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Lane: openreposhape-4 (openRepoShape-4)
Claim: #690 (comment)

What changed and why

One pinned file, templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py (make siblings). Every holder takes it as one upstream-changed row. Each of #690's six lines was re-measured on main 4ce90457 with a holder from family.py init --local-remote-dir, then measured again on this branch. Main bf1f099b is merged in (no conflict; main had not touched this file), lane 3's two requests on #690 are added as test rows (the last row of the table), and lane 1's review of 25c7b14c is answered (the bullet after the table).

#690 line	on main	now
An existing staging name (#578)	With <t>/InkRouter.holder already a folder, the three printed lines all exit 0 and leave the holder at <t>/InkRouter/InkRouter/InkRouter/family.yaml.	staging_path gives the first of <Family>.holder, .holder.1, .holder.2 … at which os.path.lexists finds nothing. The lines print mv <t>/t/InkRouter <t>/InkRouter.holder.1 and run as typed to <t>/InkRouter/InkRouter/family.yaml. <Family>.folder works the same way, and on a disk that ignores case a name in another case counts as taken.
A dangling link named after the family (#578)	The first mv exits 0, then mkdir -p <t>/InkRouter fails File exists, with the holder left at InkRouter.holder.	Before the moves, the warning says First move <t>/InkRouter aside: it is a link to nothing, named after the family, and in the way of the move. Then:. The moves under it are the ones that run once the link is gone; moved aside, they run as typed.
project: holding a lone surrogate or a NUL (R454 O1)	UnicodeEncodeError: … surrogates not allowed or ValueError: embedded null byte at git clone, exit 1. IRSS, after it, is never cloned, and the dry run says would clone.	argument_fault is asked of the project: and of the url before anything. It is #455's rule as #644 wrote it for make bootstrap: a NUL, or a surrogate os.fsencode cannot write as one byte. A failing member is NOT AN ARGUMENT, with the finding FINDING IR\ud83dRS: its project: in family.yaml holds U+D83D, a lone surrogate, which no command can be given as an argument, so nothing was cloned or fetched for this member: git was never run with it. The run exits 1, the dry run says the same, and IRSS is still cloned. A url built from a repository: holding a NUL ended in the same traceback, and is now the same finding (its url https://github.com/InkRouter/IR\x00RS.git (family.yaml repository:) holds U+0000, a NUL, …).
The warning prints paths raw (R454 O2)	Under a parent folder x<ESC>[31my, stderr lines 2 and 4 hold the raw ESC, and {family} is raw on line 2.	Those three values go through spelled. The first line keeps its repr, and the mv lines stay as typed (#486's question). The raw ESC is now on the mv line alone.
submodule_urls truncates a url (R432 O2), a section named members/a=b (lane 3, #473 issuecomment-6216310747), [submodule "a=b"] (lane 3, #690 issuecomment-6232404184) and a CR in a section name (lane 3, #690 issuecomment-6232689453)	A url holding NEL or U+2028 is read as <remotes>/caf. members/a=b and a=b give no url (the split at the first = reads the key as submodule.a), so the member falls back to https://github.com/InkRouter/<P>.git. A CR in a name cuts the key in two (str.splitlines), so the section [submodule "q\rx"] is read as no section: measured on a bare file, main gives {'members/IRRS': ...} and this branch {'members/IRRS': ..., 'members/q': '/r/q.git'}.	The file is read with git config -z --list: records are cut at NUL, each key is split from its value at the first newline, and a section's name is everything in its key between submodule. and the last dot. Only path and url count, and the later value wins. This is validate-family.py's reading and the one #668 (PR #700, on main) gives the doctor: for the same file the doctor's submodule_config and this read give one {path: url}. A byte that is not UTF-8 is still replaced (#432).
A tracking_branch: that is only a tag (#578)	git clone --branch v-track leaves the clone detached, under on v-track, its tracking branch, and the run says siblings ok, exit 0.	After the clone, a line says [IRSS] v-track is not a branch of <url> but a tag, which git clone checks out DETACHED: this clone is on no branch. The exit is unchanged; the issue asks for the line, not a finding.

• Git's text, relayed. A url .gitmodules gives whole may hold a line feed, which git's own clone error quotes raw (and every other control as a ?); the CLONE FAILED finding writes that url spelled, so git's text puts no line of .gitmodules at column 0. The failed-fetch line does the same with the clone's origin. Both go through said_of_url, which looks for the url as given and as git quotes it. A url longer than git's 4096-byte message is quoted cut short, in neither form, so git's text is then spelled line by line, each line after the first indented.
• Docs. No sentence in AGENTS.md, README.md, docs/handbook.html, docs/cli.md or a template is made false, and no --help text changes.
• The headers U664 pins. The holder-root spelling in both headers is untouched; no line before the warning moved.

Tests

The new file is tests/test_siblings_inputs.py: 55 tests, 15 of them parity cases that run now that #668 is on main.

• Harness. It uses test_family's family fixture and test_family_siblings_placement's helpers.
• Inputs. Each test uses the issue's own inputs.
• The printed moves. They are run as typed in a POSIX shell. os.rename onto an empty folder replaces it, where mv moves into it.
• Line splitting. Output is split at \n alone, because str.splitlines breaks a command line at the U+2028 one test puts in it.

What each case asserts:

• The staging names. Exit 1, the exact three moves for .holder taken by a folder, by a link to nothing, and twice over (.holder.2). The moves run as typed, what held the names is untouched, and the next dry run exits 0. Then .folder, held in the same case and in another, under a simulated disk that ignores case.
• The dangling link. The run and the dry run alike: exit 1, the sentence, the moves, and nothing moved. With the link moved aside, the moves run and the next run passes.
• The bad rows. The dry run and the real run, for the surrogate, the NUL and the url: exit 1, no traceback, the finding in full, the NOT AN ARGUMENT row, nothing made for the member, and IRSS cloned on main. Plus argument_fault's four answers, including a surrogate that is one byte of a POSIX name, which is still handed on.
• The spelled prose. Lines 2 and 4 in full under x<ESC>[31my, with the raw ESC on the mv line alone. A family with U+2028 is spelled on every line but the commands.
• The .gitmodules corpus.
  • Six section names: a space, a dot, a quote, = (members/a=b), lane 3's bare a=b, and a CR (members/q\rx). Each is checked against git's own --get of the exact key.
  • Eight breaks (VT, FF, FS, GS, RS, NEL, U+2028, U+2029) in a url, checked the same way.
  • A real make siblings clones from a url holding NEL whole, and that url is the clone's origin.
  • A dry run over members/a=b, and over a=b, names the .gitmodules url.
  • Lane 3's CR case with update = bogus. The file with [submodule "q\rx"] and the file with the section named qx, each holding update = bogus, read alike. Git holds each key of both whole by its exact name. The row compares the two readings and pins no url: what a read does with a value git refuses is shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a name with a .. component, a url beginning with -) is still read as a member, where git says No url found and exits 128 #733's (shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775), not this one's.
• Git's text, relayed (lane 1's review of 25c7b14c). A .gitmodules url holding a line feed, and one holding a line feed beside an ESC (which git quotes as a ?), each with a forged FINDING IRSS: forged line in it, and a url of 6061 characters, longer than git's 4096-byte message: the only FINDING line is IRRS's own, the url is named spelled in git's text, and no raw ESC reaches stderr. A real fetch, from a clone whose origin is a folder named x<LF>FINDING IRSS: forged, forges no FINDING line either. The forging rows pass on main (which cut the url at the line feed), fail on 25c7b14c, and pass now.
• The tag. The exact line, the cloned detached row, and IRRS without the line.
• The parity with the doctor (shape-doctor.py: a holder's .gitmodules is split at the first space and at every Unicode line break, and read through a regexp a UTF-8 locale cannot match, so a section name holding a space or a byte that is not UTF-8, or a url holding NEL or U+2028, gives the doctor another mount url than git and make siblings use #668: "whichever half lands second adds a parity test over one corpus"). The doctor's submodule_config and siblings.submodule_urls must give one {path: url} over one corpus: the six names, the eight breaks and shape-doctor.py: a holder's .gitmodules is split at the first space and at every Unicode line break, and read through a regexp a UTF-8 locale cannot match, so a section name holding a space or a byte that is not UTF-8, or a url holding NEL or U+2028, gives the doctor another mount url than git and make siblings use #668's Latin-1 name, under LC_ALL=C.UTF-8. shape-doctor.py: a holder's .gitmodules is split at the first space and at every Unicode line break, and read through a regexp a UTF-8 locale cannot match, so a section name holding a space or a byte that is not UTF-8, or a url holding NEL or U+2028, gives the doctor another mount url than git and make siblings use #668 is on main (shape-doctor.py: submodule_config and gitmodules_entry read a holder's .gitmodules through one git config -z --list, so a section name holding a space or a byte that is not UTF-8, or a url holding NEL or U+2028, gives the doctor the mount url git and make siblings use, under any locale (#668) #700), so all 15 cases run and none is skipped.

The run, on the pushed head (siblings.py sha256 6e8daddd…, the test file 7115c1b9…):

• The gate, one background run of 6 files: test_siblings_inputs.py, test_family_siblings_placement.py, test_siblings_family_name.py, test_repo_hygiene.py, test_cli_reference.py and test_agents_md_codes.py. 380 passed, none skipped, in 3:06.

• The same siblings files on a scratch merge of this head with main 20004887 (committed, never pushed), with tests: validate-pins.py's workflow scan skips a directory, a dangling symlink and a looping symlink named .yml, and both of siblings.py's headers print the holder's root and folder spelled, so the S_ISREG child check made lambda mode: True, or either path printed raw, now fails a test (#664) #706's file below: 244 passed.

• The earlier rounds' runs, which covered test_shape_doctor.py and the other files of the 15-file gate, were on 25c7b14c (1272 passed, 3 skipped, 1 xfailed) and 5ba1f8b3 (815 passed, 3 skipped, 1 xfailed); the 3 skips are test_shape_doctor.py:10429, the PowerShell line on a Windows host, and the xfail is its strict a-file row for siblings.py (make siblings): a FILE, or a directory it cannot list, at ../<Project> ends in a traceback (NotADirectoryError or PermissionError at siblings.py:558), exit 1, where the doctor calls the slot NOT A CLONE #735. They were not re-run for this round.

• tests/test_pins_child_kind_and_siblings_root_spelling.py, on main since tests: validate-pins.py's workflow scan skips a directory, a dangling symlink and a looping symlink named .yml, and both of siblings.py's headers print the holder's root and folder spelled, so the S_ISREG child check made lambda mode: True, or either path printed raw, now fails a test (#664) #706 (bb439a29): its 10 tests pass on the scratch merge with main, among the 244 above. It pins the holder's root spelling in both of siblings.py's headers, which this change leaves as they were.

Mutants, each reverting one part of the fix in siblings.py and running the new file:

• M1, submodule_urls back to main's text read (--list, splitlines, split at the first =): killed. Run on the merged tree with lane 3's rows: 26 failed, 7 passed. The 7 are the names main's reading also reads: space, dot and quote in the read, and those three plus the Latin-1 name in the parity. The new rows that fail are equals-bare, cr, the CR row, the a=b dry run, and the doctor parity for equals-bare and cr.
• M2, argument_fault returns None: killed, 5 failed.
• M3, staging_path takes the first name whatever holds it: killed, 5 failed.
• M4, the whole file as main has it: killed, 27 failed.
• M5, said_of_url returns the text unchanged: killed, 5 failed (the forging and spelled rows, and the fetch row).
• M6, said_of_url looks for the url as given only, not as git quotes it (? for a control): killed, 2 failed (both ESC rows). This is the reviewer's raw replace alone.
• M7, the failed fetch's text not passed through said_of_url: killed, 1 failed.
• M8, the clone failure's text not passed through said_of_url: killed, 4 failed.
• M9, the long-url fallback removed: killed, 1 failed (the 6061-character url's row).

What it cannot tell

• A tag on a dry run. A dry run clones nothing and asks no remote, so it cannot tell a tag from a branch. The tag line comes on a real run only.
• The .folder case. It needs a disk that ignores case, which CI (Linux only, ci: run the test suite on Linux only #597) does not have. It is simulated as test_family_siblings_placement's ignoring_case simulates it, with os.path.lexists and os.path.exists answering alike.
• Surrogates on Windows. os.fsencode writes three bytes for every surrogate there, so every lone surrogate is refused. Read from CPython, as bootstrap.py and validate-manifest.py: a branch holding a NUL or a lone surrogate is a finding and step (a) does not hand it to git, so tracking_branch: "a\ud83db" or a leg's branch: "a\x00b" no longer ends make bootstrap in a subprocess traceback under a manifest ok (#455) #644 did, not run.
• A value git refuses. Measured on this tree, a .gitmodules section holding update = bogus, at a path the index holds as a gitlink, makes git status and git submodule status die (fatal: invalid value for 'submodule.qx.update', exit 128), with or without a CR in the section's name; with no gitlink at that path, both exit 0. git config -z --list reads the same file, exit 0, and so does this change: make siblings still returns the other sections' urls, as main does. That refusal is lane 3's shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a name with a .. component, a url beginning with -) is still read as a member, where git says No url found and exits 128 #733, in shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775, which rewrites this loop; it is not in siblings.py (make siblings): the printed mv goes astray over an existing .holder/.folder or a dangling link, a lone surrogate or NUL in project: is a traceback, a url with NEL or U+2028 is cut, two warnings print paths raw #690's six lines, and the CR row pins only that the CR changes nothing.
• Not changed, by design. Measured on this branch, and not in siblings.py (make siblings): the printed mv goes astray over an existing .holder/.folder or a dangling link, a lone surrogate or NUL in project: is a traceback, a url with NEL or U+2028 is cut, two warnings print paths raw #690:
  • A regular file named <Family> still stops the printed mkdir -p at its first line, with nothing moved.
  • An existing <Family>/<Family> still receives the holder INSIDE it (<t>/InkRouter/InkRouter/InkRouter/family.yaml).
  • Both are left for Tracking: setup, scaffold, family and the shared helpers, creating projects and families #459's checklist. Naming either needs new words for the person, which the issue does not give.

Shared files

• My files. gh pr list --state open --json files, at about 11:50Z on 2026-10-17, lists 43 open PRs, this one among them. Four touch templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py, all lane 3's drafts: siblings.py: a file, or a folder make siblings cannot list or enter, at ../<Project> is NOT A CLONE, reported and left as it is, so the run no longer ends in a traceback at iterdir before the members after it are placed, and make park no longer ends in one over a folder it cannot enter (#735) #772 (l3-735-sibling-slot), shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775 (l3-733-ignored-sections), siblings.py and shape-doctor.py: a link to nothing at ../<Project> is NOT A CLONE, reported and left as it is, so the dry run no longer says would clone where the real run ends CLONE FAILED, and the doctor's members row no longer calls the slot absent (#784) #788 (l3-784-dangling-slot) and siblings.py and shape-doctor.py: a Windows junction to nothing at ../<Project> is NOT A CLONE, as a link to nothing is, so the dry run no longer says would clone and the doctor's members row no longer calls the slot absent (#793) #794 (l3-793-junction-slot). None touches tests/test_siblings_inputs.py.
• The merge-trees. Each head was read with git ls-remote and fetched from GitHub just before. Each is git merge-tree --write-tree of this head, dc1c8e45, and the other:

against	head	result
main	20004887	clean, tree b2cdfeb6
#772 (lane 3, #735)	1d149933	clean, tree ce6cb932
#775 (lane 3, #733)	3fa5beed	conflict, templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py only, both hunks inside submodule_urls: its docstring paragraph and its loop
#788 (lane 3, #784)	e966a684	clean, tree d59fb2e4
#794 (lane 3, #793)	2ffe154c	clean, tree f1e1692b

• shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775 is the same loop, as lane 3 says on siblings.py (make siblings): the printed mv goes astray over an existing .holder/.folder or a dangling link, a lone surrogate or NUL in project: is a traceback, a url with NEL or U+2028 is cut, two warnings print paths raw #690 (issuecomment-6232404184). shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775 reads the text --list and adds valued, git_dies_on, DOTDOT_COMPONENT and the - rule; this PR reads -z. If siblings.py (make siblings): the printed mv goes astray over an existing .holder/.folder or a dangling link, a lone surrogate or NUL in project: is a traceback, a url with NEL or U+2028 is cut, two warnings print paths raw #690 lands first, lane 3 carries those rules into this loop; nothing here changes for it. For the valued flag: in -z form git prints a bare key as key\0 with no newline, and a key given an empty value as key\n\0 (measured on git 2.43: submodule.x.url\0 for a bare url, submodule.x.update\n\0 for update =), so key, valued, value = record.partition("\n") keeps the flag.
• The re-pin. This repository records no digest or blob of a family-root file: git grep for the blob of siblings.py before and after this change finds nothing. family.py init computes them into each holder's contracts/shape-pin.yaml, which is why siblings.py and the family-root README: make siblings, park and resume print the family's name and every member row spelled and never end in a traceback on name: "a\ud83db" or a dash under PYTHONIOENCODING=ascii, and the holder's README names its folder after the repository, so --family Quill --name QuillWorks lays out as its README says (#454, #629) #642 (0ed1b84) and bootstrap.py and validate-manifest.py: a branch holding a NUL or a lone surrogate is a finding and step (a) does not hand it to git, so tracking_branch: "a\ud83db" or a leg's branch: "a\x00b" no longer ends make bootstrap in a subprocess traceback under a manifest ok (#455) #644 (cd5ffa2) changed only the template and their tests, as this PR does. Main's 29 commits since this branch's base touched none of siblings.py, and the merge was clean.
• shape-doctor.py: submodule_config and gitmodules_entry read a holder's .gitmodules through one git config -z --list, so a section name holding a space or a byte that is not UTF-8, or a url holding NEL or U+2028, gives the doctor the mount url git and make siblings use, under any locale (#668) #700 (shape-doctor.py: a holder's .gitmodules is split at the first space and at every Unicode line break, and read through a regexp a UTF-8 locale cannot match, so a section name holding a space or a byte that is not UTF-8, or a url holding NEL or U+2028, gives the doctor another mount url than git and make siblings use #668). It is on main (55c6ba7d). The .gitmodules reading matches its submodule_keys, and the parity test runs against it.

Closes #690

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Summary by Sourcery

Harden make siblings against malformed inputs, unusual Git metadata, unsafe diagnostics, and filesystem staging conflicts while preserving correct placement behavior.

New Features:

• Handle staging conflicts, dangling family links, invalid command arguments, .gitmodules edge cases, and tag-only tracking branches safely in make siblings.
• Relay Git errors without allowing control characters or embedded URL content to forge diagnostic findings.

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent malformed paths, URLs, and existing staging entries from causing tracebacks, misplaced holders, truncated remotes, or unsafe diagnostics.

Enhancements:

• Align .gitmodules parsing with Git and the family doctor so unusual section names and URL values are interpreted consistently.
• Spell warning and Git diagnostic prose while preserving copy-and-pasteable move commands.

Tests:

• Add comprehensive coverage for malformed arguments, staging conflicts, dangling links, diagnostic escaping, .gitmodules parsing, Git error relaying, and tag checkouts.

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Reviewer's Guide

Updates the family-root sibling bootstrap script to safely stage misplaced holders, validate impossible clone arguments, preserve Git-compatible .gitmodules semantics, identify detached tag checkouts, and spell diagnostic prose without altering executable commands; a broad regression suite verifies each behavior and parity with the doctor.

Sequence diagram for validated sibling cloning

sequenceDiagram
    participant S as siblings.py
    participant V as argument_fault
    participant G as git
    participant C as Clone
    S->>S: derive project and url
    S->>V: argument_fault(project)
    S->>V: argument_fault(url)
    alt invalid argument
        V-->>S: fault
        S->>S: mark NOT AN ARGUMENT
        S-->>C: skip clone or fetch
    else valid arguments
        V-->>S: None
        S->>G: git clone --branch
        G->>C: clone member
        alt tracking_branch is a tag
            G-->>S: detached checkout
            S->>S: print detached tag finding
        end
    end

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Sequence diagram for Git-compatible submodule URL parsing

sequenceDiagram
    participant S as siblings.py
    participant G as git config
    participant P as submodule_urls
    S->>P: submodule_urls(root)
    P->>G: git config -z -f .gitmodules --list
    G-->>P: NUL-separated records
    P->>P: decode UTF-8 with replacement
    P->>P: split record at first newline
    P->>P: derive section from last key dot
    P->>P: retain path and url, later value wins
    P-->>S: member-to-url mapping

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Flow diagram for safe holder staging

flowchart TD
    A[Misplaced holder detected] --> B{Staging name exists?}
    B -- Yes --> C[staging_path checks next .holder.n or .folder.n]
    B -- No --> D[Use base staging name]
    C --> E[Print mv commands with selected staging path]
    D --> E
    E --> F{Dangling family link exists?}
    F -- Yes --> G[Print move-aside warning]
    F -- No --> H[Print standard warning]
    G --> I[Run moves as typed]
    H --> I

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Align .gitmodules parsing with Git’s NUL-delimited configuration output.	Read git config -z --list as bytes and decode with replacement for invalid UTF-8. Split records at NUL and key/value pairs at the first newline, preserving section names containing separators and control characters. Track only path and url, with later values taking precedence.	templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py tests/test_siblings_inputs.py
Validate clone arguments before invoking Git and report invalid member rows as findings.	Reject NULs and unencodable lone surrogates in project: and computed URLs while preserving one-byte POSIX surrogate names. Emit NOT AN ARGUMENT findings consistently in dry runs and real runs without tracebacks, while continuing with later members. Report when a requested tracking name is a tag and the clone is detached.	templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py tests/test_siblings_inputs.py
Make parent-folder remediation safe when staging names are occupied or the family path is a dangling link.	Choose the first unused .holder or .folder staging path using lexists, including case-insensitive filesystem behavior. Add explicit warning prose for dangling family links before printing the move commands. Preserve printed commands as executable shell text while spelling paths and names in warning prose.	templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py tests/test_siblings_inputs.py
Add comprehensive regression and parity coverage for the sibling-placement fixes.	Cover occupied staging paths, dangling links, invalid arguments, escaped warning prose, Git-compatible .gitmodules edge cases, and tag-only tracking branches. Execute printed moves as typed and compare sibling parsing against the shape doctor across the shared corpus. Add mutant-killing assertions and preserve existing header/root-spelling and repository behavior checks.	tests/test_siblings_inputs.py

Assessment against linked issues

Issue	Objective	Addressed	Explanation
#690	Keep the printed parent-folder moves from going astray when a staging name is already occupied, and warn about a dangling link named after the family before any move is attempted.	✅
#690	Prevent invalid project: or URL arguments from causing tracebacks, continue processing other members, and read .gitmodules values and section names without truncating them at line-boundary characters or =.	✅
#690	Spell paths and family names in warning prose, and identify when a requested tracking name is a tag that leaves the clone detached.	✅

Possibly linked issues

• siblings.py (make siblings): the printed mv goes astray over an existing .holder/.folder or a dangling link, a lone surrogate or NUL in project: is a traceback, a url with NEL or U+2028 is cut, two warnings print paths raw #690: The PR implements all six fixes requested by the issue: safe staging names, dangling-link handling, argument findings, spelled warning prose, correct .gitmodules parsing, and tag-only branch reporting.

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[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-1, 2026-10-17T11:11:32Z)

Lane 1's independent review of #805 at 25c7b14: CHANGES NEEDED

All six of #690's lines are fixed, and the -z read held against every parser input I tried. Two small things stop it being ready. First, a regression against main: a line feed in a .gitmodules url now forges a FINDING line through git's relayed clone error. The fix is one line and the test row is below. Second, SonarCloud reports an S9073 on this head. There are also two text fixes.

Setup. The head holds main bf1f099b. git merge-tree --write-tree bf1f099b 25c7b14c gives c4380bae, which is the head's own tree, so the local merge is the head itself. Every "head" figure below is measured on that tree. Every "main" figure comes from main's siblings.py copied into the same holder.

The issue's lines

#690 line	main	head	verdict
Staging name taken (<t>/InkRouter.holder a folder)	mv … <t>/InkRouter.holder; all three lines rc=0; holder at InkRouter/InkRouter/InkRouter/family.yaml	mv … <t>/InkRouter.holder.1; rc=0 ×3; holder at InkRouter/InkRouter/family.yaml	fixed
Dangling link <t>/InkRouter	moves printed bare; pasted: rc=0, mkdir: … File exists, mv: … No such file or directory, holder left at InkRouter.holder	First move <t>/InkRouter aside: it is a link to nothing, named after the family, and in the way of the move. Then: printed before the moves	fixed, to the issue's direction (pasted without the move aside, it half-runs as on main)
project: with a lone surrogate or NUL	UnicodeEncodeError: … surrogates not allowed / ValueError: embedded null byte, exit 1	FINDING IR\ud83dRS: its project: in family.yaml holds U+D83D, a lone surrogate, … / … U+0000, a NUL, …, exit 1, IRSS cloned	fixed
url from a NUL repository:	dry run: would clone https://github.com/InkRouter/IR\x00RS.git, rc=0	dry run: NOT AN ARGUMENT + finding, rc=1	fixed
Warning prose raw	stderr lines with a raw ESC: [1, 3, 12]	[12] (the mv line only)	fixed
.gitmodules truncation and =	R1 revert (main's loop): 26 tests fail	pass	fixed
Tag-only tracking_branch	no line, cloned detached, siblings ok, rc=0	adds [IRSS] v-track is not a branch of <t>/remotes/IRSS.git but a tag, which git clone checks out DETACHED: this clone is on no branch, rc=0	fixed

Ordinary inputs, byte for byte. I compared main and head on the same holder, with the base path normalised. All four cases match: dry run (rc 0), real run (rc 0), wrong parent folder (rc 1) and its dry run (rc 1). The comparison covered stdout and stderr.

Findings, ranked

1. Should fix (regression against main): a .gitmodules url holding a line feed now forges a FINDING line.

The -z read correctly hands git the whole url, as git submodule does. git's die() replaces control characters with ? but keeps \n. The CLONE FAILED finding relays git's text raw, so a line of .gitmodules text lands at column 0 of stderr. On main the url was cut at the \n, so this path did not exist for make siblings.

To reproduce, set the IRRS url in .gitmodules to "/r/nowhere\nFINDING IRSS: forged" (the escape inside quotes) and run make siblings:

main:  FINDING IRRS: git clone exited 128:
       fatal: repository '/r/nowhere' does not exist
head:  FINDING IRRS: git clone exited 128:
       fatal: '/r/nowhere
       FINDING IRSS: forged' does not appear to be a git repository

git itself registers and uses this url: git submodule init prints Submodule 'm' (/r/nowhere⏎FINDING x: forged) registered. So the read is right and the relay is the part to fix.

A fix I ran: write the url git quotes as the spelled form the lines above already print. It is a helper, so place (already S3776 at 18 on SonarCloud) gains nothing:

def said_of_url(text: str, url: str, src: str) -> str:
    """git's own text, with the url it quotes raw written as spelled."""
    return text.replace(url, src) if src != url else text
...
                f"{who}: git clone exited {proc.returncode}:\n"
                + said_of_url(scrub((proc.stderr + proc.stdout).strip(),
                                    token), url, src))

With the fix, stderr reads fatal: '/r/nowhere\nFINDING IRSS: forged' does not appear to be a git repository, and all 49 tests in test_siblings_inputs.py pass.

The row below passes on main, fails on head, and passes with the fix (measured: 1 failed, 2 passed, the failure being [head]):

def test_a_url_holding_a_line_feed_forges_no_finding_line(family, tmp_path):
    """git's clone error quotes the url raw, line feed and all: read whole
    since #690, a `.gitmodules` url `"/r/nowhere\\nFINDING IRSS: ..."` put
    that line at column 0 of IRRS's finding."""
    holder = holder_in(family, tmp_path / NAME)
    config = holder / ".gitmodules"
    rewritten, count = re.subn(
        rb"(?m)^(\turl = ).*/IRRS\.git$",
        lambda found: found.group(1) + b'"/r/nowhere\\nFINDING IRSS: forged"',
        config.read_bytes())
    assert count == 1
    config.write_bytes(rewritten)
    result = siblings(holder)
    assert result.returncode == 1, result.stdout + result.stderr
    findings = [line for line in result.stderr.split("\n")
                if line.startswith("FINDING ")]
    assert findings == [f"FINDING {BENT}: git clone exited 128:"], result.stderr

2. Must fix (Sonar): S9073 at tests/test_siblings_inputs.py:228.

SonarCloud's analysis of PR 805 at 25c7b14c shows gate OK with 1 code smell: python:S9073 … tests/test_siblings_inputs.py 228 Split this composite assertion into separate assertions. The line is assert os.path.islink(link) and holder.is_dir(), "nothing moved". Replace it with:

        assert os.path.islink(link), "nothing moved"
        assert holder.is_dir(), "nothing moved"

3. Texts.

• Title. "runs as typed past … a dangling link" is not what was measured. Pasted as printed with the link still there, the block half-runs as on main. The moves run as typed only after the link is moved aside. Replacement title:
  siblings.py: the printed move runs as typed past a taken staging name and names a dangling link to move aside first, a NUL or lone surrogate in project:or url is a finding,.gitmodules is read as git reads it, the warning's prose is spelled, and a tag-only branch is named (#690)
• Body, "A value git refuses." It holds only when the index has a gitlink at the section's path. Without one, git status and git submodule status both exit 0 on the same file; I measured both, with and without the CR. Replacement:
  "Measured on this tree, a .gitmodules section holding update = bogus, at a path the index holds as a gitlink, makes git status and git submodule status die (fatal: invalid value for 'submodule.qx.update', exit 128), with or without a CR in the section's name; with no gitlink at that path, both exit 0."
• If you take finding 1, add a bullet under the .gitmodules row:
  "A url .gitmodules gives whole may hold a line feed, which git's own clone error quotes raw; the CLONE FAILED finding writes that url spelled, so git's text puts no line of .gitmodules at column 0."

4. Optional. place's cognitive complexity goes from 18 to 24 by my count. SonarCloud already lists it OPEN on main ("from 18 to the 15 allowed", siblings.py:529), so the gate will not see it as new. Moving the argument_fault loop into a helper would stop the growth.

The -z parser, attacked (no defect)

I measured each case on git 2.43 against main's reader, the head's reader and the doctor's submodule_config:

• Case folding. [Submodule "MiXed"] Path = … Url = … lists as submodule.MiXed.path and .url, with the subsection case kept. Head reads it, and so does the doctor.
• A dot in the name. [submodule "A.b"] gives the name A.b. Old-style [submodule.oldstyle] is read too.
• Duplicate key. URL = first, url = second gives second in the head, main and the doctor.
• Bare key and empty value. A bare url lists as submodule.bare.url\0 and url = as submodule.empty.url\n\0, which confirms lane 4's statement. Both read as '', as on main.
• Includes. [include] path = other is listed as a key and not followed (-f turns includes off), so the head reads no section from other. git's own .gitmodules reading does not follow includes either.
• Escaped \n in a value. The head gives a\nb, main gives a, and the doctor gives a\nb.
• NUL byte in a value (ab\0cd): git lists ab. A NUL in a subsection lists the key as submodule.n, which head and main both skip.
• Other inputs. A raw newline in a subsection is bad config line, exit 128, so {}. A UTF-8 BOM is read. An empty file gives {}.
• The CR case (lane 3's second post). Main gives {'members/IRRS': …}. The head gives {'members/IRRS': …, 'members/q': '/r/q.git'}. The doctor at bf1f099b gives 'q\rx': {'path': 'members/q', 'url': '/r/q.git'}. Lane 4 is right that the doctor returns the section whole. With gitlinks in the index, git dies on update = bogus with or without the CR (fatal: invalid value for 'submodule.q?x.update' and 'submodule.qx.update', both 128), so the refusal does not come from the CR.
• The a=b case (lane 3's first post) is confirmed. With R1 (main's loop), equals-bare fails in the read row, the parity row and the dry-run row.

The printed move, attacked

• Commands do what they say. staging_path only calls lstat and never writes. Every path in the printed commands is absolute and goes through shlex.join, so no word can start with - and quotes and spaces paste correctly. The raw ESC stays on the mv line, as family.py and siblings.py print commands with unquoted paths, so under a folder with a space the member-git-dir-cached remedy's rm -rf would delete the wrong directory, and add's push line fails #486 leaves it. git-bash takes single-quoted C:\… paths as before.
• A case the PR fixes without saying so. With the holder inside a folder named <t>/InkRouter.holder/, main prints mv <t>/InkRouter.holder/InkRouter <t>/InkRouter.holder, which fails with are the same file; the next two lines still exit 0 and leave the holder at InkRouter/InkRouter/InkRouter. The head prints .holder.1, all three lines exit 0, and the holder ends at InkRouter/InkRouter/family.yaml. You could add a row for it.
• No new network call. The tag check is a local rev-parse.

#775 overlap

• Textual conflict. I fetched shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775's head 3fa5beed (it does not hold current main; its merge base is e3137010). git merge-tree --write-tree 25c7b14c 3fa5beed gives CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py, and shape-doctor.py merges cleanly. Both conflict hunks sit inside submodule_urls (between def submodule_urls and def resolve_relative in the merged file). Lane 4's statement holds.
• What the carry-over needs. shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775 returns {paths[name]: url … if name in paths} where siblings.py: the printed move runs as typed past a taken staging name and names a dangling link to move aside first, a NUL or lone surrogate in project: or url is a finding, .gitmodules is read as git reads it, the warning's prose is spelled, and a tag-only branch is named (#690) #805 keeps paths.get(name, name). siblings.py: the printed move runs as typed past a taken staging name and names a dangling link to move aside first, a NUL or lone surrogate in project: or url is a finding, .gitmodules is read as git reads it, the warning's prose is spelled, and a tag-only branch is named (#690) #805's docstring sentence "only its path and url count" must take shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775's rules. At 3fa5beed the doctor still has gitmodules_listing, so siblings.py: the printed move runs as typed past a taken staging name and names a dangling link to move aside first, a NUL or lone surrogate in project: or url is a finding, .gitmodules is read as git reads it, the warning's prose is spelled, and a tag-only branch is named (#690) #805's parity rows will run against shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775's doctor rather than skip. siblings.py: the printed move runs as typed past a taken staging name and names a dangling link to move aside first, a NUL or lone surrogate in project: or url is a finding, .gitmodules is read as git reads it, the warning's prose is spelled, and a tag-only branch is named (#690) #805's CR differential row reads {} for both files under shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775's git_dies_on, so it stays green.

Tests

• Every new test fails with its change reverted. I reverted six parts myself, running the new file each time:
  • R1, main's --list/splitlines/= loop: 26 failed;
  • R2, staging_path always returns the first name: 5 failed;
  • R3, no dangling-link sentence: 1 failed;
  • R4, no tag line: 1 failed;
  • R5, line 2 of the warning unspelled: 2 failed;
  • R6, argument_fault never asked: 3 failed.
• The asserts are honest. They are exact lines, exact moves run as typed in sh -e, and exact directory listings.
• Sonar. Apart from :228, the PR analysis shows no other smell, and new duplication is 0.0%.
• Windows (read, not run: the Git Bash job runs only the launcher and installer suites):
  • os.path.lexists also sees a dangling junction.
  • .holder.N names are legal on NTFS.
  • The VT, FF, FS, GS and RS rows only write .gitmodules text and create no directory with those (NTFS-illegal) characters; the NEL directory is legal and skips on OSError.
  • The ESC and symlink rows skip on nt.
  • Every file edit is done in bytes.
  • argument_fault refuses every surrogate there, which the body states.

Runs (head = merge, git-filter-repo on PATH, Python 3.12.3, git 2.43.0)

• test_siblings_inputs.py, test_family_siblings_placement.py and test_doctor_gitmodules_not_utf8.py: 101 passed in 75 s.
• test_family_printed_quoting.py, test_siblings_family_name.py, test_family_makefile_siblings.py, test_park_resume_targets.py and test_family.py: 415 passed in 163 s.
• Nothing was skipped and nothing failed.

For the checklist (outside #690's lines; main and head alike)

1. An existing <Family>/<Family>. The printed mkdir -p and mv both exit 0 and the holder lands at InkRouter/InkRouter/InkRouter/family.yaml. This is the same mv-into-a-folder defect as the staging name, at the destination. The body discloses it; check that it is on Tracking: setup, scaffold, family and the shared helpers, creating projects and families #459.
2. A regular file, or a link to a file, named <Family>. mkdir: … File exists, then mv: cannot stat '<t>/InkRouter/InkRouter': Not a directory. Nothing moves (disclosed).
3. A filesystem encoding that is not UTF-8. With PYTHONUTF8=0 PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=0 LC_ALL=C, project: "IRéRS" still ends in UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe9' at the clone, on head as on main. argument_fault asks os.fsencode only about surrogates; asking it about every character would cover this.
4. A link loop named <Family>. The sentence says "a link to nothing"; it is a link to itself. The remedy is still right.
5. The dangling link gets no command. Pasting the block without the move aside still half-moves the holder (to InkRouter.holder), as on main. A printed mv <link> <free name> as the first command would make the whole block run as typed.
6. An empty url = for a member. make siblings runs cloning (.gitmodules) and reports CLONE FAILED (exit 128). The doctor's section_url treats "an empty url =" as no url and falls back to repository:, so the two disagree about one member (shape-doctor.py: the members row calls a beside-the-holder repository the working clone on its project id alone, where the family's own verifier also requires the origin #146). This is likely shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775's (shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a name with a .. component, a url beginning with -) is still read as a member, where git says No url found and exits 128 #733) area.
7. Other places git's text is relayed raw. make bootstrap's FETCH INCOMPLETE relays git submodule update's text raw, so the forged line from finding 1 already reaches it on main through git's own reading. The fetch failed relay in place does the same with an origin that holds a line feed.
8. Doc drift in shape-doctor.py:7856. It names "siblings.py::submodule_urls's errors="replace""; at this head the function uses .decode("utf-8", "replace"). The meaning is unchanged and the file is not in this PR, so it can wait for the next doctor edit (shape-doctor.py and siblings.py: a .gitmodules section git ignores ([submodule ""], a .. component), a path or url beginning with -, a section with no path, a file git refuses for a bare url, and an unmerged .gitmodules name no mount url, NEXT line or clone, where git says No url found and exits 128 (#733) #775 touches it).

Lane: openreposhape-1 (openRepoShape-1)

[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-1, 2026-10-17T11:46:08Z)

Lane 1's re-verification of #805 at 5ba1f8b: CHANGES NEEDED

Findings 2 and 3 are fixed. Finding 1 is fixed for every url git quotes in full, but a url longer than git's message buffer gets past said_of_url, and measured end to end it still forges a FINDING line. That case is still a regression against main, which cut the url at the line feed. A five-line fallback fixes it; it is below, with a test row.

Merges. Main moved twice during this check. Head + 1eeef3b6 merges clean (tree f2fcd805). Head + dcf62eda, the newest main, also merges clean (tree 8be82284). dcf62eda brings #648's bootstrap.py, which siblings.py imports from, so I ran the siblings files again on that merge. #775 at 3fa5beed still conflicts only in siblings.py.

Item	Measured on the local merge	Verdict
F1: url "/r/nowhere\nFINDING IRSS: forged" (my repro, your [line-feed] row)	the only FINDING line is FINDING IRRS: git clone exited 128:	fixed
F1: line feed and ESC, failed fetch, spelled-url rows	pass. Reverting the helper (M5: always return the text) gives 5 failed: both forging rows, both spelled rows, the fetch row	fixed; the rows fail without the fix
F1: a url longer than git's 4096-byte die buffer	.gitmodules url "/r/nowhere\nFINDING IRSS: forged/" + 30 × (200 a's), joined by "/" (6061 characters): stderr FINDING lines are ['FINDING IRRS: git clone exited 128:', 'FINDING IRSS: forged/aaaa…']. The same url with 10 parts (2041 characters) forges nothing	NOT fixed (new)
F1: can a replacement hit text that is not the url?	Yes, when the raw or ? form is short. Url \x1b (? form ?) turns git's 'IR?RS' into 'IR\x1bRS'. Url a\x01 turns data? into data\x01. Url \n turns every line feed of git's text into \n, putting it on one line	cosmetic only: the replacement writes escapes and never adds a raw control or a line, so nothing is forged. Optional: replace only the quoted forms '<form>'
F1: a raw control from another relayed line	git turns every control except tab and line feed into ?. A line feed comes through raw from a url the helper is never given: the member's own leg url, relayed by git clone --recurse-submodules (rc=1): fatal: clone of '/r/nowhere then FINDING IRSS: nested' into submodule path '…/leg' failed	same on main (git reads that url itself); for the checklist
F2: S9073	test_siblings_inputs.py:228-229 is now two asserts	fixed
F3: title and the gitlink sentence	both match the replacement text word for word	fixed
SonarCloud at 5ba1f8b3 (analysed 11:36:50Z)	gate OK; 0 bugs, 0 vulnerabilities, 0 code smells; new duplication 0.0%	ok
Runs, with git-filter-repo on PATH	merge with 1eeef3b6: 531 passed, 0 skipped. Files: test_siblings_inputs.py, test_family_siblings_placement.py, test_doctor_gitmodules_not_utf8.py, test_family_printed_quoting.py, test_siblings_family_name.py, test_family_makefile_siblings.py, test_park_resume_targets.py, test_family.py and #706's test_pins_child_kind_and_siblings_root_spelling.py. Merge with dcf62eda: 358 passed over the six siblings files	ok

Why the long url gets through. git formats die into char msg[4096], so a long url is cut short in git's text. The text then holds neither the raw url nor its ? form, and nothing is replaced. To reproduce, add the row below next to your FORGED_URLS rows; it uses your siblings_over_url. It fails at 5ba1f8b3 (the forged line) and passes with the fallback.

def test_a_url_longer_than_gits_message_forges_no_finding_line(family,
                                                               tmp_path):
    """git writes a `die` message into 4096 bytes, so a url longer than that
    is quoted cut short, in neither form `said_of_url` looks for."""
    url = (b'"/r/nowhere\\nFINDING ' + KEPT.encode() + b': forged/'
           + b"/".join([b"a" * 200] * 30) + b'"')
    result = siblings_over_url(family, tmp_path, url)
    assert result.returncode == 1, result.stdout + result.stderr
    findings = [line for line in result.stderr.split("\n")
                if line.startswith("FINDING ")]
    assert findings == [f"FINDING {BENT}: git clone exited 128:"], \
        result.stderr

The fallback I ran. It goes in said_of_url, after the quoted = line:

    if url not in text and quoted not in text:
        # git cuts a message at 4096 bytes, so a long url is quoted in
        # neither form: each line is spelled, and none after the first
        # starts a line of this output.
        return "\n    ".join(spelled(line) for line in text.split("\n"))

With it, the 6061-character url forges nothing (['FINDING IRRS: git clone exited 128:']), and test_siblings_inputs.py plus the long-url probe gave 56 passed. It only takes effect when the url holds something spelled changes and git's text does not quote it in full, so output for ordinary failures does not change.

Texts to fix at the head.

• Body, "Git's text, relayed." The clause "so git's text puts no line of .gitmodules at column 0" is false today for the long url. It becomes true once the fallback lands. If you take the fallback, add at the end of that bullet: "A url longer than git's 4096-byte message is quoted cut short, in neither form, so git's text is then spelled line by line, each line after the first indented."
• Body, merge-trees table. The main row reads bf1f099b … (this head holds main), but the head no longer holds main. Replace it with | main | dcf62eda | clean, tree 8be82284 |, or with whatever main is when you re-measure.
• Body, tests: validate-pins.py's workflow scan skips a directory, a dangling symlink and a looping symlink named .yml, and both of siblings.py's headers print the holder's root and folder spelled, so the S_ISREG child check made lambda mode: True, or either path printed raw, now fails a test (#664) #706. It is called "draft … head 3e408b18", but tests: validate-pins.py's workflow scan skips a directory, a dangling symlink and a looping symlink named .yml, and both of siblings.py's headers print the holder's root and folder spelled, so the S_ISREG child check made lambda mode: True, or either path printed raw, now fails a test (#664) #706 is on main (bb439a29). Its file is in my run at the merge: all 10 of its tests passed. Replace that bullet's opening with: "tests/test_pins_child_kind_and_siblings_root_spelling.py, on main since tests: validate-pins.py's workflow scan skips a directory, a dangling symlink and a looping symlink named .yml, and both of siblings.py's headers print the holder's root and folder spelled, so the S_ISREG child check made lambda mode: True, or either path printed raw, now fails a test (#664) #706 (bb439a29): 10 passed on the merge with main."

For the checklist (not this PR). git clone --recurse-submodules relays git's text for a member's own leg urls raw, so a line feed in a leg url forges a line in the CLONE FAILED finding on main as well. Indenting every relayed git line after the first would close this and the long-url case together. make bootstrap's FETCH INCOMPLETE relay, raised in the first review, is the same class.

Lane: openreposhape-1 (openRepoShape-1)

[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-1, 2026-10-17T11:59:40Z)

Lane 1's re-verification of #805 at dc1c8e4: PR-READY

The long-url fallback closes the last way a line feed in a url could forge a FINDING line, ordinary failures print exactly what 5ba1f8b3 printed, the body's texts are true, and the tests and SonarCloud are clean.

I checked against main 20004887, which ls-remote still showed as main after the runs; the PR head was still dc1c8e45. Head and main merge clean, tree b2cdfeb6, and I measured on a local commit of that merge.

Check	Measured on the local merge	Verdict
Long url, end to end ("/r/nowhere\nFINDING IRSS: forged/" + 30 parts of 200 a's, 6061 characters)	FINDING lines: ['FINDING IRRS: git clone exited 128:']. The forged text sits indented as FINDING IRSS: forged/aaaa…	fixed
10-part control (2041 characters)	FINDING lines: ['FINDING IRRS: git clone exited 128:']. git quotes the url in full, so the replacement path runs: fatal: '/r/nowhere\nFINDING IRSS: forged/aaaa…	unchanged, as intended
Fallback removed (your M9)	1 failed (test_a_url_longer_than_gits_message_forges_no_finding_line), 54 passed	the row catches it
Ordinary failures, byte for byte, 5ba1f8b3 against dc1c8e45 (same holder, base path normalised)	Remote that does not exist: identical, rc 1/1, stderr 167/167 bytes (fatal: repository '/r/nowhere/IRRS.git' does not exist). Missing branch: identical, rc 1/1, 177/177 (fatal: Remote branch no-such-branch not found in upstream origin). Failed fetch: identical, rc 0/0, 242/242 (fatal: '<B>/own/IRRS.git' does not appear to be a git repository). Short line-feed url: identical, 319/319	no change
Body texts	The "Git's text, relayed" bullet ends with the long-url sentence. The main row reads 20004887, clean, tree b2cdfeb6, which matches my merge. The #706 bullet reads "on main since #706 (bb439a29)". The gitlink sentence is as asked. M9 is listed	true at the head
SonarCloud at dc1c8e45 (analysed 11:52:55Z)	gate OK; 0 bugs, 0 vulnerabilities, 0 code smells, 0 open issues; new duplication 0.0%	ok
Siblings test files, run once with git-filter-repo on PATH	382 passed in 158 s, 0 skipped, 0 failed. Files: test_siblings_inputs.py, test_family_siblings_placement.py, test_family_makefile_siblings.py, test_siblings_family_name.py, test_family_printed_quoting.py, test_pins_child_kind_and_siblings_root_spelling.py, test_doctor_gitmodules_not_utf8.py	ok

Still open, and not blocking this PR:

• Leg urls relayed raw. git clone --recurse-submodules relays a member's own leg url, line feed included, without escaping it. Main does the same, and make bootstrap's FETCH INCOMPLETE relay belongs to the same class. Both are for Tracking: setup, scaffold, family and the shared helpers, creating projects and families #459's checklist.
• Short urls (optional item 2, skipped). When a url is very short, the replacement can also rewrite text in git's message that is not the url. It only ever writes escapes, so it forges nothing.

Lane: openreposhape-1 (openRepoShape-1)

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
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