Add -l/--local flag to enforce strictly local repository creation in mkrep, overriding and ignoring any remote flags or environment variables that would link to or create a remote.
New Phase 1b in tests/run-tests.fish: catches a bare C1-shadowed-command
call in a functions/*.fish body with no matching uses-shadow(name) or
self-limiting(name) in that function's own CLASSIFICATION header. This
is exactly the check discussed after the rm and cd audits -- runtime
auto-unwrapping isn't viable in fish (there's no hook finer than
shadowing itself, and rewriting behavior invisibly at runtime is its
own footgun); a static lint using the CLASSIFICATION tag as the
declared-intentional marker is. Scoped to functions/*.fish only: the
one-function-per-file convention there makes body extraction exact
with no block-depth parser needed.
Added a new self-limiting(name) tag to the schema for the case a bare
call is safe not because the caller did anything, but because the
shadow's own logic already neutralizes the override: rm's and mkdir's
flag checks (verified precisely -- rm falls back to command rm for any
flag except a bare -r/-R/--recursive alone, which still routes to
trash; mkdir falls back to command mkdir -p for any flag, no
exception), and grep/fgrep/egrep/dir/vdir/cat's own tty auto-detection
(--color=auto, and bat's default color behavior -- verified
byte-identical to stock cat when piped, since bat also auto-disables
highlighting on a non-terminal). Explicit and durable rather than a
silent lint exemption: if a shadow's bypass condition is ever
weakened, every self-limiting site is one grep away instead of
silently wrong.
Running the first draft of the lint surfaced three more real bugs,
none previously audited:
- config-help.fish's --man pager path checks `type -q less` (proving
it wants the real less binary specifically, for less-only -R/+N
flag syntax) then called it bare, routing through our own
$PAGER -> ov -> less -> more -> cat fallback chain instead -- which
could hand those less-specific flags to a completely different
program. Now command less.
- _fish_deps_install.fish and _fish_deps_update.fish's binary-upgrade
paths cp a freshly downloaded binary over an already-installed one
with no existence guard -- the update flow's target is guaranteed to
already exist. Our cp shadow forces -i unconditionally (a plain
alias, not flag-aware like rm's), so this would hang waiting on a
confirmation prompt in any non-interactive run. Now command cp.
Same two files' lazydocker install path piped curl output into bare
bash, invoking our shell-switch wrapper instead of a plain
subshell. Now command bash.
- agents-init.fish's AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md relocation calls mv bare in
four places; each is already guarded by a preceding test -f check on
the destination, so the -i alias was unlikely to ever fire in
practice, but explicit command mv removes the reliance on that guard
entirely rather than leaving it as the only thing standing between a
file move and an unattended hang.
The remaining ~65 flagged call sites across ~24 files were reviewed
individually and tagged self-limiting(rm)/self-limiting(mkdir)
(verified flagged with -f/-rf or -p) and self-limiting(grep)/
self-limiting(cat) (verified piped, captured, or -q/-c; none display
color to a human), plus uses-shadow(ls) for two existence-check-only
calls (cffetch.fish, ffetch.fish) whose output is redirected to
/dev/null.
Verified an agy audit of every bare cd call by hand. conf.d/zoxide.fish
gates alias cd=z behind status is-interactive plus the C1 toggle, and
_zoxide_hook fires on --on-variable PWD, so it tracks a directory
change no matter how PWD got there -- switching to builtin cd loses
zoxide's frecency tracking nothing.
mkcd.fish's single cd and mkrep.fish's 9 (entering the new repo, plus
8 rollback-to-original-directory sites on error paths and --no-cd)
were both intended as exact, deterministic path navigation, never a
zoxide query. The real risk was mkrep's rollback path: if $orig_pwd
ever failed cd's own -d check for any reason, z's fallback branch
queries zoxide for a *guessed* frecent directory instead -- landing a
failed run's cleanup in a directory the caller never asked for, not
the one it was trying to return to. All 9 sites now use builtin cd.
Corrected both functions' CLASSIFICATION from uses-shadow(cd) to
bypasses-shadow(cd) -- neither wanted zoxide's query, they were tagged
that way only because the header audit recorded what the code was
doing at the time, not what it needed.
integrations/fzf.fish's fzf-alt-c-widget also calls bare cd, but it's
vendored upstream code (PatrickF1/fzf.fish) and is itself an
interactive directory-jump binding, not a script/automation caller --
left alone, same as fisher.fish's rm calls.
Audits every function's interaction with the C1-shadowed commands
(uses-shadow/bypasses-shadow) and general hazards (destructive,
network, blocking-prompt) per the CLASSIFICATION schema.
Delegated the initial mechanical sweep to agy, then reviewed every
file by hand: fixed a systemic double-blank-comment-line formatting
bug from the delegate pass, and corrected several judgment errors
found on review -- three false blocking-prompt tags where a fish
'read' was consuming piped input rather than waiting on a terminal
(open-url.fish, sbver.fish, play-media.fish, now untagged entirely),
a blocking-prompt tag on mkrep.fish despite its documented --yes
escape hatch, an untagged read in jobrunner.fish's own baseless
blocking-prompt claim (removed, along with a destructive tag on
cleanup of its own mktemp output -- the schema explicitly excludes
that), the same own-output-cleanup false positive on
_zellij_dump_log.fish's destructive tag, an interactive fzf-gated
confirmation on logs.fish and replay.fish's piped read misread the
same way as the first three, and a uses-shadow(mkdir) on mkcd.fish
that actually belongs to the _fish_mkdir_p helper it delegates to,
not to mkcd itself.
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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