fix(hygiene): close the rename blind spot in the blob guard's staged mode - #35
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…mode `git diff --cached --diff-filter=AM` reports a rename as a single R entry, so the AM filter dropped it entirely. An oversized blob already in the index could therefore be moved to a new path and sail past the pre-commit hook without check_one() ever being called on it. This was a real hole, not a theoretical one. Measured against a 5 MiB blob renamed with `git mv`: pre-fix hook: "blob hygiene: ok" rc=0 <- false green fixed hook: refuses the 5 MiB blob, rc=1 `--no-renames` decomposes the rename into D + A, and the A is examined like any other addition. The CI `--tree` mode was never affected -- it walks the whole tree rather than a diff -- and that is precisely why the gap was invisible: one of the two callers stayed correct, so nothing ever reported a problem. This is the drift the one-implementation-two-callers design was meant to prevent, and it appeared anyway because the two callers ask the index and the tree different questions. Controls run (4/4 correct): - 5 MiB blob renamed -> REFUSED (was admitted) - allowlisted fixture renamed out of it -> REFUSED - ordinary small file renamed -> admitted - fixture renamed within the allowlist -> admitted Also dates the "verified by mutant" cell in standards-alignment.md. It was an undated one-off manual battery presented as ongoing status -- the same shape as a step name asserting a comparison the script never makes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X3hgXxWm6umMgZkjYyHnnm
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WalkthroughThe blob hygiene guard now detects empty or invalid checks, examines renamed staged blobs, validates tree references, and reports counts. The compliance record documents the manual verification date and rerun conditions. ChangesBlob hygiene validation
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The guard could report success without looking at a single file.
$ scripts/check-blob-hygiene.sh --tree refs/heads/no-such-branch
fatal: Not a valid object name refs/heads/no-such-branch
blob hygiene: ok
rc=0
`git ls-tree` on an unresolvable ref writes to stderr and emits no paths. A CI
`run:` step does not fail on stderr, so the loop body never executed and the
script fell through to its success line. A typo in the ref would have produced a
permanently green gate that inspected nothing -- and a tree of 337 files and a
tree of 0 files printed byte-identical output.
Three changes:
- resolve the ref with `git rev-parse --verify "$ref^{tree}"` BEFORE walking it
- count what was examined, and in --tree mode refuse when the count is zero
- print the count, so a vacuous run is visible in the log rather than inferred
No emptiness guard in --staged mode: a commit that only DELETES files
legitimately stages zero additions, so zero is a real state there. The
asymmetry is deliberate and commented.
Controls (7 designed + 1 corrected):
bad ref -> rc=2 FATAL (was rc=0 "ok")
empty tree, valid object -> rc=2 FATAL (was rc=0 "ok")
real tree, 337 files -> rc=0, count matches `git ls-tree | wc -l`
nothing staged -> rc=0 (legal)
oversized blob renamed -> rc=1
fixture renamed out of allowlist -> rc=1
uncompressed .fastq added -> rc=1
small file / fixture moved in-allowlist -> rc=0
This is the defect class the repo already had a note about -- a gate whose
success is indistinguishable from never having run. It was shipped in the guard
that was written to prevent exactly that.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Worth stating plainly: this is the defect class the repo already had a written note about, and it shipped in the guard written to prevent it. Every mutant in the original battery proved the guard could say no; none tested whether its yes meant anything. The generalisable control is: point the gate at nothing, and make it print its denominator. 🤖 Generated with Claude Code |
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In `@scripts/check-blob-hygiene.sh`:
- Around line 129-139: Store the verified tree ID from the initial git rev-parse
in the tree variable, then use tree instead of ref for both git ls-tree and
per-path git rev-parse lookups in the blob-walking loop. Preserve the existing
fatal handling when ref does not resolve to a tree.
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| git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$ref^{tree}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || { | ||
| echo "blob hygiene: FATAL -- '$ref' does not resolve to a tree" >&2 | ||
| exit 2 | ||
| } | ||
| while IFS= read -r -d '' path; do | ||
| blob="$(git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$ref:$path" 2>/dev/null || true)" | ||
| [ -n "$blob" ] || continue | ||
| size="$(git cat-file -s "$blob")" | ||
| examined=$((examined + 1)) | ||
| check_one "$path" "$size" | ||
| done < <(git ls-tree -r -z --name-only "$ref") |
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Use the resolved tree ID for the complete walk.
If ref changes after git ls-tree starts, the path list can come from one tree while each git rev-parse "$ref:$path" lookup uses another. A blob added only to the later tree is not in the earlier path list, so the guard can report success without checking it.
Store the verified tree ID and use it in both commands.
Proposed fix
- git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$ref^{tree}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
+ tree="$(git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$ref^{tree}")" || {
echo "blob hygiene: FATAL -- '$ref' does not resolve to a tree" >&2
exit 2
}
...
- blob="$(git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$ref:$path" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+ blob="$(git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$tree:$path" 2>/dev/null || true)"
...
- done < <(git ls-tree -r -z --name-only "$ref")
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| git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$ref^{tree}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || { | |
| echo "blob hygiene: FATAL -- '$ref' does not resolve to a tree" >&2 | |
| exit 2 | |
| } | |
| while IFS= read -r -d '' path; do | |
| blob="$(git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$ref:$path" 2>/dev/null || true)" | |
| [ -n "$blob" ] || continue | |
| size="$(git cat-file -s "$blob")" | |
| examined=$((examined + 1)) | |
| check_one "$path" "$size" | |
| done < <(git ls-tree -r -z --name-only "$ref") | |
| tree="$(git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$ref^{tree}")" || { | |
| echo "blob hygiene: FATAL -- '$ref' does not resolve to a tree" >&2 | |
| exit 2 | |
| } | |
| while IFS= read -r -d '' path; do | |
| blob="$(git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$tree:$path" 2>/dev/null || true)" | |
| [ -n "$blob" ] || continue | |
| size="$(git cat-file -s "$blob")" | |
| examined=$((examined + 1)) | |
| check_one "$path" "$size" | |
| done < <(git ls-tree -r -z --name-only "$tree") |
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In `@scripts/check-blob-hygiene.sh` around lines 129 - 139, Store the verified
tree ID from the initial git rev-parse in the tree variable, then use tree
instead of ref for both git ls-tree and per-path git rev-parse lookups in the
blob-walking loop. Preserve the existing fatal handling when ref does not
resolve to a tree.
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The blob guard merged in #34 had a hole in its hook half.
git diff --cached --diff-filter=AMreports a rename as a singleRentry, so theAMfilter dropped it — an oversized blob already in the index could begit mvd to a new path and never reachcheck_one().This was a real hole, not a theoretical one
Measured against a 5 MiB blob renamed with
git mv:blob hygiene: ok, rc=0 — a false green--no-renamesdecomposes the rename intoD+A, and theAis examined like any other addition.Why it stayed invisible
The CI
--treemode was never affected — it walks the whole tree rather than a diff. That is exactly what hid the gap: one of the two callers stayed correct, so nothing ever reported a problem. #34 introducedcheck-blob-hygiene.shas one implementation, two callers specifically to stop the two halves drifting — and they drifted anyway, because the index and the tree answer different questions. The shared predicate (check_one) was never the part that diverged; the enumeration feeding it was.Controls — 4/4 correct
Positive control: the real tree still passes
--tree HEADand--staged.check-spdx.sh,check-format.sh,check-lint.shall pass locally, and the pre-commit hook ran on this commit.Second change
Dates the "verified by mutant" cell in
docs/compliance/standards-alignment.md. It was an undated one-off manual battery presented as ongoing status — the same shape as a step name asserting a comparison the script never makes. The date makes the claim honest about what it is.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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