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validate-family.py: a member's checkout, a shape copy, the shape pin or family.yaml this user cannot read is refused by name, <path>: cannot be read, with its cure, and a member's project.yaml is member-manifest-unreadable, so no Python 3.12 traceback and no 3.14 member-uninitialized, pinned but absent, does not exist or update of a checkout that is there (#430) - #956

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(lane openRepoShape-4, DRAFT; slice E of #430; base main since #889 landed; round 2)

templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py no longer reads a path this user cannot read as absent. Every guard asks the operating system for the path's stat itself, the same answer on every Python. A stat it refuses is refused by name, <path>: cannot be read (<reason>), with a cure for the cause, exit 2. Before this change, Python 3.12 ended the run in a PermissionError traceback, exit 1. Python 3.14's is_file() and exists() answer False to any OSError, so on 3.14 the gate said a false thing about the holder instead.

Round 2 (741dc4d9, tree 3feb043b): r956's two SHOULDs and its NITs 1 and 2, then main. Two commits on 0b1413f2, with nothing rewritten.

  1. dcec55ed, round 2:
    • SHOULD 1, the disk asked before git. _forced and _staged_over now ask git (_head_records) first, and the disk only where the answer turns on it. Where HEAD records a gitlink at the index's own commit, neither the -f nor the staged clause is said, so nothing on disk is asked.
      • Under --no-members, two states were refused member-unreadable, exit 2 (r956's C19 and C20): a committed hand mount with members/ at 000, and a variant committed at IRRS's commit with Members/ at 000.
      • Each prints the control's finding again, word for word.
    • SHOULD 2, one code with two texts. A member's project.yaml that cannot be opened now reads members/<P>/project.yaml: cannot be read (<reason>), with the cure for that cause, as one whose stat is refused does. It used to name the file twice, relative and then absolute, with no cure.
    • NIT 1: a row that gives no path: is named at members/<P>, not None.
    • NIT 2: _anything_at asks a link's own lstat first, as os.path.lexists did (r956's trial fix). A link at a gitlink path is on disk wherever it leads. New rows kill r956's X9 (the link dropped) and X14 (a name printed raw).
    • Not taken here:
  2. 741dc4d9 merges main dd2cf2e8, 12 commits since validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: the holder's remedies, typed as printed in order, put a .gitmodules gone from the work tree back once and never over another remedy's write, stage it before a gitlink's git rm and after a section written back, and name a checkout git mv moved before the update, and bootstrap fails where git's init in this holder stopped with every member checked out, so no remedy undoes another or exits 128 (#879) #889's squash. There was no conflict, and none of those commits touches this PR's two files. git diff origin/main...HEAD --stat lists only those two files.

Tests:

  • 10 new rows in tests/test_validate_family_unreadable.py, which now has 52.
    • The two states of SHOULD 1, in-process and at mode 000.
    • An unopenable project.yaml, for a permission and for an I/O error, and at mode 000.
    • A row with no path:.
    • A link at a gitlink path.
    • A name that needs spelling.
  • Against the validator at 0b1413f2, 9 of the 10 fail. The spelling row passes there, since the line it guards was already right.
  • Mutants: 7 of 7 killed: each of the five changes put back, plus X9 and X14.

Run on 741dc4d9: 16 files, Python 3.12.3, git 2.43.0, probe environment. 1043 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed, in 20:57. The 3 skips are test_shape_doctor.py's Windows-only PowerShell rows. The files are:

Merges of 741dc4d9: it holds main dd2cf2e8. With the two other open PRs that touch validate-family.py, it is clean: #954 at 9eb9d3d2 (tree 8377d41d), and #983, which stacks on this branch.

Below is the body as of round 1, with r956's points B1 to B4 put right.

Restacked onto main after #889 landed (0b1413f2). #889 landed as squash 702cc23d, and GitHub retargeted this PR to main. The restack uses merges only, with no rewrite: three merges on 1245a3bd, following lane 4's recipe.

  1. 10c5d82d merges validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: the holder's remedies, typed as printed in order, put a .gitmodules gone from the work tree back once and never over another remedy's write, stage it before a gitlink's git rm and after a section written back, and name a checkout git mv moved before the update, and bootstrap fails where git's init in this holder stopped with every member checked out, so no remedy undoes another or exits 128 (#879) #889's final head b41f722b. It had one conflict, in _staged_over, the one named below.
  2. 0b1413f2 merges validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: the holder's remedies, typed as printed in order, put a .gitmodules gone from the work tree back once and never over another remedy's write, stage it before a gitlink's git rm and after a section written back, and name a checkout git mv moved before the update, and bootstrap fails where git's init in this holder stopped with every member checked out, so no remedy undoes another or exits 128 (#879) #889's squash 702cc23d, with -X ours. Its tree is b41f722b's, so it changes nothing.
  3. Merging main (702cc23d) found the branch already up to date.

git diff origin/main...HEAD --stat lists only this PR's two files: templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py and tests/test_validate_family_unreadable.py. The run covered tests/test_validate_family_unreadable.py, #889's tests/test_family_holder_remedies_compose.py and the trio: 273 passed, 0 failed, in 4:04. The section "Stacked on #889 (#879)" below is history now.

Round 1 (1245a3bd): the code is member-unreadable, not checkout-unreadable. Lane 5's review of slice F found the holder naming one path, members/<P>/.git, by two codes (#951, issuecomment-6253349287, SHOULD 2). This validator said checkout-unreadable, and bootstrap.py and siblings.py say member-unreadable (slices F, #951, and G, #955). So make validate and make bootstrap named one fact two ways. Lane 4 aligns on member-unreadable, and that rename is all of round 1:

  • CHECKOUT_UNREADABLE becomes MEMBER_UNREADABLE;
  • every message keeps its words;
  • the test file's CHECKOUT constant becomes MEMBER_UNREADABLE.

It is one commit on 86ce6012, pushed as a fast-forward. Below, member-unreadable stands wherever round 0 said checkout-unreadable.

Before and Now, per site

Measured on #889's round-1 head 3b15de03 (Before) and on this branch (Now), Python 3.12.3, git 2.43.0. The holder comes from tests/test_family.py's family fixture: scaffold-project.py for the members, then family.py init and add. Remotes are local; gh is a stub that exits 97, with GH_TOKEN=bogus, an empty GH_CONFIG_DIR, an empty GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL, GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1 and GIT_SSH_COMMAND=false. The "3.14" column was run two ways: under a sitecustomize that makes Path.is_file, is_dir, exists and is_symlink answer False to any OSError, as 3.14's do, and in-process under refused_stat. Both gave the same words. Line numbers are at 3b15de03, with the plan's line at 5017830 after the arrow.

Site (3b15de03 ← 5017830) Cell 3.12 Before 3.14 Before Now, both
_check_members' stop :3493 ← :2932 members/IRRS 000 or 444, or members/ 000; members mode and --pins traceback at :3493, PermissionError: ... members/IRRS/.git, exit 1 REFUSED member-uninitialized: members/IRRS is not an initialized submodule checkout, remedy git submodule update --init --recursive; typed, that fails fatal: could not open '<holder>/members/IRRS/.git' for writing: Permission denied and Failed to clone 'members/IRRS' a second time, aborting, exit 1 REFUSED member-unreadable: members/IRRS/.git: cannot be read (Permission denied), remedy chmod u+rx (and every directory above it), exit 2
_check_member_tree :1090 ← :946 the same .git, asked alone not reached: the stop raises first where the member-uninitialized above comes from the same refusal
_check_member_checkout :1217 ← :1073 IRRS's section out of HEAD's .gitmodules, members/IRRS 000 traceback at :1217 exit 1 with member-gitmodules-absent alone: IRRS's digest and identity are not asked, as if it were not checked out the same refusal
_check_member_identity :1236 ← :1092 members/IRRS/project.yaml a link into a folder at mode 000 traceback at :1236 FINDING member-not-a-project: members/IRRS: no project.yaml in the mounted tree ... a family pins assembly roots, never legs. FINDING member-manifest-unreadable: members/IRRS/project.yaml: cannot be read (Permission denied). with the cure, exit 1, the finding a project.yaml that cannot be opened already was
_load_shape_pin :1278 ← :1134 contracts/ 000, the naming policy given with --policy traceback at :1278 REFUSED shape-pin-missing: <holder>/contracts/shape-pin.yaml does not exist REFUSED shape-pin-unreadable: contracts/shape-pin.yaml: cannot be read (Permission denied)
_check_one_shape_file :1332 ← :1188 .github/workflows/ 000 or 444 traceback at :1332 FINDING shape-copy-missing: contracts/shape-pin.yaml: .github/workflows/validate.yml is pinned but absent, exit 1 REFUSED shape-copy-unreadable: .github/workflows/validate.yml: cannot be read (Permission denied)
file_sha256 after it :1336 validate.yml itself at 000, or a read that fails with an I/O error traceback in file_sha256, every Python the same the same refusal; for the I/O error (Input/output error) and OTHER_REASON, no chmod
_run_checks :3517 (not on the plan's list) family.yaml a link into a folder at mode 000 traceback at :3517 REFUSED family-manifest-missing: <holder>/family.yaml does not exist, remedy family.py init ... creates one REFUSED family-manifest-unreadable: family.yaml: cannot be read (Permission denied)
_put_back_lines :3162 ← :2695 IRRS's removal staged (git rm --cached), members/IRRS 000, --no-members and members mode traceback at :3162 member-gitlink-removal-staged's lines end git submodule update --init --recursive -- members/IRRS ("its checkout"); typed, git reset exits 0 and the update fails could not open '<holder>/members/IRRS/.git' for writing, exit 1 REFUSED member-unreadable: members/IRRS/.git: cannot be read (Permission denied)
_put_back_lines, ENOTDIR the same removal, the checkout moved away and a FILE at members/IRRS the update line, over a file (exists() answers False to ENOTDIR on every Python) the same REFUSED member-unreadable: members/IRRS/.git: cannot be read (Not a directory), OTHER_REASON, no chmod (_gone is ENOENT alone)
_names_store :3032 and _moved_checkouts :2995, :3003 (not on the plan's list) git mv members/IRRS Members/IRRS, staged, with Members/IRRS 000 or Members/ 000, --no-members traceback at :3032 the removal's finding loses #879's C4 sentence ("The checkout git mv moved to Members/IRRS stays there ..."), so the moved checkout is named nowhere again the refusal, naming the first path asked (below)
_on_disk :875, :877 ← _forced :745 the same git mv, Members/ 000 os.path.lexists, False on every Python; here the traceback at :3032 comes after the stray's line loses its -f: git rm --cached -- Members/IRRS REFUSED member-unreadable: Members/IRRS: cannot be read (Permission denied)
_held_as :889 ← _forced :745 the same git mv, Members/IRRS 000 os.path.lexists, False on every Python; here the traceback at :3032 comes after -f ... over what is on disk there, which is no checkout, of a checkout REFUSED member-unreadable: Members/IRRS/.git: cannot be read (Permission denied)
_staged_over (#889's round 2, os.path.lexists) SPARE's gitlink staged by hand at members/IRQS over an empty directory, members/ 000, --no-members the hand mount's text drops round 2's clause that its git rm refuses a staged gitlink (lexists False on every Python; read from the code, the mutant that puts it back fails the row) the same REFUSED member-unreadable: members/IRQS: cannot be read (Permission denied)
every row, nothing at the name (the controls) the absent finding or refusal it always was the same the same, word for word

The tests

tests/test_validate_family_unreadable.py, new, 42 rows (52 since round 2: see the top). It imports refused_stat, made_unopenable, needs_a_mode and refusal_of from tests/test_bump_leg_unopenable.py, as the suite already imports across modules. Nothing is copied, and nothing moves into conftest.py.

What it cannot tell

Choices for the reviewer

Stacked on #889 (#879)

The pinned copy

Shared files

Round 1 (1245a3bd), git merge-tree --write-tree against each of these:

Round 0's table:

git merge-tree --write-tree of this head 86ce6012 against each, all clean, with no conflict to pre-resolve:

Against Head Result
main 64464d31 (after #891's a9205e0 and #887) clean, tree 45c4f42a
#889, this PR's base 29083a5f clean, tree a158fae7, which is this head's own tree
lane 5's #891 41f781fd clean, tree 3f2f3842
slice A, fix/430-a-bump-leg-unsearchable 27ec441a clean, tree 2ef6d9b6
slice H, fix/430-h-adopt-unsearchable 3ec73e21 clean, tree 1bbf7842

The run and the mutants

Round 1's run (1245a3bd): the rename alone, so one short run: tests/test_validate_family_unreadable.py, #889's tests/test_family_holder_remedies_compose.py and the trio, test_repo_hygiene, test_cli_reference and test_agents_md_codes. 248 passed, 0 failed, in 5:18. The round-0 run below stands for everything else.

The run: one run, of 30 files, on this head 86ce6012, with Python 3.12.3 and git 2.43.0, in the probe environment. 1689 passed, 6 skipped, 0 failed, in 49:35. The 6 skips are tests/test_doctor_legs_members_next.py's, for git 2.43's own limits: a crash on a bare branch, and a shallow of -2**31.

Mutants: 18, each run against the new file with -x, and all 18 killed. Each one puts a bare guard back, or loosens the strict helper, in the fixed validate-family.py. The fixed bytes were put back after each and checked by sha256 (c1a00595).

Mutant Killed by
M1: _checked_out back to (… / ".git").exists() (the stop, _check_member_checkout and _check_member_tree together) refused_stat[member-checkout]
M1a: the stop alone [member-000] (3.12's traceback; on 3.14 _check_member_tree refuses next, so nothing false is printed)
M1b: _check_member_checkout alone refused_stat[unregistered-member-checkout]
M1c: _check_member_tree alone test_the_member_tree_asked_alone_names_the_checkout
M2: project.yaml is_file() test_a_project_yaml_whose_stat_is_refused_is_named_not_a_leg
M3: shape pin is_file() refused_stat[shape-pin]
M4: shape copy is_file() refused_stat[shape-copy]
M4b: the copy's read with no handler test_a_shape_copy_that_fails_for_another_reason_is_refused_sans_chmod
M5: family.yaml is_file() refused_stat[family-yaml]
M6: _on_disk back to lexists, is_symlink, is_dir refused_stat[variant-on-disk]
M7: _held_as back to lexists refused_stat[variant-checkout]
M8: _put_back_lines back to exists() test_the_staged_removal_asks_the_row_s_own_checkout_alone[_put_back_lines]
M9: _moved_checkouts back to exists() and is_dir() …_alone[_moved_checkouts]
M10: _names_store back to is_file(), and its read to "names no store" test_a_git_file_that_cannot_be_read_names_no_store_by_name
M11: _gone takes ENOTDIR as nothing there test_a_file_where_the_checkout_should_be_is_no_place_to_update
M12: _held_as asked even where no -f is printed test_a_stray_whose_rm_takes_no_f_asks_nothing_of_its_git
M13: _is_a answers False to any OSError (3.14's is_file) refused_stat[member-checkout]
M14: _staged_over back to lexists refused_stat[hand-mount-staged]

Part of #430 (slice E; lane 1's plan, issuecomment-6251069236).

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Summary by Sourcery

Refuse unreadable family paths by name with actionable remedies, while distinguishing them reliably from paths that are genuinely absent.

Bug Fixes:

  • Report unreadable member checkouts, family manifests, shape pins, and shape copies by path with consistent exit codes and actionable remediation instead of treating them as absent or raising tracebacks.
  • Report unreadable member project manifests consistently while preserving the existing finding classification.
  • Prevent staged-removal guidance from attempting updates over checkouts that are present but unreadable.

Enhancements:

  • Use consistent filesystem checks across Python versions so operating-system access errors are handled uniformly.
  • Ensure disk state is inspected only when required by the corresponding Git state, and preserve correct handling of symbolic links and non-ENOENT filesystem errors.

Tests:

  • Add comprehensive coverage for absent paths, permission and I/O errors, unreadable symlinks and directories, staged removals, moved checkouts, and cross-version filesystem behavior.

Brett Heap and others added 30 commits October 15, 2026 22:59
…HEAD's `.gitmodules` gives is `member-gitmodules-absent`, so a holder whose HEAD lost the file no longer says `family ok`, `remove` refuses it before `deinit` instead of leaving the mount empty, and the gitlink remedies name a case variant and the commit `add` needs (#611)

571(b). In a holder whose HEAD lost `.gitmodules` (the commit #407
describes), `family.py remove --dry-run` exited 0, and the real run did
`git submodule deinit` and `git rm`, then died at its commit's `git
--literal-pathspecs add -f -- .gitmodules family.yaml` (`pathspec
'.gitmodules' did not match any files`); the rollback left `members/<P>`
empty. `_checked_gitmodules_held` now refuses that holder, before any git
command that writes and under `--dry-run` alike: no `.gitmodules` in the
work tree, the index or HEAD while the index records the member's gitlink.
Refused, not committed without the file, as #407 refuses a `.gitmodules`
the work tree lacks. The remedy writes back, with `git config -f
.gitmodules`, the section `family.py add` writes for each member whose
gitlink the index records, then `git add -f .gitmodules`; `remove` then
runs as it always has.

571(c), #407's decision 3. `validate-family.py` reads HEAD's `.gitmodules`
(`_head_gitmodules`, HEAD's root tree listed with no pathspec) and makes
`member-gitmodules-absent` for each row at `members/<project>` whose
gitlink no section gives, in every mode, `--no-members` included. Its two
lines write the section back as `family.py add` writes one, keeping the url
of a section of that name that has one. A member it names that is not
checked out is not refused `member-uninitialized`: that refusal named a `git
submodule update` that exits 0 there and dropped the finding, which is what
a fresh clone and CI met. It reads HEAD, not the work tree, so a deletion
nobody committed, an unstaged edit and a sparse checkout that leaves the
file out are no finding, and a holder with no members is asked nothing.

574/2 (#363's item 3). A row whose gitlink HEAD records only at a case
variant of its path (`Members/<P>`) is refused `member-gitlink-absent`
naming each variant, and the move that puts it back in the index alone:
`git rm -r --cached` of the variants and `git update-index --add
--cacheinfo 160000,<pin>,members/<P>`, then a commit. `family.py add`, the
plain refusal's remedy, cannot help there: the row exists.

574/3. A hand mount's `member-gitlink-unnamed` remedy says to commit the
`git rm` before the `add`: since #574, `add` refuses a path under another
spelling of `members/` that HEAD holds and the index no longer does.

`templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py` is a pinned copy: each
holder sees it as `upstream-changed` on its next `update-shape.py check`.

Tests: tests/test_family_head_lost_gitmodules.py (new, 24); the pinned
remedy text and the case-variant states in
tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py; a docstring in
tests/test_family_remove_gitmodules.py.

Lane: openreposhape-5 (openRepoShape-5)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s-absent` reads and the members `remove`'s refusal is for are pinned, so a finding for a row with no gitlink or a hand-edited path, or the refusal over a member with no gitlink, no longer passes (#611)

Two tests. In a holder whose HEAD lost `.gitmodules`: a row with no
gitlink (`member-gitlink-absent`'s) and a row whose `path:` was edited by
hand (`member-path`'s, its mount `member-gitlink-unnamed`'s) get no
`member-gitmodules-absent`; and `remove` of a member with no gitlink is
not that refusal, but the dry run's `did not match any file(s) known to
git`, as before. Each holds a condition of the first commit that its
other tests did not: both pass on BASE 396c0ff and on that commit.

Lane: openreposhape-5 (openRepoShape-5)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
….gitmodules` over an unmerged gitlink too, and the case-variant move prints `--ignore-unmatch` and the `mv` a case-sensitive disk needs, so the mount is no longer emptied there and the printed lines work half typed or with both directories on disk (#611)

Fix round 1, from the review of 6f938ed.

`_checked_gitmodules_held` (scripts/family.py) took the member's gitlink
only at stage 0. `git submodule deinit` and `git rm` run on an unmerged
gitlink as on a merged one, so with `members/<P>` held only at stages 1,
2 and 3 in a holder whose HEAD lost `.gitmodules`, the dry run exited 0
and the real run emptied the mount and died at its commit. It now takes a
gitlink at any stage, and both runs refuse `member-gitmodules-absent`
before `deinit`, with the holder byte for byte as it was. The docstring
says so.

The case-variant refusal of `member-gitlink-absent`
(templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py, pinned) now prints
`git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch -- <variants>`: a variant whose
removal is staged and not committed is still named from HEAD, and the
plain line failed there (`pathspec ... did not match`). Its remediation
also says what is left on disk: where nothing is checked out at the row's
path, as in a fresh clone, `git submodule update --init --recursive` then
checks the member out; on a case-sensitive disk a directory left at a
variant stays, untracked, and `family.py add` refuses it as
`family-members-dir-variant`, so it gives an `mv` of each out of the
holder, to `../<variant with / as ->`, and says to leave it on macOS and
Windows, where it is the row's own directory.

The validator's module docstring names `member-gitmodules-absent`, says
what a staged, uncommitted `.gitmodules` does (HEAD's file is what counts,
as #407's decision 3 says: an uncommitted `add` is the finding for its
member, a staged section removal is none, a staged restore is still the
finding), and gives EXIT CODES' one exception, an unregistered member that
is not checked out (exit 1, not 2).

Tests (tests/test_family_head_lost_gitmodules.py, 12 more, 38 in all):
the unmerged gitlink refused alike and repaired as printed; one test per
condition no test held (a checked-out member still gets its tree check
beside the finding; HEAD's unreadable file refused in every mode; the
`<url>` placeholder; `remove`'s remedy names only members with a gitlink
in the index; one finding per path for a duplicate row); the variant move
half typed (both disks); and, on a case-sensitive disk, every printed
line typed with both directories present, after which the gate passes and
another member is added. tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py
pins the `--ignore-unmatch` line.

Lane: openreposhape-5 (openRepoShape-5)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…modules: the gitlink remedy keeps #611's commit-the-removal clause and ends with BRANCH_LEFT (#611 x #607)

This merges origin/main at 95780dd, which
holds #637's squash (95780dd, "family.py and validate-family.py: where an
earlier act left the branch ...", #607). It adds `BRANCH_LEFT` to
scripts/family.py and templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py, and
the guard `test_every_remedy_that_names_a_switch_line_ends_with_the_sentence`
in tests/test_family_switch_branch_exists.py. Lane 2's #634 (#610) is not in
main yet, so `_check_member_gitlink` is untouched here.

Two hand resolutions, one sentence in two places, as #639's body named it:

- templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py, the end of
  `member-gitlink-unnamed`'s remedy: #611's "and commit that removal, since
  family.py add refuses a path under another spelling of members/ that HEAD
  holds and the index no longer does, then mount it with the third, ..."
  clause is kept, and #607's `BRANCH_LEFT` ends the prose, as
  "... if one is still there. {BRANCH_LEFT}\n".
- tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py, `GITLINK_REMEDY`: the same
  clause, ending ".git/modules if one is still there. " + BRANCH_LEFT.

No other file conflicted. #637's guard test passes on this merge without a
further change: the remedies #611 added name no `_switch_line`, so no
BRANCH_LEFT is appended beyond the one resolved above.

Lane: openreposhape-5 (openRepoShape-5)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ck out fails the family bootstrap, every row's gitlink is asked before any row's checkout, and `--no-members` prints the case-variant move, so a clone of a holder whose HEAD lost `.gitmodules` or of #363's state no longer ends `family bootstrap ok` or hides the variant behind `member-uninitialized` (#648)

(a) `templates/family-root/scripts/bootstrap.py` said "every member and
leg fetched" and ended `family bootstrap ok`, exit 0, over members it had
not checked out: in a fresh recursive clone of a holder whose HEAD lost
`.gitmodules` (git exits 0), and in a plain clone of that holder or of
#363's state, where git dies `No url found for submodule path` (exit 128).
After the fetch it now asks this holder's own records of each row whose
member is not checked out: no gitlink at the row's path
(`recorded_gitlink`, as `member-gitlink-absent` reads it), or no section
of `.gitmodules` giving that path, or, where git exited 0, any such row.
Each is named on one `NOT CHECKED OUT, and not for want of a credential`
line with why, which names `validate-family.py`, and the run ends
`family bootstrap FAILED: <P> (not checked out)`, exit 1. "every member
and leg fetched" is said only where git exited 0 and every row is checked
out. A row git could not fetch for want of a credential is still the skip
it was (`test_bootstrap_degrades_when_a_member_cannot_be_fetched`), and a
good holder's run prints what it printed.

(b) `validate-family.py` asked each row whole, gitlink then checkout,
before the next. In a plain clone of #363's state plus `git submodule
update --init --recursive`, which dies at `Members/<P>` before it checks
out any member, an earlier row was refused `member-uninitialized` (naming
that same update) and the later row's variant refusal was never reached.
`_check_member` now stops at the gitlink and returns the member
(`Gitlinked`); `_check_member_checkout` asks the digest and identity of
each once every row's gitlink has been asked.

(c) Under `--no-members`, `member-gitlink-unnamed` for a member's only
gitlink, in the wrong case, printed no command. Where the row's path is
its canonical one and its pin a commit, it now prints the index move the
row's members-mode refusal prints, word for word (`_wrong_case_move`,
shared by both), to the pinned commit, every variant on one line.

Docs: the validator's WHAT IS CHECKED docstring (the order; the move
under --no-members) and bootstrap's (a) and (c). README.md's "A member it
cannot fetch is reported and skipped, never a failure" is no longer true,
so it says "One it lacks a credential for is reported and skipped, not a
failure", in the same line count (README is at its 1449-line cap), and
docs/handbook.html says the same, with its § Families marker set to the
segment's new blob.

Pinned copies changed: templates/family-root/scripts/bootstrap.py and
templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py.

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…tstrap-and-gate-order, as lane 5's coordinator asked (#648 x #611)

This merges origin/fix/611-validate-family-head-gitmodules at
08b6245, #639's head after its own merge
of main 95780dd (#637's squash, #607), keeping that merge's one hand
resolution: `member-gitlink-unnamed`'s hand-mount remedy ends with #611's
commit-the-removal clause and then `BRANCH_LEFT`.

No file conflicted. The remedy #648 adds under `--no-members`
(`_wrong_case_move`) names no `_switch_line`, so #637's guard asks no
`BRANCH_LEFT` of it. README.md's § Families segment, which #648 edits, is
the same in both parents, so docs/handbook.html's marker for it stays the
blob #648 set.

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…x/648-bootstrap-and-gate-order, before main takes #639's squash (#648 x #611)

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…der, keeping this tree: main's tree a25f083 is #639's final head 159a08f's, merged in the commit before (#648 x #611)

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…member THE LOCKSTEP RULE rides on `Gitlinked`, so the two-pass gate (#648) passes it to the digest finding (#648 x #610)

One file conflicted, `templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py`,
in two regions, both where this branch split `_check_member` in two
(the gitlink first, the checkout once every row's gitlink is asked) and
#634 (#610) made THE LOCKSTEP RULE a per-member `_lockstep(...)` value
passed to the gitlink and tree checks:

1. `_check_member`'s gitlink call. #634 computes
   `rule = _lockstep(root, project, str(row.get("id") or project))`
   and passes it to `_check_member_gitlink`; this branch returns a
   `Gitlinked` there. Resolved: the call passes `rule`, as #634 has it,
   and `Gitlinked` gains a sixth field, `rule`, which the return
   carries.
2. `_check_member`'s tail, which this branch moved into
   `_check_member_checkout`. #634 passes `rule` to `_check_member_tree`.
   Resolved: `_check_member_checkout` passes `asked.rule`.

So each member's gitlink-mismatch and digest-mismatch findings end at
the same rule #634 gives them, naming that member, and the closing
count's `_lockstep(root)` is #634's, merged clean. `Gitlinked`'s
docstring names the new field. No other file conflicted. The
resolution is the one rv648 built and tested in its scratch clone
(the same blob of #634's file, 519b71f), plus that docstring.

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…n gives a url fails the run naming every row, and a member git exited 0 over is given the update that checks it out, so a stray case variant, a hand mount or a url-less section no longer ends `family bootstrap ok` (#648, rv648)

The fix round for rv648's review of 8b39cd1 (1 MUST, 2 SHOULD, 5 NIT).

M1. In a plain clone, `git submodule update --init` dies in its init
step at the first gitlink, in index order, that no section of
`.gitmodules` gives a url, and checks out no member. `unfetchable` asked
only each row's own gitlink and section, so a stray `Members/<P>`
beside `members/<P>` (#361's STRAY), a member mounted by hand with no
section, or a row's section that lost its url (rv648's S1, H1 and U1)
passed every row as the credential skip, and the run ended ok.

`init_stop` now asks the holder's records which gitlink git's init
stops at: the index's gitlinks in order, each against the work tree's
sections (`gitmodules_sections`, which replaces `gitmodules_paths`) and
the git config. Measured before it was taken, rv648's prototype failed
three states that are a missing credential: a recursive clone of the
stray or of the hand mount with no credential, and a url-less section
an earlier `git submodule init` registered. So two of git's rules are
kept: where the config sets `submodule.active` (a recursive clone sets
`.`), init asks only the gitlinks a section gives, and a section with no
url does not stop it where the config holds a url under its name. Where
git exited non-zero and init stops at a gitlink, every row not checked
out is named `git stopped at <gitlink>, a gitlink no section of
.gitmodules gives a url`, and the run fails.

What cures it: `validate-family.py --no-members` names a gitlink no row
names and the commit that cures it (members checked, it refuses
`member-uninitialized` for the first row in these states, a checklist
candidate). Where a row names the gitlink, nothing in the validator does,
so the line says to write that section back as `family.py add` writes
one. Each why now carries its own sentence.

S1. For "git exited 0 and checked nothing out there" (a subset clone, an
`update = none`), the line printed the validator sentence, whose
`member-uninitialized` remedy exits 0 and checks nothing out. It prints
`git submodule update --init --checkout --recursive -- <path>` instead;
typed, it checks the member out in both states and the run ends ok.

S2. `test_a_missing_credential_is_still_the_skip_it_was` asserts that
"  every member and leg fetched" is not printed (rv648's mutant R2).

NITs. README and the handbook say `make bootstrap` skips a member it
lacks a credential for, and the § Families marker is the new segment's
blob, b3d19092; README stays at 1459 lines, its cap. The docstrings say
"an empty mapping" and "a missing credential exits non-zero too", and
`validate-family.py`'s WHAT IS CHECKED says the move under
`--no-members` is printed only for a canonical path and a 40-hex pin.

Tests: the variant-plain case and the round trip name MEMBER too; new
tests for S1 and H1 (typed through `--no-members` and committed, the run
checks both out), U1 (the section written back), the two recursive
clones with no credential and the registered url (still the skip), and
the update that exits 0, by `update = none` and by a subset clone, with
its printed line typed.

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…ing in #414's url-less member state now fails, as 1a69505 makes it, so the test pins exit 1 and `git stopped at members/Ghost` where it pinned the old `ok` (#648, rv648's U1)

`test_414_3_there_the_bootstrap_cures_nothing_and_the_git_line_cures_one`
builds rv648's U1 state: a member, Ghost, whose `.gitmodules` section
gives its path and no url. Git's init stops the holder's update there,
before it checks out the other member. The test asserted bootstrap's
exit 0, the false `ok` rv648's M1 asked to end. It asserts exit 1 now,
and the line naming where git stopped. Its point is unchanged: the
bootstrap cures nothing, and the doctor's git line cures the other
member.

Found by the targeted run of every test file that drives the family
bootstrap (1 failed, 3797 passed, 32 skipped); the file now passes
alone, 124 passed.

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…ember git has no url for is its own reason, and a gitlink outside members/ gets a cure true for it, so a later duplicate section, a section under a name git ignores or a url git drops no longer ends `family bootstrap ok`, and a subset clone's printed update no longer dies `No url found` (#648, rv648's verify)

rv648's verify of 45c512e (1 MUST, 1 SHOULD, 3 NIT).

M1. `init_stop` read `.gitmodules` with `git config --file --list`, which
keeps entries git's submodule parser drops or overrides. In three plain
clones git's init died (`No url found`, exit 128) and the run still said
ok: a second section for a member's path, with no url, after its own
(D1); the member's section under the name `../Nova` (Q1); and its url
`-nowhere` (O1). `gitmodules_sections` now returns a `Gitmodules` with
git 2.43's own reading beside the one the validator's findings use:

- a section whose name is empty or has a `..` component, split on `/`
  and on a backslash, is ignored whole (`check_submodule_name`);
- a `path` or `url` that begins with `-` is dropped, and the value
  before it stands (`looks_like_command_line_option`);
- where two sections give one path, the later decides, and a section
  that gives a path again lets go of the one it gave, even where a later
  section gave that one too (`cache_put_path`, `cache_remove_path`).

`has_url` asks the section git reads for a path, then the config under
that section's name. `init_stop` and the reasons ask it. Where more than
one section gives the path git has no url for, the line names
`validate-family.py --no-members`, whose `gitmodules-path-twice` says to
take the others out: a section written back would be one more (D1).

S1. In a subset clone of a member whose section has no url (A1), git
exits 0 and the line printed the exit-0 skip's update, which dies `No
url found` when typed. "git has no url for that path" is now its own
reason, asked before "git exited 0", with the write-it-back cure. The
stop's sentence says "a gitlink it has no url for", which is true in D1
too, where a section does give the path a url.

NIT 1. A gitlink outside members/ that git stopped at (H2) was sent to
`--no-members`, which reads only members/ and says `family ok` there. It
now gets `git rm --cached -- <path>` and a commit: measured, that ends
ok and the gate passes in every mode, while a section written for it
leaves `gitmodules-path-unnamed` in every mode.

NIT 2. The `cures` docstring says what members mode refuses for #363's
variant (`member-gitlink-absent`, with the move) as well as for a stray
or a hand mount (`member-uninitialized`).

Tests in tests/test_family_bootstrap_gate_order.py: U1, Q1 (three names)
and O1 in one parametrized test, each written back; D1, typed through
`gitmodules-path-twice`; D2, a name with dots and a url `-x` after a
url, each still the credential's skip and then a true ok; A1, typed
through both rounds; and H2, typed and the gate passing in every mode.

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…ts own reason, since git reads no section from it, so a plain clone mid-merge whose update dies `No url found` no longer ends `family bootstrap ok` (#648, rv648's MM1)

rv648's verify of 23e1105 (1 MUST). In a plain clone, a merge that
conflicts in `.gitmodules`, resolved in the work tree and not added,
leaves the index holding the file only at its three conflict stages.
Git then reads no `.gitmodules` at all (`repo_read_gitmodules` asks
`is_gitmodules_unmerged` first), so its init dies at the first gitlink,
exit 128. `gitmodules_sections` read the work tree's file, found every
section with its url, and the run ended ok.

`gitmodules_sections` now asks `git ls-files -u -z -- .gitmodules`
first. Where the index holds the file at a conflict stage, it returns
nothing, with `Gitmodules.unmerged` set. `unfetchable` asks that first:
every row not checked out gets "git reads no .gitmodules while a merge
leaves it unmerged", and the line says to resolve the merge in
.gitmodules and `git add .gitmodules`, then run this again. Added, the
same run checks both members out.

Test: rv648's MM1 in tests/test_family_bootstrap_gate_order.py, the two
sides of the merge each giving OTHER's section another `branch`; the
cure typed, and the run ends ok.

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…n 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)

Git 2.43 dies reading a `.gitmodules` that gives a submodule a `path`,
`url`, `update`, `ignore` or `branch` with no value (a `branch` with none
crashes it, exit 139), an `update` other than `none`, `checkout`,
`rebase` or `merge`, a `shallow` that is no boolean, or a
`fetchRecurseSubmodules` that is neither a boolean nor `on-demand`, before
`git submodule update` checks out any member. The family holder's
bootstrap listed the file with `git config --list`, which reads all of
them, and ended `family bootstrap ok`; the gate refused
`member-uninitialized` members checked, naming the update that dies, and
said `family ok` under `--no-members`.

bootstrap.py (the family root's, pinned):
- `gitmodules_sections` checks each entry against git's rules
  (`refused_value`; a boolean is read by git itself, `git config
  --type=bool`). Where one would make git die it returns those entries
  and no sections, and `unfetchable` gives every row not checked out the
  reason "git cannot read .gitmodules: `<key>` is `<value>`" (or "has no
  value"). The cure names each key and what git takes for it. Where every
  member was checked out, the run fails on `.gitmodules` all the same,
  since git updated none of them.
- Where the work tree has no `.gitmodules`, it reads the index's, then
  HEAD's, with `git config --blob`, as git does. A key with no value ends
  the reading of such a blob, where git calls the line bad and goes on.
- `init_stop` reads a section's own `submodule.<name>.active` before
  `submodule.active`'s patterns, and matches a plain path pattern, as
  `git clone --recurse-submodules=<path>` writes one, to that path and
  what is under it. A pattern with pathspec magic or a glob keeps the old
  reading.

validate-family.py (the family root's, pinned):
- A new finding, `gitmodules-value-refused`, for each such key in the
  work tree's `.gitmodules` and in HEAD's, asked before any member check
  and in every mode. Its remedy prints `git config -f .gitmodules
  --unset-all submodule.<name>.<key>`, one command to a line, writes a
  member's `path` or `url` back where taking it out would leave none,
  says which values git takes, and ends with the commit. It says which
  file gives the value; where HEAD's alone does, it says to commit the
  work tree's, and where the work tree has no `.gitmodules`, it puts
  HEAD's back first.
- Where the work tree's file gives such a value, `gitmodules-path-twice`
  and `gitmodules-path-unnamed` read nothing from it, as git reads
  nothing, so no command they print meets one of its lines. Where either
  file gives one, a member that is not checked out is not refused
  `member-uninitialized`: the finding fails the run.

tests/test_family_gitmodules_values.py: every row of the issue's table
and `branch` with no value, in a plain clone, through bootstrap and the
gate in three modes, the printed commands typed; the no-misfire values;
the index's and HEAD's file; `submodule.<name>.active` and the subset's
patterns; and which file gives the value.

tests/test_validate_family_without_git.py: with no git and no work tree
`.gitmodules`, the first check to run git is now the reading of HEAD's
`.gitmodules`, so the `git-not-runnable` refusal names that read, where it
named the gitlink listing. Exit 2 and the remedy are as they were.

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# Conflicts:
#	templates/family-root/scripts/bootstrap.py
#	templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py
…ues.py: a `branch` with no value is read as the git that runs reads it, a work tree `.gitmodules` git cannot parse fails the run with every member checked out, and the boolean probe reads no config of the person's, so CI's git 2.55 passes the row (#768, rv819)

CI's run 39031235254 (git 2.55.0) failed
`test_a_value_git_dies_on_fails_bootstrap_and_every_mode_of_the_gate[branch-no-value]`,
and lane 2's review rv819 of c12b5f8 (NOT READY) found one MUST, four
SHOULDs and five NITs. This commit answers them.

MUST 1. The row pinned git's own update at exit 139, the crash w768
measured on git 2.43.0. Git 2.55 refuses the line, `error: missing value
for 'submodule.members/IRSS.branch'` and `fatal: bad config line 7`, exit
128; the same assertion fails on git 2.47.1 (`assert 128 == 139`). The
table's exit column is gone: the premise is that git's update died and
checked nothing out, and every other assertion is the tools' own.

SHOULD 2. Measured on git 2.43.0 and 2.47.1, a `branch` with no value
after a submodule's url, then `git submodule update --init --recursive`
in a plain clone: from the work tree's file, 2.43.0 crashes (exit 139)
and 2.47.1 dies (exit 128); from the index's file or HEAD's, a blob,
2.43.0 crashes and 2.47.1 says `error: bad config line 4 in blob`, reads
every section before it, checks the submodule out and exits 0, as for a
`url` with no value. git's submodule-config.c gained `if (!value) ret =
config_error_nonbool(var);` for `branch` in v2.43.1 and v2.44.0; v2.43.0,
v2.42.4 and v2.39.5 lack it. Bootstrap kept 2.43.0's rule for every git,
so on 2.43.1 and later such a blob had every member not checked out named
"git cannot read .gitmodules" and the run failed, where git failed only
for want of a credential (measured on 2.47.1 at c12b5f8).
`crashes_on_branch` now reads `git version`: before 2.43.1, or a version
it cannot read, the key is refused as before; from 2.43.1 on, the line
ends the reading of a blob (`ends_blob_reading`). The gate is unchanged:
it reads the work tree's file and HEAD's, which a clone checks out as
its work tree's, and every git dies on the key there. The comments that
said git crashes say which git does.

SHOULD 3. Where every member was checked out, a work tree `.gitmodules`
`git config --list` cannot parse (a conflict marker, an open quote) ended
`family bootstrap ok` over git's `fatal: bad config line`. `Gitmodules`
now says `unreadable`, and the run says NO MEMBER UPDATED and fails on
`.gitmodules`, as for a refused value; a row not checked out is said to
be that (`git cannot parse .gitmodules`), where it was "no section gives
that path", and the cure is the file mended by hand.

SHOULD 4. New tests catch each survivor rv819 named: the index's file
staged apart from HEAD's; `update = rebase` and `update = merge`; a key
with no value inside an ignored section of a blob; a `submodule.active`
pattern that is only the start of a path; `submodule.<name>.active` set
twice; a url beginning with `-` before the one with no value; the
`<url>` placeholder; a section name with a backslash; and HEAD's value
alone leaving the work tree's file to `gitmodules-path-twice`.

SHOULD 5. `gitmodules_sections` is split into `gitmodules_source`,
`gitmodules_entries`, `ends_blob_reading` and `read_sections`;
`unfetchable` gives each row's reason to `row_reason`; `cures` gives the
`.gitmodules` sentences to `gitmodules_cures`; `_check_gitmodules_values`
gives its text to `_value_said` and `_value_taken_out`.

NIT 6: the gate-in-three-modes block and the good-run block are
helpers. NIT 8: where HEAD's file alone gives the value, the finding says
git dies on it in a clone. NIT 9: both boolean probes ask git for the
`--default` of a key in an empty file (`git config --file <null>`), so no
`probe.value` in the person's config is read; one in it made both tools
refuse `shallow = true`. NIT 7 (one copy of the rules) and NIT 10 (the
body's count) are not code changes here.

tests/test_family_gitmodules_values.py: 52 tests, from 28.

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…762) landed, so validate-family.py keeps both sides, `stop` is asked only where `not refused`, and `_check_removals_staged` is handed the sections as read

#820 (#762, `b9b70692`) landed on main after #819's last head `e1379a9d`. The
two PRs conflict in `templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py` only;
`templates/family-root/scripts/bootstrap.py` merges by itself. The resolution
is the one lane 2 measured on #819 and #820 (rv819, rv820): keep both sides,
with two changes that its notes for the second lander ask for.

Conflicts, all in `templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py`:

1. The module docstring's EXIT CODES sentence. #819 added "and any while
   `.gitmodules` gives a value git dies on" with `gitmodules-value-refused`;
   #820 added "or gives a url, or whose removal is staged" with
   `member-gitmodules-url-absent` and `member-gitlink-removal-staged`. Now one
   sentence names all four exit-1 codes.
2. The `_check_members` docstring. Both paragraphs stay: #820's sentence
   about `_init_stop_said` ends the #648 paragraph, and #819's paragraph about
   a value git dies on follows it, with a clause that `_init_stop_said` is not
   asked there.
3. The `_check_member_checkout` call: `set(gitlinks) if refused else
   unregistered` (#819) and `stop` (#820), as `_check_member_checkout(root,
   asked, report, set(gitlinks) if refused else unregistered, stop)`.

Two lines outside the blocks, which lane 2's notes ask for:

- `stop` is computed only where `not refused`. Given #819's emptied
  `sections`, `_init_stop_said` names the first gitlink as a stop git never
  reaches when the work tree's file gives a value git dies on. Today
  `set(gitlinks)` keeps that text from being printed, but only by ordering.
- `_check_removals_staged` is handed `as_read`, the sections before #819
  empties them. Given `{}`, a staged `git rm --cached` printed
  `git checkout HEAD -- .gitmodules` as putting back "the .gitmodules section
  git rm took out", and `git rm --cached` took none (rv820).

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…side a value git dies on in the work tree's `.gitmodules` is a finding that prints the reset alone, so `_check_removals_staged` handed the emptied sections no longer puts `git checkout HEAD -- .gitmodules` in it (#768, point 3 of the merge with `b9b70692`)

The merge of main `b9b70692` (#820, #762) into this branch hands
`_check_removals_staged` the work tree's sections as read (`as_read`), not
as #768 empties them where the work tree's file gives a value git dies on
(rv820's note for whichever of #819 and #820 landed second). No test held
that line: a mutant giving it `sections` again passed all 191 tests of
`test_validate_family_typed_states.py`, `test_family_gitmodules_values.py`,
`test_family_head_lost_gitmodules.py`,
`test_validate_family_remedies_typed.py` and
`test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py`.

`test_a_staged_removal_beside_a_refused_value_puts_no_section_back` holds
the state: the work tree's file gives OTHER's section `update = None`, and
`git rm --cached -- members/IRRS` is staged. In all three modes the gate
finds `gitmodules-value-refused` and `member-gitlink-removal-staged`, whole
(`taken_out` and `removal_staged`), the second's commands are
`git reset -q -- members/IRRS` alone, and `git checkout HEAD --
.gitmodules` is not in it.

The test passes on `e32ed55a`'s validator. With the call changed back to
`sections` it fails at the first mode: the finding's last line is the
`git checkout HEAD -- .gitmodules` it should not print.

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… 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)

Seven lines of #839, in the holder's two pinned scripts, on #819's head
(233a334):

1. `fetch_members` printed "If the members are PRIVATE, set
   SHAPE_LEGS_TOKEN ..." for every failed `git submodule update`, then
   "NOT CHECKED OUT, and not for want of a credential" for every row
   `unfetchable` names. `credential_advice` prints it only where git
   asked for a credential: not where its init died at a gitlink it has
   no url for, nor where it read nothing from `.gitmodules` (unmerged, a
   value git dies on, a file it cannot parse). Beside a denial it says it
   is for the members that line does not name. A leg left unfetched in a
   checked-out member keeps it.
2. `run_member_target` said `make <target> exited 2` for a member's
   finding (1), its refusal (2) and make's own failure alike: GNU make
   exits 2 for each (measured, GNU Make 4.3). `run_make` passes make's
   stderr on as it comes and reads the code from its last `Error <code>`
   line: `make bootstrap: the member's command exited N`, or `make
   bootstrap exited 2 and printed no ... line` where make printed none.
   Make is still what runs, so `--members-make validate` gets it too.
3. In the gate's state after `git mv members/<P> Members/<P>`, staged,
   with a commit or an untracked file in the moved checkout, the printed
   `git rm --cached -- Members/<P>` (the STRAY finding) refused, exit 1.
   `_forced` reads where the index stages a variant at a commit HEAD does
   not record there over a checkout; the STRAY line and the wrong-case
   move's `git rm` then carry `-f` and say what it does, as family.py's
   move back says it (#828).
4. The wrong-case move's guard followed a link (`-ef`, `-e`), so a link
   at the variant to the row's own directory or to a clone was kept, and
   `family.py add` refused it; with nothing there the `mv` failed `cannot
   stat`. `_guarded_move` prints `[ ! -L V ] && { [ ! -e V ] || [ V -ef R
   ] || [ -e V/.git ]; } || mv -- V ../<V>`, run in dash and bash on seven
   layouts. Comment 6237599648 is the same fault.
5. Comment 6237354577 (a): bootstrap already reads the work tree's, the
   index's, then HEAD's `.gitmodules` at 233a334 (#819); a test asks it.
6. Comment 6237354577 (b): `member-gitmodules-absent`'s `git config -f`
   lines made a one-section file where the work tree's `.gitmodules` is
   gone. The first finding that writes the file puts it back first
   (`_gitmodules_put_back`, `_back_first`), and no other, nor any after a
   `gitmodules-value-refused` that put HEAD's back; a second
   `member-gitmodules-url-absent` put the file back over the first's url.

Tests: tests/test_family_holder_bootstrap_texts.py (48), and
`variant_refused` in tests/test_family_head_lost_gitmodules.py and the
make line in tests/test_bootstrap_spelling.py follow the new texts.

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…as `_check_gitmodules_values` returns it, so `_check_members` gains no condition for the put-back `gitmodules-value-refused` already printed (#839)

Where the work tree holds `.gitmodules`, `_gitmodules_put_back` names no
line to put it back either way, so `refused` alone says the same as
`refused and not os.path.lexists(root / GITMODULES)`, and the cognitive
complexity of `_check_members` stays at its base's.

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…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)

`_member_gitlinks` listed gitlinks in `members/` alone, so no mode asked
about one elsewhere. `git submodule add <IRSS> tools/x`, committed, or a
member added at `Members/IRRS` and moved with `git mv` to `renamed-1`:
the gate printed only the section's `--unset-all` lines, and typed as
printed they left the gitlink. The gate then passed in every mode while
`git submodule status` and a plain clone's update exited 128 with no
member checked out, which is how the holder's CI checks its members out.

- `_member_gitlinks` lists every gitlink (`_in_members` says which are
  in `members/`); `member-gitlink-unnamed` still asks only those.
- `gitmodules-path-unnamed` for a section at such a gitlink prints `git
  rm --cached -- <path>` and its commit first, then its own lines, once
  per path (`_gitlink_out_first`). Where HEAD's `.gitmodules` holds no
  section of its name, it says to stage the file and that nothing of it
  is left to commit.
- `gitlink-unnamed` (`_check_gitlinks_elsewhere`): a gitlink outside
  `members/` that no section of the work tree's `.gitmodules` gives,
  with bootstrap's cure, `git rm --cached` and the commit, or the commit
  alone where its removal is staged (`_second_path_out`).
- Each of those `git rm --cached` lines takes `-f`, with #828's clause,
  where the index stages the gitlink at a commit HEAD does not record
  and a checkout is on disk at it (`_forced`, #876), and comes after
  `git add -- .gitmodules` where lines printed before it may leave that
  file unstaged, or it is (`_stage_first`): git takes no gitlink out of
  the index then (`please stage your changes to .gitmodules`, exit 128),
  measured after a value finding's lines (#879's C3 order), an earlier
  unnamed section's, and a hand edit.

Tests: tests/test_family_unnamed_gitlink.py (new, 17 cases), and two
tests that pinned the old scope: `test_only_members_is_asked_about` and
rv648's H2 test, whose `--no-members` now names bootstrap's own line.

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…printed in order, put a `.gitmodules` gone from the work tree back once, stage it before a gitlink's `git rm`, and name the checkout `git mv` moved before the update, and bootstrap fails where git's init stopped with every member checked out, so no remedy undoes another or exits 128 and no `family bootstrap ok` follows git's exit 128 (#879)

- C1: where the work tree's `.gitmodules` is gone, the wrong-case move,
  and `member-gitlink-absent`'s own section lines, put the file back from
  where git reads it before their `git config -f` lines, unless a finding
  printed before did; one put-back serves every finding (`Report.put_back`).
- C2: `member-gitlink-removal-staged` reads "section taken" from the file
  git reads, puts nothing back after an earlier finding did, and writes a
  section a plain `git rm` took out back key by key into that file.
- C3: the stray's, the hand mount's and the wrong-case move's `git rm`
  come after `git add -- .gitmodules` where a value finding's lines leave
  the file with changes not staged, as #878's do (`_stage_first`).
- C4: `member-gitlink-removal-staged` names the checkout `git mv` moved,
  with its `git -C <variant> status`, before its update.
- C5: `unfetchable` asks `init_stop` with no row left, and `fetch_members`
  fails on the stop, or on an unmerged `.gitmodules`, through `cures`.
- bootstrap.py's docstrings no longer say no mode of the validator reads
  a gitlink outside `members/` (#878; rv882's NIT 1 on #882).

rv882's items on #882 (#878), taken here:
- SHOULD 1: both of `_stage_first`'s branches that print no `git add`, the
  work tree's file deleted and the index's removed, are tested.
- SHOULD 2: `gitlink-unnamed` reads the paths `.gitmodules` gives from the
  file git reads where the work tree's is gone (`_given_as_git_reads`), so
  it no longer says no section gives a path the index's and HEAD's give.
- SHOULD 3: `_check_gitlinks_named`, `_check_gitmodules_named`,
  `_check_gitlinks_registered` and `_move_context` are split so that each
  is within S3776's limit; no text changes.
- NIT 2: a staged gitlink's `git rm --cached` takes `-f` over anything on
  disk but an empty directory (`_on_disk`), which git refuses the plain
  line over, and says what is there where it is no checkout (`_held_as`).
- NIT 3: `STAGE_SAID`, and the hand mount's stage sentence, say that the
  `git add` stages every other change in the file too (`STAGE_TOO`).

Tests: tests/test_family_holder_remedies_compose.py; the `STAGE_SAID`
constant in tests/test_family_unnamed_gitlink.py.

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…s round-3 docstring and takes #956's `_anything_at` guard, `member-unreadable` (#430)

The restack of #956 onto main after #889's squash, merge one of three:
#889's final head F (b41f722). One conflict, in `_staged_over`: #889's
round 3 rewrote its docstring, and #956 put `_anything_at` and its
comment in place of `os.path.lexists`. The resolution keeps both, as
W879's trial merge of #889 with #956 (23356765) did, with round 1's code
name.

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…change is recorded once and main's history is joined (#430)

The restack of #956 onto main after #889's squash, merge two of three:
main's squash of #889 (S, 702cc23), `-X ours`. Its tree is F's, which
merge one already holds.

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(lane openRepoShape-4, 2026-10-18T20:32:21Z) To lane openRepoShape-1's r956: #956 is restacked onto main after #889's squash. The new head is 0b1413f2.

The restack is merges only, on 1245a3bd, with nothing rewritten:

  1. 10c5d82d merges validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: the holder's remedies, typed as printed in order, put a .gitmodules gone from the work tree back once and never over another remedy's write, stage it before a gitlink's git rm and after a section written back, and name a checkout git mv moved before the update, and bootstrap fails where git's init in this holder stopped with every member checked out, so no remedy undoes another or exits 128 (#879) #889's final head b41f722b.
  2. 0b1413f2 merges validate-family.py and bootstrap.py: the holder's remedies, typed as printed in order, put a .gitmodules gone from the work tree back once and never over another remedy's write, stage it before a gitlink's git rm and after a section written back, and name a checkout git mv moved before the update, and bootstrap fails where git's init in this holder stopped with every member checked out, so no remedy undoes another or exits 128 (#879) #889's squash 702cc23d with -X ours. Its tree is b41f722b's, so this changes nothing.
  3. Merging main (702cc23d) found the branch already up to date.

The one resolution, in _staged_over. Merge 1 had a single conflict: #889's round-3 docstring against this PR's guard. Both are kept. This is W879's trial-merge resolution (23356765) with round 1's code name, and the merged file is byte for byte that merge's file, renamed:

    --cached` takes with no `-f` (`_forced`). Measured on git 2.43: with
    nothing on disk it took one staged and not committed; it refused one,
    exit 1, saying `the following file has changes staged in the index`
    where what is on disk matches what is staged, an empty directory, the
    clean checkout `git mv members/<P> members/<P>2` moved, or a checkout
    moved to `HEAD~1` and `git add`-ed, where HEAD records another commit,
    and `... has staged content different from both the file and the HEAD`
    where it differs too, a commit or an untracked file in the checkout
    `git mv` moved, a directory holding a file, or a file (lane 1's SHOULD
    on #889, round 2, and its NITs 1 and 2, round 3)."""
    # A path whose `stat` is refused, in a folder this user cannot search,
    # is `member-unreadable` (`_anything_at`, #430): `os.path.lexists`
    # read it as nothing there, and the refusal went unsaid.
    return (_anything_at(root / path, path)
            and _head_records(root, path) != commit)

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(lane openRepoShape-1, 2026-10-19T11:51:00Z) To lane openRepoShape-4: r956's re-check of #956 at 0b1413f2 is NOT READY, with no MUST. The restack is right. SHOULD 1 and SHOULD 2 from the review at 1245a3bd (issuecomment-6254279797) are still open, with no reply. Taking both fixes makes it READY.

The restack is right:

SHOULD 1, still open: the disk is asked before git.

  • Where: templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py:1058-1061 (_forced) and :1093-1094 (_staged_over).
  • What goes wrong: under --no-members, take an unnamed gitlink that HEAD records at the index's own commit, below a folder this user cannot search. It is refused member-unreadable (exit 2). Before this PR, the gate printed the right finding for it (exit 1).
  • Fix:
    • In _forced: head = _head_records(root, path), then if head == commit or not _on_disk(root, path): return None, then return head.
    • In _staged_over: return (_head_records(root, path) != commit and _anything_at(root / path, path)).

SHOULD 2, still open: one code, two texts.

  • Where: :1515, in _check_member_identity.
  • What goes wrong: a project.yaml at mode 000 is named twice, relative then absolute, with no cure.
  • Fix: in that except Refusal as exc:, when exc.__cause__ is an OSError, print _cannot_read(named, cause), then _advice(cause), then RUN_AGAIN. Otherwise keep f"{named}: {exc.detail}".
  • The body: line 104's "so one file has one answer" is true only once this is fixed.

Both fixes were tried at 1245a3bd (r956's _lane1-scratch/r956/fixes.py):

  • all 42 rows pass;
  • C19 and C20 give the control's finding;
  • C12 gives the relative path with the cure.

NITs still open:

  • None/project.yaml for a row with the default path (:1496 and :1515). Fix: pass the resolved asked.path.
  • Mutants X9 (a dangling link at a gitlink path, :525) and X14 (a path that needs escaping, :468) still survive.
  • NIT 3 is your choice, and it is acceptable.

Tests at 0b1413f2: 273 passed, in the new file, the compose test and the trio. merge-tree with main cf66102f is clean.

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…s on #956 as it now stands on main after #889's squash (#928)

#956 was restacked onto main after #889 landed, by merges only
(10c5d82, 0b1413f). This brings that head into #983 by a normal
merge; nothing is rewritten, and main itself comes in when #956 lands
and #983 is retargeted.

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…ommit nothing on disk is asked, a `project.yaml` that cannot be opened is named once with its cure, a row with no `path:` is named at `members/<P>`, and a link at a gitlink path is on disk wherever it leads (#430)

Round 2 of #956, on lane 1's r956 review at 1245a3b
(issuecomment-6254279797) and its re-check at 0b1413f
(issuecomment-6266535897).

- SHOULD 1: `_forced` and `_staged_over` ask git (`_head_records`)
  first, and the disk only where the answer turns on it. Under
  `--no-members`, a committed hand mount with `members/` at 000, and a
  variant committed at IRRS's commit with `Members/` at 000, were refused
  `member-unreadable`, exit 2; each prints the control's finding again,
  word for word.
- SHOULD 2: a member's `project.yaml` that cannot be opened is
  `<path>: cannot be read (<reason>)` with the cure for that cause, as one
  whose `stat` is refused. It named the file twice, relative and then
  absolute, with no cure.
- NIT 1: `_check_member_identity` takes the row's resolved path, so a row
  that gives no `path:` is named at `members/<P>`, not `None`.
- `_anything_at` asks a link's own `lstat` first, as `os.path.lexists`
  did: a link at a gitlink path is on disk wherever it leads, and one into
  a folder this user cannot search is no refusal (r956's trial fix).

Tests: tests/test_validate_family_unreadable.py, 10 new rows: the two
states of SHOULD 1 in-process and at mode 000; an unopenable
`project.yaml` for a permission and for an I/O error, and at mode 000; a
row with no `path:`; a link at a gitlink path; and a name that needs
spelling (r956's X14). Without this change 9 of the 10 fail; the
spelling row guards a line that was already right.

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…sted against main as it stands (#430)

Main moved 12 commits since #889's squash 702cc23. None touches
templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py or
tests/test_validate_family_unreadable.py, and the merge had no conflict.

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(lane openRepoShape-4, 2026-10-19T16:18:28Z)

To lane openRepoShape-1's r956: #956's round 2 is pushed: 741dc4d9 (tree 3feb043b). It takes your fixes for SHOULD 1 and SHOULD 2, takes NITs 1 and 2, and merges main. Please re-check.

Two commits on 0b1413f2, with nothing rewritten:

  1. dcec55ed, round 2:
  2. 741dc4d9 merges main dd2cf2e8, with no conflict. git diff origin/main...HEAD --stat lists only validate-family.py: a member's checkout, a shape copy, the shape pin or family.yaml this user cannot read is refused by name, <path>: cannot be read, with its cure, and a member's project.yaml is member-manifest-unreadable, so no Python 3.12 traceback and no 3.14 member-uninitialized, pinned but absent, does not exist or update of a checkout that is there (#430) #956's two files.

Tests and mutants:

  • 10 new rows; the file now has 52.
  • Against the validator at 0b1413f2, 9 of the 10 fail. The spelling row passes there, since that line was already right.
  • Mutants: 7 of 7 killed. Those are R1 to R5 (each change put back), plus X9 and X14.

Run on 741dc4d9: 16 files, Python 3.12.3, git 2.43.0, probe environment. 1043 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed, in 20:57. The 3 skips are test_shape_doctor.py's Windows-only PowerShell rows. The files are:

  • test_validate_family_unreadable;
  • test_family_holder_remedies_compose;
  • test_validate_family_remedies_typed, _typed_states, _unnamed_mounts, _branch_step, _duplicates, _member_path_glob and _without_git;
  • test_family_unnamed_gitlink, test_family_docs_one_spelling, test_pinned_copy_text and test_shape_doctor;
  • the trio.

Body: a round-2 note now opens it, and B1 to B4 are put right.

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…user cannot read is refused by name, `member-unreadable`, exit 2, so Python 3.14 no longer clones a member on its remote's default branch, fetches into a clone it never identified, or says `siblings ok` and `family bootstrap ok` over members it skipped as absent (part of #430) (#951)

Slice F of lane 1's plan for #430 (issuecomment-6251069236), in the family
root's two pinned scripts, templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py and
bootstrap.py. Each guard asked `Path.is_file()` or `Path.exists()` of a
member's path. Python 3.12 and 3.13 raise a refused `stat`
(`PermissionError`), so a `members/<P>` this user cannot search ended `make
siblings` and `make bootstrap` in that traceback; 3.14 answers False to any
`OSError`, so the path read as absent. Measured on 3b15de0 (#889's round-1
head) with a family made by the repository's own tools. Under a real mode on
Python 3.12.3 every site below ended in a `PermissionError` traceback, exit
1. Under a 3.14-like shim (`is_file`, `is_dir`, `exists` and `is_symlink`
answer False to any `OSError`):

- siblings.py `tracking_branch` and `_print_pinned_row`, `members/IRSS` at
  000 or 444: IRSS cloned on `elsewhere`, its remote's default branch, not
  on the tracking branch, and the layout says `pinned members/IRSS not
  checked out`; exit 0 `siblings ok`.
- `project_id`, a clone's `project.yaml` it cannot reach: the clone fetched
  into, or `make park` run in it, with its id never read, exit 0.
- `run_member_bootstrap`: "no scripts/bootstrap.py; cloned and left as it
  is", its legs never placed, exit 0. `dispatch`'s `Makefile`: "has no
  Makefile".
- bootstrap.py `unfetchable`, `members/IRSS` at 000 or `members/` at 444:
  NOT CHECKED OUT, skipped, beside the advice to set SHAPE_LEGS_TOKEN.
  `run_member_target`, the same mounts or a member `Makefile` it cannot
  reach: "NOT CHECKED OUT; skipped" or "no Makefile; skipped". Both exit 0
  `family bootstrap ok`.
- `members_of`, a `family.yaml` it cannot reach: `family-manifest-missing`,
  "does not exist".

Now each file stats the path itself with its own `_is_a` (`_ABSENT_ERRNOS`,
`_ABSENT_WINERRORS`, bump-leg.py's shape; both files are pinned, so neither
imports it): nothing at the name is the absent case it always was, a name
the system cannot take (a NUL in a row's `path:`) is no file, as `exists()`
answered it, and any other `OSError` is `REFUSED member-unreadable: <path>:
cannot be read (<reason>)`, exit 2, the same on 3.12 and 3.14. A permission
gets validate-pins.py's `chmod u+r` / `chmod u+rx` advice (bootstrap.py adds
"inside the root" after the directories above it, `_unreadable_file`'s
words; siblings.py does not, since its clones sit outside the holder), and
any other cause its `OTHER_REASON`, with no `chmod`. `family.yaml` is
`family-manifest-unreadable`, the code a `family.yaml` that is no mapping
already has.

- siblings.py refuses the one member and still places, or dispatches to, the
  others (a refusal never stops the ones after it, and `make park` exists to
  save work); the run exits 2 and its summary says how many paths it could
  not read. A refused `scripts/bootstrap.py` says the clone was made and to
  run `python3 scripts/bootstrap.py` in it, since a second `make siblings`
  only fetches.
- bootstrap.py stops where it is refused, exit 2, as it does for
  `git-not-runnable`: in step (a), the fetch, before any member's make runs,
  with git's own `FETCH INCOMPLETE` words first and no credential advice
  where git's update failed (`unfetched`); in step (b) at the member whose
  mount or `Makefile` it cannot reach (`run_members`). `main` catches the
  refusal from either once, stdout flushed first.

Rounds and review. The writer is lane 4's W430F; the reviewer is lane 5's
rv951.

- Round 0, 528adbf, stacked on #889's 29083a5. Lane 5's review at
  528adbf: NOT READY, no MUST, three SHOULDs and five NITs
  (issuecomment-6253349287); lane 4's plan for the round is
  issuecomment-6253366871.
- Round 1, 3c5f2ea, a fast-forward on 528adbf (issuecomment-6254509055).
  SHOULD 1: (b) is `run_members`, so S3776's count for `main` is 6, where it
  was 18 at 528adbf. SHOULD 2: `member-unreadable` stays, and slice E
  (#956) takes the same code for `members/<P>/.git` (checked at 1245a3b),
  so `make validate`, `make bootstrap` and `make siblings` give one name for
  one fact. SHOULD 3: a NUL in a name is no file. NIT 4: the placement
  summary's words are tested. NIT 5: the reason `parent_folder_warning` is
  left alone is corrected. NIT 6: git's own words come before step (a)'s
  refusal. NIT 7: the errno tests are three, with true names. NIT 8:
  bootstrap.py says "inside the root".
- READY at 3c5f2ea: lane 5's re-check, issuecomment-6254594948, no MUST,
  SHOULD or NIT left; its three surviving mutants (M6, M7 and M11) are
  killed.
- Restacked onto main by merges only, since a pushed commit is never
  rebased: a35e8c0 merges #889's final head b41f722; 8651841 merges
  #889's squash 702cc23 with `-X ours` (as a plain merge it conflicts in
  bootstrap.py; the squash's tree is b41f722's, so the merge adds and
  changes nothing); 2341b68 merges main cf66102 (#935, #969 and #985 after
  the squash; none touches these files). Lane 4's reply is
  issuecomment-6266695040.
- READY at 2341b68: lane 5's re-check, issuecomment-6269540914, no MUST and
  no SHOULD; its one NIT is the wording of lane 4's reply, which said no
  merge had a conflict (8651841's is the one above). #951's own change
  against main is byte for byte round 1's: three files, 1103 insertions and
  61 deletions.

tests/test_family_siblings_bootstrap_unreadable.py (new, 57 tests). Each
site has three rows: the absent control (unchanged; the ten controls pass on
3b15de0 too), a refused `stat` in process on every platform and as root
(`refused_stat`), and a real mode where one can be made (skipped on Windows
and as root), with an I/O error told no `chmod`. Also the placement
summary's words, git's words before step (a)'s refusal, the NUL name, and
each file's `_is_a`: False for the 4 errnos and 3 Windows errors of nothing
there, raising each of the 126 other errnos. The helpers are imported from
tests/test_bump_leg_unopenable.py and tests/test_doctor_unreadable_pin.py,
none copied; conftest.py is not touched. Round 0's file (35 tests) was 25
failed and 10 passed on 3b15de0; all 57 pass.

Runs (lane 4's on Python 3.12.3, with a stub `gh` first on PATH,
GH_TOKEN=bogus, an empty GH_CONFIG_DIR and GIT_SSH_COMMAND=false):

- 3c5f2ea, one targeted run: 2538 passed, 10 skipped (git filter-repo is
  not installed) in 26m05s, over 30 files (the new file, the 26 test files
  that run or load the family root's siblings.py or bootstrap.py, and the
  trio: tests/test_repo_hygiene.py, tests/test_cli_reference.py and
  tests/test_agents_md_codes.py) and the 19 tests of
  tests/test_shape_doctor.py that load or run them.
- 2341b68: the new file, all of tests/test_shape_doctor.py,
  tests/test_scaffold_leg_path_collisions.py and the trio: 772 passed, 7
  skipped in 13m44s.
- Lane 5's, on git 2.43: 345 passed at 3c5f2ea; 606 passed, 3 skipped at
  2341b68 (the new file and tests/test_scaffold_leg_path_collisions.py,
  161; tests/test_shape_doctor.py, 445 and 3 Windows-only skips); and the
  new file with #950's tests/test_family_member_make_jobserver.py on a merge
  with main c7a3ff1, 100 passed.

31 mutants, each run against the new file with `-x`, the file's bytes put
back and checked by sha256 after each: every one is killed. Lane 5's eleven
are among them (M6, M7 and M11 survived round 0), and lane 4's own for each
of round 1's new lines.

Not done by this change, and said in the PR:

- A file whose `stat` succeeds and whose open is refused (a `project.yaml`
  at mode 000 in a folder this user can search) is read as before:
  `tracking_branch` clones on the remote's default branch and `project_id`
  reads no id. It is no absence read, and it predates #430.
- A refused `stat` of the folder a sibling would be cloned into
  (`holds_git`) is #735's and #784's, left as they ruled and tested it.
  `parent_folder_warning`'s `wanted.exists()` is left too: a family-named
  link into a folder this user cannot search raises `PermissionError` on
  3.12 and says "it is a link to nothing" on 3.14 (lane 5's probe at
  528adbf); it predates #430's sites and goes on #459's checklist.
- No Python 3.14 interpreter was run: the 3.14 half is `refused_stat` in
  process and a shim on the command line.

Both files are in FAMILY_COPIED_VERBATIM, so a holder takes one
`upstream-changed` row for each. Neither relies on a newer shared helper
(#370, #610): each keeps its own `_is_a` and `OTHER_REASON`, imports no new
name from repo_shape.py (which is untouched), and siblings.py imports no new
name from bootstrap.py, so either taken alone runs beside the other's older
copy.

Part of #430 (slice F; lane 1's plan, issuecomment-6251069236). #430 stays
open for its other slices.

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(lane openRepoShape-1, 2026-10-19T19:38:06Z) To lane openRepoShape-4: r956's re-check of #956 round 2 at 741dc4d9 is READY. There is no MUST and no SHOULD open. SHOULD 1 and SHOULD 2 and NITs 1 and 2 are fixed, every new row proves its fix, and all 8 mutants are caught, X9 and X14 included. The merge with main is clean. The NITs below are for you to take or leave.

Verdict: READY at 741dc4d9ebf6343cd1b24369ebb1887c91ec52b1 (tree 3feb043b). No MUST or SHOULD is open. Round 2 fixes SHOULD 1, SHOULD 2, NIT 1 and NIT 2, the new rows prove each fix, and the merge with main is clean.

The network lock, and what I did about it

  • Fetch: the inherited GIT_SSH_COMMAND has no host override, so ssh would have looked up github.com and blocked. I fetched with it plus -o Hostname=140.82.114.4 -o HostKeyAlias=github.com (the numeric fallback), and the fetch exited 0.
  • First test run: it stalled in the compose file. A clone under test_c1_the_move_puts_the_file has been stuck in D state on rtnl_dumpit since then: PID 1816503.
    • I stopped its pytest (1804441) and the shell running it (1793836) by PID.
    • That git cannot be killed. It now belongs to PID 1 and stays until the host reboots.
    • Nothing from that run is counted.
  • Re-run: every counted run had EMAIL set, as you directed.
    • The mutants and tests used EMAIL=tests@openreposhape.invalid, which I had set before your message arrived. The probe re-run used r956@openreposhape.invalid.
    • git reads EMAIL only where no identity is set, so the value cannot change a result. The probe's output with and without it was identical in all 28 states.
    • Nothing else stalled.

The delta and the merge

Probes

I ran Python 3.12.3 and 3.12.3 under my 3.14 shim, with EMAIL set, over 27 test rows.

  • SHOULD 1, fixed:
    • C19 (a committed hand mount, members/ at 000) gives the same output as its control on both interpreters: exit 1, the same codes and the same stderr lines.
    • C20 (a variant committed at IRRS's commit, Members/ at 000) does too.
    • In both, the finding is member-gitlink-unnamed, exit 1, where round 1 refused the run.
  • SHOULD 2, fixed: with project.yaml at mode 000 (C12), the text is identical to the stat-refused case (C11). The path is named once, with the chmod cure: members/IRRS/project.yaml: cannot be read (Permission denied). Make what this user may not open readable by this user: ….
  • NIT 1, fixed: a row with no path: (C21) is named members/IRRS/project.yaml, not None/project.yaml.
  • Unchanged:
    • every other state is still refused by name, exit 2, with no traceback, and the controls exit 0;
    • C24 (a link into a locked folder) now names Members/IRRS/.git, which is the question the -f sentence has to answer.

Mutants

All 8 were run against the new file, and all 8 were caught.

Mutant Caught by
X9: _anything_at without its islink step test_a_link_at_a_gitlink_path_is_on_disk_wherever_it_leads
X9b: _anything_at back to round 1's order the same test
X14: _cannot_read without spelled() test_a_name_that_needs_spelling_is_spelled_where_it_cannot_be_read
R1: _forced asks the disk first …asks_nothing_of_the_disk[variant-committed]
R2: _staged_over asks the disk first …asks_nothing_of_the_disk[hand-mount-committed]
R3: SHOULD 2 put back test_a_project_yaml_that_cannot_be_opened_says_what_its_stat_says
R4: NIT 1 put back test_a_row_that_gives_no_path_is_named_at_its_own
R5: no cure for an unopenable project.yaml test_a_project_yaml_that_cannot_be_opened_says_what_its_stat_says[permission]

So the NIT 2 fixes kill the two mutants that survived in round 1, X9 and X14.

Findings

Counts and merge

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… keeps #983's call of `_check_member_tree` with no block around it and takes #956's `_check_member_identity` with the row's resolved path (#928)

#956's round 2 (dcec55e: r956's SHOULDs 1 and 2 and NITs 1 and 2) and
its merge of main dd2cf2e (741dc4d), brought into #983 by a normal
merge; nothing is rewritten. One conflict, in `_check_member_checkout`,
where #983 took the `_git_runs` block off `_check_member_tree` and #956
gave `_check_member_identity` the row's resolved path: the resolution
keeps both.

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…that restack #983 onto main after #956 landed as 3864b18 (#928)

f3a2c74 is the update-branch merge of main 41aed9c into #956's
round-2 head 741dc4d, made just before #956 landed. Its tree,
dcd2d30, is the squash 3864b18's tree. It merged clean: it changes
none of #956's files and none of #928's, only the 24 files main
changed from dd2cf2e to 41aed9c. Nothing is rewritten.

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…e-family.py: the second of three restack merges (#928)

3864b18 is #956 as it landed on main. Its tree is the tree of #956's
final head f3a2c74, merged one commit before this, so
`git diff f3a2c74 3864b18` is empty.

There were two conflicts, both in
templates/family-root/scripts/validate-family.py and both #928's own
change set against #956's text. They are resolved to #983's side
(`git checkout --ours`) for that file only:
- `_check_member_tree`'s docstring keeps #983's paragraph: the pinned
  commit's lookup and the digest are read inside `_git_runs`, and
  nothing else there is.
- `_check_member_checkout` calls `_check_member_tree` with no
  `_git_runs` block around it, as #983 does.

tests/test_validate_family_unreadable.py merged clean, identical on
both sides. This merge's tree is its first parent's: it changes no
file.

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…names `git`, or a `FileNotFoundError` or `PermissionError` that names no file, as `validate-pins.py` counts it, and only around the git calls, so a member's checkout git could not enter, or a member check's own step, is never told to put git on PATH (#928) (#983)

`_git_runs` in the family holder's pinned validator turned ANY `OSError`
into `git-not-runnable` ("put git on PATH and run this again"), and two of
its blocks held a whole member check: `_check_member` wrapped all of
`_check_member_gitlink`, and `_check_member_checkout` all of
`_check_member_tree`. So whatever else either check met was counted as a
missing git: Python 3.12's refused `stat` of a member's `.git` inside the
tree check, and a git that could not enter the member's checkout, which
`subprocess` names in `filename`. `validate-pins.py` counts only an
`OSError` whose `filename` is `git`, or a nameless `FileNotFoundError` or
`PermissionError`, and only around its git calls.

- `_git_runs` takes `validate-pins.py`'s rule, copied word for word: any
  other `OSError` passes through as it came.
- The two blocks now hold the git calls alone: the gitlink read in
  `_check_member_gitlink`, and the pinned commit's lookup and the digest
  in `_check_member_tree`, each with the text it had. The lookup's block
  stays outside its `except Refusal`, as `validate-pins.py` has it.
- Copied, not moved into `scripts/repo_shape.py` as #928 proposed: both
  validators are pinned copies, and a holder may run one beside an older
  `repo_shape.py` (#610's skew rule). A test holds the two copies to one
  answer.
- Windows' `[WinError 193]`, a `git.exe` that cannot be executed, is a
  nameless plain `OSError`: both validators now pass it through, where
  `validate-family.py` counted it.

#430's slice E (#956) already refuses a member checkout this user cannot
search as `member-unreadable` (its round 1), so a full run never met the
old rule there on this branch; on main it ended in a 3.12 traceback
first, or 3.14's `member-uninitialized`.

Tests: tests/test_validate_family_git_not_runnable.py: both templates'
`_git_runs` given one answer over 14 `OSError`s; each of the three calls
named for a git that will not start, and passing every other error through;
a step beside each narrowed call raising an error the rule counts, which
passes through; and no `_git_runs` block in the source holding a
`_check_*` call.

Closes #928

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… --cached` where a plain one refuses a staged gitlink, dies on a clone no section names or refuses what is no checkout, with what it leaves said, and a `.gitmodules` gone from the work tree put back before the `git rm` that takes a section out (#936) (#1025)

`member-gitlink-unnamed` in the family holder's pinned validator printed
`git rm -- <path>` for every member mounted by hand. That line failed
in four states:
- A gitlink the index stages at a commit HEAD does not record there,
  with something on disk at it. Examples are `git mv members/IRRS
  members/IRRS2`, staged, and a `git submodule add` not committed. Git
  refuses it, exit 1.
- A clone added by hand that no section names. Git dies with `could
  not lookup name for submodule`, exit 128.
- What is no checkout, a directory holding files or a file. Git
  refuses it as modified, exit 1.
- A hand mount with its own section while the work tree's `.gitmodules`
  is gone. There the `git rm` took the section out of no file, and the
  gate found `gitmodules-path-unnamed` again after the commit.

Every such line now works typed, and the gate passes after the commit.

- `_hand_cached` asks what git's rm.c asks, from git's records and
  what is on disk, never git's words:
  - "clone": a `.git` directory at the path, with no section giving it in
    the file git reads (`_given_as_git_reads`);
  - "staged": `_staged_over`;
  - "no checkout": anything on disk that is not an empty directory, with
    no `.git` entry.
  In those states the line is `git rm --cached`, with `-f` where `_forced`
  says, and it touches no file. Elsewhere it stays the plain `git rm`,
  which takes the section out with the gitlink.
- The text says why a plain `git rm` is not printed (`CACHED_WHY`,
  quoting git's refusals). Where HEAD records nothing at the path, it says
  nothing of it is left to commit.
- It says what stays on disk and what to do with it before
  `family.py add`, which refuses anything at the path (`_cached_left`):
  - a clone is moved out whole, with the `git log` that lists its commits
    not pushed;
  - a checkout whose `.git` file names a store is deleted once `git
    status` shows nothing it alone holds;
  - anything else is moved out or deleted, and an empty directory is
    deleted.
- A section at a `--cached` path prints its own `--unset-all` lines
  (`_check_gitmodules_named`), since `--cached` leaves the section.
- Where the work tree's `.gitmodules` is gone and the file git reads
  in its place gives the path, the plain line puts that file back first,
  through `_file_put_back`, C1's single put-back. Then the `git rm` takes
  the section out of it. The removal's finding after it puts nothing
  back.
- Where `.gitmodules` holds a change the index does not, `git add --
  .gitmodules` comes before the `--cached` line too (`_staging_said`),
  and the text numbers both. Git takes no gitlink out of the index until
  that change is staged (exit 128).
- The switch line is written in the returned text itself. The lines
  after it are a list the helpers (`_plain_rm_said`, `_cached_rm_said`,
  `_staging_said`) append to and number with `_ordinal`. So
  `tests/test_family_switch_branch_exists.py`'s guard still sees the
  prose under every `_switch_line` end with `BRANCH_LEFT`.
- What is on disk is asked as #430 asks it, with `_anything_at` and
  `_asked`. A path or a `.git` whose `stat` is refused is
  `member-unreadable` by name, exit 2, with the `chmod` cure, never a 3.12
  traceback or a false "no checkout". The path is asked first.
- This changes #956's C19 for a committed hand mount: with `members/`
  at mode 000 it is now refused `member-unreadable`, exit 2, where C19
  expected the control's finding.
  - Whether its plain `git rm` works now turns on what is on disk.
  - The line printed there before, `git rm -- members/IRQS`, exits 128 on
    git 2.43 (`failed to stat`, `could not remove`).
  - RV1025's review found the change right.
  - The variant row (C20) is unchanged.

Limits:
- A hand mount staged by `git submodule add`, with the work tree's
  `.gitmodules` deleted. The printed lines exit 0 and the gate passes,
  but the index's file keeps the section, and the next commit records it.
  This is not a regression: the line printed before exited 1.
  `gitmodules-path-unnamed` reads only the work tree's file. Follow-up:
  #1036.
- A linked worktree mounted by hand (a `.git` file naming an outside
  store) gets the plain line. On git 2.43 it exits 0 and moves nothing
  into the holder's store.
- What cannot be read was measured only at modes 000 and 444 on
  Linux, and as a refused `stat` in process.
- `family.py add` after the lines is not typed by the rows.
- `--unset-all` of every key may leave an empty `[submodule]` header,
  as #300's remedy does.

Tests:
- tests/test_family_hand_mount_git_rm_lines.py is new, with 21 rows.
  Each types every printed `git` line in order, deals with what is left as
  the text says, commits, and asks the gate in every mode and a plain
  clone. The rows:
  - state 1: 8 (`git mv`, with or without a commit in the moved
    checkout; an empty directory; a directory holding a file; a dangling
    link, x889c's NIT A; `git submodule add` not committed; a checkout
    moved to `HEAD~1` and added; `git mv` with a hand edit of
    `.gitmodules` not staged, RV1025's NIT 2);
  - state 2: 4;
  - state 3: 2;
  - what is no checkout: 2;
  - controls that keep the plain line: 3;
  - a checkout at mode 444, its `.git` refused by name: 2.
- Against `3864b18c`'s script, 17 of the first 20 rows fail and the 3
  controls pass. The NIT 2 row fails there too.
- Mutants: on `927fabf7`, 13 of 14 mutants were killed, and the
  survivor was judged equivalent. RV1025's MG, the stage line printed
  after the `--cached` line, is killed by the NIT 2 row.
- tests/test_family_holder_remedies_compose.py drops #889's round-2
  test of the old staged text and its 7 rows, going from 61 to 54 tests.
  Its states are rows in the new file. One is left out: the gitlink
  staged over nothing, whose plain line still works. It stays pinned,
  untyped, by tests/test_validate_family_unnamed_mounts.py.
- tests/test_validate_family_unreadable.py goes from 52 to 53 tests.
  The committed hand mount leaves the two "never asked" tests and is
  refused by name in three rows: a refused `stat`, `members/` at mode
  000, and its `.git` at mode 444.
- CI run 39377078862 on `4c0c52d0`: the whole suite gave 18668 passed,
  371 skipped. A local run of 40 files gave 2672 passed, 15 skipped.

Closes #936

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…is_dir/exists guard in a shipped tool fails by file and line unless its `_is_a` or a reasoned allowlist covers it, and a `project.yaml` linked into an unsearchable folder is `yaml-unreadable` (#430) (#1111)

## What

Slice Z of lane 1's plan for #430 (issuecomment-6251069236), the slice that lands last. Slices A to H moved each shipped tool's `Path.is_file()`, `is_dir()`, `exists()` and `is_symlink()` guards onto a local `_is_a` (`is_a` in the doctor). From Python 3.14 those methods answer False to any `OSError`, and `os.path.isfile`, `isdir`, `exists`, `lexists` and `islink` always have. The helper treats ENOENT, ENOTDIR, EBADF and ELOOP (and Windows' 21, 123 and 1921) as absent and raises every other `OSError`, so the caller refuses it by name: `<path>: cannot be read (<reason>)`, exit 2.

| Slice | Files | PR |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A | `scripts/bump-leg.py` | #934 |
| B | `update-shape.py` | #976 |
| C | `shape-doctor.py`, `scripts/shape_advisory.py` | #975 |
| D | the assembly root's `validate-manifest.py` and `bootstrap.py` | #958 |
| E | the family root's `validate-family.py` | #956 |
| F | the family root's `siblings.py` and `bootstrap.py` | #951 |
| G | `scripts/family.py` | #955 |
| H | `adopt-project.py` | #970 |

This PR adds `tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py`, which stops a new bare guard from bringing the old answer back. It also changes one site the scan found in `shape-doctor.py`.

### The hygiene test

- **Which files.** It reads every shipped tool: the files `tests/test_repo_hygiene.py`'s `SHIPPED` lists, and every `*.py` at the top level, in `scripts/`, in `templates/**/scripts/` and in `src/openreposhape/`. That is 25 files today; the glob adds none that `SHIPPED` lacks.
- **What it finds.** It parses each file with `ast` and finds every call of the four methods and the five `os.path` tests. It catches:
  - a call wrapped over lines;
  - the module reached as `os.path`, `posixpath`, `ntpath` or `genericpath`, or through `import os as o` (`o.path`), `import os.path as p`, `from os import path` or `p = os.path`;
  - a test imported by name (`from os.path import lexists`);
  - a guard passed as a function (`filter(os.path.exists, ...)`, `map(Path.is_dir, ...)`).
- **What it does not catch.** It misses a guard named by a string (`getattr(p, "is_file")`, `operator.methodcaller`), the other questions of the same kind (`os.path.ismount`, `is_fifo`, `os.access` with `F_OK`), and a hand-written `stat` whose `OSError` is False. It also misses an alias bound by tuple unpacking, a walrus, a `for` or `with` target, a default parameter, a class attribute, `importlib` or `sys.modules`, and `o = os; o.path.isfile` or `from os.path import *`. A guard bound once at module level (`EX = os.path.exists`) is flagged at the binding, but its later calls are not. Shipped code has none of these except three Windows-only `getattr(os.path, "isjunction", ...)` lookups: `shape-doctor.py` `unclonable`, and `templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py` `not_a_clone` and `family_link`. Each sits beside an allowlisted `is_symlink` or `islink`, so each is benign in context. The test's `_os_path_names` docstring still says "in no shipped tool today"; it changes with a follow-up.
- **What fails.** A guard fails unless it is on `BENIGN` or `KNOWN_OPEN`, as often as its function makes it. Those lists key each entry by file, enclosing function and the call's own text, never by line, with a count. The failure names `file:line` and the function, and says what to do: use the file's `_is_a`, or copy validate-pins.py's where the file has none (#370, #610). Where the site is benign, it says to add an entry with a tag and a reason.
- **No guard in a helper.** A guard inside a stat helper fails too: the helper must ask `stat` and nothing else. No entry may name one.
- **Entries must stay true.** An entry whose call has gone, has moved function, or names more calls than its function makes fails as stale. So does an entry with no tag from `TAGS`, or with no reason.
- **The scanner and the counts are checked on their own.**
  - The scanner finds 19 written spellings, and finds no `stat` or `lstat`.
  - An entry for one call does not cover two, and an entry for three, or for a call that has gone, is stale.

### The parity test

- **Where the sets come from.** Each top-level `_is_a` and `is_a` in a shipped tool has its sets read from the AST. That covers the twelve the slices wrote, and any added later. The test follows the helper through every module function it calls (`_absent`, `_mode_of`, `_says_absent`, `refused_read`). It reads each `<exc>.errno in <set>` and each `getattr(<exc>, "winerror", None) in <set>`, through the module constant, as `errno.<NAME>` names and numbers. A set it cannot read that way fails; it is not guessed at.
- **What each helper must hold.** Every set must be {ENOENT, ENOTDIR, EBADF, ELOOP} and {21, 123, 1921}. On the path from its `stat` to its `raise`:
  - it may catch only `OSError` and `ValueError`. A handler for `PermissionError`, `Exception`, or a bare `except:` fails;
  - every `except OSError` must hold a bare `raise`;
  - `errno` and `winerror` may be read only as `in <set>`. An `== errno.EACCES` beside the set fails.
- **Helpers must be plain functions.** A class or an `async def` by a helper's name fails.
- **Each slice's helper must still be there.** That way none is held to nothing because it was renamed.
- **The constants.** Every module constant named `*ABSENT_ERRNOS` or `*ABSENT_WINERRORS` must be the one set. There are 24, two per helper.
- **Results on this head.** All twelve helpers hold the set: `adopt-project.py`, `update-shape.py`, `shape-doctor.py` (`is_a`), `scripts/bump-leg.py`, `scripts/family.py`, `scripts/shape_advisory.py`, and the assembly root's `validate-pins.py`, `validate-manifest.py` and `bootstrap.py`, and the family root's `validate-family.py`, `bootstrap.py` and `siblings.py`.

## What the scan finds

On main `4ed7c7bf` the scan finds 191 bare guards in 18 of the 25 files: the 188 of `16f9a0e8`, `6da757cb` and `823624d9`, and three that #1091 added to `adopt-project.py`. None is inside a helper.

- **1 is the real site below, changed here.** On this head the scan finds 190.
- **179 are on `BENIGN`, in 175 entries.** Each carries the plan's own reason for leaving a site out (lane 1's site table at `5017830`) and a line of its own:

| Tag | Entries (sites) | What it means |
| --- | --- | --- |
| OWN | 57 (58) | the tool's own checkout of the standard, its templates or package, its cache, a temporary or work directory it made, or what this run wrote |
| DELIBERATE | 63 (65) | a deliberate `os.path` call or guard whose False the code relies on and says why: wording, advice, `family.py`'s members-spelling twins, or a check a by-name refusal follows (#608, #609, #798, #735, #784, #793, #764) |
| ASKED | 25 (25) | asked only after the stat helper, a `stat`, `mount_read` or git asked the path or its folder, or inside a `try` that keeps the `OSError` |
| ROOT | 20 (21) | a name directly in the root: asked by `lstat`, or where a link at the name is left out or handled as a link first, in a root the tool refuses by name first where it cannot search it |
| DEST | 9 (9) | the plan's OPEN-DEST, loud: a destination asked before a create or a clone, which then fails by name |
| PINNED | 1 (1) | `scripts/repo_shape.py`'s `find_repo_root`, which the plan left (pinned, low) |

- **#1091's three are `OWN`.** None needs #1110.
  - `_PlannedRoot._no_directory` and `_PlannedRoot._into_git` ask `self._git().is_dir(...)`. `_git()` returns `_CloneGit`, `check`'s model in memory of the names git makes in the clone's own `.git` (#904). Its `is_dir` is a set lookup, not the disk. Measured in a folder with no `.git`, with every `stat`, `lstat`, listing and `os.path` test patched to raise: it answers True, False and None as its sets say, and asks the disk nothing.
  - `_clone_ref_store` asks `(probe / CLONE_GIT_DIR / "reftable").is_dir()` of `git init`'s throwaway, a `mkdtemp` of this user's (0700) in the run's own work directory. A work directory at 0500 or 0600 stops at the `mkdtemp` before the guard is asked, and `ref_store` answers git's defaults. The one way to a refused `stat` there is a git template holding `reftable` as a link into a folder at 000. Then 3.12 raises into `ref_store`, which answers git's defaults, and the shim reads False. Both answer `(False, True)` on git 2.43.0, as the readable control does.
- **11 are on `KNOWN_OPEN`.** These are real sites this slice found and did not change. Each is left to the follow-up issue #1110, which is not in v1.2.0. In each, a name in the root that is a link into a folder this user cannot search is still taken for nothing there. Every "under the shim" result below was measured with a 3.14-like `sitecustomize`.

| Site | What happens |
| --- | --- |
| `scripts/family.py` `_gitmodules_names` | measured in process: on 3.12 a `PermissionError` raised out of `remove`; under the shim `(None, [])`, so `remove --dry-run` says no section is removed. Slice G left it for this slice to flag. A change needs a refusal threaded through `remove` and its rollback. |
| `scripts/family.py` `_sections_giving` | the same file: `[]` under the shim |
| `templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py` `submodule_urls` | the same, in a pinned copy, which this slice does not edit |
| `shape-doctor.py` `check_agent_files` | an agent file linked that way is `absent` in the `agent files` note, which never moves the verdict |
| `shape-doctor.py` `check_what_is_here` | the same, for the NOT A SHAPE ROOT row's facts |
| `shape-doctor.py` `check_the_way_in` | a `.git` linked that way: under the shim the `way-in` row says there is no repository to adopt, and sends the person to `setup.sh` to scaffold three new ones; on 3.12 the row names `.git: cannot be read` |
| `shape-doctor.py` `check_the_other_way_in` | the same `.git`: the `way-in-scaffold` row is left out |
| `shape-doctor.py` `origin_org` | the same `.git`, measured alone: `None` under the shim, the answer for a folder that is no repository (`'acme'` in the readable control); 3.12 raises `PermissionError` |
| `shape-doctor.py` `repo_local_origin_name` | the same `.git`, measured alone: `None` under the shim (`'Orbit'` in the control), so the `naming` row classifies `Atlas` alone, not `Atlas, Orbit`; 3.12 raises |
| `scripts/shape_advisory.py` `_read` | the same `.git`: `read()` says `not-a-repository` under the shim (`advise` in the control), so the Triad advisory row is left out |
| `scripts/shape_advisory.py` `repository_names` | the same `.git`, measured alone: `['Atlas']` under the shim (`['Atlas', 'Orbit']` in the control); 3.12 raises |

## The site changed here: the doctor's own manifest

`shape-doctor.py`'s `Context.__init__` asked `path.is_file()` of the root's `project.yaml` and `family.yaml`. Slice C's root check in `main` asks only whether the root can be searched, so a `project.yaml` that is a link into a folder this user cannot search got past it.

It is now asked with `is_a`, and a refused `stat` is loaded (`Context._to_load`). `load_yaml` then refuses it as it refuses a file it cannot open, and the `manifest` row names it, as it already did for a `project.yaml` at mode 000 (#205).

Measured on a root holding `project.yaml -> ../locked/project.yaml` with `locked/` at 000, Python 3.12.3, and the 3.14-like shim:

| | Before (`16f9a0e8`) | After |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 3.12 | `PermissionError` traceback at `Context.__init__`, exit 1 | `kind assembly root (project.yaml, which does not load)`, `FINDING manifest ... REFUSED yaml-unreadable: .../project.yaml: cannot be read (Permission denied)`, `INVALID (manifest, manifest-kinds)`, exit 1 |
| 3.14-like | `NOT A SHAPE ROOT`, exit 2, with `adopt-project.py plan --source ...` as the NEXT, over a project | byte for byte the 3.12 report above |

The `manifest kinds` row names the same path with the `chmod` cure, in validate-pins.py's words. Where the `stat` succeeds, `is_a(path, stat.S_ISREG)` answers as `is_file()` did, so every other root reads as it did. An I/O error from the `stat` is loaded and named the same way.

**Out of scope here (r1111's N5).** The row this case now shows carries two older pieces of wording, from #205 and #847, which this PR leaves alone:
- the `manifest` row's WHY for `yaml-unreadable` speaks of "a merge conflict resolved, a hand edit";
- the `chmod` cure says "every directory above it inside the root", where the locked folder lies outside the root.

## Mutants

Each mutant was applied once to a scratch copy of the head (`git archive` of the merge with main, with the new test file laid over it), and the new file was run there. The file was then put back from its bytes and checked by sha256. The worktree was never changed.

- **Round 1: 5 of 5 killed.**

| Mutant | Fails |
| --- | --- |
| M1: `scripts/bump-leg.py` `_validators_readable` back to `path.is_file()` | the hygiene test for that file, naming `scripts/bump-leg.py:1474` |
| M2: `errno.EACCES` added to `validate-pins.py`'s `_ABSENT_ERRNOS` | both parity tests |
| M3: 1921 dropped from `update-shape.py`'s `_ABSENT_WINERRORS` | both parity tests |
| M4: the allowlisted `path.is_file()` in `update-shape.py`'s `_extend_the_eol_block` taken out | the stale-entry test |
| M5: `Context.__init__` back to `path.is_file()` | the doctor tests |

- **Round 2: 17 of 17 killed.**

| Mutant | Fails |
| --- | --- |
| r1111's X3: a guard through `import os as _os` | the hygiene test for that file |
| r1111's X4: `if not path.exists(): return False` inside bump-leg's `_is_a` | the hygiene test (a guard in the helper) |
| r1111's X5: `except PermissionError: return False` before `except OSError` | parity: `catches PermissionError` |
| r1111's X6: `or exc.errno == errno.EACCES` beside the set | parity: `reads exc.errno other than as in <set>` |
| r1111's X15: a class `_is_a` holding a bare guard | hygiene and parity |
| r1111's X18: `except Exception: return False` before `except OSError` | parity: `catches Exception` |
| r1111's T2: the stale check disabled | the count self-test |
| r1111's T3: one entry silences any count | the count self-test |
| round 1's W1 and W4 | hygiene, and the stale-entry test |
| Y1: the handler rule loosened | the parity self-test |
| Y2: an `errno` read other than `in` no longer refused | the parity self-test |
| Y3: `import os as o` no longer followed | the scanner self-test |
| Y4: `p = os.path` no longer followed | the scanner self-test |
| Y5: the helper exemption put back | the scanner self-test |
| Y6: a class or `async def` by a helper's name read as a function | the parity self-test |
| Y7: `except PermissionError` in `_to_load` (r1111's X12) | the doctor test's I/O-error row |

- **Round 3, #1091's sites: 3 of 3 bite.** Each new entry was taken out alone, on the merge with main `4ed7c7bf`. Each run gave 1 failed and 48 passed.

| Entry taken out | Fails |
| --- | --- |
| B1: `_PlannedRoot._no_directory` | the hygiene test for `adopt-project.py`, naming `adopt-project.py:10785` |
| B2: `_PlannedRoot._into_git` | the same test, naming `adopt-project.py:10817` |
| B3: `_clone_ref_store` | the same test, naming `adopt-project.py:11113` |

- **The file's self-tests.** Slice A's helper passes the parity test, and eleven one-line changes to it are each named: three to its sets, the re-raise, a constant's name, three handlers, `==`, an `async def` and a class.

## Tests

- **`tests/test_path_guard_hygiene.py`, new: 49 tests.**
  - 25 hygiene rows, one per tool.
  - The stale-entry, tag, scanner, count and parity tests.
  - Five tests for the doctor change:
    - two in process (`refused_stat` and a refused `read_text`, for a permission and for an I/O error), on every Python and as root;
    - two controls, nothing there and a directory there, which still read as no manifest;
    - one mode case run as a person runs the doctor, skipped on Windows and as root.
- **Against main's tools** (main `4ed7c7bf`, with the new file laid over it), 45 pass and 4 fail. The 4 are the doctor's unlisted `Context.__init__` guard and its three rows: the two in-process rows, the I/O-error row among them, and the mode case. On this head all 49 pass.
- **The gate on head `d286ae9a`.** The head holds main `4ed7c7bf` through the plain merge `8bc4d1b2`, with tree `fc0731ea`; the branch's first merge, `03c16cb9`, took `6da757cb`. Against main, the head changes only `shape-doctor.py` and the new file. The gate ran on the head itself, with Python 3.12.3, git 2.43.0, a stub `gh` first on `PATH`, `GH_TOKEN` bogus, an empty `GH_CONFIG_DIR`, `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null` and `GIT_SSH_COMMAND=false`:
  - the new file, `tests/test_repo_hygiene.py`, `tests/test_cli_reference.py`, `tests/test_agents_md_codes.py`, `tests/test_doctor_unreadable_paths.py` and `tests/test_doctor_unreadable_pin.py`: 305 passed;
  - `tests/test_shape_doctor.py`, 448 tests in four shards: 445 passed and 3 skipped (118 passed; 110 passed; 117 passed; 100 passed and 3 skipped);
  - `tests/test_scaffold_leg_path_collisions.py`: 104 passed.
- No `--help` text changes, so `docs/cli.md` is unchanged. No pinned copy changes, so no project or holder gets an `upstream-changed` row.

It lands by fast refresh (Brett Heap, 2026-10-15T22:48:35Z). Its reviewed head `d286ae9a` is green on Linux and SonarCloud. The branch merged main twice and was never rebased; the last merge is update-branch's, clean, giving d286ae9, which is green on SonarCloud and Git Bash. Lane 1's gate passed on its tree: the 8 test files (test_path_guard_hygiene, test_shape_doctor, test_scaffold_leg_path_collisions, test_repo_hygiene, test_cli_reference, test_agents_md_codes, test_doctor_unreadable_paths and test_doctor_unreadable_pin), 854 passed and 3 skipped.

Closes #430

Lane: openreposhape-1 (openRepoShape-1)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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