fix(update-system): never prune a file upstream has not shipped - #3974
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`apply()`'s stale-file prune selects candidates with `staleSystemFiles()`, which tests "absent from upstream's CURRENT tree". That cannot distinguish a file upstream retired from a file upstream never carried. Under the ~50 directory-prefix `SYSTEM_PATHS` entries (`providers/`, `tests/`, `templates/`, `docs/`, `modes/<lang>/`, ...) the second case is any file a fork or contributor added, and the prune deleted it on every update — silently, and committed by the update's own commit step. This is the root cause @santifer described in career-ops-hq#3636 ("the discriminator has to be 'shipped by us' ... never the directory") on a third surface. Unlike career-ops-hq#3636 and career-ops-hq#3696 it cannot be fixed with a `USER_PATHS` carve-out — the file genuinely is system-layer — nor by filename shape: a fork's `providers/acme.mjs` is spelled exactly like a shipped provider. Upstream's history settles it, and `apply()` has already fetched it. A path reachable from no commit in the fetched ref was never shipped, so its absence from the current tree proves nothing; keep it. A path that IS in history but gone now is a real removal and still prunes, so career-ops-hq#2532 does not reopen — this is the same missing signal read in the opposite direction. A file upstream MOVED also still prunes, because its old path remains in history; that case is real (v1.32.0 moved lib/context-budget.test.mjs to tests/), so the fix does not degenerate into disabling the feature. Fails safe: on a shallow clone, or if the rev walk errors, history cannot prove the file was never shipped and it is kept. Keeping a retired file is cosmetic; deleting a fork's source file is not recoverable from the update itself. Closes career-ops-hq#3971 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe updater now checks fetched Git history before pruning stale system files. Fork-local files that never appeared upstream remain intact, while retired or moved upstream files remain eligible for pruning. Tests cover valid, invalid, literal, and failed history lookups. ChangesHistory-aware stale-file pruning
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The updater now retains never-shipped fork-local files while pruning upstream-retired files. Literal path handling is covered for Suggested labels: Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 8 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)
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In `@update-system.mjs`:
- Line 1032: Change the history-lookup failure fallback in the relevant
update-system function from true to false so apply() retains the fork-local file
when git rev-list fails. Update the corresponding updater-never-shipped-prune
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The error fallback was inverted. `wasEverShippedUpstream()` returned `true`
when the rev walk threw, and the call site prunes on a true return
(`if (!wasEverShippedUpstream(f)) { keep; continue; }`) — so a broken ref or an
unavailable git deleted exactly the fork-local files this change exists to
protect. The comment on that line claimed "keep it" while the code pruned.
Return false instead: pruning requires positive proof the file was shipped
upstream, never the mere absence of a usable answer.
The original test asserted the raw return value and read its polarity the same
way round as the bug, so it passed while confirming the wrong behaviour. It now
asserts through `wouldPrune()`, which mirrors the call site's actual decision,
and a shallow-clone case covers the same verdict reached without an exception.
Verified the corrected test fails against the previous fallback.
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Good catch, and it was the important one — fixed in cd29f12. The fallback was inverted. if (!wasEverShippedUpstream(f, 'FETCH_HEAD')) { /* keep */ continue; }So a broken ref or an unavailable git deleted exactly the fork-local files this PR exists to protect, while the comment on that line claimed "keep it". Now returns Worth noting the test was complicit rather than merely absent — it asserted the raw return value and read the polarity the same way round as the bug, so it passed while confirming the wrong behaviour. Two changes so it can't recur:
I verified the corrected test fails against the previous fallback, so it's a real regression guard and not just a restated expectation. Full suite: 8681 passed, 0 failed. |
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1028-1031: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPath Traversal (CWE-73)
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● Entry tests/updater-never-shipped-prune.test.mjs:36 │ ▼ ● Sink update-system.mjsMake candidate paths literal at
update-system.mjs:1028-1031:rev-listtreatscandidatePathas a Git pathspec, so a tracked filename such asproviders/*.mjscan match a different upstream file and causeapply()to delete the local file. Use--literal-pathspecsand retain repository-relative path validation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@update-system.mjs`:
- Around line 1028-1031: Update the revList invocation in the candidate-path
validation flow to include Git’s --literal-pathspecs option, ensuring filenames
such as providers/*.mjs are matched literally while retaining normalizeRepoPath
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`rev-list ... -- <path>` treats the trailing argument as a pathspec, so a tracked filename containing glob metacharacters is matched as a pattern rather than as itself. A fork-local `modes/_share[a-z].md` matches upstream's `modes/_shared.md`, reads as "shipped", and is pruned — the exact deletion this function exists to prevent, reached through a false positive instead of a missing check. Pass --literal-pathspecs, which this file already does at five other call sites for the same reason (addPaths, the ls-files probe, the ls-tree listing); this lookup was the inconsistent one. Verified against real git: `modes/_share[a-z].md` resolves to modes/_shared.md without the flag and to nothing with it, and ordinary paths are unaffected. Two tests added, both confirmed failing against the unflagged call. Thanks @coderabbitai. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Valid, fixed in 7f5261f. Confirmed against real git before changing anything: So a fork-local file whose name contains pathspec syntax reads as "shipped" and gets pruned — the deletion this function exists to prevent, reached through a false positive rather than a missing check. Ordinary paths resolve identically with the flag. Notably Two tests added, both verified failing against the unflagged call. Full suite: 8683 passed, 0 failed. |
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In `@tests/updater-never-shipped-prune.test.mjs`:
- Line 38: The pathspec fixture currently exercises only the * metacharacter, so
? and bracket expressions are not validated. Extend the test cases or
globbingHistory used by the fixture to include separate ? and [a-z] patterns,
ensuring the fake path matching logic handles each as a glob rather than falling
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| const globbingHistory = (...paths) => (...args) => { | ||
| const file = args[args.length - 1]; | ||
| const literal = args.includes('--literal-pathspecs'); | ||
| const star = file.indexOf('*'); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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printf '%s\n' '--- related pathspec and literal-mode references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'globbingHistory|pathspec|literal|indexOf\(.*\*|indexOf\(.*\?' tests src .github 2>/dev/null || trueRepository: career-ops-hq/career-ops
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rg -n -C 8 'wasEverShippedUpstream|rev-list|literal-pathspecs' update-system.mjs tests/updater-never-shipped-prune.test.mjs
printf '%s\n' '--- exact test lines 25-145 ---'
nl -ba tests/updater-never-shipped-prune.test.mjs | sed -n '25,150p'
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rg -n -C 4 -- '--literal-pathspecs|pathspec magic|glob metacharacters|bracket expression' --glob '*.mjs' --glob '*.md' --glob '*.yml' . | head -250Repository: career-ops-hq/career-ops
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Cover all glob metacharacters in the pathspec fixture.
tests/updater-never-shipped-prune.test.mjs:38 models only *. For ? and bracket expressions, star === -1 makes the fake use exact equality even without --literal-pathspecs, so the test cannot detect a regression for those forms. Add separate ? and [a-z] cases, or extend globbingHistory. The comment at line 129 already describes bracket behavior, but line 133 tests *.
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In `@tests/updater-never-shipped-prune.test.mjs` at line 38, The pathspec fixture
currently exercises only the * metacharacter, so ? and bracket expressions are
not validated. Extend the test cases or globbingHistory used by the fixture to
include separate ? and [a-z] patterns, ensuring the fake path matching logic
handles each as a glob rather than falling back to exact equality.
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Test-axis only. The substance is in update-system.mjs (the updater's prune decision), a data-loss red-line and the maintainer's call; I am reviewing the owned test tests/updater-never-shipped-prune.test.mjs, and since this is the data-loss surface I verified strictly.
It is sound and uses the right design, the exported-seam pattern rather than the #3955 reconstruction. The test imports the real exported wasEverShippedUpstream and drives it through its injected git seam, and apply() calls that same function to gate the prune two lines below, so the decision under test is the one the caller runs, not a copy. It covers the actual guarantee: a fork-local file absent from upstream history is kept rather than pruned, the new tests extend this to the glob case (a modes/_share*.md fork file must not match upstream's modes/_shared.md as a pathspec pattern and get deleted), and retired-upstream and moved-file cases still prune while a shallow or errored history fails safe. Root pinning is clean (pure dependency injection, no temp repo, no import-time mkdir). I mutation-checked it: removing --literal-pathspecs from the rev-list call reddens the glob test exactly ("a fork-local filename with a glob was matched as a pattern and would be pruned").
Owned test sound, not behind. SIGNAL (update-system.mjs red-line), so not surfacing as ready-to-approve; routing and merge are the maintainer's.
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What does this PR do?
Stops
update-system.mjs apply()'s stale-file prune from deleting files upstream has never shipped — fork-local providers, tests and registry entries under the directory-prefixSYSTEM_PATHSentries. It discriminates on upstream's history (already fetched byapply()) instead of on the current tree alone, so genuinely retired files still prune.Related issue
Closes #3971
Type of change
The bug
staleSystemFiles()selects local files that are absent from upstream's current tree, matched by aSYSTEM_PATHSentry, and not matched by aUSER_PATHSentry.pathMatchesManifest()matches directory entries bystartsWith, so everything under the ~50 directory-prefix entries (providers/,tests/,templates/,docs/,modes/<lang>/,dashboard/, ...) is in scope."Absent from the current tree" reads as "upstream removed it", but for a file upstream never carried the absence means nothing. The two are indistinguishable from the current tree alone, and the prune deleted both — silently, and committed by the update's own commit step. On my fork this recurred at v1.12.0, v1.28.0 and v1.32.0; the v1.32.0 run pruned 11 files.
This is the root cause @santifer described in #3636 — "the discriminator has to be 'shipped by us' … never the directory" — on a third surface. It can't be fixed the way #3638 and #3700 fix theirs: there's no correct
USER_PATHScarve-out (the file genuinely is system-layer), and no filename shape to key on, since a fork'sproviders/acme.mjsis spelled exactly like a shipped provider.The fix
wasEverShippedUpstream()asksgit rev-list --max-count=1 <ref> -- <path>. A path reachable from no commit in the fetched ref was never shipped, so its absence proves nothing → keep. A path in history but gone now is a real removal → prune.Three properties worth checking in review:
lib/context-budget.test.mjstotests/context-budget.test.mjs, and I verified this fix still prunes the old path.Cost is one
rev-listper prune candidate, and candidates are typically 0–15.Alternative considered
Version tags would give a cleaner "previous shipped tree", but tagging stopped at
v1.6.0upstream, so no recent version is reachable that way. A recorded manifest of what eachapply()wrote would also work and would survive shallow clones, at the cost of new on-disk state and a one-cycle bootstrap where nothing prunes. Happy to switch to that if you'd prefer it.Verification
tests/updater-never-shipped-prune.test.mjs(5 cases): never-shipped kept, retired still prunes, moved still prunes at the old path, errored rev walk keeps, empty path rejected.node test-all.mjson this branch: 8680 passed, 0 failed.providers/vcstack.mjs→ false,lib/context-budget.test.mjs→ true,modes/_shared.md→ true.Checklist
node test-all.mjsand all tests pass🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Summary
update-system.mjs:1027addswasEverShippedUpstream().apply()uses it atupdate-system.mjs:2336to keep files that upstream never shipped.Previously shipped files still prune, including files moved to new upstream paths. Failed or shallow history checks keep the file.
--literal-pathspecsprevents false matches for filenames with Git pathspec characters atupdate-system.mjs:1035.tests/updater-never-shipped-prune.test.mjs:51adds regression coverage for these decisions.From the user's point of view: updates no longer delete fork-local files under
providers/,tests/, orplugins-registry/. Retired upstream files continue to prune.Named system paths:
update-system.mjsis touched.AGENTS.md,modes/,DATA_CONTRACT.md,providers/, and.github/are not changed.