse --abbrev-ref prints the literal HEAD when detached and --short abbreviates against tags.
  • spawn, not execFile, and no sync variant: nothing in the main process may block, and the tests have their own spawnSync helper.
Review outcome (required — see AGENTS.md)

6 [fix here] · 4 [follow-up], from the self-review's judgement pass. Fixed in the fourth commit:

  1. Docs claimed every read runs on the binary; the reads inside the write flows still do not. Reworded in AGENTS.md and the review standard.
  2. A site whose .git is gone reported "No changes" instead of an error once resolveRef failures were swallowed. collectChangedFiles now throws when no base can be resolved.
  3. A staged deletion (1 D.) mapped to "present and different"; isomorphic-git said absent. Fixed, and the two rows Git emits for git rm --cached merge into one.
  4. Intent-to-add (.A) mapped to "in HEAD". Fixed.
  5. (follow-up, taken) changesAgainst reported a file removed from the index but kept on disk as a deletion, which a patch would carry (Generated patches silently omit file deletions, and patch generation mutates the user's git index #85). The untracked list now overrides the diff's D.
  6. (follow-up, taken) parseCatFileBatch desynced on a missing echo containing a newline; it now stops instead of poisoning every later offset.
  7. Tests mixed layer 1 and 2 in one file; split into *.test.cjs and *.integration.test.cjs per TESTING.md.
  8. Nothing proved the Windows autocrlf view reached the status/diff argv; run is injectable and a test asserts it.

Deferred, with reason:

  1. readBlobs is one unbounded batch under the 64 MiB cap; a macOS/Linux CRLF checkout with thousands of modified files could reject the whole scan where the old per-file read degraded one file. Chunking is small, but it belongs with the runner's cancellation and timeout work in Phase 3: the app writes its repositories through the bundled Git, one flow at a time #385.
  2. runGit has no timeout; a .git/index.lock held by the contributor's own client leaves the IPC pending. Same home: Phase 3: the app writes its repositories through the bundled Git, one flow at a time #385, where writes make it reachable from the app itself.

Style notes applied: the stdout-as-bytes rationale, the overflow test's comment, the batch-failure comment in main.js, the helper in TESTING.md.

Aged-site check (recorded on #384)

macOS, two sites the old engine created (2026-08-12 with six ticket branches and a local core.autocrlf = true; 2026-09-03 with one branch and no autocrlf). Both engines read both, nothing written. Every read agrees: dirty paths against HEAD and against the branch point, current branch, branch list, trunk oid and date, the facades' counts. fsck clean. A status scan went from 4.2 s to 83 ms on the older site (63 ms on the second call, so --no-optional-locks costs nothing visible). Windows still to run; details on the issue.

Screenshots: nothing on screen changed.

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Status, branch listing, and history reads use bundled Git [#384]
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Bound runGit stderr capture.

changesAgainst() reaches runGit() through git diff --name-status. Because the invocation does not disable repository-local diff.external, an external diff helper can write unbounded stderr. runGit() retains every chunk until Git exits, which can cause excessive memory use in the main process.

+const MAX_STDERR = 1024 * 1024;
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 		const err = [];
+		let errBytes = 0;
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// Still the first call, and still awaited: the sites:add and patch tests
// end the handler here, and a directory that is not a repository fails
// here too. Line endings themselves are the binary's business now
// (crlfArgs in git-read.cjs).
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Architecture · 🔵 low · [fix here] — Restore repository validation before registering a site.

ensureAutocrlf(sitePath) only creates a discarded filesystem wrapper. It does not read .git or validate the repository. Because ensureLocalExcludes returns false when .git is absent, sites:add can register a non-repository directory before later Git operations fail. Validate a repository ref before writing the site to the store, and keep ensureAutocrlf only where its returned filesystem is consumed.

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// end the handler here, and a directory that is not a repository fails
// here too. Line endings themselves are the binary's business now
// (crlfArgs in git-read.cjs).
await ensureAutocrlf(dir);
// Line endings are the binary's business now (crlfArgs in git-read.cjs),
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const { rows } = isDirtyFromStatusMatrix(matrix);
const modified = rows.filter(([, head, workdir]) => head === 1 && workdir === 2).map(([filepath]) => filepath);
// One spawn for every candidate blob rather than one per file.
const headBlobs = headOid ? await readBlobs(dir, headOid, modified) : new Map();

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the dirty-file list when the blob batch fails.

If readBlobs rejects, collectDirtyFiles rejects. The IPC handler returns { ok: false }, and startTrunkUpdate treats that result as clean and calls beginTrunkUpdate. The update can then reset the worktree without showing the dirty-file modal, which can discard local changes. Catch only the batch failure so the modified candidates remain listed while statusRows and resolveRef failures still propagate.

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-	const headBlobs = headOid ? await readBlobs(dir, headOid, modified) : new Map();
+	// A failed batch reads as every blob unreadable, which lists the file
+	// rather than failing the dialog — the same fallback collectChangedFiles
+	// uses in main.js.
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test('stdin is only opened when there is input, and the input is written whole', async () => {
const { spawn, calls } = recordingSpawn({ stdout: ['ok\n'] });
await runGit(['cat-file', '--batch'], { cwd: '/sites/demo', input: 'abc:path\0', spawn });
assert.deepEqual(calls[0].options.stdio, ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe']);
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const written = Buffer.concat(calls[0].child.stdinChunks).toString('utf8');
assert.equal(written, 'abc:path\0');
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Tests · 🔵 low · [fix here] — the stdin error path has no coverage.

runGit installs a stdin error handler that swallows EPIPE and rejects on any other write error (src/git-run.cjs lines 180-182). Neither branch is exercised. The EPIPE branch is the one that matters: cat-file --batch exits before reading a large request list, and a regression there would turn a normal Git exit into a rejected promise for every batched blob read.

fakeChild already exposes child.stdin, so both branches need only an emitted error.

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	const { spawn, calls } = recordingSpawn({ stdout: ['ok\n'], delay: 5 });
	const pending = runGit(['cat-file', '--batch'], { cwd: '/sites/demo', input: 'abc:path\0', spawn });
	calls[0].child.stdin.emit('error', Object.assign(new Error('write EPIPE'), { code: 'EPIPE' }));
	assert.equal((await pending).status, 0);

	const second = recordingSpawn({ stdout: ['ok\n'], delay: 5 });
	const rejected = runGit(['cat-file', '--batch'], { cwd: '/sites/demo', input: 'abc:path\0', spawn: second.spawn });
	second.calls[0].child.stdin.emit('error', Object.assign(new Error('write EACCES'), { code: 'EACCES' }));
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Windows walkthrough, 2026-09-09, Windows 11 VM with no Git installed, Buildkite artifact of #411 (a52e684, same tree as the current stack heads after the chain rebase).

Every read the panel makes ran on the bundled Git against a fresh site and a legacy one: status clean after each switch, the patch panel listing the one edited file, the ticket branch list right. No CRLF noise on a site the app cloned (core.autocrlf=false in its config).

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Phase 2 of #364 (#384) starts with the two pieces every later phase
reuses and nothing depends on yet.

src/git-run.cjs spawns the binary and nothing else: argv from
git-binary.cjs, an explicit cwd or a TypeError, --no-optional-locks so a
read never writes .git/index, safe.directory pinned to the one directory
in use, stdout as bytes under a cap that becomes an error instead of an
out-of-memory, and a GitError that carries the exit code, stderr and the
arguments. spawn rather than execFile, so the child can be streamed and
killed by a later phase.

src/git-read.cjs holds one parser per porcelain format the app will read
(status --porcelain=v2 -z, diff --name-status -z, cat-file --batch,
ls-tree -z, for-each-ref) and the read functions that return the shapes
the isomorphic-git calls return today, status rows included, so the
facades can swap engines without changing signature. crlfArgs carries the
Windows-only autocrlf view createCrlfCompatibleFs gives isomorphic-git.

The git() and removeRepo() test helpers move to tests/unit/helpers/git.cjs
so the new tests and the existing integration test share them.

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Phase 2 of #364 (#384). Every question the app asks a repository without
changing it now goes to the binary: the trunk snapshot and its date,
the checked-out branch, the branch list, the dirty scan against HEAD,
the scan against a ticket's branch point, base blobs for the patch, and
the mode a commit records for a path. The facades keep their signatures
(readTrunkInfo, collectDirtyFiles, currentBranchName, listTicketBranches,
scanWorktree, collectChangedFiles, baseProvenance, modeInCommit), so the
renderer and the IPC layer are untouched.

Two things got cheaper on the way: collectDirtyFiles and
collectChangedFiles read every base blob in one cat-file spawn instead of
one object read per file, and modeInCommit is one ls-tree on the path
instead of a tree walk.

The writes and the clone still run on isomorphic-git; #385 moves them
flow by flow. Every existing integration test builds its repository with
isomorphic-git and now reads it through the binary, which is the
two-engine agreement check the issue asks for; two new tests put the
repository in states only a user's own client produces (detached HEAD, a
hand-made branch) and check the reads say so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J4uRM5JosAcMbKXowaXyVu
The revert journey treated the "Revert this patch" button disappearing
as the revert having happened. The button leaves the moment the revert
starts, so the assertions ran during it and passed only because the
in-process reads finished before Playwright looked. With the reads on
the bundled Git the handler now spawns a process before touching the
tree, and the invariant read the patched file a moment too early.

The next-step line names the operation while it runs and moves on once
the status has been reloaded, after both the checkout and the record are
written, so that is what the journey waits for now. Five consecutive runs
pass; the battery's assertions are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J4uRM5JosAcMbKXowaXyVu
Findings from the judgement pass, all verified against the code:

The status mapping had two rows wrong. A staged deletion (`1 D.`) read
as "present and different" for a file that is gone from disk, which
would have sent stageWorktree down the add branch on a missing file; and
intent-to-add (`.A`) read as "in HEAD". Git also reports a path removed
from the index but kept on disk twice, as `1 D.` and `?`; that is one row
now, and in the scan against a branch point the untracked list overrides
the diff's D for the same path, because a patch that carried that
deletion would delete a file the contributor still has (#85).

collectChangedFiles swallowed a failed resolveRef and went on to report
"No changes" for a site whose .git is gone; it throws instead. The
cat-file parser stops on a missing echo whose path holds a newline
rather than poisoning every later offset.

The docs no longer claim that every read runs on the binary: the reads
inside the write flows stay on isomorphic-git until #385. The Git tests
are split by layer as TESTING.md asks, statusRows and changesAgainst
take an injected runner so a test proves the Windows autocrlf view
reaches the status and diff argv, and TESTING.md names the shared helper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J4uRM5JosAcMbKXowaXyVu
…journey

The Revert button leaves the moment the revert starts, not when it
finishes, so the read right after it raced the checkout and failed on
the Windows runner. patch-apply.spec.js already waits for the next-step
line to move on; this journey now does the same.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J6koA9mvjSExVaKJp4nvSx
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juanmaguitar force-pushed the juanmaguitar/384-git-reads branch from 551a584 to 820d441 Compare September 9, 2026 10:34
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