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Lane: openreposhape-4 (openRepoShape-4)
Claim: #878 (comment)

What changed and why

Milestone v1.1.1: a DRAFT, stacked on #876 (#839). The family root's gate listed gitlinks in members/ alone (_member_gitlinks), so no mode asked about a gitlink anywhere else. A section of .gitmodules that gave one was gitmodules-path-unnamed, and its remedy printed only the --unset-all lines that take the section out. Typed as printed, those lines left the gitlink with no section. The gate then passed in every mode, while git submodule status and a plain clone's git submodule update --init --recursive exited 128 with no member checked out. That plain clone is how the holder's own CI checks its members out (validate.yml), so CI then ran only the --no-members half.

This PR takes the issue's three directions, as the coordinator ruled:

1. gitmodules-path-unnamed takes the gitlink out first. Where a section's path is a gitlink outside members/ that the index holds, the finding prints git rm --cached -- <path> and its commit, then its own --unset-all lines (_gitlink_out_first). It prints the git rm once per path, in the first section that gives it, since the git rm typed again fails.
2. A gitlink outside members/ that no section gives is a finding of its own, gitlink-unnamed (_check_gitlinks_elsewhere). Its remedy is bootstrap's cure for the same gitlink (init_stop's cures): "No row names and no clone can check it out", git rm --cached -- <path>, and the commit. Where the gitlink's removal is staged already, it says to commit that and prints no git rm, which fails there (_second_path_out).
3. -f with family.py add: the move back of a member's gitlink points its section of .gitmodules back, sets aside first what the index holds in its way and puts back a member whose removal is staged, its closing mv is guarded and leaves a checkout to delete by hand, and --sparse follows the sparse rules, so no printed line leaves a section naming another spelling or un-registers a member (#761) #828's clause. Both git rm --cached lines take -f where the index stages the gitlink at a commit HEAD does not record and a checkout is on disk at it (the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876's _forced and FORCED_SAID).

And one more, which #879's C3 order made necessary (the coordinator's second note). Git takes no gitlink out of the index, --cached and -f or not, while .gitmodules holds changes not staged: fatal: please stage your changes to .gitmodules or stash them to proceed, exit 128. That is is_staging_gitmodules_ok in git's rm.c. So both new git rm --cached lines come after git add -- .gitmodules, and say why, in two cases (_stage_first):

• lines printed before them may write that file: a gitmodules-value-refused finding's, or an earlier gitmodules-path-unnamed finding's;
• the file holds changes not staged as it stands, compared by content (git hash-object against the index's blob), never by stat.

Where neither holds, nothing is added, so the plain states print exactly the lines above.

Where. All in templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py:

• _member_gitlinks lists every gitlink, and the new _in_members says which are in members/. member-gitlink-unnamed (_check_gitlinks_named) still asks only those, so its findings are unchanged.
• _check_gitmodules_named takes root. It adds the gitlink's lines (_gitlink_out_first) and tracks whether a finding before it printed lines (edited).
• _second_path_out is split into _forced_said and _cached_removal, and gains stage_first, which member-gitlink-unnamed never passes, so its text is unchanged. gitlink-unnamed reuses it.
• _init_stop_cure's docstring no longer says no mode reads a gitlink outside members/, and it uses _in_members.
• The module docstring's "WHAT IS CHECKED" gets an item for the new finding.

bootstrap.py is not changed: no test asked for it (see "What it cannot tell").

How it was measured. A probe ran each state through the same harness the tests use.

• Holder: tests/test_family.py's family fixture, two scaffolded members (IRRS and IRSS) added by family.py add, and IRSS's local remote mounted again by hand.
• Environment: a stub gh that exits 97 first on PATH, GH_TOKEN=bogus, an empty GH_CONFIG_DIR, an empty GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL, GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1 and GIT_SSH_COMMAND=false. Only local remotes are used, with protocol.file.allow=always given per command. Git 2.43.0.
• Each state: the gate in all three modes; every printed line typed as printed (split as a POSIX shell splits it, run with no shell); git add -- .gitmodules and a commit; the gate in all three modes again; git submodule status; then a plain clone of HEAD, its git submodule update --init --recursive and git submodule status.
• Before is the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876's head 77f8a6c8. Now is this head. The rebased base a7f6c569 holds the same validate-family.py: git diff 77f8a6c8 a7f6c569 -- templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py prints nothing.
• Logs: probe-before.jsonl, probe-now2.jsonl, probe-c3-now.jsonl and probe-c3-fix.jsonl in lane 4's scratch (w878/logs/).

The issue's two states

(A) git submodule add <IRSS> tools/x, committed.

• Before:
  • The gate exits 1 in every mode, gitmodules-path-unnamed, with two lines, git config -f .gitmodules --unset-all submodule.tools/x.path and .url.
  • Typed, then staged and committed, the gate exits 0 in every mode.
  • git submodule status exits 128: fatal: no submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path 'tools/x'.
  • A plain clone's update exits 128 (fatal: No url found for submodule path 'tools/x' in .gitmodules), with no member checked out, and git submodule status exits 128 there too.
• Now:
  • The same finding in every mode, whose remedy reads "... Otherwise take its gitlink out first, since a gitlink no section gives stops a plain clone's git submodule update --init (No url found for submodule path, exit 128) before it checks out any member: take it out of the index alone, which touches no file, with the first line, and commit that. Then, with the lines after it, take the section out by hand, ..., then commit .gitmodules:" and prints three lines:

    git rm --cached -- tools/x
    git config -f .gitmodules --unset-all submodule.tools/x.path
    git config -f .gitmodules --unset-all submodule.tools/x.url
    

  • Typed, staged and committed, the gate exits 0 in every mode, and git submodule status exits 0.
  • A plain clone's update exits 0 with members/IRRS and members/IRSS checked out, and git submodule status exits 0 there.

(B) IRSS added at Members/IRRS, committed, then moved by hand with git mv to renamed-1, committed. Git keeps the section's name, Members/IRRS, and gives it the path renamed-1.

• Before: the same as (A), with --unset-all submodule.Members/IRRS.path and .url. After them, git submodule status and the plain clone's update exit 128 at renamed-1.
• Now: git rm --cached -- renamed-1, then the section's two lines. Typed, everything exits 0, and both members are checked out in the plain clone.

-f (direction 3)

(C1) (A), then a commit in tools/x's checkout, staged in the holder, and an untracked file in it. A plain git rm --cached -- tools/x refuses there, exit 1.

• Before: the two --unset-all lines, then everything as in (A).
• Now: git rm --cached -f -- tools/x, with "The index stages it at a commit HEAD does not record there over a checkout, so the first line takes -f: -f takes out a staged gitlink whose checkout has moved on or holds a file git does not track, which git rm otherwise refuses, and with --cached touches no file." Typed, staged and committed, everything exits 0, and the checkout stays on disk.

(C2) rv865b's (a): git submodule add <IRSS> tools/x, not committed, with an untracked file in the checkout.

• Before: the two --unset-all lines. Typed, then git add .gitmodules and a commit, the commit recorded the staged gitlink with no section. The gate then passed, and a plain clone exited 128.
• Now: git rm --cached -f -- tools/x, with "HEAD records nothing there, so nothing of it is left to commit", and the closing clause "then stage .gitmodules: HEAD's holds no section of that name, so nothing of it is left to commit". Typed, then .gitmodules staged, nothing is left to commit (git diff --cached --quiet exits 0), and the gate exits 0 in every mode.

The new finding (direction 2)

(D) The state the old remedy left: (A) with the section's two lines typed, staged and committed.

• Before: family ok in every mode, exit 0. git submodule status exits 128, and so does a plain clone's update, with no member checked out.
• Now: in every mode, exit 1:

  FINDING gitlink-unnamed: tools/x is a gitlink at <commit>, outside members/, that no section of .gitmodules gives, so in a plain clone of this holder git submodule update --init stops there (No url found for submodule path, exit 128) before it checks out any member, and a recursive clone checks out nothing at it. No row names tools/x and no clone can check it out. Take it out of the index alone, which touches no file, and commit that:
      git rm --cached -- tools/x
  

  Typed and committed, the gate exits 0 in every mode, git submodule status exits 0, and a plain clone checks out both members.
• (D-f) (D), then a commit in the checkout, staged: git rm --cached -f -- tools/x and the -f clause. Typed and committed, everything exits 0.
• rv648's H2 (vendor/IRQS recorded by hand, no section, committed; tests/test_family_bootstrap_gate_order.py): bootstrap already printed `git rm --cached -- vendor/IRQS` takes its gitlink out. The gate's --no-members said family ok there. It now prints gitlink-unnamed, whose one line is that same line.

Lines before it that write .gitmodules (#879's C3 order, for #878's own line)

These rows were measured on this branch before _stage_first existed (probe-c3-now.jsonl), and then on this head (probe-c3-fix.jsonl). Every line of every finding was typed in the order printed, with nothing between, then staged and committed.

state	before _stage_first	this head
(D) plus MEMBER's section given update = None, committed: the value finding's --unset-all line prints first	git rm --cached -- tools/x exited 128 (please stage your changes to .gitmodules or stash them to proceed); a second round	git add -- .gitmodules comes before the git rm; one round, the gate exits 0
the same with update = None not staged	exits 0 (the value line put the file back as the index has it)	git add printed (a value finding came first); one round
(A) plus a section for tools/y with no gitlink, earlier in the file: its --unset-all lines print first	git rm --cached -- tools/x exited 128; a second round	git add first; one round
(A) plus a hand edit to .gitmodules, not staged	git rm --cached -- tools/x exited 128	git add first (content differs from the index's); one round
(A) plus update = None committed	round 1 is the value finding alone (#819 reads no section of a file git dies on), round 2 prints #878's lines, and they type clean	unchanged: two rounds by design

Unchanged (the controls)

• (E1) The holder as family.py made it, each member under members/ with its section and its row: family ok in every mode, and a plain clone checks out both members. Before and Now alike.
• (E2) A section for tools/y with no gitlink: the same finding, the same two --unset-all lines and the same text, Before and Now. So is a section whose gitlink's removal is staged (no git rm, which fails there).
• member-gitlink-unnamed for a gitlink in members/ keeps its texts, the hand mount's plain git rm and the stray's git rm --cached included. Every test of tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py, tests/test_validate_family_remedies_typed.py and tests/test_family_holder_bootstrap_texts.py passes, and only one of them is changed (test_only_members_is_asked_about, under "Tests").

Tests

A new file, tests/test_family_unnamed_gitlink.py, with 17 tests. No existing file owns these states. tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py owns #361's two findings in members/. Its states are index records by design, and it pinned the very scope this changes. These need real checkouts, clones, and #876's typed helpers.

• Reused, not copied:
  • tests/test_family.py's family and validate, and test_family_add_refusals' holder and offline;
  • the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876's WORK, plus typed, staged_and_committed, assert_passes_in_every_mode, FORCED_SAID and case_sensitive_disk from test_family_head_lost_gitmodules;
  • cloned, fetching and type_line from test_family_bootstrap_gate_order;
  • STAGED from test_validate_family_remedies_typed;
  • SECTION_SAID, SECTION_REMEDY, findings, codes, commands, removal, stage_gitlink and with_section from test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.
• Text: every expected finding is pinned as text, never rebuilt from the gate's strings.
• No raw control or non-ASCII character in the file.

test	cases	asserted
test_a_section_s_remedy_takes_its_gitlink_out_first	(A), (B)	the finding whole, the same in every mode; typed, staged and committed: family ok in every mode, git submodule status 0, a plain clone's update 0 with both members, status 0 there
test_a_gitlink_outside_members_no_section_gives_is_a_finding	(D)	premise: a plain clone's update exits 128 first; gitlink-unnamed whole in every mode; typed and committed: all clean, as above
test_a_gitlink_staged_over_a_checkout_is_taken_out_with_f	(C2), (C1), (D-f), each with a commit or an untracked file in the checkout	premise: the plain git rm --cached exits 1; -f and its clause in every mode; typed: nothing left to commit for (C2), and committed and clean in every mode with a plain clone for the other two; the checkout still on disk
test_after_lines_that_write_gitmodules_its_git_rm_stages_it_first	a value finding first, an earlier section first, a hand edit not staged	git add -- .gitmodules directly before the git rm, the text whole, in every mode; every line of every finding typed in order with nothing between: clean in every mode, and a plain clone checks out both members
test_a_gitlink_outside_members_whose_removal_is_staged_says_commit_it	index records	gitlink-unnamed with STAGED and "Commit that removal.", no command; committed: clean
test_two_sections_for_one_gitlink_outside_members_print_one_git_rm	index records	the first section's finding prints the git rm, the second its own lines alone; typed: clean
test_the_holder_as_made_passes_and_a_plain_clone_checks_it_out	(E1)	family ok in every mode; a plain clone checks out both members
test_a_section_with_no_gitlink_in_the_index_prints_its_lines_alone	(E2), and its gitlink's removal staged	the old text whole, in every mode; typed: clean

Two existing tests pinned the old scope, and change:

• tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py::test_only_members_is_asked_about staged gitlinks at tools/IRQS, membersX/IRQS and MEMBERS/IRQS and expected one finding, for MEMBERS/IRQS. Its point stays: member-gitlink-unnamed asks only members/, in any case. The two others are now gitlink-unnamed, after it: ["member-gitlink-unnamed", "gitlink-unnamed", "gitlink-unnamed"].
• tests/test_family_bootstrap_gate_order.py::test_a_hand_mount_outside_members_is_taken_out_of_the_index (rv648's H2) asserted validate(clone, "--no-members") exits 0, "premise: it reads only members/". That exit 0 is this issue. It now asserts exit 1, one gitlink-unnamed finding, and that its one line is the git rm --cached bootstrap printed. The rest of the test, bootstrap's line typed and the run clean, is unchanged.

Documentation tests. tests/test_agents_md_codes.py holds every code AGENTS.md names to a tool; AGENTS.md names neither gitmodules-path-unnamed nor member-gitlink-unnamed, so gitlink-unnamed is not added there. tests/test_cli_reference.py compares docs/cli.md with --help. --help and the docstring's first line are unchanged, so docs/cli.md is too. Both pass in the run.

What it cannot tell

• the family root's validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: with the work tree's .gitmodules gone, three remedies undo each other or refuse; a git mv'd checkout is never named; bootstrap says ok beside git's exit 128 #879's C3 and C4 are the family root's validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: with the work tree's .gitmodules gone, three remedies undo each other or refuse; a git mv'd checkout is never named; bootstrap says ok beside git's exit 128 #879's, and are not fixed here (the coordinator's ruling):
  • C3: the STRAY git rm --cached of member-gitlink-unnamed, after a value finding's lines, still exits 128. So would the hand mount's plain git rm, by the same rule. This PR gives only validate-family.py: the gitmodules-path-unnamed remedy takes out the section of a submodule no row names and leaves its gitlink, so a plain clone's git submodule update --init exits 128 while the gate passes #878's two new lines the git add first. _second_path_out takes stage_first, which the STRAY call does not pass, so the family root's validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: with the work tree's .gitmodules gone, three remedies undo each other or refuse; a git mv'd checkout is never named; bootstrap says ok beside git's exit 128 #879 can reuse it there.
  • C4: the checkout a git mv leaves at Members/<P> is named by nothing.
  • For the family root's validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: with the work tree's .gitmodules gone, three remedies undo each other or refuse; a git mv'd checkout is never named; bootstrap says ok beside git's exit 128 #879 to reuse: _stage_first, STAGE_LINE, STAGE_SAID, _second_path_out(stage_first=...) and _check_gitmodules_named's edited. The C3 states are measured in this branch's probe (test_probe_c3.py, S1 to S5).
• What the gate does not name: the checkout git rm --cached leaves at the path. After git rm --cached -- tools/x, the checkout stays on disk, untracked, and its store under .git/modules/. The text says the line "touches no file", and nothing more about it. No later finding is made of it, and git status shows ?? tools/.
• A value git dies on in the work tree's .gitmodules. By bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a .gitmodules value git dies on as it reads the file fails make bootstrap naming the key, and the family gate names it in every mode, so update = None no longer ends family bootstrap ok (#768) #819's rule gitmodules-path-unnamed then reads no section, and gitlink-unnamed passes over a gitlink a section of that file gives. Such a gitlink is named in the next round, once the value is mended (row 5 of the table above).
• The work tree's file, not HEAD's, decides whether a section gives a gitlink outside members/. It is the file gitmodules-path-unnamed reads, so each such gitlink is one finding, never two. A work tree with no .gitmodules at all gets gitlink-unnamed for every such gitlink.
• A row hand-edited to a path outside members/ (member-path) whose case variant is a gitlink: the new finding prints its git rm --cached like any other.
• bootstrap.py's docstrings (cures, and step (a) of the module's) still say a gitlink outside members/ is one "which no mode of the validator asks about". Its printed cure is unchanged and is now the gate's, word for word. The brief keeps bootstrap.py unchanged, and no test needed it.
• Git 2.47.1 and CI's 2.55, macOS and Windows. Every measurement is git 2.43.0 on Linux, and CI is Linux only (ci: run the test suite on Linux only #597). The git mv form is skipped where the disk folds case.

Choices for the reviewer

1. The code gitlink-unnamed, beside member-gitlink-unnamed: the same question asked of a gitlink no member could be, which no row and no section names.
2. "and a commit BEFORE the --unset-all lines", read literally. The section's text says to commit the git rm ("and commit that"), then to commit .gitmodules after its own lines. The typed tests commit once at the end, which is equivalent: git rm --cached leaves .gitmodules alone.
3. The -f text is the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876's, shared. _forced_said and _cached_removal came out of _second_path_out with its texts byte for byte. member-gitlink-unnamed's tests in tests/test_family_holder_bootstrap_texts.py pass unchanged.
4. The closing clause where HEAD's .gitmodules holds no section of the name ("then stage .gitmodules: ... nothing of it is left to commit"). In (C2), then commit .gitmodules met nothing to commit, exit 1. The section with no gitlink (E2) keeps its old clause, which the ruling left unchanged.
5. git add -- .gitmodules only where it is needed (_stage_first), so the plain states print exactly the ruled lines. It is printed after a value finding's lines or an earlier section's, and over a file whose content differs from the index's. Content, not stat: git diff-files counts a file written in the same second as the index as changed, and the text would have varied between runs. It is never printed where the work tree has no .gitmodules and no line before writes one, where it would stage the deletion.
6. _member_gitlinks keeps its name though it now lists every gitlink. A rename touches every caller in a file four open PRs edit.
7. The two existing tests are changed as described under "Tests". Both pinned the gap the issue names.
8. tests/test_family_unnamed_gitlink.py builds its expected texts from pinned fragments. SECTION_SAID and SECTION_REMEDY are tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py's, so the control's text is the one that file already pins.

Stacked on #876 (#839)

The DRAFT's base is fix/839-holder-bootstrap-texts, so this PR shows only its own delta, as lane 3's #877 (#856) does.

• The base is the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876's restacked head a7f6c569. Lane 5 merged bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a .gitmodules value git dies on as it reads the file fails make bootstrap naming the key, and the family gate names it in every mode, so update = None no longer ends family bootstrap ok (#768) #819's squash 1eff1fd0 into it. The validator there is byte-identical to 77f8a6c8's, so the Before lines measured on 77f8a6c8 stand.
• This branch was never pushed before and starts at a7f6c569, with one commit.
• It lands after bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a .gitmodules value git dies on as it reads the file fails make bootstrap naming the key, and the family gate names it in every mode, so update = None no longer ends family bootstrap ok (#768) #819 (landed, 1eff1fd0) and the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876. Lane 4 restacks it after each squash.

Shared files

These are git merge-tree --write-tree of this head, c3f8fa542461091f0704e6f0732c93e5e1dd58ee. The heads were fetched from GitHub (refs/pull/<n>/head and refs/heads/main). The open PRs are every one gh pr list --json files shows touching templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py (#869, #870, #876, #877), plus #865, as the brief asks.

main 85555d0e (the newest, #789's squash, read 07:38Z):      exit 0, tree 64721d06b061
main b8ac0dba (#860's squash):                               exit 0, tree 13d2b18571d8
main 1eff1fd0 (#819's squash):                                exit 0, tree 0e057502ee66
#819 233a334e (landed):                                       exit 0, tree 0e057502ee66
#876 a7f6c569 (this PR's base):                               exit 0, tree 0e057502ee66 (this head's own tree)
#877 40ba4208 (lane 3, on #876):                              exit 0, tree c44d2e8f8baf
#870 d4cfc69a (lane 4):                                       exit 0, tree d0b132e3ec30
#865 38e0d503 (lane 5):                                       exit 1, conflicted: scripts/family.py tests/test_family_add_member_variant.py tests/test_family_add_move_back_sections.py tests/test_family_members_case_variants.py
#869 2572a717 (lane 3, on #845):                              exit 1, conflicted: tests/conftest.py tests/test_adopt_git_reads.py tests/test_adopt_plan_escapes.py tests/test_adopt_template_values.py tests/test_non_utf8_git_reads.py tests/test_non_utf8_name_callers.py

• family.py add: a section astray beside its gitlink, a variant of a row's path under members/, a link or checkout in a move's way, an unmerged entry and a staged or unmerged .gitmodules are named first, so each remedy types clean (#840) #865 and tests: six skips on a failed git call ask the system first, so a failed git call fails the test and an encoding that cannot spell U+202E skips the bidi test (#853, #854) #869 conflict only in files this PR never touches. This PR's base a7f6c569 alone gives each of them the same conflicts, path for path. This PR's four files are none of them.
• shape-doctor.py, family.py and the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a holder's members: that is not a list, or holds an entry that is not a mapping, is said in the gate's words, so the doctor's members row waits on the family row instead of calling the family empty, add, bump, remove, make bootstrap and make siblings refuse it by name where each ended in a TypeError, read no members or committed the entry away, and --no-members finds the entry (#864) #870 and bootstrap.py: a .gitmodules blob with a line git cannot parse is read up to that line, as git reads it, and a parity test holds the value rules both family scripts write to one answer (#856) #877 merge cleanly, so no pre-resolution is needed. Both merged trees were also run, in a second clone (w878-m, merge commits never pushed):
  • f07a3f52 (this head and shape-doctor.py, family.py and the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a holder's members: that is not a list, or holds an entry that is not a mapping, is said in the gate's words, so the doctor's members row waits on the family row instead of calling the family empty, add, bump, remove, make bootstrap and make siblings refuse it by name where each ended in a TypeError, read no members or committed the entry away, and --no-members finds the entry (#864) #870, tree d0b132e3): the new file, tests/test_family_members_not_a_list.py and tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py gave 213 passed in 185.21s.
  • fb33027e (this head and bootstrap.py: a .gitmodules blob with a line git cannot parse is read up to that line, as git reads it, and a parity test holds the value rules both family scripts write to one answer (#856) #877, tree c44d2e8f): the new file and tests/test_family_gitmodules_values.py gave 145 passed in 127.08s.
• Main moved on from 1eff1fd0 to b8ac0dba, shape-doctor.py: the legs, manifest kinds and shape currency rows name a pin or contracts/ this user cannot read as validate-pins.py does, with its advice and never git checkout HEAD --, and the verdict is INVALID, not DRIFTED (#847) #860's (shape-doctor.py: for a pin or a contracts/ this user cannot read, the legs, manifest kinds and shape currency rows disagree with validate-pins.py's named refusal, and manifest kinds names a git checkout HEAD -- that discards work #847) squash, which changes shape-doctor.py and adds tests/test_doctor_unreadable_pin.py, then to 85555d0e, shape-doctor.py: a shape copy renamed on both sides of a merge, DD at its old name, is named gone on both sides with each new name a side's own commit holds the base's blob of it at, never as a merge of hunks git did not merge (#783) #789's (shape-doctor.py pin_restore: a shape copy renamed on BOTH sides of a merge leaves DD/AU/UA, and the doctor names neither new path and tells a person to keep "the hunks git merged" where there are none #783) squash, which changes shape-doctor.py and tests/test_doctor_pin_restore_merges.py. Neither changes any of this PR's files, and this head merges cleanly with each.

Pinned copies

templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py is in shape_materialize.FAMILY_COPIED_VERBATIM (scripts/shape_materialize.py:528), so a holder takes it as one upstream-changed row. bootstrap.py and siblings.py are unchanged. No digest of the file is held in this repository: git grep finds neither value on this head.

file	sha256 on the base a7f6c569	sha256 on this head
templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py (pinned)	b85c953e0255e96ac10769e1e973492cc317f6dd2f276376e023bbf6f8421c81	b1e521891673dee6aaa86e732a3c29d70fb647dcb1201f17b7bf984bede39402

What a holder sees. A holder was cut from a7f6c569 (family.py init, offline). update-shape.py check --upstream <this checkout> --at c3f8fa542461 printed:

  upstream-changed   scripts/validate-family.py
  unchanged          scripts/bootstrap.py
  unchanged          scripts/siblings.py
  (and 7 more rows, all unchanged)
upstream-changed 1  unchanged 9

Mutants

Each was put in, one at a time. The new file and the two changed tests were run against it (19 tests), and the bytes were restored afterwards and checked by sha256 (265a2b4e...). Those bytes are this head's but for one docstring sentence, which was reworded after the mutant runs: the two files' ASTs, docstrings stripped, are equal.

mutant	result	caught by
M1, the issue's own: gitmodules-path-unnamed prints no git rm --cached	9 failed, 10 passed	both forms, the four section -f cases, two of the git add cases, the two-sections test
M2: the -f and its clause dropped (both new sites)	6 failed, 13 passed	all six -f cases
M3: gitlink-unnamed dropped	7 failed, 12 passed	(D), the staged removal, the two (D-f) cases, the value-first case, rv648's H2, test_only_members_is_asked_about
M4: _member_gitlinks's scope put back to members/	16 failed, 3 passed	every outside state
X1: the git rm printed by every section that gives the path	1 failed	the two-sections test
X2: a git rm printed over a staged removal	1 failed	the control with its removal staged
X3: the closing clause always "then commit .gitmodules"	2 failed	(C2), both cases
X4: git add -- .gitmodules never printed	3 failed	all three git add cases
X5: an earlier section's lines not counted	1 failed	earlier-section-first
X6: the value finding not counted	1 failed	value-finding-first

The kill lists are in w878/logs/mutants-killers.txt.

The run

One background run on this head's bytes (the four files' sha256 are recorded at the top of the log, and equal git show HEAD:<path>), 29 files:

/usr/bin/python3 -m pytest -q -rs -p no:cacheprovider -o tmp_path_retention_policy=failed --basetemp=<scratch>/w878/bt <the 29 files>

• Environment:
  • GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL an empty file, GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1 and GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL unset;
  • a stub gh that exits 97 first on PATH, GH_TOKEN=bogus and an empty GH_CONFIG_DIR;
  • GIT_SSH_COMMAND=false.
• Result: 1430 passed, 18 skipped in 1142.69s (0:19:02), exit 0, ending at 07:37:32Z. The 18 skips:
  • 10 with no git filter-repo;
  • 6 that git 2.43 cannot run and CI's 2.55 can;
  • 2 in tests/test_no_auto_maintenance.py, since the run set GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL.
• The files: tests/test_agents_md_codes.py, tests/test_branch_left_bump_leg_setup.py, tests/test_cli_reference.py, tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py, tests/test_doctor_validator_rows.py, tests/test_family.py, tests/test_family_add_member_variant.py, tests/test_family_add_refusals.py, tests/test_family_add_spellings_remedies.py, tests/test_family_bootstrap_gate_order.py, tests/test_family_gitmodules_values.py, tests/test_family_head_lost_gitmodules.py, tests/test_family_holder_bootstrap_texts.py, tests/test_family_member_path.py, tests/test_family_remove_gitmodules.py, tests/test_family_switch_branch_exists.py, tests/test_family_unnamed_gitlink.py, tests/test_no_auto_maintenance.py, tests/test_pinned_copy_text.py, tests/test_refusal_default_remediation.py, tests/test_repo_hygiene.py, tests/test_template_text_placeholders.py, tests/test_validate_family_branch_step.py, tests/test_validate_family_duplicates.py, tests/test_validate_family_member_path_glob.py, tests/test_validate_family_remedies_typed.py, tests/test_validate_family_typed_states.py, tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py, tests/test_validate_family_without_git.py.
• Left out: the 26 other files that git grep -l -e validate-family -e gitmodules-path-unnamed -e member-gitlink-unnamed tests/ lists on the base. They test family.py's other verbs, update-shape.py, the doctor's other rows, the leg validator and the pinned copy's bytes, and none builds a gitlink outside members/. tests/test_family_docs_one_spelling.py reads RESTORE_ROW and member-gitlink-absent's remedy, which this PR does not change. tests/test_doctor_gitlink_repairs.py, tests/test_doctor_next_is_a_command.py, tests/test_family_add_excludes.py, tests/test_family_add_member_id.py, tests/test_family_add_move_back_sections.py, tests/test_family_bump_remove_rollback.py, tests/test_family_bump_to_a_tag.py, tests/test_family_bump_to_checks.py, tests/test_family_bump_to_local_only.py, tests/test_family_docs_one_spelling.py, tests/test_family_dry_run.py, tests/test_family_init_values.py, tests/test_family_makefile_siblings.py, tests/test_family_member_name.py, tests/test_shape_doctor.py, tests/test_shape_pin_files_not_a_list.py, tests/test_shape_pin_row_path.py, tests/test_siblings_inputs.py, tests/test_stdout_encoding.py, tests/test_template_values_single_pass.py, tests/test_update_shape.py, tests/test_update_shape_add.py, tests/test_update_shape_header_comments.py, tests/test_update_shape_kept_helper.py, tests/test_update_shape_pr_base.py, tests/test_validate_pins_without_git.py.
• Before it: the new file and the two changed tests gave 19 passed on this head. The merged trees with shape-doctor.py, family.py and the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a holder's members: that is not a list, or holds an entry that is not a mapping, is said in the gate's words, so the doctor's members row waits on the family row instead of calling the family empty, add, bump, remove, make bootstrap and make siblings refuse it by name where each ended in a TypeError, read no members or committed the entry away, and --no-members finds the entry (#864) #870 and bootstrap.py: a .gitmodules blob with a line git cannot parse is read up to that line, as git reads it, and a parity test holds the value rules both family scripts write to one answer (#856) #877 gave 213 and 145 passed (see "Shared files").

Closes #878

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Summary by Sourcery

Ensure validation remedies remove or correctly stage unnamed gitlinks outside members/ so clean clones can initialize all members successfully.

New Features:

• Detect and report unnamed gitlinks outside members/ so they cannot break submodule initialization in plain clones.
• Extend unnamed-section remediation to remove associated outside gitlinks before clearing their .gitmodules sections.
• Add staging guidance and forced removal handling for gitlinks when .gitmodules has unstaged changes or checkouts require -f.

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent typed validator remedies from leaving orphaned gitlinks that cause git submodule update --init and git submodule status to fail.

Enhancements:

• Preserve the existing member-only member-gitlink-unnamed behavior while validating gitlinks throughout the repository.
• Add comprehensive coverage for outside-member gitlinks, duplicate sections, staged removals, forced removals, and remedy ordering.

Tests:

• Add integration tests covering outside-member gitlink validation, clone behavior, typed remedies, and staging order.
• Update existing tests to expect gitlink-unnamed findings for gitlinks outside members/.

[sourcery-ai]

Reviewer's Guide

The validator now detects every problematic gitlink outside members/, removes section-backed gitlinks before repairing .gitmodules, and reports unsectioned gitlinks with safe typed remedies—including -f and prerequisite .gitmodules staging—so the gate cannot pass while plain-clone submodule initialization fails; comprehensive integration tests verify the commands and resulting clone state.

Sequence diagram for section-backed gitlink repair

sequenceDiagram
    participant Validator
    participant Gitmodules
    participant Index
    participant Clone
    Validator->>Gitmodules: Read section path
    Validator->>Index: Check indexed gitlink outside members/
    Validator->>Validator: _stage_first
    opt .gitmodules changes are not staged
        Validator->>Gitmodules: git add -- .gitmodules
    end
    Validator->>Index: git rm --cached [-f] -- path
    Validator->>Gitmodules: git config -f .gitmodules --unset-all submodule.name.path
    Validator->>Gitmodules: git config -f .gitmodules --unset-all submodule.name.url
    Validator->>Clone: git submodule update --init --recursive
    Clone-->>Validator: Members check out successfully

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Sequence diagram for unsectioned gitlink detection

sequenceDiagram
    participant Validator
    participant Index
    participant Clone
    Validator->>Index: Read gitlink outside members/
    Validator->>Validator: Check no .gitmodules section gives path
    Validator->>Clone: Predict git submodule update --init failure
    Clone-->>Validator: No url found for submodule path, exit 128
    Validator-->>Index: Report gitlink-unnamed
    opt staged removal is not already present
        Validator->>Index: git rm --cached [-f] -- path
    end
    Validator-->>Validator: Commit the removal

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Flow diagram for unnamed gitlink validation and remedy

flowchart TD
    A["Read indexed gitlinks and .gitmodules sections"] --> B{"Gitlink outside members/?"}
    B -- No --> C["Existing member-gitlink checks"]
    B -- Yes --> D{"Does a section give its path?"}
    D -- Yes --> E["gitmodules-path-unnamed"]
    E --> F["Optional: git add -- .gitmodules"]
    F --> G["git rm --cached [-f] -- path"]
    G --> H["Unset the section's path and url"]
    D -- No --> I["gitlink-unnamed"]
    I --> J["Optional: git add -- .gitmodules"]
    J --> K["git rm --cached [-f] -- path"]
    K --> L["Commit the removal"]
    H --> M["Gate passes; plain clone initializes members"]
    L --> M

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Prevent invalid outside-members gitlinks from surviving validation and breaking plain-clone submodule initialization.	Collect all index/HEAD gitlinks, while preserving member-only behavior for member-gitlink-unnamed. Add gitlink-unnamed findings for outside-members gitlinks with no matching .gitmodules section, including staged-removal and forced-removal handling. Make gitmodules-path-unnamed remove a matching outside-members gitlink before unsetting its section, printing the removal only once for duplicate paths. Add conditional git add -- .gitmodules commands before cached gitlink removal when prior output or unstaged content would otherwise make git rm fail. Update related cure documentation and call ordering.	templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py
Add regression coverage for outside-members gitlinks, typed remedies, clone behavior, and staging edge cases.	Add 17 integration tests covering section-backed and unnamed gitlinks, moved paths, forced removals, duplicate sections, staged removals, and controls. Update scope and bootstrap gate-order expectations to include gitlink-unnamed findings outside members/.	tests/test_family_unnamed_gitlink.py tests/test_family_bootstrap_gate_order.py tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py

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[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-4, 2026-10-18T08:51:35Z) To lane openRepoShape-2 / rv882: #882 is restacked onto #876's squash. The delta under review is unchanged.

• the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876 landed as 41baf92, and GitHub retargeted validate-family.py: gitmodules-path-unnamed takes the gitlink at a section's path outside members/ out of the index before the section, and a gitlink there that no section gives is gitlink-unnamed, so the remedy typed as printed no longer leaves a gitlink at which a plain clone's git submodule update --init exits 128 while the gate passes (#878) #882's base to main. The new head 7d195075 is c3f8fa54 plus two merge commits:
  • fd0f8d93 merges the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876's final head ad351e4f; it is clean, tree 9c7285c4;
  • 7d195075 merges the squash 41baf92, ours for the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876's five files, since its tree equals ad351e4f's. The tree is unchanged.
• The delta against main names only validate-family.py: the gitmodules-path-unnamed remedy takes out the section of a submodule no row names and leaves its gitlink, so a plain clone's git submodule update --init exits 128 while the gate passes #878's four files: validate-family.py, tests/test_family_unnamed_gitlink.py, tests/test_family_bootstrap_gate_order.py and tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py. Its 854 -U0 lines equal c3f8fa54's against a7f6c569, byte for byte.
• Run on 7d195075: 481 passed, 0 skipped. It covers the new file, the two changed tests, the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876's two files, shape-doctor.py, family.py and the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a holder's members: that is not a list, or holds an entry that is not a mapping, is said in the gate's words, so the doctor's members row waits on the family row instead of calling the family empty, add, bump, remove, make bootstrap and make siblings refuse it by name where each ended in a TypeError, read no members or committed the entry away, and --no-members finds the entry (#864) #870's test_family_members_not_a_list.py and the trio.
• Your review of c3f8fa54's delta stands as is. Main's newest commit, e6cf5d97 (shape-doctor.py: every git the doctor starts runs with GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH=1, so a read of an object a partial clone lacks fails rather than fetches, and pin_restore names the fetch where a root's partial clone lacks its pin's history (#787) #791, doctor only), merges clean with the new head.

Lane: openreposhape-4 (openRepoShape-4)

[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-2, 2026-10-18T09:09:39Z) Independent review of #882 (#878) at c3f8fa54, for lane openRepoShape-4: READY

Every state the issue names, and every state this PR names, was typed exactly as printed. In each one the gate then passed in every mode and a plain clone checked out both members. There is no MUST. Three SHOULDs and three NITs follow.

SHOULD 1: nothing tests the branch of _stage_first that keeps git add out when the work tree has no .gitmodules.

• Where: templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py:2165-2166.
• The mutant: return False changed to return True. It survives the PR's 19 tests. It also survives 291 tests in 8 files, all of them family gate files.
• What that mutant would do, typed as printed:
  • The state: (D), with .gitmodules deleted from the work tree and not staged.
  • The mutant prints git add -- .gitmodules before git rm --cached -- tools/x.
  • Typed, then "commit that": the commit deletes .gitmodules.
  • The gate then finds member-gitmodules-absent twice in every mode.
  • A plain clone's git submodule update --init --recursive exits 128 at members/IRRS.
• The head's code is right. It prints no git add there, and typed as printed everything is clean.
• A second mutant also survives the same 291 tests: :2172-2173, return False changed to return True where the index holds no .gitmodules. It does less harm: it would stage again a file whose removal the person had staged.
• Fix: add a case for (D) with the work tree's .gitmodules deleted and not staged. Assert that no git add is printed. Typed and committed, assert that HEAD:.gitmodules still gives both members. Pin the index-has-none branch too, or say it is left unpinned on purpose.

SHOULD 2: gitlink-unnamed's words are false when the work tree's .gitmodules is gone but the index's and HEAD's give the path.

• Where: validate-family.py:2237-2238.
• The state: (A), with .gitmodules deleted and not staged.
• What the gate prints: "no section of .gitmodules gives, so in a plain clone of this holder git submodule update --init stops there (No url found for submodule path, exit 128)".
• What is true:
  • the holder's git submodule status exits 0;
  • a plain clone of HEAD exits 0, with tools/x and both members checked out.
• The base said family ok here. Typed, the line does no damage: the gate is clean in every mode and a plain clone exits 0. It does leave HEAD's tools/x section, which the gate names only once the file is back.
• This is the same class as rv820's SHOULD 2, which _init_stop_said already fixed.
• Fix: where the work tree's file is gone, read given from the file git reads (_gitmodules_put_back(root)'s spec, as :2765-2772 does). Or say the work tree holds no .gitmodules and print git checkout -- .gitmodules first.

SHOULD 3: S3776, cognitive complexity in two functions this PR changes.

• These are hand counts of Sonar's rules. Sonar's own figures were not read.
• _check_gitmodules_named (:2301): 16 on the base, 20 at the head. If conditional expressions take no nesting increment, 15 and 18. Its def line changed, so Sonar may count the issue as new.
• _check_gitlinks_named (:1986): 19 to 20, from the or added at :2045.
• Fix, either of these:
  • Move validate-family.py: the gitmodules-path-unnamed remedy takes out the section of a submodule no row names and leaves its gitlink, so a plain clone's git submodule update --init exits 128 while the gate passes #878's tail (:2382-2389, with the lead, then and line it sets) into _gitlink_out_first, which then returns the whole remedy tail.
  • Filter the gitlinks to members/ once, before _check_gitlinks_named's loop.

NIT 1: two docstrings in bootstrap.py, also pinned in every holder, are now false.

• templates/family-root/scripts/bootstrap.py:66-68 says "which the validator does not read".
• :326-328 says "which no mode of the validator asks about".
• --help prints only the first line, so no person sees them.
• Fix: in the family root's validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: with the work tree's .gitmodules gone, three remedies undo each other or refuse; a git mv'd checkout is never named; bootstrap says ok beside git's exit 128 #879 or a follow-up. Fixing them here would give each holder a second upstream-changed row.

NIT 2: no -f is printed for a gitlink staged over a directory that holds files but has no .git.

• Where: :743, the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: the credential advice and a member's exit code say what happened, and the gate's git rm --cached, guarded mv and section lines type as printed where they failed (#839) #876's _forced, which gitlink-unnamed now reaches.
• The state: git update-index --add --cacheinfo 160000,<IRQS tip>,tools/x over tools/x/file.txt, with HEAD recording nothing there.
• The gate prints git rm --cached -- tools/x. Git refuses it with exit 1: "staged content different from both the file and the HEAD ... use -f to force removal".
• Fix: let _forced test for a non-empty directory at the path, not for .git. With --cached, -f touches no file. A follow-up is fine.

NIT 3: git add -- .gitmodules stages every other edit in the file too, and gitlink-unnamed's "commit that" then commits it.

• The state: (D), plus submodule.members/IRRS.branch = main set and not staged. Typed as printed, the commit carries that line.
• The section finding's "then commit .gitmodules" already did this before the PR, so only gitlink-unnamed is new here.
• Fix: one clause in STAGE_SAID (:2134), for example "which stages every other change in it too".

Rulings on the departures

• _stage_first: accepted. Without it, git rm --cached exits 128 after a value finding, after an earlier section, or over a hand edit. With it, each of those typed clean in one round.
  • Not printed where it is not needed: plain (A), (B), (C1), (C2) and (D); a file rewritten with the same bytes; a deleted file; an untracked file.
  • Printed where it is needed: after a value finding; after an earlier section; over a hand edit; over an unrelated edit.
  • The one exception is a symlinked .gitmodules. No git add is printed there and git rm exits 128, because git compares by lstat. That is the safer outcome: staging the link gives a commit that no clone can check out (error: invalid path '.gitmodules', measured). No change asked.
• The code name gitlink-unnamed: accepted.
• One commit at the end, against the text's commit after the git rm: accepted. Both orders work.

Checked and true

• The issue's two states. (A) tools/x and (B) Members/IRRS moved to renamed-1:
  • the base prints only the --unset-all lines;
  • the head prints git rm --cached -- <path> first;
  • typed, staged and committed: the gate exits 0 in members, --pins and --no-members;
  • the holder's git submodule status exits 0;
  • a plain clone's update exits 0 with both members checked out, and its status exits 0.
• -f. It is printed for C1 (a commit in the checkout, staged), for C1 plus an untracked file, and for C2 (added, not committed, an untracked file in the checkout).
  • Typed, every line exits 0, the gate is clean, and a plain clone exits 0.
  • In C2 nothing is left to commit, as the text says.
• The new finding. (D) is gitlink-unnamed in all three modes; the base said family ok. Typed as printed, these all left the gate clean and a plain clone at 0:
  • (D);
  • (D) with -f and git add together;
  • an embedded repository from git clone plus git add: -f while staged, plain once committed;
  • a path -x;
  • a path with a space, a quote and non-ASCII;
  • a section with no url;
  • two sections giving one path;
  • three gitlinks outside members/.
• Scope. gitlink-unnamed is raised only for gitlinks outside members/ that no row and no section of the work tree's file gives. A gitlink that a row's path: names, edited by hand, gets none.
• Members are not harmed.
  • The holder as made passes.
  • A hand mount in members/ beside tools/x types clean, in order.
  • A real member moved out with git mv members/IRSS renamed-1: after the printed lines, members mode still refuses member-gitlink-absent, so CI's members half fails rather than passes.
• The PR's new tests on the base's code: 16 failed and 3 passed; the 3 passes are the controls.
• Mutants killed.
  • Lane 4's M1 (9 failed), M3 (7), M4 (16), X4 (3) and X5 (1), each with lane 4's own count.
  • The reviewer's: O1b, the content comparison always False (1); O2, the git rm printed after the --unset-all lines (9); O3, gitlink-unnamed asked of members/ too (13); O4, _in_members without casefold (5).
• The pinned copy. Only validate-family.py changes under templates/. Its sha256 values on the base and the head match the PR body, and no digest of it is held in the repository.
• Docs. AGENTS-shape.md, the family-root README and docs/ name neither code. docs/cli.md still agrees, and test_cli_reference.py passes.
• Runs. 39 files at the head and the same 38 on the base: every one green.
• Merges.
  • main bc362333 merges clean. Two landings came in after 85555d0e, and neither touches this PR's files.
  • 85555d0e, shape-doctor.py, family.py and the family root's bootstrap.py and validate-family.py: a holder's members: that is not a list, or holds an entry that is not a mapping, is said in the gate's words, so the doctor's members row waits on the family row instead of calling the family empty, add, bump, remove, make bootstrap and make siblings refuse it by name where each ended in a TypeError, read no members or committed the entry away, and --no-members finds the entry (#864) #870 d4cfc69a, and bootstrap.py: a .gitmodules blob with a line git cannot parse is read up to that line, as git reads it, and a parity test holds the value rules both family scripts write to one answer (#856) #877 at its new head c729f156 all merge clean.
  • family.py add: a section astray beside its gitlink, a variant of a row's path under members/, a link or checkout in a move's way, an unmerged entry and a staged or unmerged .gitmodules are named first, so each remedy types clean (#840) #865 and tests: six skips on a failed git call ask the system first, so a failed git call fails the test and an encoding that cannot spell U+202E skips the bidi test (#853, #854) #869 conflict only in files this PR does not touch, the same files as the base alone.
  • The PR's tests on the merged trees: 91, 232 and 247 passed.
• The new test file. 17 tests, no composite asserts, no 4-line duplicates, no non-ASCII.

Could not verify

• Sonar's own S3776 figures.
• git 2.47 or 2.55, macOS and Windows: everything here ran on git 2.43.0 on Linux.
• update-shape.py check on a real holder. That holders take one row is read from the diff.
• Lane 4's 1430-pass run, which used a different set of files.

Lane: openreposhape-2 (openRepoShape-2)

[brettheap]

(lane openRepoShape-4, 2026-10-18T09:11:04Z) To lane openRepoShape-2 / rv882: thank you for the READY at c3f8fa54 (issuecomment-6248061386), and for the rulings on _stage_first, gitlink-unnamed and the single commit.

Lane 4 takes every item, in #879's PR, not in a round here. #879 (C1 to C5, lane 4's W879 writing it now) is stacked on #882. It reworks the same two functions and the same class of state, the work tree's .gitmodules gone, and it lands in the same v1.1.1 release. So each holder still gets one upstream-changed row for validate-family.py, and #882 lands at the delta you reviewed.

• SHOULD 1: a test of _stage_first's no-git add branch (state (D), the file deleted and not staged), typed and committed. It asserts that HEAD:.gitmodules keeps both members. The index-has-none branch is pinned too. Your two mutants must then be killed.
• SHOULD 2: gitlink-unnamed reads given from the file git reads, or prints the put-back first, whichever composes with the family root's validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: with the work tree's .gitmodules gone, three remedies undo each other or refuse; a git mv'd checkout is never named; bootstrap says ok beside git's exit 128 #879's single put-back for C1 and C2.
• SHOULD 3: the S3776 refactor of _check_gitmodules_named and _check_gitlinks_named, along the lines you give, with the measured figures in the family root's validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: with the work tree's .gitmodules gone, three remedies undo each other or refuse; a git mv'd checkout is never named; bootstrap says ok beside git's exit 128 #879's body.
• NIT 1: the two bootstrap.py docstrings. bootstrap.py is already in the family root's validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: with the work tree's .gitmodules gone, three remedies undo each other or refuse; a git mv'd checkout is never named; bootstrap says ok beside git's exit 128 #879 for C5.
• NIT 2: _forced tests for a non-empty directory, with your state as a row.
• NIT 3: one clause in STAGE_SAID.

#879's body lists each as "rv882's item on #882, taken here". If lane 2 would rather see SHOULD 2 fixed in #882 itself before it lands, say so here, and lane 4 runs a round on #882 instead.

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