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fix(tests): stop fixtures resolving this repository, and restore the musl leg - #975

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DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-1830 CLOUD-1821

The defect

repo_with_config builds a fixture with a config and no .git, and the spawn helpers set no GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES. So git::git_dir walked up out of target/tmp/ and answered with this checkout's own .git. Measured: .git/batten-sightings/ in the real repository, holding entries the test suite wrote.

What that buys is an ordering dependency across the whole test binary. refusal::first_sighting keys a per-session store under $GIT_DIR, and a repeat renders shorthook.rs:4832 returns refusal.line() alone, dropping the — <gloss> clause and every remedy. With one store behind every fixture, whether a case sees the long rendering or the short one is decided by which spawn reached that class first: across sibling cases, across targets sharing the checkout, and across whatever the developer's own session already did.

the_deny_is_a_function_of_config_and_argv_not_the_ambient_environment was the casualty. It compared a first sighting against a repeat and read the difference as the environment changed the reason.

Why this took three passes to name

It first looked like a musl divergence, then like a state-root problem, then like a builder mismatch. All three were wrong, and each was acted on before it was reproduced — my error, recorded here because the row it produced (CLOUD-1830) said the wrong thing for a while.

The measurement that settled it: the same four runs — both binaries, with and without BATTEN_SANDBOX=0 — with the sightings store cleared between each.

glibc [unset]: … protected-mutation — a mutating verb was aimed at a path the config protects; read batten.toml; run git restore
glibc [zero] : … (identical)
musl  [unset]: … (identical)
musl  [zero] : … (identical)

All four byte-identical. No libc divergence, no BATTEN_SANDBOX effect — the variable was only ever first-sighting versus repeat. Two independent traces agree there is nothing on that path that can differ by libc: no tokenizer in the shipped binary (tiktoken-rs is dev-only), no dlopen, no locale or NSS, no build script, and zero target_env cfgs; the remedies are compile-time constants.

The change

  • common::batten sets GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES to CARGO_TARGET_TMPDIR, so a fixture carrying no .git resolves none rather than the enclosing repository. In that one helper rather than per spawn site, which is CLOUD-619's rule for these variables — advisory_drain.rs set it by hand at three sites and every suite that did not think of it inherited the defect.
  • The case gets a fixture per run, so each is a first sighting, and it now asserts its baseline is the first-sighting rendering — otherwise it compares two short lines and comes back green having checked almost nothing.
  • two_fixtures_refusing_alike_render_alike is the discriminating arm: no environment varied at all, two fixtures, one refusal, identical stderr required. Shown able to fail — with the ceiling removed it reds with a long line against a short one, and passes with it in place.
  • The musl leg returns (reverting f588a788). It was lifted rather than weakened because the defect it exposed reddened verify, and verify gates every fix.

Verification

mise run verify green with test:musl in the gate set; the discriminating case run both ways before committing.

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The pull request adds a musl test task and integrates it into gated verification, CI, and cache warming. It also warms both Darwin link-cache targets. The CLI tests now create separate protected-policy fixtures and verify deterministic first-sighting refusal rendering across environment variations and identical refusals.

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- Line 3007: Use a distinct fixture name or root for the HOME variation in the
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.expect("write payload");
let output = child.wait_with_output().expect("run batten hook");
let output = refuse_in(
&format!("protected-deterministic-{}", key.to_lowercase()),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Use a distinct fixture name for the HOME variation. The test first creates protected-deterministic-home with common::scratch. The HOME iteration passes the same name to refuse_in; repo_with_config then calls Fixture::new, which removes and recreates that path. The spawned process receives the recreated fixture directory, not an independent scratch directory. Use distinct names or roots so the HOME variation tests environment isolation.

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In `@crates/batten/tests/it/cli.rs` at line 3007, Use a distinct fixture name or
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`repo_with_config` builds a fixture with a config and no `.git`, and the
spawn helpers set no `GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES`, so `git::git_dir` walked
up out of `target/tmp/` and answered with this checkout's own `.git`.
Measured: `.git/batten-sightings/` in the real repository, holding entries
the suite wrote.

What that buys is an ordering dependency across the whole binary.
`refusal::first_sighting` keys a per-session store under `$GIT_DIR`, and a
repeat renders SHORT — the class explanation and every remedy dropped. With
one store behind every fixture, whether a case sees the long rendering or
the short one is decided by which spawn reached that class first: across
sibling cases, across targets sharing the checkout, and across whatever the
developer's session already did.

`the_deny_is_a_function_of_config_and_argv_not_the_ambient_environment` was
the visible casualty. It compared a first sighting against a repeat and read
the difference as the environment having changed the reason. Each run now
gets its own fixture and so its own store, and the case asserts its baseline
IS the first-sighting rendering — otherwise it compares two short lines and
comes back green having checked almost nothing.

`two_fixtures_refusing_alike_render_alike` is the discriminating arm: no
environment varied at all, two fixtures, one refusal, identical stderr
required. It reds on the tree without the ceiling — a long line against a
short one — and passes with it, which is what makes the fix a mechanism
rather than a repair.

The ceiling is set in `common::batten` rather than per spawn site, which is
CLOUD-619's rule for these variables: `advisory_drain.rs` set it by hand at
three call sites and every suite that did not think of it inherited the
defect.

Refs: CLOUD-1830
Reinstates `f588a788`'s revert. `test:musl` executes the workspace suite
against `x86_64-unknown-linux-musl` — the triple `install.sh` resolves for
every Linux consumer, 113 downloads against 4 of the glibc build on
v0.0.159 — so the binary almost everyone runs reaches the execution rung
instead of stopping at a type-check.

The leg was lifted rather than weakened because the defect it exposed made
`verify` red, and `verify` gates every fix. That defect is repaired in the
commit beside this one: fixtures were resolving this checkout's own `.git`,
so one sightings store sat behind every case and a class explained itself
once per binary rather than once per fixture. The leg did not diverge; it
scheduled differently, which is all it took.

Refs: CLOUD-1821
`refusal::first_sighting` keys a per-session store under `$GIT_DIR`: a class
explains itself once, and the next firing renders the pointer line alone,
dropping the `— <gloss>` clause and every remedy (`hook.rs:4832`).

`repo_with_config` builds a fixture with a config and no `.git`, so
`git::git_dir` walked up out of `target/tmp/` and answered with this
checkout's own — measured, `.git/batten-sightings/` in the real repository
held entries the suite wrote. Every such fixture shared one store, so two
runs of one refusal were a first sighting and a repeat, and
`the_deny_is_a_function_of_config_and_argv_not_the_ambient_environment`
compared their renderings and read the difference as the environment having
changed the reason. Green or red on nextest's scheduling.

The fixtures behind these cases now carry their own repository, so each
owns its store and every refusal is a first sighting.

A tree-wide `GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES` was tried first and is wrong, recorded
because the next reader will reach for it: `acceptance_corpus`'s fixtures run
`enforce`, which needs a repository, and they legitimately inherit the
enclosing one — cutting that off reds them with "is not a git repository".

`two_fixtures_refusing_alike_render_alike` is the discriminating arm: two
fixtures, one refusal, no environment varied, identical stderr required AND
both required to be the first-sighting rendering. That second half is
load-bearing — without it two fixtures sharing a warm store are both short
and equal, and the case stayed green against a tree with no per-fixture
repository at all. Shown able to fail: with the repositories removed it reds
naming the repeat.

Refs: CLOUD-1830
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