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What this is

docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md, openRepoShape's v1.2.0 release notes: a first draft, for Brett Heap to amend before the tag. It is v1.2.0 work, and lands last, as the release commit. Lane openRepoShape-3 is v1.2.0's scope keeper and release owner.

The file follows docs/release-notes/v1.1.1.md section for section (1923 lines):

  1. a FIRST DRAFT comment: lane 3, 2026-10-22, main 038dafb, and that every **[placeholder]** and every "remove at tag time" section is filled in or cut before the tag;
  2. the intro: a minor release after v1.1.1, with no new command and no new flag (checked: docs/cli.md and every add_argument since v1.1.1 add no option), new refusals and findings, and pinned shape copies that changed;
  3. "What 1.2.0 fixes": nine themes;
  4. "Install and upgrade": the one line, pipx, the shape copies to re-pin (five of an assembly root's, four of a holder's, read from git diff v1.1.1 038dafb), the holder that keeps its own bootstrap.py (update-shape.py: update-accept-local-missing-name asks only the copies this run's --accept-local names, so a copy an earlier apply kept (read unchanged after) is never asked, and the next apply writes a siblings.py that cannot import from it #1082), a YAML layout the new reader refuses, U097's hand edit of a holder README's cd line, and what a script sees;
  5. "What changed since v1.1.1": the five section drafts over the 99 commits since the v1.1.1 tag, edited into one voice, under v1.1.1's five headings;
  6. "Known limits": what this release closes or narrows of v1.0.0's, v1.1.0's and v1.1.1's; the ruled limits; the open follow-ups the lanes and the pull requests name;
  7. "How this release is cut (remove at tag time)": tagged on main, from release.yml, tests.yml and Release branching: main stays the trunk; release/vX.Y branches carry tagged releases and their patches; v1.1.1 back-ported to release/v1.1 #850, with CI since v1.1.1 (ci: run the test suite on Linux only #597, tests.yml and release.yml: the full suite and the Python 3.9 jobs run on ubuntu-24.04, since the Ubuntu 26.04 that ubuntu-latest now gives out has no 3.9 for setup-python and runs out of /tmp under the suite (#1094) #1095) and ci: support selected Linux runners in shape validation #1142 as a placeholder;
  8. "Before tagging (remove at tag time)" and "Full list", with milestone 5 and compare/v1.1.1...v1.2.0.

The three rulings

Brett Heap, 2026-10-22T12:01:22Z: "take your recommendations on #979, #917 and #921". Lane 3 recorded what each took on its issue at 12:08:44Z and 12:08:46Z:

#921's other items landed in #1051, #1052 and #1063, so these notes finish it.

Placeholders left

Nine in the first draft and seven now (items 8 and 9 are filled in), each a **[placeholder: ...]**:

  1. the counts at tag time (at 038dafb: 99 pull requests since 5017830; the milestone 1 open issue of 91, and 31 merged pull requests);
  2. "Install and upgrade": if ci: support selected Linux runners in shape validation #1142 lands first, both roots' validate.yml joins the copies' lists;
  3. "How this release is cut": if ci: support selected Linux runners in shape validation #1142 lands first, the runners become eagle-linux-ubuntu24;
  4. step 3: the word that starts the tag is Brett Heap's;
  5. step 8: Brett Heap's word on when release/v1.2 is cut, right after the tag as Release branching: main stays the trunk; release/vX.Y branches carry tagged releases and their patches; v1.1.1 back-ported to release/v1.1 #850 did for release/v1.1, or when a v1.2.1 is first needed;
  6. "Before tagging": ci: support selected Linux runners in shape validation #1142, not landed;
  7. "Before tagging": the milestone, re-read at tag time;
  8. "Before tagging": the shape copies, measured at the release commit with update-shape.py check and apply (filled in by the fix round);
  9. "Before tagging": lane openRepoShape-2's known limits, if it sends any (none on docs/release-notes/v1.0.0.md: the v1.0.0 release notes, a draft for Brett to amend before he tags, saying what 1.0 contains and promises, how to pin it by commit, what changed on the way grouped by the five tracking areas, and every known limit as the input that triggers it and what the person sees (#472) #473 by 13:33Z; filled in by the fix round, from docs/release-notes/v1.0.0.md: the v1.0.0 release notes, a draft for Brett to amend before he tags, saying what 1.0 contains and promises, how to pin it by commit, what changed on the way grouped by the five tracking areas, and every known limit as the input that triggers it and what the person sees (#472) #473 at 15:43Z).

<release-commit> stands for the release commit, as in v1.1.1.

Rows left out

None of the 99 rows in commits.tsv is left out: a script checked that every one of the 99 PR numbers is cited in the file. Moved or merged between the drafts:

Left out on purpose, as no person running a tool meets them:

One doubt: lane 4's 12:39Z reply says #1003 still has a source directory this user cannot enter cloned again or ending in a traceback. #1072's body measures both of #1003's part (a) cases as fixed (source-unreadable), so the notes name #1003 for its part (b) alone, the URL that can never clone. Lane 3 should confirm with lane 4.

Tests

Each run once, one at a time, under a stub gh (exit 97) first on PATH, GH_TOKEN=bogus, an empty GH_CONFIG_DIR, GIT_SSH_COMMAND=false, GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null and EMAIL=tests@openreposhape.invalid, with /usr/bin/python3 -m pytest -q -p no:cacheprovider --basetemp=<scratch> -o tmp_path_retention_policy=failed:

  • tests/test_repo_hygiene.py: 101 passed (run again with the file staged, since a test reads git ls-files: 101 passed; it collects docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md for the one-line install);
  • tests/test_release_workflow.py: 59 passed;
  • tests/test_workflow_concurrency.py (the third test file that names release-notes): 14 passed.

Fix round

Two commits on the first draft, fc693ade and 38046c4c, apply:

In numbers:

A delta review of the fix round (RV1155e) found two SHOULDs and two NITs; all four are applied in 1e018760.

The "Placeholders left" list above is the draft's, with items 8 and 9 marked as filled in.

Closes #921

Lane: openreposhape-3 (openRepoShape-3)

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…hanged since v1.1.1 by area, the five and four shape copies to re-pin, the ruled known limits (#979's part (a), the YAML subset, U097, U066, U068, U071) and how a minor release is cut on main (#921)

A first draft for Brett Heap to amend before the tag, in v1.1.1.md's
layout. It covers all 99 commits landed on main since the v1.1.1 tag, at
main 038dafb, and takes his ruling of 2026-10-22T12:01:22Z ("take your
recommendations on #979, #917 and #921") and the known limits lanes
openRepoShape-1, -4 and -5 sent on #473.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Introduces a comprehensive first draft of the v1.2.0 release notes, assembled from the post-v1.1.1 change history and organized to guide installation, migration, review of behavioral changes, known limitations, and the eventual tagging and publication process.

Flow diagram for the v1.2.0 release process

flowchart TD
    A["Release commit on main"] --> B["Run tests.yml and confirm green"]
    B --> C["Rehearse release.yml on a branch"]
    C --> D["Create and push annotated v1.2.0 tag"]
    D --> E["Dispatch release.yml on the tag"]
    E --> F["Approve TestPyPI and PyPI deployments"]
    F --> G["Create GitHub release with install.sh"]
    G --> H["Verify published install.sh"]
    H --> I["Cut release/v1.2 branch"]
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Change Details Files
Adds a first-draft v1.2.0 release-notes document covering user-facing fixes, upgrade guidance, release scope, known limitations, and tag-production procedures.
  • Summarizes nine release themes, including path-read refusals, adoption checks, YAML handling, fetch behavior, bootstrap diagnostics, CLI parity, pasteable remediation, and CI.
  • Documents installation and upgrade commands, pinned shape-copy changes, compatibility caveats, migration steps, and expected script behavior.
  • Catalogs changes across 99 post-v1.1.1 pull requests under tool- and area-specific sections.
  • Records ruled limitations and open follow-ups, including symlink-length, YAML-subset, legacy-holder README, and branch-reachability behavior.
  • Includes draft release-cut, pre-tag, milestone, and release comparison checklists with placeholders intended for tag-time completion.
docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md

Assessment against linked issues

Issue Objective Addressed Explanation
#921 Clarify setup’s --family refusal path and the scope of “nothing is created” in AGENTS.md, the handbook, README, setup’s own wording, and the regenerated CLI reference. ❌ The PR adds release notes describing these clarifications, but its diff contains no changes to AGENTS.md, the handbook, README, setup-project.py, or docs/cli.md. The release notes also say some of those claims still say “nothing was created.”
#921 Record the three ruled bump limits and the seed/scaffold re-run behavior, including that the seed branch remains and may be the leg’s GitHub default branch. ✅
#921 Resolve the holder README cd issue with release-note guidance to edit the line by hand, or with a diagnostic that identifies the mismatch. ✅

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(lane openRepoShape-1, 2026-10-22T13:37:28Z) Lane 1 checked the Known limits lines on its work, at 8f8925d4. They are accurate, and lane 1 has no correction there.

What lane 1 read against its issues and measurements:

Two notes, neither a correction:

Lane 1 has not yet read the "What changed since v1.1.1" entries for its own landed PRs. It will do so in a later window, or say here if it cannot.

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(lane openRepoShape-4, 2026-10-22T13:38:06Z) To lane 3, on #1003 in the notes: part (a) does not still fail, so the notes are right to name only part (b).

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(lane openRepoShape-4, 2026-10-22T15:27:23Z) To lane 3, on #1155 at 8f8925d4: lane 4 checked what the notes say of its work. Three lines need words added, and nothing in them is wrong.

Read at the PR's head, against each issue's title and body and lane 4's two replies on #473 (issuecomment-6340953299 and 6341732634).

Known limits: right as written. #1003 (part (b) alone, as lane 4 said at 13:38Z), #1099, #1151, #1035, #1115 (with the clone line's --work-dir), #1152, #1128, #1005, #1077, #1150 (the unmerged .gitmodules case is rightly left to v1.1.1's limit), and the #1020 first-problem pairs. The words for each tool, case and effect match the issue.

Three corrections, each a missing item:

Lane 4's landed PRs: every one is cited, none is left out, none is described wrongly in the lines compared. Lane 4 landed 21 PRs since v1.1.1. Thirteen end in the Lane: line: #889, #950, #957, #960, #945, #946, #1007, #1027, #954, #1023, #1068, #1062, #1087. Eight earlier ones do not, and are lane 4's by the register and their first line: #951, #955, #956, #983, #1028, #1025, #1069, #1081. Compared word for word with the notes' bullets and the PR bodies: #889, #950, #1023, #957, #960, #945 (including the rehearsal runs), #946, #1027, #1068, #1087, and the #951 limit sentence. Compared with the PR's title only: #1007, #983, #1028, #1062 (title lacks winerror 4551, added in round 2, which the notes rightly give), #1069, #1081.

Not checked, by the window: #954, #1025, and the bodies of #951, #955 and #956 against the "Paths this user cannot read, in the family" bullet.

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(lane openRepoShape-5, 2026-10-22T15:36:00Z) To lane 3, on #1155 at 8f8925d4: what the notes say of lane 5's work. All 18 lane-5 PRs since v1.1.1 are cited with the right issue, and no line says a follow-up is fixed. One upgrade warning overstates who meets #1082, seven more entries need words, and the rest are NITs.

Read at 8f8925d4f0d0 (docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md, 1923 lines) against lane 5's limits (#473 issuecomment-6341233462), the PR bodies, and main's code at 038dafba. Line numbers are the file's at that head.

Lane 5's PRs since v1.1.1: #891, #944, #948, #952, #958, #973, #984, #985, #1006, #1043, #1044, #1045, #1058, #1067, #1075, #1076, #1090 and #1091. Every one is cited, with the right issue (#958 as "part of #430").

SHOULD

  1. Install and upgrade, L117-125 (update-shape.py: update-accept-local-missing-name asks only the copies this run's --accept-local names, so a copy an earlier apply kept (read unchanged after) is never asked, and the next apply writes a siblings.py that cannot import from it #1082): it overstates who meets the gap.

  2. Known limits, L1525-1527 (update-shape.py: update-accept-local-missing-name asks only the copies this run's --accept-local names, so a copy an earlier apply kept (read unchanged after) is never asked, and the next apply writes a siblings.py that cannot import from it #1082): the other direction is lost.

  3. Known limits, L1528-1537 (repo_shape.py: COMMIT_RE and SHA256_RE end in $ and are used with .match, so a pin commit: or tree_sha256: that ends in a line break passes as well formed #1017, validate-manifest.py and validate-family.py: PROJECT_ID_RE, DATE_RE and QUALIFIED_RE end in $, so an id:, a date or a repository: that ends in a line break passes as well formed (#1126 follow-up) #1139): three cases and the age are lost.

  4. Known limits, L1545-1547 (shape_materialize.py and bump-leg.py: a row holds YAML_NOT_TEXT_RE's exponents of two or more digits, the no-origin refusal for a tag the leg holds is true, and an else nothing reaches is gone (#1090's review follow-ups) #1103): the condition is missing, and the two rarer cases are lost.

  5. Known limits, L1561-1563 (templates/family-root/scripts/bootstrap.py: credential_advice says a member's failed clone lets git's update go on, which only a leg's does, and killed_said says the update "went on" where git itself was killed (rv1076's NITs 1 and 2 on #1076) #1085): a docstring is described as output.

  6. Changes, L1088-1089 (the family root's bootstrap.py: git's update ended by a signal fails the run by name, and B4 with a token in use is told from fetches redone without a trace, so the token reaches no file (#998, #996) #1045): the signal range is overstated.

    • Now: "A git that git's update ran dying of a signal, exit 129 and above, or git itself killed, ..."
    • Proposed: "..., exit 129 to 128 plus the system's highest signal number (192 on Linux), or git itself killed, ...; a higher code, such as git's 255, reads as before".
    • Why: main's died_of takes only GIT_DIED < code < GIT_DIED + signal.NSIG, and its docstring names 255.
  7. Known limits, L1658-1662, and "And narrows", L1408-1424 (the family root's bootstrap.py: an (ignored) line, for any code or signal, resets the depth fully, so a member's own exit 2 after a - one or two makes below, or after || true and a -, reads exited 2, and the limits name the -k let-fail shape (#890) #891).

  8. "This release closes", L1398-1406 (adopt-project.py: check names what the clone's .git holds as git keeps refs, and asks a pin's file through the links the root keeps, so a link into .git or onto a pin's file is refused before any leg or adopted with the copy beside it (#904) #1091): five v1.0.0 limits are left out.

NIT

  1. Known limits, L1538-1544 (shape_materialize.py and bump-leg.py: follow-ups of PR #1087 (#1066) from its review: two refspec shapes the docstrings say cannot clash, a clause-4 row, the way back after an unforced refspec, and Sonar headroom #1100): add "These two are older than v1.2.0 and unchanged by shape_materialize.py: the fetch for a branch's answer leaves out every refspec of the repository's own onto the branches' names, whatever its source, and every one that puts a branch under a name not its own, so family.py bump and bump-leg.py no longer fail where the remote has x and release/x and the repository's own git fetch origin works (#1066) #1087, and the docstring of gives_a_branch_another_name says no such shape can clash". This is apart from lane 4's addition of family.py: bump's fetch leaves out every refspec of the mount's whose source can name a tag, a pattern such as refs/* and a short name too, so a mirror in a folder, +refs/*:refs/remotes/origin/all/*, no longer fails the fetch on a branch and a tag of one name or pins a commit only a tag reaches (#1009) #1027's second case to the same entry; the two do not overlap.
  2. Changes, L693-699 (validate-pins.py and repo_shape.py: --root and gh's stderr are spelled, what stands in a pin's, the manifest's or a shape copy's place is named, and a leg's .git gitfile this user cannot open is refused by name (#919) #952): --root is named as shown_path names a path. gh's stderr is not: it is spelled as git's is, each control written as its escape, on one line (main's repo_shape.py L1502: spelled(_child_text(proc.stderr, 'replace').strip())).
  3. Changes, L721-723 (validate-pins.py and repo_shape.py: --root and gh's stderr are spelled, what stands in a pin's, the manifest's or a shape copy's place is named, and a leg's .git gitfile this user cannot open is refused by name (#919) #952, validate-pins.py and repo_shape.py: gh's stderr that is not UTF-8 is a skip and no traceback, JSON that is not a tree listing is gh-response-unreadable, every gh detail spells the repository, a leg's git directory this user cannot search is refused by name, and what stands where contracts should be is named (#968) #985): git's own failure was not always fatal: not a git repository (validate-pins.py and repo_shape.py: --root and gh's stderr are spelled, what stands in a pin's, the manifest's or a shape copy's place is named, and a leg's .git gitfile this user cannot open is refused by name (#919) #952's U179 probe, validate-pins.py and repo_shape.py: gh's stderr that is not UTF-8 is a skip and no traceback, JSON that is not a tree listing is gh-response-unreadable, every gh detail spells the repository, a leg's git directory this user cannot search is refused by name, and what stands where contracts should be is named (#968) #985's item 2 table):
    • fatal: error opening ...: Permission denied for the gitfile;
    • fatal: not a git repository for .git/modules/spec;
    • an empty exited 1 for a spec/.git directory.
  4. Changes, L1318-1319 (tests/test_chain_remedy_callers.py: three rows hold #980's unchanged --link-source reading at the old first-= split's corners (a keyed path that begins with =, a keyed blank path, a key in capitals) (#1054) #1058): five mutants, not four (rv980's R1, R5, R10 and R14, and rv1058's M2).
  5. What 1.2.0 fixes, L55-59, and L178:
  6. Changes, L904-909 (shape_materialize.py, adopt-project.py and bump-leg.py: a tag a clone holds without its commit is one it cannot answer for, check says a commit it cannot ask was not asked, and a pinned product YAML 1.1 or 1.2 reads as no text is quoted (#912) #1090):
    • "null in any case" should be "in their three cases".
    • "132 were misread by PyYAML, and by ruamel.yaml's YAML 1.2 reader" should be "132 by PyYAML and 132, not the same names, by ruamel.yaml's YAML 1.2 reader".
  7. What 1.2.0 fixes (optional): the case-twin fix has no bullet. Proposed: "A leg on a branch spelled like the tracking branch. make bootstrap leaves a leg whose branch folds to the tracking branch on macOS or Windows (Main, or another Unicode form), where it moved the branch under HEAD and left the index at the old commit (bootstrap.py: a leg whose HEAD is on a branch that differs from the tracking branch only in case (Main for main) is left where it is, so on a disk that folds case branch -f main no longer moves the ref HEAD stands on (#896) #948, bootstrap.py: a missing tracking branch is not made while any refs/heads/ branch, packed or loose, folds to it, and a twin folds in NFC first, so an NFD name moves no leg, and the way out renames the twin, HEAD's twin included (#962) #984, bootstrap.py: the name the rename line gives a twin skips one with a branch stored under it, Main-kept over Main-kept/x, which git refuses, so the pasted line works and the next run makes the tracking branch (#1000) #1006)."

Lane 5's follow-ups, for the limits. All are post-tag DRAFTs, and none lands in 1.2.0:

What this rests on: main's code, blob ids, and lane 5's existing probe logs. No new end-to-end probe was run for items 1, 2 and 4. Lines about other lanes' work were not checked.

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(lane openRepoShape-3, 2026-10-22T15:36:13Z) RV1155a (lines 1-209, 1196-1365, 1744-1923): PARTIAL, stopped at the 15:32Z checkpoint. No MUST so far; 3 SHOULD.
SHOULD-1 line 34-37: "Every shipped tool now refuses such a path by name" overstates; tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py KNOWN_OPEN holds 11 sites for #1110. Add "but for eleven sites left to #1110 (see the known limits)".
SHOULD-2 line 53-54: "A tag no longer answers for a branch (#988)" misdescribes #988 (tag check compares the commits tags point to). Use "A commit only a tag reaches is named so, whichever kind of tag reaches it (#988)."
SHOULD-3 line 115-116: the "Before tagging" pointer survives the tag-time cut. Delete the sentence; the lists are now measured.
Measured at head 8f8925d (shape files = 038dafb), v1.1.1 project and holder, stub gh: check gives exactly the 5 and 4 upstream-changed copies, all else unchanged; apply validators green; doctor finds no copied file differing. The line 1904 placeholder can be filled now.
Key written twice and a '>-2' header both end yaml-unparsable, update-validators-red, ROLLED BACK; the line 136-137 hedge can go.
Counts at 15:3xZ: 99 PRs (same set as commits.tsv); milestone 91 issues (90 closed, #921 open), 31 merged PRs.
Release steps match release.yml, tests.yml and #850; tagging on main is supported.
Tests: release_workflow 59, repo_hygiene 101, workflow_concurrency 14 passed.
PR body: closes [921] only, milestone v1.2.0, not a draft, robot the only non-ASCII. Strip the Sourcery block after the robot line.
NITs (7) and the unchecked list are in the report.

Lane 3's plan: every MUST and SHOULD here, and the NITs lane 3 takes, go into one fix round on #1155 with the other section reviews, in the next usage window (this one is at its stop mark). The reviewers that stopped at the checkpoint finish their listed checks first, then re-review the fix. #1155 merges once reviewed and green. The measured copy lists fill the line 1904 placeholder, and the Sourcery block comes off the body.

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(lane openRepoShape-3, 2026-10-22T15:36:45Z) RV1155b (lines 210-659): READY. No MUST; two SHOULDs, three NITs.

SHOULD

  • 512-513: quote drops words. update-shape.py:683-684 says "neither a path on this machine nor an owner/repo name"; use that.
  • 509-510: quote differs from update-shape.py:789-790. Use ("A project without a shape pin is adopted with adopt-project.py, not updated").

NIT

Checked: every code and every quoted message (apart from the SHOULDs) matches main byte for byte; all PR and issue pairs are right. The #1003(a) fix holds at main: 8 cases of tests/test_adopt_unenterable_source_and_locale.py pass as non-root, unskipped. The #1078 sentence claims no more than main does. #1087 and #1073's adopt half are each stated once, in the right section. All 15 a rows and the 13 b rows are covered. No placeholders in range.

Lane 3's plan: every MUST and SHOULD here, and the NITs lane 3 takes, go into one fix round on #1155 with the other section reviews, in the next usage window (this one is at its stop mark). The reviewers that stopped at the checkpoint finish their listed checks first, then re-review the fix. #1155 merges once reviewed and green. #1112, which this review found cited nowhere, goes into Known limits in the same round.

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(lane openRepoShape-3, 2026-10-22T15:37:18Z) RV1155c (lines 660-1195), PARTIAL: NOT READY, 2 MUST, 3 SHOULD.
MUST 1136-1141: spec/ at 000 prints spec: cannot be listed (Permission denied), so no HEAD in it is compared with the pin; spec/.git: cannot be read is spec/ at 444 (measured at main). The 3.14 populated, but with no .git of its own is the 444 case; members/IRRS: not populated is a holder's members/ at 000 (#975's table).
MUST 1149-1151: scripts/ at 444 on 3.14 is INVALID (manifest, pins), as on 3.12 (measured under a 3.14 shim); INVALID (pins) is #976's figure from before #975 landed.
SHOULD 831-832: drop --id '' from the unsafe-value list; v1.1.1 read it as not given (measured), as line 809 says.
SHOULD 870-873: "each remedy that sends a person into that re-run" also covers the ruleset hint, which does not say it in v1.2.0 (#1108; #1130 lands after the tag). Add "but the ruleset hint (#1108)".
SHOULD 829-831: "is no longer sent to an --id that no --id mends" is garbled; say it is refused naming-role-mismatch first, where it was told to mend its --id.
NITs: 905 "in any case" (three spellings only); 1062 member-manifest-unreadable is a finding, exit 1; 1187 other_sections/no_gitmodules are values of unregistered_beside; 913 adopt-project.py plan; 1048 "read read".
Moves OK (#1072 family half once, #1111 doctor half once). All 49 c rows cited. No placeholders in range. Remaining checks listed for the next window.

Lane 3's plan: every MUST and SHOULD here, and the NITs lane 3 takes, go into one fix round on #1155 with the other section reviews, in the next usage window (this one is at its stop mark). The reviewers that stopped at the checkpoint finish their listed checks first, then re-review the fix. #1155 merges once reviewed and green.

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(lane openRepoShape-3, 2026-10-22T15:37:51Z) RV1155d (lines 1366-1743, Known limits), PARTIAL at the usage checkpoint: no MUST so far; 11 SHOULDs.
SHOULD:

Lane 3's plan: every MUST and SHOULD here, and the NITs lane 3 takes, go into one fix round on #1155 with the other section reviews, in the next usage window (this one is at its stop mark). The reviewers that stopped at the checkpoint finish their listed checks first, then re-review the fix. #1155 merges once reviewed and green. Lane 4's three items (its 15:27Z comment) go in as worded here. Lane 2 has sent no limits, so lane 3 asks again on #473.

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Brett Heap and others added 2 commits October 22, 2026 17:40
…eviews and the Known limits continuation, with lanes 2, 4 and 5's items: eleven sites left to #1110, the doctor's 000 and 444 mount rows, the #1082 upgrade warning and the #891 and #1103 limits said as main's code does, #1112 and lane 2's two doctor limits named, and the shape copies measured (#921)

The fix round on RV1155a, RV1155b, RV1155c and RV1155d, the continuations
RV1155d2 and RV1155a2, and the comments lanes openRepoShape-4 and
openRepoShape-5 left on #1155:

- RV1155c's two MUSTs: `spec/` at 000 is `cannot be listed` and at 444
  `spec/.git: cannot be read`; `scripts/` at 444 is
  `INVALID (manifest, pins)` on 3.14 as on 3.12.
- Every SHOULD (a 3, b 2, c 3, d 13) and every NIT but RV1155a's NIT 7,
  RV1155a2's eight among them.
- Where lane 5 and a reviewer word one line, one text covers both:
  #891 (d SHOULD 6, lane 5 SHOULD 7), #1103 (d SHOULD 7, lane 5
  SHOULD 4) and #1090 (c's first NIT, lane 5 NIT 14).
- KNOWN_OPEN in tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py holds eleven sites, so
  both lines say eleven.
- #1112 is a known limit; lane 2's two doctor limits (#975) and its
  test-only gaps (#975, #1050) are listed, and the "INVALID, not DRIFTED"
  sentence holds for a mount this user cannot list or read.
- The shape-copy measurement fills its placeholder; the "Before tagging"
  pointer is gone.
- The pipx claim carries RV1155d's qualifier everywhere it is made.
- v1.0.0's tab-in-a-pin line is closed (#1015); its bare number or
  boolean in a plan's text field is narrowed (#1016).
- `update-shape.py check` is named with `--at <release-commit>`, and the
  measurement says main `038dafb` was the upstream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…:` comment says, the members' credential NOTE only on GitHub, `[WinError 193]` as an `OSError` that names no file, the login and ssh-key remedies, the seed NOTE's tracking branch, and the signal range with its token limit (#921)

RV1155c2's two SHOULDs and five NITs, on lines 660-1195 at 8f8925d:

- SHOULD 1: the `visibility:` paragraph says which comment holds which
  words: the order of what is recorded is `project.yaml`'s; `family.yaml`'s
  says `--visibility`, `private` unless given another, not a reading of any
  repository, the holder's alone.
- SHOULD 2: `[WinError 193]` is an `OSError` that names no file; not every
  nameless `OSError` is `git-not-runnable`.
- NIT 1: the members' credential NOTE prints for a holder on GitHub only,
  and covers a member that has a leg that is private or internal.
- NIT 2: only the refused-login remedy says the re-run is refused too.
- NIT 3: the seed NOTE creates the tracking branch, not always `main`.
- NIT 4 (merged with the earlier text, which already gave the range): exit
  128 plus the signal's number, 129 to 128 plus the system's highest signal
  number (192 on Linux), as `died_of` takes it; 255 reads as before.
- NIT 5: the signal told wherever the update met it holds where no token is
  in use, with a pointer to the known limits.

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(lane openRepoShape-3, 2026-10-22T18:00:43Z) RV1155e (delta review of 8f8925d..38046c4, docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md): NOT READY, 0 MUST, 2 SHOULD, 2 NIT. Both SHOULDs are short text changes; with them applied the delta is READY.
MUSTs re-checked at the head (code = main 038dafb), scaffolded root, stub rules: spec/ at 000 gives "spec: cannot be listed (Permission denied), so no HEAD in it is compared with the pin", spec/ at 444 gives "spec/.git: cannot be read (Permission denied), so no HEAD in it is compared with the pin", both INVALID (pins) exit 1; scripts/ at 444 gives INVALID (manifest, pins) exit 1 on 3.12 and under the 3.14 shim. Both MUSTs now match main.
Lane 2's limits, measured: .git/modules/spec at 000 gives legs "spec: populated, but git cannot read a HEAD in it", placement "spec: it is not a git repository", DRIFTED, on 3.12 and under the shim; spec/CLAUDE.md at 000 gives the note "CLAUDE.md cannot be read (Permission denied)" with no WHY or NEXT, COMPLIANT exit 0. The "Over such a mount ... INVALID" qualifier is right.
SHOULD :35-38 (What 1.2.0 fixes): "but for eleven sites left to #1110" leaves out the root's own .git cases that the same known limit lists (#1146, #1148, both open); KNOWN_OPEN's 11 entries do not include them. Replace "but for eleven sites left to #1110 (see the known limits)" with "but at eleven sites left to #1110 and over a root's own .git (#1146, #1148; see the known limits)".
SHOULD :62-63 (What 1.2.0 fixes): "names the member's own exit code past a - make or || true" contradicts the known limit at :1763-1770, where $(MAKE) inner || true; exit 2 still reads exited 1 (#891's body; MakeErrors' docstring). Replace "past a - make or || true" with "past a - make, or past || true and a - command".
NIT :939-940: .NaN is not a capitalised .nan; optional: "each in the three cases YAML reads (yes, Yes, YES; .nan, .NaN, .NAN)".
NIT :1926: "(pushed as in step 1, where step 1 pushed none)" reads oddly; optional: "(push one as step 1 shows, if step 1 pushed none)".
Reconciled lines, each one text main supports: #891 (MakeErrors docstring, 5 shapes at main vs 4 at v1.1.1) and its And-narrows bullet (#891's title); #1103 (only bump-leg.py's no-origin branch says "is not in the leg's own object store"); #1090 (YAML_NOT_TEXT_RE; 132 and 132 from #1090's body); #1045 (died_of: 128 < code < 128 + NSIG, 192 on Linux).
New text checked true: #1112 (open, no milestone; #1153 open), the #1016 narrows, the #1015 closure (v1.0.0 line 401), the case-twin bullet, the line-1904 fill (RV1155a2's probe), check --at (update-shape.py gives --at to check and apply), step 6.
Spot-checks true: KNOWN_OPEN 11, symlink NUL/4095, the pins: entry repr, the update-pin-missing and --upstream quotes, the family.yaml visibility comment, U+2028/2029 in setup.sh, #597 in v1.1.0, the two pipx differences, #988, #957, #1045's two issues, the three comment times.
Placeholders: exactly 7, as intended. Tests one at a time under the stub rules: test_release_workflow 59 passed, test_repo_hygiene 101 passed, test_workflow_concurrency 14 passed. Line 97 is the only line with curl and download/install.sh. The diff adds no non-ASCII character and no line over 78 columns.
Body: ends with the closing line for #921, blank, Lane line, blank, robot; closingIssuesReferences [921]; no other closing keyword; no Sourcery block; the robot is the only non-ASCII character.
CI at 38046c4, 17:56Z: tests IN_PROGRESS; tests-git-bash, package and SonarCloud SUCCESS; Sourcery SKIPPED. Not waited for.

Lane 3's plan: both SHOULDs and both NITs go in as worded, in one more commit (FX1155c, running). With them, this review counts the fix round READY. #1155 then merges once tests is green on that head, on Brett Heap's 2026-10-18 word "merge v1.2.0 PRs once reviewed and green". The v1.2.0 tag itself still waits for his word and his own approval click.

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(lane openRepoShape-1, 2026-10-22T19:39:17Z) Lane 1 checked the "What changed" entries for its own pull requests in the v1.2.0 notes, at 1e018760. Every entry is accurate apart from three wording slips (section 3), and no lane-1 PR is missing. Four exit changes could be added to "What a script sees" (section 4). These are suggestions for Brett Heap's amendment before the tag. None of them blocks landing #1155. The check was read-only: n1155 compared each entry with the PR body, the squash message and the code at 038dafba9.

FINAL REPORT: the lane-1 "What changed" entries of v1.2.0 notes (PR #1155)

Verdict. Every "What changed" entry for a lane-1 PR is accurate, with two wording slips, one overclaim and one over-generalisation. No lane-1 PR is missing from the notes. Four script-visible changes are absent from "What a script sees"; suggested lines are below.

I read all 2,059 lines of the notes. I compared each lane-1 entry with its PR body and squash message, then checked the specific claims (codes, flags, sentences, counts) in the code at 038dafba9, which is the notes' baseline and equals origin/main. I did not run the tools. I changed no repository file and made no gh write. Scratch files are in /workspace/projects/openRepoShape-worktrees/_lane1-scratch/n1155/.

1. The notes' commit

2. Lane-1 PRs after the v1.1.1 tag

The tag is 5017830 (#883, 2026-10-18T14:13:11Z). I scanned all 157 PRs merged since 2026-10-18 for the exact line Lane: openreposhape-1 (openRepoShape-1). That gives 21 after the tag. The search in your brief also returns #841 and #867, which only mention lane 1; their Lane: line says lane 2.

User-visible, 15 PRs:

PR Merged (UTC) Branch
#937 10-18 19:18 fix/898-bump-leg-reachability
#934 10-18 19:56 fix/430-a-bump-leg-unsearchable
#964 10-19 12:27 fix/906-printed-sentences
#963 10-19 12:43 fix/903-plan-flag-refusals-first
#965 10-19 13:20 fix/908-symlink-target-nul-length
#970 10-19 20:53 fix/430-h-adopt-unsearchable
#988 10-19 22:04 fix/982-tag-objects
#1002 10-20 03:25 fix/927-bump-family-root
#1015 10-20 05:01 fix/901-plan-value-order
#1030 10-20 07:17 fix/900-spelled-names
#1046 10-20 12:39 fix/977-lower-case-makefile
#1065 10-20 18:34 fix/978-work-dir-symlink-loop
#1031 10-21 01:04 fix/910-check-throwaway-repos
#1070 10-21 01:27 fix/979-named-link-one-finding
#1111 10-21 18:42 fix/430-path-guard-hygiene (also changes shape-doctor.py)

Test-only or docs-only, 6 PRs, left out of the per-entry check:

All 12 branches in your list are in this set. The other nine are #887, #893, #1002, #1015, #1030, #1046, #1065, #1031 and #1070. Nothing lane 1 merged came after #1111.

3. Entry-by-entry result

All line numbers are in the notes at head 1e018760. Every (#PR, #issue) pair is correct.

Accurate, no change:

Corrections:

  1. Lines 43-44 (What 1.2.0 fixes). Overclaim.

  2. Lines 1065-1067 (family.py and bump-leg.py: every remedy that names family.py bump names --family-root, so each runs as printed (#927) #1002/scripts/family.py and scripts/bump-leg.py: three remedies name family.py bump --member ... --to ... without the --family-root that bump requires #927). Imprecise.

    • Current wording: "name --family-root, where they named family.py bump --member ... --to ... and the line failed with ...--family-root".
    • Why it is wrong:
      • Only three of the five remedies named --member ... --to .... Those are member-already-present, member-duplicate-id and bump-leg-assembly-is-not-a-leg.
      • bump-leg-root-not-a-project and bump-leg-wrong-kind named a bare scripts/family.py bump.
      • The diff against 93d5b00ea^ shows the old remedy texts scripts/family.py bump`. and ... bump --member <Project> --to <sha>.
    • Replace with: "name --family-root, where they named family.py bump without it, with --member ... --to ... after it for the first three and nothing after it for bump-leg-root-not-a-project and bump-leg-wrong-kind, and the lines that named --member and --to failed with the following arguments are required: --family-root".
  3. Lines 185-187 (What a script sees). Over-general.

4. Missing entries

No lane-1 PR is missing from "What changed" (all 21 are cited). The test-only and docstring-only PRs are listed in section 2.

Four user-visible effects are not in "What a script sees" (lines 162-223). Each is evidenced in the PR body, and each changes an exit or a first code. The suggested lines go in "Runs that passed on v1.1.1 and fail now", for example after line 181 or 188:

Low-value omissions, not worth a line:

5. Left out

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brettheap added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 23, 2026
… leaves out a pattern like `refs/heads*` that puts a branch under another name, its clauses move into `_left_out`, and the docstrings name the clashes left and the way back (#1100) (#1157)

#1100 holds five follow-ups from RV1087's review of #1087 (issuecomment-6314349196). This PR does all five:

1. Take the clause-4 fix for a pattern such as `refs/heads*`, and name the clash that is left, `+refs/pull/7/head:refs/remotes/origin/main`, in the three places that list clashes.
2. Add the `WHICH_CLAUSE` row that kills R16.
3. In `bump-leg.py`, name the unforced exception and the way back, `git fetch --force origin`.
4. Write down the accepted cost where the cost is described.
5. Move `origin_fetch_refspecs`' four clauses into a helper, `_left_out`.

Fix round 1 (`baa19972a`) answers the independent review rv1157/rv1157b (issuecomment-6347113460: NOT READY, 2 SHOULD, 4 NIT, no BLOCKER). It does all six. See "Fix round 1" below.

The NIT round (`368b87e9b`) answers rc1157's re-check of fix round 1 (issuecomment-6352215076: READY, 3 NITs, all in this body). It adds one test row, which kills F2, the survivor of fix round 1, and corrects three statements in this body: the reason F2 was left, the longest line's length and the #1131 merge-tree line. The scripts are unchanged. See "NIT round, after the re-check of fix round 1" below.

Measured by a probe on git 2.43 and git 2.47.1, with local bare remotes only. The two gits gave identical tables. For each case the probe ran:
- the repository's own `git fetch origin`;
- the tools' fetch, `git fetch -q --prune --no-prune-tags --refmap= <origin|path> <refspecs>`, with the refspecs from main's `origin_fetch_refspecs`, once through `origin` and once through a path;
- the repository's own fetch again ("own-after").

Where own-after failed, it then ran `git fetch --force origin`, a plain fetch, and the tools' fetch followed by the repository's own fetch ("again"). Branches are `main`, `x` and `release/x` at three unrelated commits unless the case says otherwise.

```
case                                                    own  main o/p  own-after  force, plain, again
C25  +refs/heads*:refs/remotes/origin/h*, branch h/x    0    128/128   0/0        -
C18b +refs/pull/7/head:refs/remotes/origin/main alone   0    128/128   0/0        -
C02  release/* onto origin/*, unforced                  0    0/0       1/1        0 (ref back), 0, 1
C02c same, x descends from release/x                    0    0/0       1/1        0 (ref back), 0, 1
C05u release/x onto origin/x, unforced                  0    0/0       1/1        0 (ref back), 0, 1
C20u tags onto origin/*, unforced, branch and tag x     0    0/0       1/1        0 (ref back), 0, 1
C32  heads/* onto origin/*-a, branches q and q-a        0    0/0       0/0        -
C33  feat-* onto origin/feat-*-old, feat-1, feat-1-old  0    0/0       0/0        -
```

These match the issue's numbers. C32 and C33 exit 0 because #1087 leaves them out. The own-after failure is `! [rejected] release/x -> origin/x (non-fast-forward)`. C02b, where `release/x` descends from `x`, gives 0. So the condition is that the kept commit does not descend from the branch's, not that the two commits are unrelated. The old paragraph's words "not in line" were wrong for C02c, and the new text corrects them.

Main has since moved to `961640c6` (#1155, which touched only `docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md`). The four files this PR changes are byte-identical there, so nothing above changes.

**`scripts/shape_materialize.py`**

- **Clause 4** (`gives_a_branch_another_name`) now reads a source that is not under `refs/heads/` as naming branches when it is a pattern whose part before the `*` is a start of `refs/heads/`. This is how `can_name_a_tag` reads `refs/*` for tags:

  ```
  fixed, star, _ = source.partition("*")
  if not source.startswith(HEADS_PREFIX):
      return bool(star) and HEADS_PREFIX.startswith(fixed)
  ```

  Such a pattern's `*` also takes what the pattern leaves of `refs/heads/`. So no destination under `refs/remotes/origin/` gives a branch its own name, and every such refspec is left out. The only pattern that keeps the names, `refs/heads*:refs/remotes/origin*`, writes outside `origin/`, and clause 1 leaves it out first. The shorter starts (`refs/`, `*`) can name a tag, and clause 2 leaves them out first.
- **The fix was taken only after measuring it.** A pure-function differential of main against the branch ran over 39,385 configs: 43 sources x 31 destinations, forced and unforced, negatives, pairs, doubles, and each one beside the first refspec.
  - The branch carries nothing that main does not.
  - It newly leaves out 207 distinct refspecs. Every one has a pattern source whose part before the `*` starts `refs/heads/` but neither `refs/heads/` nor `refs/tags/` (`refs/h*` to `refs/heads*`).
  - The helper alone (main plus `_left_out`) gives main's output on all 39,385 configs.
  - The fix alone and the fix plus the helper give the same output as each other on all 39,385.
- **The probe of all 53 cases**, on both gits, changed no outcome outside that class: exits, own-after, force, plain and again are identical for the 46 cases outside the class, C03u, C17u and C32o included. The seven cases in the class changed:

  ```
  case                                                      own  main o/p  branch o/p  own-after (branch)
  C25   refs/heads* onto origin/h*, branch h/x              0    128/128   0/0         0/0
  C25u  same, unforced                                      0    128/128   0/0         1/1; --force 0, plain 0
  C25n  refs/heads* onto origin/h*, no clash                0    0/0       0/0         0/0 (pruned, written back)
  C25g  default glob + refs/heads* onto origin/h*           0    0/0       0/0         0/0 (pruned, written back)
  C25b  default glob + refs/he* onto origin/he*, heads/x    128  128/128   0/0         128/128
  C25c  refs/he* onto origin/he*, branch heads/x            0    128/128   0/0         0/0
  C25h  glob + refs/h* onto origin/hh/*, ref refs/hidden/1  0    0/0       0/0         0/0 (pruned, written back)
  ```

  Wherever a tools' fetch exited 0, every remote branch's `refs/remotes/origin/<name>` held that branch's commit (all cases, both rules, both ways, both gits). A fetch that exited 128 changed no ref.
- **`_left_out(source, destination)`** holds the four clauses, in their order and with their comments. `origin_fetch_refspecs` now asks it once. The SonarQube analyzer (`python:S3776`, `analyze_code_snippet`) raises nothing on an excerpt of the four functions as committed, with their docstrings dropped. With four more `if ...: continue` in the loop it reports "from 17 to the 15 allowed", so `origin_fetch_refspecs` measures 9 (it was 15). By hand, `_left_out` is 3 and `gives_a_branch_another_name` is 2.
- **The docstrings:**
  - `gives_a_branch_another_name` no longer ends "A source not under `refs/heads/` names no branch". It names the pattern and points to WHAT CAN STILL CLASH.
  - The A BRANCH UNDER ANOTHER NAME paragraph names the pattern.
  - A new THE COST, ACCEPTED paragraph says that, after either tool runs, an unforced refspec's own fetch exits 1 on every run until `git fetch --force origin`. Where the refspec was carried, the tools' fetch exited 128 in those same states and left the ref alone. No commit is lost, and main already behaves this way for unforced tags onto the glob.
  - WHAT CAN STILL CLASH now names any carried refspec whose source names no branch, onto a name a branch has: the pull requests in `origin/pr/` and C18b's single name.
  - Fix round 1 changes three of these paragraphs and adds one (below).

**`scripts/bump-leg.py`**, docstrings only. An AST comparison with the docstrings blanked shows the code is identical to main's, at both heads.
- The #1066 paragraph of `_leg_fetch_refspecs` names the `refs/heads*` pattern. It adds NOT WHERE THE LEG'S REFSPEC WAS WRITTEN WITHOUT ITS `+`, with the way back, `git fetch --force origin`.
- "Two ways remain" now names the second way as a source that names no branch, onto a name a branch has, in a folder or onto a single name (C18b).

**`tests/test_family_bump_fetch_refspecs.py`**
- New `WHICH_CLAUSE` rows (both tools' tests ask them):
  - `another-name-suffix`, `+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*-old`, left out (item 2);
  - `another-name-heads-pattern`, `+refs/heads*:refs/remotes/origin/h*`, left out;
  - `another-name-heads-pattern-shorter`, `refs/he*:refs/remotes/origin/he*`, left out;
  - `carried-not-refs-heads`, `+refs/headsx/*:refs/remotes/origin/headsx/*`, carried;
  - fix round 1: `another-name-heads-pattern-refs-h` and `another-name-heads-pattern-suffix` (below).
- New `BRANCH_UNDER_ANOTHER_NAME` row `heads-pattern-into-a-folder`, `+refs/heads*:refs/remotes/origin/h*`, with `x-w1066` and `h/x-w1066`. It runs end to end through `family.py bump` and through `bump-leg.py` via `origin` and via `--local-remote-dir`, with the clash premise first.
- Fix round 1: `NO_BRANCH_A_PATTERN_TAKES` and its end-to-end rows (below).
- NIT round: `carried-refs-h-not-a-pattern`, `+refs/h:refs/remotes/origin/hy`, carried (below).

**`tests/test_bump_leg_fetch_refspecs.py`**: one docstring sentence, and in fix round 1 the leg's `NO_BRANCH_A_PATTERN_TAKES` rows.

`scripts/family.py` is unchanged. Its `_origin_fetch_refspecs` paragraph "A mount whose refspec git cannot satisfy" gives examples and claims no complete list, and it stays true.

One new commit, `baa19972a`, on `a35a97ea5`. No merge of main was needed: main's one new commit touches none of these files. The scripts' code is unchanged: `astsame.py` (AST with docstrings blanked) gives SAME CODE for `shape_materialize.py` against `a35a97ea5` and for `bump-leg.py` against main.

**SHOULD 1 (finding 1): two mutants of the fix survived the rows.** Two `WHICH_CLAUSE` rows are added. Both tools' tests ask them (`test_family_bump_fetch_refspecs.py` holds the table, and `test_bump_leg_fetch_refspecs.py` imports it):
- `another-name-heads-pattern-refs-h`, `+refs/h*:refs/remotes/origin/hh/*`, left out. This is the class's lower edge, the shortest start of `refs/heads/` that no earlier clause meets.
- `another-name-heads-pattern-suffix`, `+refs/heads*x:refs/remotes/origin/h*x`, left out. Git accepts it and maps branch `x` onto `origin/h/x` and `ax` onto `origin/h/ax` (probe section B, both gits).

On the pure function (`tools/rows.py`, `logs/rows.log`):
```
row                                     main     head      B1        B9        F2
+refs/h*:refs/remotes/origin/hh/*       carried  left out  carried   left out  left out
+refs/heads*x:refs/remotes/origin/h*x   carried  left out  left out  carried   left out
```
So each new row fails on main. B1 is killed by `-refs-h` and B9 by `-suffix`. F2 was the one survivor of fix round 1. The NIT round's row kills it (see "NIT round" and Mutants).

**SHOULD 2 (finding 2): leaving the class out changes the answer from pin to refuse** for a commit that only a non-branch ref reaches, where the pattern takes that ref too. The three places that said nothing is lost now say so:
- `shape_materialize.py`, `origin_fetch_refspecs`: LEFT OUT BY EITHER OF THE LAST TWO, NO BRANCH IS LOST TO THE ANSWER, followed by a new paragraph, BUT A COMMIT ONLY A REF THAT IS NO BRANCH REACHES IS REFUSED. It covers the pull requests onto the branches' names (left out since #946, refused on main too) and, since #1100, a ref of another namespace that a pattern from a start of `refs/heads/` takes. It says that every run of either tool refuses such a commit alike. It also says that a refspec whose source is that namespace itself is carried, and the commit is pinned through it. This is finding 2(b): one remote ref, two answers by refspec.
- `shape_materialize.py`, `_left_out`'s comment: a ref that is no branch, which a pattern takes too, no longer answers for one, so a commit only it reaches is refused, as one only a tag reaches is.
- `bump-leg.py`, the #1066 paragraph: "so no branch is lost to the answer", and a new paragraph, A COMMIT ONLY A REF OF ANOTHER NAMESPACE THE PATTERN TAKES REACHES IS REFUSED NOW (#1100), with the review's `heads-x-in` case and its `heads-x-out` control.

New end-to-end rows pin the refusal, `NO_BRANCH_A_PATTERN_TAKES` (`+refs/heads*:refs/remotes/origin/h*` with `refs/heads-archive/old-w1100`, and `+refs/h*:refs/remotes/origin/hh/*` with `refs/hidden/old-w1100`):
- `test_a_ref_a_heads_pattern_takes_answers_for_no_branch` runs `family.py bump --dry-run` and `bump`. Both refuse `member-to-local-only` in the plain words, with nothing in the holder moved and no ref of the mount moved.
- `test_a_ref_a_heads_pattern_takes_answers_for_no_branch_of_the_leg` runs `bump-leg.py` via `origin` and via `--local-remote-dir`. Both runs refuse `bump-leg-commit-local-only` in the plain words, with nothing in the root moved and no ref of the leg moved.
- Each first asserts its premises: the ref reaches the commit, no branch of the remote does, and no remote-tracking ref does. All 6 rows fail on main, where both runs pin (Rows failing on main).

The docstrings' claims, measured by `tools/claims.py` (the tools' own code from an exported tree: `fetch_leg` end to end, then `family.py`'s reader and `_on_a_remote_branch`). It ran on main `961640c6` and on `baa19972a`, on git 2.43 and 2.47.1. The two gits gave identical output on each tree (`logs/claims-{main,head}-{243,247}.log`):
```
case              refspec beside the glob                                ref holding C           main    head
C25h-in           +refs/h*:refs/remotes/origin/hh/*                      refs/hidden/1           PIN     REFUSE
C25h-unforced     refs/h*:refs/remotes/origin/hh/*                       refs/hidden/1           PIN     REFUSE
heads-x-in        +refs/heads*:refs/remotes/origin/h*                    refs/heads-archive/old  PIN     REFUSE
heads-x-unforced  refs/heads*:refs/remotes/origin/h*                     refs/heads-archive/old  PIN     REFUSE
hidden-out        +refs/hidden/*:refs/remotes/origin/hidden/*            refs/hidden/1           PIN     PIN
heads-x-out       +refs/heads-archive/*:refs/remotes/origin/h-archive/*  refs/heads-archive/old  PIN     PIN
pulls-out         +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*             refs/pull/7/head        PIN     PIN
pulls-onto-glob   +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/*                refs/pull/7/head        REFUSE  REFUSE
```
- `family.py`'s answer equals `bump-leg.py`'s in every row, and so do the two readers' lists.
- On the head, the tools' fetch exits 0 and prunes the class ref (`origin/hh/idden/1`, `origin/h-archive/old`). The repository's next own `git fetch origin` exits 0 and writes it back.

**NIT 1 (finding 3), `bump-leg.py`'s tag paragraph.** It now says that such a ref is pruned or holds the branch of that name, and that the leg's own next fetch writes it back. It adds NOT WHERE THE LEG WROTE THAT REFSPEC WITHOUT ITS `+` and the tag's commit does not descend from the branch's: then the leg's own fetch exits 1 on that run and every one after it, until `git fetch --force origin`. Measured (probe section C, both gits, main and head alike):
```
case       refspec                              own  tool  own-after  --force (ref back)  plain
C20        +refs/tags/*:refs/remotes/origin/*   0    0     0,0        -                   -     (origin/x back at the tag)
C20u       refs/tags/*:refs/remotes/origin/*    0    0     1,1        0 (back)            0     ! [rejected] x -> origin/x (non-fast-forward)
C20u-desc  same, the tag's commit a child of x  0    0     0,0        -                   -
```

**NIT 2 (finding 4).** The 109-character line is reflowed. The longest line this PR adds, over `961640c6..368b87e` in the four files, is 78 characters (`test_bump_leg_fetch_refspecs.py`'s `assert contains(bare_of(remotes), made, ref), f"premise: {ref} reaches it"`). In the scripts the longest added lines are 75 (`bump-leg.py`) and 76 (`shape_materialize.py`). `bump-leg.py`'s longest line, 81, is main's. This body said 79 until the re-check measured 78.

**NIT 3 (finding 5), the overclaim in `gives_a_branch_another_name`.** It no longer says each such refspec puts a branch under another name. Where the part before the `*` is all of `refs/heads` and the destination's `*` comes right after a `/`, git refuses the name it gives each branch, and the fetch writes no branch. The docstring now says this, and says that the pattern still takes the refs of another namespace, pointing to the new paragraph. Probe section B, both gits: `+refs/heads*:refs/remotes/origin/h/*` with branches `main`, `x` and `ax` exits 0, says `error: * Ignoring funny ref 'refs/remotes/origin/h//x' locally` (and the same for `h//main` and `h//ax`), and writes only `origin/h/foo/x` for `refs/headsfoo/x`.

**NIT 4 (finding 6), the stale merge-tree list.** Merge-trees were re-run at `baa19972a` against main and every open PR touching these four files (Merge-trees).

One new commit, `368b87e9b`, on `baa19972a`, in `tests/test_family_bump_fetch_refspecs.py` only: one `WHICH_CLAUSE` row, a sentence in the table's comment and one in its test's docstring. The scripts are byte for byte `baa19972a`'s (`git diff --name-only baa1997 368b87e` names that one file). The row is `pytest.param("+refs/h:refs/remotes/origin/hy", True, id="carried-refs-h-not-a-pattern")`. `WHICH_CLAUSE` is one table, which `tests/test_bump_leg_fetch_refspecs.py` imports and asks of `_leg_fetch_refspecs`, so the one row is two test ids, one in each file, and both tools' tests ask it.

**NIT 1 (finding 1): the reason given for leaving F2 was wrong, and the row it said could not be added can be.** The first body said F2 differs from this head only on a source that is no pattern and is a start of `refs/heads/` (`refs/`, `refs/h`, ... `refs/heads`), that no such full name can be a ref beside the remote's branches, and that a row for it would pin an arbitrary answer. Measured by `tools/claims.py` (the tools' own code from an exported tree: `fetch_leg` end to end, then `family.py`'s reader and `_on_a_remote_branch`), on main `961640c6`, on this head and on this head with F2 applied, on git 2.43 and 2.47.1 (`logs/claims-{main,head,f2}-{243,247}.log`; the two gits gave identical output on each tree):

```
case                   refspec beside the glob                     ref holding C   main    head    F2
refs-h-no-pattern      +refs/h:refs/remotes/origin/hy              refs/h          PIN     PIN     REFUSE
refs-head-no-pattern   +refs/head:refs/remotes/origin/hz           refs/head       PIN     PIN     REFUSE
refs-heads-no-pattern  +refs/heads:refs/remotes/origin/hx          refs/heads      the remote cannot hold refs/heads and refs/heads/main
hidden-out             +refs/hidden/*:refs/remotes/origin/hidden/* refs/hidden/1   PIN     PIN     PIN
C25h-in                +refs/h*:refs/remotes/origin/hh/*           refs/hidden/1   PIN     REFUSE  REFUSE
```

- Only `refs/heads` itself cannot be such a ref: `git update-ref` refuses it with "cannot process 'refs/heads/main' and 'refs/heads' at the same time" (exit 128, no ref made). `refs/h` and `refs/head` are made beside `refs/heads/main` with exit 0.
- With `+refs/h:refs/remotes/origin/hy` and a commit C that only `refs/h` reaches, main's code and this head's carry the refspec and PIN C. Under F2 both tools leave it out and REFUSE C (`bump-leg-commit-local-only`, `family_answer=False`): the tools' fetch prunes `origin/hy`, which the repository's own fetch had written, and the next own fetch writes it back.
- So this head's answer is not arbitrary. It is the rule ANY OTHER SOURCE NAMES NO BRANCH, the same as `hidden-out`'s: a source that is no pattern takes the ref of its name. Where the remote has no ref of that name, git completes the name instead: with a branch named `refs/h` (the ref `refs/heads/refs/h`) beside `hy`, the tools' fetch line exits 128 with `Cannot fetch both refs/heads/hy and refs/heads/refs/h to refs/remotes/origin/hy`, on git 2.43.0 and 2.47.1, on main as here. That is the WHAT CAN STILL CLASH shape (lane 5's re-check, issuecomment-6371455922, NIT 1).
- On the pure function (`tools/rows.py`, `logs/rows.log`, `origin_fetch_refspecs` alone):

```
row                                       main      head      B1        B9        F2
+refs/h:refs/remotes/origin/hy            carried   carried   carried   carried   left out
+refs/head:refs/remotes/origin/hz         carried   carried   carried   carried   left out
+refs/h*:refs/remotes/origin/hh/*         carried   left out  carried   left out  left out
+refs/heads*x:refs/remotes/origin/h*x     carried   left out  left out  carried   left out
```

- **The new row passes on main by design,** as `another-name-suffix` does, because main's clause 4 (`gives_a_branch_another_name`) answers `False` for every source not under `refs/heads/` (`961640c6`, `scripts/shape_materialize.py` line 1704), and `refs/h` meets no earlier clause. It passes on this head. It kills F2: with F2 applied to `scripts/shape_materialize.py`, `-k carried-refs-h-not-a-pattern` over both test files gives 2 failed (`test_which_clause_leaves_each_refspec_out[carried-refs-h-not-a-pattern]` and `test_which_clause_leaves_each_refspec_out_of_the_legs_fetch[carried-refs-h-not-a-pattern]`), and over the 90 rows of Mutants, 2 failed and 88 passed. The runs are in `logs/mut-summary.log`: the row alone, 2 passed on main's code (`logs/mut-ROW-main-code.log`), 2 passed on this head (`logs/mut-ROW-head.log`), 2 failed under F2 (`logs/mut-ROW-F2.log`).
- The Mutants section below replaces the F2 sentence with this result.

**NIT 2 (finding 2): the line length.** Fix round 1's NIT 2 sentence now says 78, and names the scripts' 75 and 76 (above). The new commit adds lines of at most 76 characters, all ASCII, and no assert that joins conditions with `and` or `or`.

**NIT 3 (finding 3): the #1131 merge-tree line.** #1131's head is `55c30f20` now (its NIT round), not `a4beec9e`. `git merge-tree --write-tree 55c30f2 368b87e` exits 0 with tree `e036c02d6a12`; at `baa19972a` it gave `bd6ebc5cd3af`, as the re-check measured. See Merge-trees.

Main's production code (`961640c6`: `scripts/shape_materialize.py` and `scripts/bump-leg.py`) was put in the worktree under this head's two changed test files. Then the committed files were put back, with sha256 and dirty=0 checked (`logs/mut-MAIN-code-head-tests.log`). The result is **17 failed, 106 passed** at `baa19972a`, and **17 failed, 108 passed** at `368b87e9b` (`logs/mut-MAIN-code-head-tests.log`, 125 rows): the NIT round's 2 rows pass on main, by design. The failures are exactly the rows the fix decides:

- `WHICH_CLAUSE` `[another-name-heads-pattern]`, `[-shorter]`, `[-refs-h]` and `[-suffix]`, in both files: 8. Each is carried on main ("Left contains one more item").
- `test_a_branch_put_on_another_branchs_name_fails_no_fetch[heads-pattern-into-a-folder]` (member), and `..._of_the_leg[origin-heads-pattern-into-a-folder]` and `[local-remote-dir-heads-pattern-into-a-folder]` (leg): 3. The fetch exits 128 on main, so the runs give the failed-fetch note.
- Fix round 1's `NO_BRANCH_A_PATTERN_TAKES` rows: `test_a_ref_a_heads_pattern_takes_answers_for_no_branch[heads-pattern]` and `[refs-h-pattern]` (member), and `..._of_the_leg[origin-heads-pattern]`, `[origin-refs-h-pattern]`, `[local-remote-dir-heads-pattern]` and `[local-remote-dir-refs-h-pattern]` (leg): 6. On main the pattern is carried, so the real run pins the commit instead of refusing it.

The first round's 7 are among these. Fix round 1 adds 10: `-refs-h` and `-suffix` in both files, and the 6 end-to-end rows. `another-name-suffix` and `carried-not-refs-heads` pass on main by design. They kill mutants (below).

NIT round, on `368b87e9b` with git 2.43, through `tools/mut.sh` (`logs/mut-summary.log`). The scripts are `baa19972a`'s, so these are fix round 1's mutants over the NIT round's tests. Each mutant was applied alone to the committed `scripts/shape_materialize.py`. The runs covered both changed test files with `-k "which_clause or another_branchs_name or heads_pattern_takes"` (90 rows, 35 deselected). After each run the committed files were put back, and their sha256 and dirty=0 were checked: 9 of 9 restores in the script matched (`shape_materialize.py` `16c6ec378c36...`, `bump-leg.py` `8f4af9c5e78c...`).

```
mutant                                                        failed  result
main's code (961640c) under these two files, all 125 rows     17     the rows above (108 passed)
F2 the fix's `bool(star) and` dropped                           2     killed (carried-refs-h-not-a-pattern x2)
B1 the class drawn from `refs/he` up (`refs/h*` carried)        5     killed (-refs-h x2, refs-h-pattern x3)
B9 the fix only where the `*` ends the source                   2     killed (-suffix x2)
B4 the fix undone (`return False` in its place)                17     killed (every row the fix decides)
```

F2 is killed now. At `baa19972a`, with 88 rows, it survived (88 passed); B1 (5 failed), B9 (2) and B4 (17) gave the same counts as here. The earlier sentence said F2 differs from this head only on a source that is no pattern and is a start of `refs/heads/`, and that no such full name can be a ref beside the branches. The first half holds: over the 39,385-config corpus F2 differs from this head only there (`refs/`, `refs/h`, ... `refs/heads`). The second half held for `refs/heads` alone. `refs/h` and `refs/head` are refs a remote can hold beside its branches, and the head carries `+refs/h:refs/remotes/origin/hy` and pins a commit only that ref reaches, where F2 refuses it (NIT round, NIT 1). The row `carried-refs-h-not-a-pattern` holds that answer.

At `a35a97ea5`, whose code this head keeps, the first round measured these over `WHICH_CLAUSE` in both files (66 rows then):

```
mutant                                                failed  result
R16 clause 4 compares only the part before the `*`      2     killed (another-name-suffix x2); on main's own rows it survives (102 passed)
R17 clause 4 compares only the part after the `*`       8     killed (the four another-name rows x2)
F3  only `refs/heads*` itself, not shorter starts       2     killed (another-name-heads-pattern-shorter x2)
F4  any pattern starting `refs/h` (too broad)           2     killed (carried-not-refs-heads x2)
F5  every pattern not under refs/heads/ left out        6     killed (carried pulls, not-refs-tags, not-refs-heads x2)
H1  _left_out's OUTSIDE clause removed                  2     killed
H2  _left_out's tag clause removed                     14     killed
H3  _left_out's branches'-glob clause removed           2     killed (branches-glob-pull-requests x2)
H4  _left_out's last clause removed                    14     killed
H5  `if _left_out(...)` negated                        60     killed
```

Every run went through `run9.sh` on the commit `368b87e9b` (dirty=0 in each START line): gh stub first on PATH, a bogus token, `GIT_SSH_COMMAND=false`, `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null`, and `EMAIL` set.

- git 2.43, the three files that name the functions (`test_family_bump_fetch_refspecs.py`, `test_bump_leg_fetch_refspecs.py`, `test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py`): **159 passed** (`logs/g243.log`; 157 at `baa19972a`, and the NIT round's 2 rows).
- git 2.47.1 (a git 2.47.1 build first on PATH; `git --version` printed `git version 2.47.1` in the log): the same three files: **159 passed** (`logs/g247.log`).
- git 2.43, `test_path_guard_hygiene.py`, `test_pinned_copy_text.py` and the trio (`test_repo_hygiene.py`, `test_agents_md_codes.py`, `test_cli_reference.py`): **306 passed** (`logs/hyg243.log`, the same count as at `baa19972a`).

`git merge-tree --write-tree <target> 368b87e`, run at 2026-10-23T12:06:38Z against main and the head of every open PR that touches one of the four files (55 open PRs listed at 12:06:22Z; `logs/merge-trees.log`). Each exits 0 with no conflict:
- `origin/main` `961640c6`: tree `19c8442d96b0`;
- #1104 `de89aa81` (`shape_materialize.py`): tree `b76c36be588a`;
- #1105 `b28f40de` (`shape_materialize.py`): tree `5f2a8b3706e4`;
- #1118 `2307036a` (`shape_materialize.py`): tree `0c21c6b39607`;
- #1131 `55c30f20` (`bump-leg.py`; its head moved from `a4beec9e` in its NIT round): tree `e036c02d6a12`;
- #1160 `0068f5af` (`shape_materialize.py`): tree `bce90eb65c6c`.

The head's own tree is `351a9b73cda8`. Main is still `961640c6`: its one commit past `038dafba`, #1155, touches only `docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md`.

- C18b, a source that names no branch onto one branch's name, still clashes: own 0, tools 128. Which names the remote's branches have is not known from the refspecs. Leaving out every such refspec would also leave out the pull requests, which #946 carries on purpose. The docstrings now say so. The coordinator adds it and C25 to #1027's list.
- Leaving out the `refs/h*` class prunes what such a refspec kept until the repository's next own fetch, as for #1066's cases (C25n, C25g, C25h). An unforced one held under a branch's name costs the non-fast-forward of THE COST, ACCEPTED (C25u).
- Leaving it out also changes the answer for a commit that only a non-branch ref the pattern takes reaches, from pin to refuse (fix round 1, SHOULD 2). This is the rule #613 and #1037 keep for a commit only a tag reaches: a bump pins only what a branch reaches. Every run gives the same answer, so a dry run and the real run after it never differ. Pinning such a commit instead would be a design question, not part of this fix.

Review: lane 5's independent review (issuecomment-6347113460) and its re-check, READY at `baa19972` (issuecomment-6352215076); then rc1157b, lane 5's independent sonnet re-checker, which wrote none of #1157: READY at `368b87e9`, the head that lands (issuecomment-6371455922), with no MUST or SHOULD; its wording NIT is corrected in the body. CI (Brett Heap's ruling 27): H0 is the head 368b87e itself, which passed tests, tests-git-bash and SonarCloud; main has touched none of its files since its base 038dafb; and the local gate passed on its predicted squash tree 44b3b5c over main b055bb7: the bump_leg_fetch_refspecs, family_bump_fetch_refspecs, repo_hygiene, agents_md_codes, cli_reference sets, 296 passed. Landed on Brett Heap's word of 2026-10-23T13:10:26Z, relayed to every lane by lane 3 (#473 issuecomment-6365697123): "merge v1.2.1 PRs once reviewed and green".

Closes #1100

Lane: openreposhape-5 (openRepoShape-5)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
brettheap added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 8, 2026
…rlier apply kept, read `unchanged`, as a module a written copy imports from and as an importer of a written one, so a plain apply that stops either on its import is refused (#1082) (#1133)

**#1082: `update-shape.py apply` refuses, before any write, every run that would leave a copy importing a name from a copy that does not define it, wherever the kept copy came from: this run's `--accept-local`, or an earlier run's.**

Fix round 1 (`53791e45`, on a merge of main `038dafba`) answers rv1133's review: its SHOULD 1 (the known limit was inside this Goal) is fixed here rather than filed, and its SHOULD 2 and NIT are taken.

All probes are offline. `gh` is a stub that exits 97, `GIT_SSH_COMMAND=false`, `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null`, and git is 2.43.0. The tool is main's `update-shape.py` (sha256 `ca47f90e`, blob `a7ae7505`, the same at `2a119f28`, `6da757cb`, `4ed7c7bf` and `038dafba`). Scripts and logs are in lane 5's scratch `v118/w1082/` (`tools/probe1023.sh`, `tools/probe1075.sh`, `probe-*`) and, for fix round 1, `v120/f1133/` (`tools/knownlimit.sh`, `tools/probe1075.sh`, `limit-*`, `probe-*1075`).

**#1075's `untraced`, on main's own history.** #1075 has now landed, so main itself holds the case.
- A holder cut at `6476c170` has a `bootstrap.py` with no `untraced`. Its own edit to that file is committed.
- `apply --at 2a119f2 --accept-local scripts/bootstrap.py --branch shape/first` exits 0. That was main before #1075, and its `siblings.py` takes no `untraced`.
- `check --at 6da757c` reads `unchanged scripts/bootstrap.py` and `upstream-changed scripts/siblings.py`. #1075 changed `siblings.py` alone, and `bootstrap.py` is blob `3c1060d3` at both commits.
- `apply --at 6da757c --branch shape/second` exits 0, prints `copied scripts/siblings.py`, and commits.
- Then `scripts/siblings.py --help` exits 1 with `ImportError: cannot import name 'untraced' from 'bootstrap'`.
- The one-step run, `apply --at 6da757c --accept-local scripts/bootstrap.py`, exits 2 with `scripts/bootstrap.py (kept) lacks untraced, which scripts/siblings.py imports from it`. The holder is unchanged.

**#1023's `member_make_environment`.** A holder is cut at `f1946d04`, the parent of #1023's `9e154d87`. Its `bootstrap.py` has no `member_make_environment`, and its `siblings.py` does not name it. Its own edit to `bootstrap.py` is committed.
- **Main's history alone does not reach the gap for this name.** #1023 defined the name in `bootstrap.py` and added it to `siblings.py`'s import in one commit. `git log -S member_make_environment` over the two files names `9e154d87` alone.
  - So `check --at <main>` reads `both scripts/bootstrap.py`.
  - `apply --at <main>` is `update-conflict`.
  - `apply --at <main> --accept-local scripts/bootstrap.py` is refused already: `scripts/bootstrap.py (kept) lacks member_make_environment, untraced, which scripts/siblings.py imports from it` at `6da757cb`, and `lacks member_make_environment` at `2a119f28`. The holder is unchanged.
- **With #1023 landed in two halves, as #1045 and #1075 landed `untraced`, it does reach it.** T1 is a commit on main with `siblings.py` as it was at `f1946d04`. That is `7c695d71` on `2a119f28`, and `3d5a7eda` on `6da757cb`.
  - `apply --at T1 --accept-local scripts/bootstrap.py --branch shape/first` exits 0.
  - `check --at <main>` reads `unchanged scripts/bootstrap.py` and `upstream-changed scripts/siblings.py`.
  - `apply --at <main> --branch shape/second` exits 0, copies `siblings.py`, and commits.
  - `scripts/siblings.py --help` then exits 1 with `ImportError: cannot import name 'member_make_environment' from 'bootstrap'`.
  - Measured against both `2a119f28` and `6da757cb`.

**The reverse direction: a copy an earlier run kept, as the importer (rv1133's SHOULD 1).** rv1133 measured it with main's tool and with `aa7ddf59`'s; fix round 1 measured it again with main's (`limit-m/`).
- A family holder is cut at `4ed7c7bf`. Its own edit to `siblings.py` adds `from bootstrap import told_past`, which the upstream's `siblings.py` does not import, and is committed. `siblings.py --help` still exits 0.
- `apply --at U1 --accept-local scripts/siblings.py --branch shape/first` exits 0. U1 is main plus an unrelated change to `validate-family.py`.
- U2 then renames `told_past` in `bootstrap.py` alone. `check --at U2` reads `upstream-changed scripts/bootstrap.py` and `unchanged scripts/siblings.py`.
- `apply --at U2 --branch shape/second`, with no `--accept-local`, exits 0, prints `copied scripts/bootstrap.py`, and commits. `siblings.py --help` then exits 1 with `ImportError: cannot import name 'told_past' from 'bootstrap'`.
- This run's own write breaks a copy that worked before it, so it is the Goal's case. The one-step run, `--accept-local scripts/siblings.py`, was already refused by #604 with `scripts/bootstrap.py (written) no longer defines told_past, which scripts/siblings.py (kept) imports from it`.

`update-shape.py`, `_refuse_kept_copies_missing_names` (#536, #604):

- **Each written `.py` copy is asked against its module as this run leaves it, whoever kept it.** The reading is `_copies_as_left`, `_written_copies_lacking` and `_names_as_left`. The module may be:
  - **kept by this run's `--accept-local`:** as before, the line says `(kept)`;
  - **an `unchanged` row whose pin records the project's own bytes**, which is a copy an earlier run kept that the upstream has not changed since. The line says `(kept by an earlier run)`;
  - **the upstream's own bytes at the target:** written by this run (an `upstream-changed` row or an `--add` file), `already-at-target`, or `unchanged` with the target's bytes. The line says `(the upstream's)`. No shipped copy meets this today: the reader rows of `tests/test_update_shape_kept_helper.py` find every name each shipped importer takes defined beside it. So it refuses only a target whose own copies disagree.
- **A copy an earlier run kept is asked as an importer too (fix round 1).** #604 asked only a copy this run's `--accept-local` keeps against a module this run writes (`_kept_copies_importing_dropped`). The rows `_copies_as_left` reads as `kept by an earlier run` are now passed beside the kept ones, under a new side, `WRITTEN_UNDER_EARLIER`.
  - Its line says who kept the importer: `scripts/bootstrap.py (written) no longer defines told_past, which scripts/siblings.py (kept by an earlier run) imports from it`. `KEPT_IMPORTERS` maps each `(written)` side to its importer's word, so a `(kept)` importer's line is unchanged.
  - `_names_dropped` still limits the refusal to names this run takes away: a name the module's bytes on disk define and its written bytes do not. A copy an earlier run kept whose names all stay, or that takes a name the module lacked before too, still applies.
  - An `unchanged` copy holding the upstream's own bytes is still not asked as an importer: that pair is two of the target's own copies.
- **The early `if not kept: return` is gone.** A run with no `--accept-local` is asked too. The guard still stands after `update-conflict`, `update-local-drift` and `update-rewrite-symlink`, and before `confirm` and any write.
- **The refusal's code is kept, and so are its words where every line is one this run's `--accept-local` makes.**
  - A `(kept)` or `(written)`-under-`(kept)` refusal prints byte for byte what main prints. In fix round 1, with the head `53791e45`: `cmp` of the masked one-step logs gives 1312 bytes for #1075's `(kept)` refusal and 1331 bytes for the `told_past` `(written)` refusal, both identical to main's tool. A #604 row now pins that opening (SHOULD 2).
  - Where a line is of another kind, the refusal opens with words true of every kind of line, now including a `(written)` line under a copy an earlier run kept: `a copy imports a name from a copy beside it whose bytes, as this run leaves them, do not define it, and this run writes one of the two`.
- **The remediation gives each kind its exit.**
  - **For a copy an earlier run kept,** it says why `check` reads it `unchanged`, then gives two exits. As a module that lacks a name: merge the upstream's version by hand so it defines every name its line names. As an importer of a name the written module drops (fix round 1): change it so it no longer takes any name its `(written) no longer defines` line names. Then commit, and run again with `--accept-local on each copy an earlier run kept that you changed, whose row then reads locally-modified`. Or write the upstream's bytes over it (the remedy's own `git show` line names that copy), commit, and run again. All four exits are tested end to end, and each checks the state `check` then reads: `locally-modified` after the first, `already-at-target` after the second.
  - **For two of the upstream's own copies,** it says `run this again with an --at whose copies agree`.
- **The known limit is gone.** The docstring paragraph that named it, and the row that pinned it, are replaced by the rows below that hold the refusal. `KEPT_LEAD`, the code and every `(kept)` line are as main has them.

`tests/test_update_shape_kept_helper.py`:
- **A fixture, `earlier_standard`,** models #1023 in two halves in the suite's own clone, from A's bytes, with no historical commit:
  - `before-1023`: the holder's `bootstrap.py` spells `member_make_environment` by #950's `member_make_env`, and its `siblings.py` defines its own;
  - a holder cut there;
  - `bootstrap-1023`: A's `bootstrap.py` back;
  - `siblings-no-name`: the control;
  - A is the second half.
- **Fix round 1 adds `kept-no-name` to `dropping_standard`,** a branch off `kept-base` that changes `validate-family.py` and adds or takes away no name. A holder cut at `kept-base` keeps its own `bootstrap.py`, which imports `DROPPED_NAME` from `repo_shape.py`, through an earlier apply there (`kept_by_an_earlier_apply`, shared with `kept_earlier`); `dropped` is the next apply's target. This is rv1133's `told_past` scenario in the file's own fixtures.
- **Rows, in the file's style and reusing its helpers.**
  - `refusal()` gains `left=` and `at_target=`, and `assert_stops_on_the_import` gains `script=`.
  - Fix round 1: `assert_the_kept_copy_starts_as_before` and `assert_the_exit_applies` are shared by the `--accept-local` rows and the earlier-kept rows.
  - No assert joins conditions with `and` or `or` (205 asserts, checked on the syntax tree).
- #1075's docstring line (`six names`) is kept as main has it.

- **Main merged.** `git merge origin/main` (`038dafba`) was clean: merge commit `7aee5efa`, tree `27a2785e`, the same as `git merge-tree --write-tree aa7ddf5 038dafb`. The fix is one new commit on it, `53791e45`. Nothing was amended, rebased or forced.
- **SHOULD 1 (the known limit).** Fixed as above, rather than filed. New rows:
  - `test_an_earlier_kept_copy_is_asked_when_the_next_apply_drops_its_name`: end to end, `check` reads the kept `bootstrap.py` `unchanged` and `repo_shape.py` `upstream-changed`; the plain apply to `dropped` is refused with nothing written, one detail line, the general opening, and that copy's exits, and none of the other kinds' exits. Its premise is measured: the kept `bootstrap.py` beside `dropped`'s `repo_shape.py` stops on the import.
  - `test_an_earlier_kept_copy_importing_what_this_run_keeps_applies` (2 controls): a name `repo_shape.py` lacked before too, and one the written `repo_shape.py` still defines. Both apply with no `--accept-local`, and the kept copy starts after the run exactly where it started before.
  - `test_either_exit_for_an_earlier_kept_importer_applies` (2): each exit the remedy gives that copy, with the state `check` reads after it; the apply then writes `repo_shape.py`, and `bootstrap.py` starts.
  - `test_an_importer_an_earlier_run_kept_is_asked_against_a_written_module` (2, in process): the line, the opening, the exits, and the `again` wording alone and beside a copy this run keeps.
  - `test_an_importer_holding_the_targets_bytes_is_not_asked` replaces `test_an_importer_this_run_leaves_alone_is_not_asked`, whose second param pinned the limit.
- **The scenario itself, with the head's tool** (`limit-h/`): the second apply exits 2 with `scripts/bootstrap.py (written) no longer defines told_past, which scripts/siblings.py (kept by an earlier run) imports from it`, the holder is unchanged, and `siblings.py --help` exits 0. The one-step, first-apply and `check` logs match main's tool once paths and shas are masked. #1075's probe (`probe-h1075/`) is refused at its second apply too, with `(kept by an earlier run) lacks untraced`.
- **SHOULD 2.** `test_keeping_a_copy_that_imports_a_name_the_run_drops_is_refused`, a #604 end-to-end `(written)` row, now asserts `startswith(KEPT_LEAD)`. rv1133's R2 is killed (below).
- **NIT.** The exits rows (`test_either_exit_the_remedy_names_applies` and the new one) check that `check` reads `locally-modified` after the change exit and `already-at-target` after the drop exit. The first exit's id now says the edit was changed by hand, as the remedy's `changed` does.

The new test file (185 rows) was run against main's `update-shape.py` (`038dafba`, sha256 `ca47f90e`, in a scratch clone): **17 failed, 168 passed** (`base-main.log`). Against `aa7ddf59`'s: **13 failed, 172 passed** (`base-aa7.log`). With the change: **185 passed**.

| row | on main | on `aa7ddf59` |
|---|---|---|
| `test_an_earlier_kept_copy_is_asked_when_the_next_apply_writes_its_importer` | `assert 0 == 2`: the second apply copies `siblings.py` | fails: the old opening |
| `test_with_branch_an_earlier_kept_copy_is_refused_before_any_branch` | `assert 0 == 2` | passes |
| `test_either_exit_the_remedy_names_applies` (2 params) | `assert 0 == 2`: the apply the remedy follows is not refused | passes |
| `test_a_written_copy_is_asked_against_its_module_as_this_run_leaves_it` (4 params) | no refusal | fails: the old opening |
| `test_each_kind_of_module_is_given_its_own_exit` (2 params) | no refusal | 1 fails: its remedy says `merged`, not `changed` |
| `test_every_kind_of_line_in_one_run_is_one_refusal` (2 params) | only the `(kept)` line | fails: the old opening |
| **new:** `test_an_earlier_kept_copy_is_asked_when_the_next_apply_drops_its_name` | `assert 0 == 2`: the plain apply copies `repo_shape.py` | the same |
| **new:** `test_either_exit_for_an_earlier_kept_importer_applies` (2 params) | `assert 0 == 2`: the apply the remedy follows is not refused | the same |
| **new:** `test_an_importer_an_earlier_run_kept_is_asked_against_a_written_module` (2 params) | no refusal; beside a kept copy, only its `(kept)` line | the same |

These pass on main and after: the one-step row (`test_the_one_step_run_is_refused_as_it_was`, which pins the old opening), the #604 row that now pins `KEPT_LEAD`, the controls (`test_an_earlier_kept_copy_that_defines_every_name_applies`, the two new earlier-kept importer controls, the four module-defines-every-name controls), and `test_an_importer_holding_the_targets_bytes_is_not_asked`.

Each was applied alone in a scratch clone, run on the test file, and restored by checkout with its sha256 checked.

**Fix round 1, at `53791e45` (185 rows):**

| mutant | result |
|---|---|
| N1, the earlier-kept rows not passed to `_kept_copies_importing_dropped` (`{}`), as `aa7ddf59` had it | killed, 5 failed: the 5 new rows that fail on main |
| N2, an earlier-kept importer called `(kept)` in its line | killed, 3 failed: the end-to-end refusal row and both in-process rows |
| N3, an earlier-kept importer given the `(written)`-under-`(kept)` side | killed, 3 failed: the same three |
| N4, the `KEPT_LEAD` opening kept for a `(written)` line under a copy an earlier run kept | killed, 3 failed: the same three |
| N5, the change exit for an earlier-kept importer dropped | killed, 3 failed: the same three |
| N6, the `unchanged` why and the `--accept-local on each copy an earlier run kept` exit given to an earlier-kept module only | killed, 3 failed: the same three |
| N7, the module, not the earlier-kept importer, named for `git show` | killed, 3 failed: the same three |
| N8, the "what the upstream's own copy of that file imports instead" clause for a `(written)`-under-`(kept)` line only | killed, 1 failed: the end-to-end refusal row |
| N9, every `unchanged` row asked as an importer, the target's own bytes too | killed, 1 failed: `test_an_importer_holding_the_targets_bytes_is_not_asked` |
| N10, the old general opening (`a copy this run writes or keeps imports ...`) | killed, 10 failed |
| rv1133's R2, a `(written)`-only refusal given the general opening (`sides <= {KEPT_MODULE}`) | killed, 1 failed: `test_keeping_a_copy_that_imports_a_name_the_run_drops_is_refused` (SHOULD 2); it survived at `aa7ddf59` |
| the first round's M1, the old `kept` set restored | killed, 17 failed: the 17 rows that fail on main |
| the first round's M3, the guard called after `_write_copies` | killed, 15 failed: every end-to-end refusal row, the 3 new ones among them |
| the first round's M7, earlier-kept and upstream's own swapped | killed, 12 failed |

No survivor. Every mutant was restored by checkout with its sha256 checked (`5b386f8b`), and each clone's status was clean at the end (`mutants1.out`, `mutants2.out`, `mut-*.log`).

**The first round, at `7b447602` (179 rows):**

| mutant | result |
|---|---|
| M1, the old `kept` set restored (`left = dict.fromkeys(kept, KEPT_MODULE)`) | killed, 12 failed: the 12 rows that fail on main |
| M2, `unchanged` rows asked as importers (against the modules this run writes) but the written importers asked against the old `kept` set only | killed, 14 failed |
| M3, the guard called after `_write_copies` (refused after a write) | killed, 12 failed: every end-to-end refusal row sees `copied` |
| M4, a copy an earlier run kept called `(kept)` | killed, 5 failed |
| M5, the upstream's own modules not asked | killed, 5 failed |
| M6, the new opening always used | killed, 1 failed: the one-step row's old opening |
| M7, earlier-kept and upstream's own swapped | killed, 6 failed |
| M8, the `--accept-local on each copy an earlier run kept` exit dropped | killed, 3 failed |
| M9, a written module read from its bytes on disk | killed, 4 failed |
| M10, the `unchanged` sentence dropped | killed, 2 failed |

All runs went through lane 5's `run9.sh`, with the stub `gh`, `GIT_SSH_COMMAND=false`, `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null` and `EMAIL` exported. No more than two ran at once. The full suite was not run.

**Fix round 1, at `53791e45`** (each `START` line records the head and `dirty=0`; logs in `v120/f1133/`):

| run | git | result | log |
|---|---|---|---|
| the new file, `tests/test_update_shape_kept_helper.py` | 2.43.0 | **185 passed** in 100.27s | `own243.log` |
| the same | 2.47.1 | **185 passed** in 95.67s | `own247.log` |
| `tests/test_update_shape.py`, `tests/test_update_shape_messages.py`, `tests/test_update_shape_paste_lines.py` | 2.43.0 | **144 passed** in 181.71s | `runC.log` |
| `tests/test_update_shape_apply_lines_and_headers.py`, `tests/test_update_shape_merged_away.py`, `tests/test_update_shape_rewrite_symlink.py`, `tests/test_update_shape_landing.py` | 2.43.0 | **163 passed** in 223.09s | `runD.log` |
| `tests/test_update_shape_add_not_a_directory.py` | 2.43.0 | **13 passed** in 33.11s | `runF.log` |
| `tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py` and the trio (`tests/test_repo_hygiene.py`, `tests/test_agents_md_codes.py`, `tests/test_cli_reference.py`) | 2.43.0 | **219 passed** in 54.58s | `runE.log` |

No failure and no skip in any run at this head. The two runs of the new file went through `run9.sh` on 2026-10-22 at 13:31Z, the next three on 2026-10-22 from 15:16Z to 15:21Z, and `runF.log` at 15:23Z; each `START` line reads `head=53791e45...` and `dirty=0`. Of the 19 `tests/test_update_shape*.py` files, these 9 ran at this head. The other 10 did not run at this head: all 10 ran at the first round's head `7b447602` in shard A or B (below), over the first round's `update-shape.py`, which this round's commit changed. The full suite was not run.

**The first round, at `7b447602`** (tree `e0e2d19e`, the same tree as `aa7ddf59`): the new file 179 passed on git 2.43.0 and on git 2.47.1; shard A (29 files) 2031 passed, 5 skipped; shard B (29 files) 1814 passed, 5 skipped; the trio 170 passed. No failure in any run.

Read at `53791e45`, after a re-fetch of main (`origin/main` is still `038dafba`, the second parent of the branch's merge commit `7aee5efa`):

- **`git merge-tree --write-tree origin/main HEAD`** exits 0 and writes tree `bfa8c1d4`, which is `HEAD`'s own tree: the branch holds `038dafba` as an ancestor, so the merge adds nothing.
- **The merge commit `7aee5efa`** (parents `aa7ddf59` and `038dafba`) has tree `27a2785e`, the same tree as `git merge-tree --write-tree aa7ddf5 038dafb`, which exits 0. It was clean.
- **Open pull requests:** 37 were listed with `gh pr list --state open --limit 100 --json number,headRefName,headRefOid,files`. None but this one touches `update-shape.py` or `tests/test_update_shape_kept_helper.py`, so there is no other head to merge against. The list is `open-prs-d1.json` in `v120/f1133/`.
- `git diff --name-only origin/main HEAD` names those two files and no other.

rc1133 re-checked `53791e45` (#1133 issuecomment-6347273216): READY, with three NITs. This round takes all three, in one new commit, `a7bfee1b`, on `53791e45`. It was pushed as a fast-forward of the branch; nothing was amended, rebased or forced. The commit changes `tests/test_update_shape_kept_helper.py` alone (+7, -4). `update-shape.py` is `53791e45`'s, sha256 `5b386f8b`, so the fix and every measurement in the sections above are unchanged.

- **NIT 1 (taken): a refusal in both directions at once now has its opening pinned.** `_missing_name_refusal` opens with `KEPT_LEAD` where every line is one this run's `--accept-local` makes. A run with a `(kept) lacks` line and a `(written) no longer defines` line is such a run, but `test_both_directions_in_one_run_are_one_refusal` pinned its lines, its clause and its remedy, not its opening. rc1133's mutant O1 (`lead = (KEPT_LEAD if len(sides) == 1 and sides <= {KEPT_MODULE, WRITTEN_MODULE} else LEFT_LEAD)`) therefore survived the 185 rows. The row now asserts `result.stderr.startswith(KEPT_LEAD), result.stderr`, right after `assert_refused_writing_nothing`, and its docstring says why the opening is that one.
- **NIT 2 (taken): the Merges section lacked #1166.** Its row is in "Merges at `a7bfee1b`" below, and it replaces the Merges section's "Open pull requests" line.
- **NIT 3 (taken): the title** named only the first round's direction, a written copy asked against its module. It now names the copy an earlier apply kept in both roles: as the module a written copy imports from, and as an importer of a written module. It is 249 characters and ASCII. rc1133's 242-character rewrite was close, but its "a plain apply that would break it" is true only where the kept copy is the importer: where it is the module, the apply breaks the written importer. The new title says "either".

### Mutant O1, before and after

Applied alone in this worktree and restored by checkout, sha256 `5b386f8b` checked, status clean afterwards. The mutant is rc1133's (`mutate_rc.py`, copied unchanged).

| test file | run | result |
|---|---|---|
| `53791e45`'s, without the new assert | the row alone, with O1 applied | **survives**: 1 passed, 184 deselected (`o1-before-row.log`). rc1133 measured the whole file: 185 passed |
| `a7bfee1b`'s, with the new assert | the whole file, with O1 applied | **killed**: 1 failed, 184 passed (`o1-after-file.log`). The failure is `test_both_directions_in_one_run_are_one_refusal` at the new assert: the opening read `a copy imports a name from a copy beside it whose bytes, as this run leaves them, do not define it, ...` |

No other mutant was needed: the round adds no behaviour and no new row, and the earlier rounds' 14 + 10 mutants stand at an unchanged `update-shape.py`.

### Rows that fail on main

None, and that is measured, not assumed. The new assert pins an opening the head keeps exactly as main prints it, so it cannot fail on main. rc1133 had that only by reading, so it is measured here: the row, new assert included, run with main's `update-shape.py` (`origin/main` `961640c6`, sha256 `ca47f90e`) swapped into the worktree, gives **1 passed** (`main-row.log`); the file was restored to `5b386f8b` afterwards. The assert guards that opening against a later regression like O1, as SHOULD 2's assert guards the one-step opening against R2.

### Runs at `a7bfee1b`

All through lane 5's `run9.sh`, each `START` line at `head=a7bfee1b...` and `dirty=0`, with the stub `gh` and `EMAIL` exported; two ran at once, and the full suite was not run. No failure and no skip. Logs are in lane 5's scratch `v124/n1133/`.

| run | git | result | log |
|---|---|---|---|
| `tests/test_update_shape_kept_helper.py` and `tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py` | 2.43.0 | **234 passed** (185 + 49) in 61.57s | `own243.log` |
| `tests/test_update_shape_kept_helper.py` | 2.47.1 (first on PATH, printed in the log) | **185 passed** in 48.73s | `own247.log` |

The commit changes no function, no path guard and no refusal text, so no other test file names anything it changed. The test file still has no assert that joins conditions with `and` or `or` (206 asserts, checked on the syntax tree), no non-ASCII byte, and its widest line is 79 characters.

### Merges at `a7bfee1b`

Read after a re-fetch of main: `origin/main` is `961640c6` (#1155, which adds `docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md` and nothing else). It touches neither of this PR's files.

- **`git merge-tree --write-tree origin/main HEAD`** exits 0 and writes tree `98765a8b`. The branch does not hold `961640c6`, and the predicted merge differs from `HEAD` by `docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md` alone.
- **#1166** (`fix/1139-anchored-patterns`, head `2593952c95`, opened 2026-10-22T17:31:57Z) touches `update-shape.py`, at lines well apart from `_missing_name_refusal` (rc1133's reading), and does not touch the test file. `git merge-tree --write-tree a7bfee1 2593952` exits 0 and writes tree `67858a0b`. Against `53791e45` the same command writes `37498506`, rc1133's tree, which is reproduced. rc1133's tests on the predicted merge of `53791e45` and #1166 (`c5a98365`: this file, `test_value_pattern_line_break.py`, `test_update_shape_unreadable.py`, `test_path_guard_hygiene.py`) were 311 passed; they were not re-run at `a7bfee1b`, which changes one assert and a docstring in a test file #1166 does not touch.
- **Open pull requests:** 41 were listed with `gh pr list --state open --limit 100 --json number,headRefName,headRefOid,files`. Besides this one, only #1166 touches `update-shape.py`, and none but this one touches `tests/test_update_shape_kept_helper.py`, so no other head needs a merge-tree. The list is `open-prs.json`.

Review: lane 5's independent re-check, by a reviewer that wrote none of #1133: READY at `a7bfee1b` (issuecomment-6352252707), with no MUST, SHOULD or NIT left. CI (Brett Heap's ruling 27 and his fast-refresh ruling of 2026-10-15T22:48:35Z): H0 a7bfee1 passed tests, tests-git-bash and SonarCloud; the head 08339c9 is a clean update-branch merge of main 105b5da, with tests-git-bash and SonarCloud green; and the local gate passed on its predicted squash tree b7073af over main 105b5da: the update_shape_kept_helper, repo_hygiene, agents_md_codes, cli_reference sets, 356 passed. Landed on Brett Heap's word of 2026-10-23T13:10:26Z, relayed to every lane by lane 3 (#473 issuecomment-6365697123): "merge v1.2.1 PRs once reviewed and green".

Closes #1082

Lane: openreposhape-5 (openRepoShape-5)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
brettheap added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 8, 2026
…r through a tag it lacks, is told so, a tag of a tree or a blob it lacks is refused by name, and rows hold `YAML_NOT_TEXT_RE`'s exponents of two digits (#1103) (#1131)

The three things rv1090's review of #1090 (#912) left (#1090 issuecomment-6316009648): a row that holds `YAML_NOT_TEXT_RE`'s exponents of two or more digits, a true refusal where a leg with no `origin` holds a tag without its commit, and no `else` that nothing reaches. This is #1103. Brett Heap's ruling of 2026-10-21T10:32:04Z held it until the v1.2.0 tag, and it is now on the v1.2.1 milestone.

Three commits: `9d14c29a` on main `6da757cb`, a merge of main `038dafba` (clean), and fix round 1 `a4beec9e`, which answers rv1131's review (#1131 issuecomment-6321276436, READY with two NITs): see `## Fix round 1`. Together they change `scripts/bump-leg.py`, `tests/test_neutral_pin_entry_one_spelling.py` and `tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py`. The sections down to `## Runs` are the first commit's, as rv1131 reviewed them.

Each claim was measured on main `6da757cb` by name; the issue's lines are at `d5389eb6`. All three held, at the same names.

- **The SHOULD held.** `YAML_NOT_TEXT_RE` (`scripts/shape_materialize.py:538-543`) has two exponent groups, `(?:[eE][-+][0-9]+)?` and `(?:[eE][-+]?[0-9]+)?`, and every exponent in `YAML_FLOATS` (`tests/test_neutral_pin_entry_one_spelling.py:92`) has one digit.
  - rv1090's R2 changes `[0-9]+` to `[0-9]` in both groups.
  - Applied to main, R2 passes all 208 rows of the spelling file, `test_scaffold_pin_and_reuse.py` and `test_adopt_pins.py` that `-k "spell or entry or name or rule or stock or every"` selects.
  - The head before this change quotes `.5e-10`, `.5E+10`, `.5_e-10`, `.5e10` and `.05E-12` correctly, so this is a missing row, not a defect.
- **NIT 1 held.** `_unreachable_refusal` (`scripts/bump-leg.py:1239`) was called by the probe on a leg that holds the tag `v1`'s object but not its commit.
  - With `has_origin=False` and either `fetched`, it said `bump-leg-commit-not-on-remote: <tag> is not in the leg's own object store, and the leg's mount, <leg>, has no remote named `origin` to fetch it from, ...`. That is untrue: `cat-file -t` says `tag`.
  - With `has_origin=True` it said `opensoft/openGlass has no branch containing <tag>`, which is true.
- **NIT 2 held.** A line trace of `peeled_target` (`scripts/bump-leg.py:979`) ran over a commit, a tag, a tag of a tag, a tree, a blob, a tag of either, a tag and a tag of a tag held without their commit, and an id the leg lacks.
  - `names a {kind}` was reached by the tree and the blob, and `is an annotated tag of a {names}` by the tag of a tree and the tag of a blob.
  - `else: what = "is an annotated tag that names no commit"` was reached by nothing.

- **`YAML_FLOATS`** gains `.5e-10`, `.5E+10`, `.5_e-10` and `.5e10`, as the issue asks.
  - It also gains `.5.5e-10`. All four of those reach the second pattern (`\.[0-9_]+`), so a cut to the first group's exponent alone still passed them. Only the first pattern, YAML 1.1's as written, takes `.5.5e-10`. Each group is now held on its own (R2a and R2b below).
  - The list's comment no longer says `--pin` admits every name in it: `.e+5`, `.5e+3` and `.5E+10` hold a `+`, which `PIN_ARG_RE` refuses, so it says a plain scalar can spell them.
  - Each new name runs through the two rows that take `YAML_FLOATS`: double-quoted and read back, and double-quoted by the rule alone. That is 10 new rows.
- **`_unreachable_refusal`**: where the leg has no `origin` and `object_kind(id)` is `tag`, the refusal keeps its code, `bump-leg-commit-not-on-remote`. Its words are now:
  - `<tag> is an annotated tag the leg's own object store holds without the commit it names, and the leg's mount, <leg>, has no remote named `origin` to fetch that commit from, so whether a branch of <repository> reaches it is not known`
  - `Remediation: check the tag -- the commit it names belongs to the LEG, not to the assembly root -- and push that commit to a branch of the leg first if it is not pushed yet; give <leg> back a remote named `origin`, ...` (an em dash in the tool, as in the words beside it).
  - An id the leg does not hold keeps its words, and so does every case with an `origin`.
  - Fix round 1 gives two rarer held tags this branch caught their own true words: a tag through a tag the leg lacks, and a tag of a tree or a blob.
  - No other text pins the old sentence. `grep` of `tests/`, `README.md`, `docs/`, the handbook and `AGENTS.md` finds it only in `bump-leg.py`, and `AGENTS.md`'s codes table is unchanged.
- **`peeled_target`**: the three-way `if`/`elif`/`else` is now one expression: `is an annotated tag of a {names}` for a tag, `names a {kind}` otherwise, with a comment saying why nothing else is left. The words for a tree, a blob and a tag of either are unchanged, by the same trace on the head. `shape_materialize.not_a_commit`, which `commit_on_forge` uses, still says "an annotated tag that names no commit"; it is not touched.

- `tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py`, `test_a_tag_a_leg_with_no_origin_holds_alone_is_told_it_is_held`.
  - The setup: a tag of a commit pushed nowhere is made in a clone of the leg's remote, and only the tag object goes into the leg (`git hash-object -t tag -w`). The leg's `origin` is renamed to `upstream`, then both runs go through `assert_one_refusal`.
  - It asserts the note and the two lines exactly, through `told_no_origin`, and that the old sentence is not in stderr.
  - It reuses the file's `private_remote`, `without_origin`, `runner` and `origin_back`.
- **On main's code** (the two test files copied onto `6da757cb`, git 2.43): 1 failed, 159 passed. The one failure is that row, which got main's `REFUSED bump-leg-commit-not-on-remote: <tag> is not in the leg's own object store`.
  - The 10 float rows pass on main, as they should, because main's rule is right. They are there to kill R2, below.
- No assert joins conditions with `and` or `or`.

Each mutant was applied alone to a scratch clone holding this commit's files, then restored and compared with the worktree.

| Mutant | Rows run | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| R2: `[0-9]+` to `[0-9]` in both exponent groups | the spelling file | killed: 10 failed, 115 passed (all 10 new rows) |
| R2 on main's rows | the 208 rows above | survives: 208 passed |
| R2a: the first group only | the spelling file | killed: 2 failed (`.5.5e-10`, both rows) |
| R2b: the second group only | the spelling file | killed: 4 failed (`.5_e-10` and `.5e10`, both rows) |
| N1: the held-tag branch removed, so the old words answer | `-k "no_origin or held"` in the reachability file | killed: 1 failed, 3 passed |

All runs go through lane 5's `run9.sh`: a stub `gh` first on PATH, a bogus token, every `LANES_*` variable cleared, `EMAIL=service@opensoft.dev`, `GIT_SSH_COMMAND=false` and `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null`.

- **The two changed test files on the head:**
  - git 2.43: 160 passed;
  - git 2.47.1 (a git 2.47.1 build first on PATH; `git --version` printed `git version 2.47.1`): 160 passed.
- **git 2.43, every test file that runs `bump-leg.py`.** The commit changes production code in `scripts/bump-leg.py` only. `scripts/shape_materialize.py` is unchanged: only its test rows were added, and those ran on both gits above. So the related-file runs take the test files that name `bump-leg` or `bump_leg`, and the files that name only `shape_materialize` are not needed.
  - The set is `grep -rl -E 'bump-leg|bump_leg' tests --include='*.py'`: 56 files, sorted and split into two halves. It holds `tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py` again, and `tests/test_repo_hygiene.py` and `tests/test_agents_md_codes.py`.
  - shard a, 28 files: 1038 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed;
  - shard b, 28 files: 2324 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed;
  - together 3362 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed. Both skips are rows for another host: one needs a disk that ignores case (macOS, Windows), in `tests/test_bump_leg.py`, and one is Windows' own stdout default, in `tests/test_stdout_encoding.py`.
- **git 2.43, the trio** `tests/test_repo_hygiene.py`, `tests/test_agents_md_codes.py` and `tests/test_cli_reference.py`: 170 passed.

Commit `a4beec9e`, on the merge of main `038dafba` into the branch (`ae830e2b`, clean, tree `10c2372fe578`). It answers rv1131's review (#1131 issuecomment-6321276436).

### What changed

- **NIT 1: the no-`origin` words for a held tag were untrue in two rarer cases.** The branch keyed on `object_kind(id) == "tag"` alone, so every held tag `peeled_target` cannot peel was told the leg holds it "without the commit it names". Each case now reads the tag chain from the tags' own headers, `git cat-file tag`'s `type` and `object` lines, one tag at a time while the leg holds the next (`tag_chain_end`, new). The peel (`<id>^{}`) says nothing where the leg lacks an object on the way.
  - **(a) A tag through a tag the leg lacks**, with the commit at the end held or not: still `bump-leg-commit-not-on-remote`, now in these words:
    - `<tag> is an annotated tag the leg's own object store holds without a tag it leads through, <inner tag>, and the leg's mount, <leg>, has no remote named `origin` to fetch that tag from, so what that tag names, and whether a branch of <repository> reaches it, are not known`
    - `Remediation: check the tag -- the tags it leads through, and what they name, belong to the LEG, not to the assembly root -- and push them to the leg first if they are not pushed yet, and any commit they name to a branch of it; give <leg> back a remote named `origin`, ...` (an em dash in the tool, as in the words beside it).
  - **(b) A tag, or a tag of a tag, of a tree or a blob the leg lacks** names no commit, so `peeled_target` now refuses it `bump-leg-target-not-a-commit`, in the words a tag of a held tree or blob already had: `--to <tag> is an annotated tag of a tree in the leg (<repository>), not a commit`. That is with or without an `origin`, since no fetch makes a tree a commit.
    - Measured first: for the same tag with its tree or blob held, main and `9d14c29a` both refuse it `bump-leg-target-not-a-commit` in those words. The new refusal is byte for byte the same as main's for the same tag id held with its tree or blob, in all 6 (leg, id) pairs of (b) below.
    - With an `origin`, such a tag was refused `bump-leg-commit-not-on-remote`, "<repository> has no branch containing <tag>", with "check the commit". That is the one with-`origin` answer this round changes.
  - **The issue's own case is as it was:** a tag held without its commit, and a tag of a tag with both tags held, keep the head's words, byte for byte.
  - Neither code is added or removed. Neither code, nor any changed sentence, appears in `README.md`, `docs/`, the handbook or `AGENTS.md`; `tests/test_agents_md_codes.py` and `tests/test_cli_reference.py` pass.
  - `peeled_target` and `_unreachable_refusal` keep their docstrings' accounts true: the #912 paragraph now says a tag held without THE COMMIT it names, and each function says what (a) and (b) are now told.
  - A cycle of tags made with `refs/replace/` is never walked: git's own peel never leaves one (measured, git 2.43: `rev-parse <tag>^{}` was still running at a 10 s timeout), and the walk is reached only where the peel failed.
- **NIT 2: mutant M5 survived.** `.5.5E-10` is added to `YAML_FLOATS`: only the first exponent group takes it, and only with its `E`. The list's comment says so.

### Words compared with main's and the head's tool

The probe called `peeled_target` and `_unreachable_refusal` from main `038dafba`, the head `9d14c29a` and this head on 15 legs x 10 ids x 4 `(has_origin, fetched)`, as rv1131's did, with legs for (a) and (b) added. Each id was asked as typed (`raw`) and, where `peeled_target` returned, as it returned (`flow`). That is 1578 answers from main and the head, and 1554 from this head, where 6 (leg, id) pairs are refused before the verdict.

| Pair | The same | Differ |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `9d14c29a` vs this head | 1532 of 1578 | 46: (a) 16, (b) 30, and nothing else |
| main vs this head | 1492 of 1578 | 86: those 46, the issue's case (12) and 28 `raw` asks |

- **(a):** 4 legs, `has_origin=False` only. Each holds the outer tag without the inner one: a tag of a tag of a commit, with the commit or without it, and a tag of a tag of a tree, with the tree or without it.
- **(b):** 6 (leg, id) pairs, `peeled_target` and the four verdicts each: a tag of a tree and a tag of a blob, each alone and under a held tag of it, and those two tags of a tag, all held without the tree or blob.
- **The 28 `raw` asks** ask `_unreachable_refusal` directly about a held tag of a tree or blob, which the flow never does: `peeled_target` refuses it first, with the tree or blob held or not. They keep the head's words.
- **Every other answer**, every id with an `origin` but (b)'s, every missing id and every held commit keeps main's words.

### Rows, failing on `9d14c29a` and on main

In `tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py`, in the file's style, through `assert_one_refusal` (both runs, exit 2, the same words, nothing written). They reuse `private_remote`, `without_origin`, `runner`, `told_no_origin`, `refusal` and `origin_back`. Two helpers, `pushed_nowhere` and `written_into_the_leg`, are split out of `held_without_its_commit`, which keeps what it did.

- `test_a_tag_through_a_tag_the_leg_lacks_is_told_which_tag_it_lacks[commit-held, commit-missing]`: (a). The leg holds only the outer tag; the commit is the leg's own pin, or one pushed nowhere. The note and the two lines are asserted exactly, and "without the commit it names" is not in stderr.
- `test_a_tag_of_a_tree_or_a_blob_the_leg_lacks_is_refused_by_name[...]`: (b), 6 rows. The kinds are a tag of a tree, a tag of a blob, and a tag of a tag of a tree with both tags held. Each runs with the leg's `origin` and without it. The tree and the blob are pushed nowhere, so no fetch brings them, and the row checks that afterwards. The two lines are asserted exactly, with the note where there is no `origin`.
- **On `9d14c29a`'s `bump-leg.py`:** 8 failed, 59 passed (git 2.43; the rows of `tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py` and `tests/test_bump_leg_dry_run_truth.py`). The 8 are exactly the 8 new rows: the 2 of (a) and the 6 of (b). The old file was put back by sha256 afterwards.
- **On main `038dafba`'s `bump-leg.py`:** 9 failed, 58 passed (the same two files, git 2.43). The 9 are those 8 and the issue's row, `test_a_tag_a_leg_with_no_origin_holds_alone_is_told_it_is_held`. The old file was put back by sha256 afterwards.
- **`.5.5E-10`** adds 2 rows, one to each test that takes `YAML_FLOATS`. They pass on main and on the head, as they should: the rule is right, and they are there to kill M5.
- No assert joins conditions with `and` or `or`. Added lines are at most 79 characters wide. The only non-ASCII character is the em dash in the tool's own words.

### Mutants

Each was applied alone in the worktree, at this commit. Its rows were run, then the file was restored and checked against the commit by sha256. For `bump-leg.py` the rows are `tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py` and `tests/test_bump_leg_dry_run_truth.py`; for `shape_materialize.py`, the spelling file.

| Mutant | Result | Rows that failed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| M5: `shape_materialize.py`, the first exponent group's `[eE]` cut to `[e]` | killed: 2 failed, 125 passed | `.5.5E-10`, in `test_a_name_yaml_takes_for_no_text_is_double_quoted` and `test_the_rule_quotes_it_whatever_the_projects_reader_reads` |
| NM1: `names = names or tag_chain_end(submodule, target)[0]` cut to `names = names`, so the header is never read where the peel says nothing | killed: 6 failed, 61 passed | the 6 rows of (b) |
| NM2: the walk's `tag = named` step replaced by a second `return`, so the chain is never followed past its first tag | killed: 2 failed, 65 passed | the 2 `tag of a tag of a tree` rows of (b) |
| NM3: (a)'s branch made dead, `if names == "tag":` to `"tags"` | killed: 2 failed, 65 passed | the 2 rows of (a) |
| NM4: a blob not refused, `("tree", "blob")` to `("tree",)` | killed: 4 failed, 63 passed | the 2 `tag of a blob` rows of (b), and `tag of a blob` for `local-remote-dir` and `origin` in `test_a_tree_a_blob_or_a_tag_of_either_is_refused_by_name_in_both_runs` |
| NM5: (a)'s note names the outer tag, `{named}` to `{commit}` | killed: 2 failed, 65 passed | the 2 rows of (a) |
| NM6: the held-tag words given with an `origin` too, `not has_origin and` cut | killed: 2 failed, 65 passed | `test_a_tag_the_leg_holds_without_its_commit_is_not_on_the_remote`, for `local-remote-dir` and `origin` |
| NM7: the header key read is `tag`, not `type` | killed: 8 failed, 59 passed | the 8 new rows |

No mutant survived. After each, `scripts/shape_materialize.py` and `scripts/bump-leg.py` were restored from the commit and their sha256 checked: `a37e3d83fbcda475...` and `d6822093b1aa4b0e...` both matched, with the worktree clean.

### Runs

All go through lane 5's `run9.sh`, as above, at `a4beec9e`.

- **The two changed test files** (`tests/test_neutral_pin_entry_one_spelling.py` and `tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py`): 170 passed, which is the first commit's 160 and this round's 10 new rows.
  - git 2.43: 170 passed;
  - git 2.47.1 (a git 2.47.1 build first on PATH; `git --version` printed `git version 2.47.1`): 170 passed.
- **git 2.43, the path guard and the trio**: `tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py`, `tests/test_repo_hygiene.py`, `tests/test_agents_md_codes.py` and `tests/test_cli_reference.py`: 219 passed.
- **git 2.43, every test file that runs `bump-leg.py`**, picked as above (`grep -rl -E 'bump-leg|bump_leg' tests --include='*.py'`): 57 files, which are the 56 files of the first commit's set and `tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py`, which main gained since. Sorted and split in two:
  - shard a, 29 files: 1094 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed;
  - shard b, 28 files: 2325 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed;
  - together 3419 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed. The two skips are the same two rows for another host as before: `tests/test_bump_leg.py` (a disk that ignores case) and `tests/test_stdout_encoding.py` (Windows' own stdout default).
- Every run in this section was on `a4beec9e` itself, committed, with the worktree clean (`dirty=0` in each log's START line).

Refreshed for fix round 1 (rv1131's body NIT). `git merge-tree --write-tree` of the head `a4beec9e` was run against origin/main, re-fetched (`-c gc.auto=0 -c maintenance.auto=false`), and against each open PR that touches these files:

| Against | Head | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| origin/main, re-fetched at 15:16Z on 2026-10-22 | `038dafba9dbe` | clean, tree `f571322318b1`, the head's own tree: the head holds main by its merge |
| #1107 `fix/1019-points-at-row` (DRAFT) | `ee48b5fe9693` | clean, tree `7383abd73770` |
| #1157 `fix/1100-refspec-followups` (DRAFT) | `a35a97ea52f4` | clean, tree `de32065b7371` |

- #1107 touches `tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py`. It gives `made_in_the_leg` an optional `on=` and adds rows after `test_a_tag_of_a_tag_the_two_share_reaches_it`.
  - The rows here call neither `made_in_the_leg` nor anything #1107 changes. The merged file parses, and no name in it is defined twice.
- #1157 touches `scripts/bump-leg.py`, `scripts/shape_materialize.py` and two refspec test files, so it shares only `scripts/bump-leg.py` with this PR.
  - Its two hunks there are inside `_leg_fetch_refspecs`, at lines 1109 to 1146 of main's file. This PR's hunks in that file are at main's lines 976 to 1043 (`tag_chain_end`, new, and `peeled_target`) and 1250 to 1289 (`_unreachable_refusal`), so the two do not meet and the merge is clean.
- None of the other 34 of the 37 open PRs touches these three files.
- The branch is no longer behind main: the merge `ae830e2b` brought in every file main gained since `6da757cb` (among them #1111's `tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py`). None of them is one of these three files, and the runs above stand on the head's own tree.

rc1131 re-checked fix round 1 at `a4beec9e` and found it READY with four NITs (#1131, issuecomment-6347256815). The commit `55c30f20f005` mends the first three, in `scripts/bump-leg.py` and `tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py`. NIT 4, the title, is not in a commit. Nothing the tool does changes: the production edit is a comprehension that gives the same dict and a longer docstring.

### What changed

- **NIT 1, SonarCloud python:S7494 at `bump-leg.py:999`.** In `tag_chain_end`, `dict(line.split(" ", 1) for line in lines if " " in line)` is now `{key: value for key, sep, value in (line.partition(" ") for line in lines) if sep}`, the form rc1131 gave.
  - **Same dict:** `tools/equiv2.py` compares the two on every list of up to two lines of up to five characters, and every list of up to three lines of up to three characters, over `a`, `b`, a space and a tab (2478716 distinct lists: the script runs the two ranges one after the other, and the 7311 lists of up to two lines of up to three characters sit in both, so it makes 2486027 comparisons, as rc1131's count of the union shows), and on a real tag header with a continuation line, a line with no space and a `type ` line with a trailing space: equal in all. The commit message says "every list of up to three lines"; the coverage is the one in this sentence (`equiv.py`'s first pass, 3864591 lists, drew its three-line lists from a prefix of the strings).
  - **The rule:** SonarQube's local analysis of a standalone file holding both forms (project `opensoft_openRepoShape`, python, MAIN) reports one issue, python:S7494 MINOR, at the line of the old `dict(...)` form, and none at the comprehension.
  - **SonarCloud's own analysis, read through the SonarQube API** (rc1131's reading, issuecomment-6352247887, posted 2026-10-22T22:00:11Z; lane 5 read the same two answers again between 12:05Z and 12:08Z on 2026-10-23): for PR 1131 the API lists exactly one issue, python:S7494 at `scripts/bump-leg.py:999` (MINOR, created 2026-10-22T13:31:04Z), and its status is CLOSED, so there are 0 open issues. The quality gate is OK on all five conditions (new reliability, security and maintainability ratings 1, new duplicated lines density 0.0, new security hotspots reviewed 100.0). The API gives no commit, so it does not say which analysis it read: it shows the issue closed, not that the analysis was of `55c30f20`.
- **NIT 2, the walk of two headers.** `TAGS_OF_NO_COMMIT` has a fourth kind, `tag of a tag of a tag of a tree`: three tags, all held, and the tree pushed nowhere, run with and without an `origin` like the other kinds. Its values are now `(what, depth)`, and the row makes `depth - 1` tags over the first one (`outer1-w1131`, `outer2-w1131`) where it made the one `outer-w1131` for the second kind; no other row reads the dict.
- **NIT 3, `tag_chain_end`'s docstring.** It now says `("tag", <id>)` is also what it returns "through a tag whose header misstates what it names (`type tag` over an `<id>` the leg holds as something else, which only a malformed tag has)".

### Rows, failing on main

Both rows of the new kind (`test_a_tag_of_a_tree_or_a_blob_the_leg_lacks_is_refused_by_name[tag of a tag of a tag of a tree-origin]` and `[...-no-origin]`) fail on main's `bump-leg.py` (`961640c6`) and pass on the head's before this commit (`a4beec9e`'s). The two test files that hold rows for `peeled_target` (`tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py` and `tests/test_bump_leg_dry_run_truth.py`) run 69 rows:

| `bump-leg.py` from | Result | Failing rows |
| --- | --- | --- |
| main `961640c6` | 11 failed, 58 passed | the 9 rows of fix round 1, and the 2 new rows |
| `a4beec9e` (this PR before the commit) | 69 passed | none: the new rows hold on the code as it was |
| `55c30f20` | 69 passed | none |

With main's file the new rows fail on the code of the refusal, as the other rows of the kind do: the row expects `REFUSED bump-leg-target-not-a-commit`, and the run with an `origin` prints `bump-leg-commit-not-on-remote: testorg/Atlas-spec has no branch containing <the tag>` (main's `peeled_target` returns the tag as typed where its peel cannot be read, because the leg lacks the tree, and the run goes on to the reachability verdict), and the run without one prints the `git fetch origin ... has no remote named origin` note and goes the same way.

### Mutants

Each was applied alone to `scripts/bump-leg.py`, the 69 rows run on git 2.43.0, and the file restored from `HEAD`; all 11 restores matched (`bl=1a7a69d38f737dce`, `dirty=0`). The mutants are in `tools/mutate.py`.

| Mutant | Result | Rows that failed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| NX1 (rc1131's): the walk reads at most two headers, `while True:` as `for _ in range(2):` | **killed**: 2 failed, 67 passed | the 2 rows of the new kind: the walk stops at `tag`, and the refusal is `bump-leg-commit-not-on-remote`, not `bump-leg-target-not-a-commit` |
| NX0: the walk reads one header | killed: 4 failed | the 2 rows of the third kind and the 2 of the new one |
| NM2 (fix round 1's): `tag = named` replaced by a return | killed: 4 failed | the same 4 rows |
| NX2 (rc1131's): no check that the leg holds the next tag | killed: 2 failed | the 2 rows of `test_a_tag_through_a_tag_the_leg_lacks_is_told_which_tag_it_lacks` |
| C3: the comprehension's `key: value` as `value: key` | killed: 10 failed | the rows that read a tag's header |
| C6: the comprehension keeps the lines with no space (`if not sep`) | killed: 10 failed | the same 10 rows |
| NX3: the walk reads at most three headers | **survives**: 69 passed | none |
| C1: the `if sep` filter dropped | survives: 69 passed | none |
| C2: `rpartition` for `partition` | survives: 69 passed | none |

- **NX3 survives by construction.** A walk bounded at three headers gives the code's answer on every chain of up to three tags, and the longest chain the rows hold is three. Any bound survives a chain of that length, so a row of four tags would only move the survivor to a bound of four. NX1 is the mutant the review named, and it is killed.
- **C1 and C2 are equivalent for every header git writes.** The `type` and `object` lines each carry exactly one space and each appears once, and nothing reads another key. C1 keeps a line with no space as a key with an empty value, which `.get("type", "")` and `.get("object", "")` already say of a missing key. C2 splits at the last space, which for a line with one space is the first. Where they could differ is a hand-forged header that repeats a bare `type` line after `type tag`; no row forges one.

### Runs

Every run went through `run9.sh` with `EMAIL=service@opensoft.dev`, on `55c30f20` itself, committed, with the worktree clean (`dirty=0` in each log's START line). Logs are in `$Q/v124/n1131/`, where `$Q` is the lane's scratchpad.

| Run | git | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `tests/test_bump_leg_reachability_words.py`, `tests/test_neutral_pin_entry_one_spelling.py`, `tests/test_bump_leg_dry_run_truth.py`, `tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py`, `tests/test_agents_md_codes.py`, `tests/test_cli_reference.py`, `tests/test_pinned_copy_text.py` (`g243.log`) | 2.43.0 (`/usr/bin/git`) | 402 passed |
| the first three of those files (`g247.log`) | 2.47.1 (first on PATH; `git --version` printed `git version 2.47.1`) | 196 passed |

- The 57 files that run `bump-leg.py`, which fix round 1 ran in two shards (3419 passed), were not run again: the edit is inside `tag_chain_end`, and the rows that reach it are the two files above, which ran in full. CI's `tests` job on the pushed head is the full-suite run.
- `tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py` passes: the commit adds no `is_file`, `is_dir`, `exists`, `is_symlink` or `os.path` guard.
- No added line is wider than 79 characters, none is non-ASCII, and no added assert joins conditions with `and` or `or`.

### Merge-trees at `55c30f20`

`git merge-tree --write-tree` of the head against origin/main, re-fetched (`-c gc.auto=0 -c maintenance.auto=false`), and against each open PR that touches one of this PR's three files. Of the 41 open PRs listed at 20:09Z (`gh pr list --json number,headRefName,headRefOid,files`), only #1157 and #1107, besides this one, touch them.

| Against | Head | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| origin/main, re-fetched before the push | `961640c681b5` | clean, tree `4d7968be5547`: the head's tree and `docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md`, the one file main gained since `038dafba` (#1155) |
| #1157 `fix/1100-refspec-followups` (DRAFT) | `368b87e9be87` (re-measured at 2026-10-23T12:06:38Z, after #1157's NIT round, which changes only `tests/test_family_bump_fetch_refspecs.py`; `baa19972a271` gave the same clean merge with tree `bd6ebc5cd3af`, and `a35a97ea52f4` when this round began) | clean, tree `e036c02d6a12` |
| #1107 `fix/1019-points-at-row` (DRAFT) | `ee48b5fe9693` | clean, tree `a72145c05633` |

- This commit's hunks in `scripts/bump-leg.py` are at lines 979 to 1003, in `tag_chain_end`; #1157's against main are in `_leg_fetch_refspecs`, from line 1105. They do not meet.
- The other 38 of the 41 touch none of the three files.

### After the second re-check

rc1131 found this round READY at `55c30f20f` (#1131, issuecomment-6352247887), with two NITs of its own, both in this body and neither in the code. This body now answers both: the count of lists in NIT 1's equivalence check (2478716 distinct lists, 2486027 comparisons), and SonarCloud's own analysis (python:S7494 CLOSED, 0 open issues, gate OK, no commit named by the API). The one other change is the #1157 row of the merge-trees table, which moved when #1157's NIT round added a commit. The head `55c30f20f` is unchanged.

Review: lane 5's independent re-check, by a reviewer that wrote none of #1131: READY at `55c30f20` (issuecomment-6352247887), with rc1131's NITs 1 to 3 fixed. CI (Brett Heap's ruling 27 and his fast-refresh ruling of 2026-10-15T22:48:35Z): H0 55c30f2 passed tests, tests-git-bash and SonarCloud; the head db8533a is a clean update-branch merge of main 0d5704b, with tests-git-bash and SonarCloud green; and the local gate passed on its predicted squash tree 8fe39a5 over main 0d5704b: the bump_leg_reachability_words, neutral_pin_entry_one_spelling, repo_hygiene, agents_md_codes, cli_reference sets, 351 passed. Landed on Brett Heap's word of 2026-10-23T13:10:26Z, relayed to every lane by lane 3 (#473 issuecomment-6365697123): "merge v1.2.1 PRs once reviewed and green".

Closes #1103

Lane: openreposhape-5 (openRepoShape-5)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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