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`.
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