Both link paths -- --remote and the --server/$GIT_SERVER link-existing
branch -- called `git remote add origin` bare. That fails with "remote
origin already exists" whenever the target is already linked, which is
the normal case for `mkrep .` against an existing checkout and for any
rerun against the same target. The failure took the whole call down with
exit 1.
Route both through a new _mkrep_add_origin helper: add when there is no
origin, accept and report when origin already points at the requested
URL, and refuse when it points elsewhere. A different URL is a different
repo, so repointing stays the caller's explicit decision rather than a
silent rewrite of a checkout mkrep may have been aimed at by mistake.
Two related defects on the `$GIT_SERVER` auto-create path added in #150.
The test suite was creating repositories on a live forge. mkrep resolves a
server from `$GIT_SERVER` plus `$GITEA_URL`/`$GITEA_HOST`, and this repo
doubles as a real ~/.config/fish where all of them are exported, so the six
sections that call a bare `mkrep <dir>` took the auto-create branch and
contacted the server. That is how an empty `rootiest/repo` came to exist on
git.rootiest.dev on 2026-09-14 (since deleted). It also explains why those
cases looked flaky rather than broken: standalone they passed, because the
repo existed and mkrep linked instead of creating, while under
run-tests.fish they failed with `Error: no available login` — a throwaway
XDG_CONFIG_HOME leaves `tea` with no credentials. Passing for that reason is
worse than failing.
The suite now neutralizes all five variables once at setup, the same
shadow-to-empty pattern already used per-section for --check-existing, whose
comment flagged this exact hazard. Nothing depended on the ambient value:
every section wanting a server sets its own `set -lx GIT_SERVER`, and one
section asserts the opposite outright.
mkrep itself now confirms before an implicit create. Creating a repository
on a forge is the only outward-facing thing mkrep does, and on this path an
exported variable is all it takes to reach it, so `mkrep foo` — which reads
as purely local — would make a repo on a server without saying so. It asks
first, defaulting to no; declining leaves the local repo with no remote and
still exits 0. Provenance is what gates the prompt, not the resolved value:
--server, --remote and --new-remote all state outright what they will do, so
none of them prompts, and --yes skips the question. Where it cannot be asked
(a script, a pipe, any non-interactive shell) creation is skipped rather than
assumed, with a note on stderr naming the flags that would allow it.
Nine new assertions cover the skip, its stderr note, --yes, and --server not
prompting. The interactive read is verified by hand under a PTY, both
answers, but is not in the suite: that needs a pseudo-terminal, and the
answer parsing it guards is a single `string match`.
mkrep only ever runs git init, never a commit, so a freshly created
repo has no HEAD yet. The gitea/gitlab default templates chained
`git push -u origin HEAD` unconditionally after linking the remote,
which fails immediately regardless of the remote ("src refspec HEAD
does not match any") -- reproduced by a real user hitting it on the
first mkrep --server call. Guard the push on HEAD actually resolving
to a commit; skipping it is the correct outcome (nothing to push yet),
and a real push failure once a commit exists still propagates.
$GITEA_HOST/$GITLAB_HOST are bare hostnames (git.example.com); only
$GITEA_URL/$GITLAB_URL are expected to carry a scheme. mkrep was using
_HOST values as-is, producing a schemeless clone URL when only the
_HOST var was set.
mkrep can now pick a git host from --server, $GIT_SERVER, and
$GITEA_URL/$GITEA_HOST/$GITLAB_URL/$GITLAB_HOST (base URL only -- type
must come from --server/$GIT_SERVER, so setting those URL vars for an
unrelated tool can't silently turn a plain mkrep call into a
remote-creating one). Before creating anything it checks via
gh/glab/tea whether the repo already exists and links instead of
recreating it; --check-existing runs just that check and reports
without touching remotes.
- Removes a formatting error that broke the visual of
the --remote flag in both the documentation and
the function's help output.
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Impacted files:
functions/mkrep.fish
mkcd's create-and-cd behavior plus git init, remote linking, and
optional remote creation via a user-configured command template
($MKREP_REMOTE_CMD, {name}/{user} placeholders).
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