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Keep a user's submodule and signing config out of worktree prep - #1921
A hosted agent could not start in a repository with a submodule once the user had submodule.recurse=true: the worktree's reset --hard HEAD recursed into a submodule whose linked-worktree gitdir is only a stub, and failed the launch. Worktree prep now overrides the user's config for every git call it makes that such a setting can break. The worktree reset and the borrowed snapshot's checkout never recurse into submodules, the review fetch never fetches them, and the standalone snapshot's bookkeeping commit is never signed.
The standalone snapshot also keeps the bytes it copied:
the user's core.autocrlf/core.safecrlf are pinned off;
the user's attributes file is replaced by the snapshot's own, which holds * !text !eol (both reset to unspecified, since git resolves each attribute on its own; -text would mark every path binary and void a project rule that sets only eol). Git ranks that file above the machine's attributes and below the project's .gitattributes, so the agent's later git commands still convert only what the project asks for (.git/info/attributes would outrank the project);
the snapshot's own add, diff and commit also run with GIT_ATTR_NOSYSTEM=1
Where to look
The review fetch failed even with no user config: fetching a head that moves a submodule fetches that submodule from its own remote by default, and an unreachable or credentialed remote failed the launch
kcap-cli#1793 edits the same reset --hard HEAD call, so it will need a trivial rebase
Submodule contents are still not populated in the worktree, as before
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Red, without the overrides
Green
Worktree in a repo with a submodule, global submodule.recurse=true
git reset --hard HEAD failed: fatal: gitfile does not point to a valid repository
passes
Borrowed snapshot, global submodule.recurse=true and submodule.active=.
git checkout --detach HEAD failed, same error
passes
Standalone snapshot, global commit.gpgsign=true with an unrunnable gpg.program
Worktree and borrowed-snapshot creation now succeeds with Git settings that enable recursive submodules, including when a submodule remote is unavailable.
Standalone snapshots preserve applicable user and project attribute rules, including filter rules, and maintain file line endings across a wider range of Git configurations while excluding machine-level attribute rules.
Snapshot creation succeeds when user settings enable commit signing or strict line-ending conversion.
A fetch of a head that moves a submodule fails without any user config too: git fetches the
submodule from its own remote by default, and a review launch has no business reaching it
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Git worktree operations now disable submodule recursion. Standalone snapshots preserve user attribute rules while controlling text and EOL attributes, line-ending conversion, system attributes, and commit signing. Git command helpers accept environment overrides.
Changes: Worktree and snapshot behavior
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Summary
Disable submodule recursion during worktree creation src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs, test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerTests.cs, test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.cs
Fetch and checkout commands disable submodule recursion. Tests cover user settings that enable recursion and worktree creation after a submodule remote becomes unavailable.
Control standalone snapshot Git settings src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs, test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.cs
Standalone snapshots preserve user attribute rules while resetting text and EOL attributes. Staging and the initial commit use overrides for system attributes and line-ending conversion; the initial commit also disables signing. Capture helpers pass environment overrides to Git. Tests cover attribute precedence, line endings, system attributes, and signing settings.
Standalone snapshots can silently change committed file bytes under reachable Git attribute configuration, so these configuration paths should be corrected before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to a3a8e
The changes limit unintended submodule access and signing during workspace preparation without adding production entrypoints or privileges. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Residual uncertainty concerns ambient attributes outside line-ending settings and recovery from interrupted preparation.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The changed operations remain scoped to the selected source repository and its prepared worktrees or snapshots under the existing daemon process identity. Disabling recursive fetch removes preparation-time contact with submodule remotes; the existing fetch from the configured origin remains.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Git overrides use the existing configuration transport and are appended after inherited configuration entries. Filter inventory failures reject materialization rather than allowing unknown drivers. The new environment forwarding applies GIT_ATTR_NOSYSTEM directly to the relevant child processes.
inferred — The attributes policy is not complete isolation from host attributes. It copies the effective user attributes file and resets only text and eol, intentionally preserving other rules. Attribute-file lookup does not exclude system configuration. Consequently, the inspected implementation supports a line-ending policy, not an unconditional byte-preservation guarantee for every ambient attribute.
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The title "Keep a user's submodule and signing config out of worktree prep" matches the main change. The PR stops user Git config (submodule recursion, commit signing, and line-ending/attribute settings) from affecting worktree preparation and snapshot creation in WorktreeManager. The title names two of the main config areas. It omits the line-ending and attribute work, but it does not mislead and it does not describe anything absent from the changeset.
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The value travels through the environment transport, which git does not unescape, so the empty file's path is written with forward slashes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
No config replaces the system attributes file, only the environment variable, so the snapshot's git runs can now carry environment as well as config
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The machine's attributes still apply once GIT_ATTR_NOSYSTEM is gone; the snapshot's file outranks them and is itself outranked by the project's .gitattributes, unlike info/attributes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An unset text marks every path binary, which voided a project rule that sets only eol; !text still outranks the machine's attributes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Git resolves each attribute on its own, so a machine-wide eol=crlf got past a reset of text alone
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The snapshot's attributes file replaces the user's for the agent's later commands, so an LFS filter there would otherwise stop applying.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Keep the targeted Git overrides and snapshot-owned attributes file. Per-command settings protect preparation without changing the user's configuration; persisting the snapshot settings also protects later Git commands. An info/attributes file was considered but would outrank project attributes.
Files changed (3) +366 / -23
Bug fix (1) +107 / -23
WorktreeManager.csGuard Git preparation and preserve standalone snapshot bytes+107/-23
Guard Git preparation and preserve standalone snapshot bytes
• Disables submodule recursion during review fetches and materializing checkouts, and disables signing for standalone bookkeeping commits. Adds snapshot-local line-ending settings and an attributes file that preserves other user rules while deferring text conversion to project attributes. Extends Git execution helpers to pass the environment override needed to exclude system attributes during snapshot creation.
WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.csCover user Git settings across workspace modes+221/-0
Cover user Git settings across workspace modes
• Tests recursive submodule settings in linked and borrowed workspaces and signing settings in standalone snapshots. Verifies copied line endings, user and project attribute precedence, later Git behavior, and exclusion of system attributes during snapshot commands.
UserAttributesFileAsync treats a successful core.attributesFile lookup with an empty value as
though the setting were absent. When a user explicitly sets it to empty, the fallback lookup can
copy rules from the default global attributes file into the snapshot instead.
+ if (configured.ExitCode == 0 && configured.Stdout.Trim() is { Length: > 0 } named) return Path.Combine(worktreePath, named);++ var reported = await RunGitCaptureResult(worktreePath, GitTimeout, time, sourceReadOnly: false, [], "var", "GIT_ATTR_GLOBAL");+ if (reported.ExitCode == 0 && reported.Stdout.Trim() is { Length: > 0 } path) return path;
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Correctness edge case: explicit empty configuration should not silently enable a fallback attributes
file.
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Evidence
The non-empty guard discards a successful empty result, after which the method looks up the default
path. CreateSnapshotAttributesFile copies whichever path the method returns.
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
A successful lookup of an explicitly empty core.attributesFile falls through to the default global attributes path, allowing rules the user disabled to be copied into the snapshot.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs[543-553]
## Recommended Fix
Distinguish a missing config entry from a successful lookup with an empty value. Return no user attributes file for the explicitly empty value, and test the case with a default global attributes file present.
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2. Paths with spaces lose attribute rules✗ Dismissed
Description
UserAttributesFileAsync calls Trim() on the path returned by Git before using it to locate the
user's attributes file. When a configured path begins or ends with a space, the lookup targets a
different file and the snapshot silently omits the user's rules.
ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs
Evidence
Both Git path results are trimmed before use; the resulting path is checked for existence and, if
found, its contents become the snapshot's configured attributes file.
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
Git can return an attributes-file path whose filename begins or ends with spaces, but trimming the whole output changes that path before the file is copied.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs[543-549]
## Recommended Fix
Remove only the line terminator from Git's output, preserving path whitespace, for both the configured path and the reported default. Add coverage using an attributes-file name with a leading or trailing space.
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3. Git tests can oversubscribe subprocesses 📘 Rule violation▣ Testability
Description
WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests is marked only with bare [NotInParallel] and lacks
[ParallelLimiter<SubprocessLimit>]. Its tests create repositories and invoke git repeatedly, so
the suite bypasses the shared subprocess limit and can run heavy child processes at full
parallelism.
ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs
Evidence
The new test class performs real repository and git-process operations but declares only
[NotInParallel]; the checklist requires classes that spawn real subprocesses to use
[ParallelLimiter<SubprocessLimit>] rather than relying on [NotInParallel].
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
`WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests` starts many real git subprocesses but uses only `[NotInParallel]`, so it does not participate in the test assembly's shared subprocess limit.
## Fix Focus Areas
- test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.cs[12-13]
## Recommended Fix
Add `[ParallelLimiter<SubprocessLimit>]` to the test class so all real git subprocesses share the global limiter. Retain the bare `[NotInParallel]` attribute if needed to isolate the process-wide `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL` environment changes.
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- Around line 99-103: In the test setup, immediately after sub.Dispose(), assert
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WorktreeManager.CreateAsync. This verifies that the submodule remote was
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Major · Reset working-tree-encoding in the generated attributes file. · WorktreeManager.cs:528-555
src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs:528-555 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reset working-tree-encoding in the generated attributes file.
A reachable standalone snapshot copies the configured user or machine core.attributesFile, then appends only * !text !eol. A rule such as * working-tree-encoding=UTF-16 therefore remains active. During git add -A, Git can re-encode working-tree bytes before storing them in the snapshot index, even with core.autocrlf=false.
Append !working-tree-encoding with the existing resets. Project .gitattributes rules still take precedence.
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Review comment at @src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs around
lines 528 - 555:
Update CreateSnapshotAttributesFile to append a reset for working-tree-encoding
alongside the existing text and eol resets, preserving the user attributes
content and ordering.
Major · Exclude system Git configuration while resolving the user… · WorktreeManager.cs:528-555
src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs:528-555 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Exclude system Git configuration while resolving the user attributes file.
When the system Git config sets core.attributesFile and the user config does not, UserAttributesFileAsync selects that system path. CreateSnapshotAttributesFile copies its rules into the private snapshot file. The later GIT_ATTR_NOSYSTEM=1 override cannot remove those copied rules because it only affects Git’s system attributes lookup. A copied working-tree-encoding rule can therefore change the bytes staged by git add -A, violating the snapshot contract.
Use GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1 for both lookup commands. This is separate from resetting working-tree-encoding: the lookup must not import system rules at all.
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Review comment at @src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs around
lines 528 - 555:
Update UserAttributesFileAsync so both the `git config` and `git var
GIT_ATTR_GLOBAL` lookup commands exclude system Git configuration using
`GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1`. Reuse the existing environment-argument pattern in
RunGitCaptureResult, ensuring system-configured attributes files are not
selected or copied into the snapshot.
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Review comments at @src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs:
- Around line 528-555: Update CreateSnapshotAttributesFile to append a reset for
working-tree-encoding alongside the existing text and eol resets, preserving the
user attributes content and ordering.
- Around line 528-555: Update UserAttributesFileAsync so both the `git config`
and `git var GIT_ATTR_GLOBAL` lookup commands exclude system Git configuration
using `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1`. Reuse the existing environment-argument pattern
in RunGitCaptureResult, ensuring system-configured attributes files are not
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What & why
A hosted agent could not start in a repository with a submodule once the user had
submodule.recurse=true: the worktree'sreset --hard HEADrecursed into a submodule whose linked-worktree gitdir is only a stub, and failed the launch. Worktree prep now overrides the user's config for every git call it makes that such a setting can break. The worktree reset and the borrowed snapshot's checkout never recurse into submodules, the review fetch never fetches them, and the standalone snapshot's bookkeeping commit is never signed.The standalone snapshot also keeps the bytes it copied:
core.autocrlf/core.safecrlfare pinned off;* !text !eol(both reset to unspecified, since git resolves each attribute on its own;-textwould mark every path binary and void a project rule that sets onlyeol). Git ranks that file above the machine's attributes and below the project's.gitattributes, so the agent's later git commands still convert only what the project asks for (.git/info/attributeswould outrank the project);GIT_ATTR_NOSYSTEM=1Where to look
reset --hard HEADcall, so it will need a trivial rebaseVerification
submodule.recurse=truegit reset --hard HEAD failed: fatal: gitfile does not point to a valid repositorysubmodule.recurse=trueandsubmodule.active=.git checkout --detach HEAD failed, same errorcommit.gpgsign=truewith an unrunnablegpg.programgit commit -m Initial snapshot failed: cannot execgit fetch origin refs/pull/7/head:… failedcore.autocrlf=true+core.safecrlf=true* text=autoand a copied CRLF filetext eol=lfstill applies; the agent's latercheck-attrreadstext: unspecifiedandstatusis clean* text eol=crlfunder the snapshot's attributes (built in a scratch repo, since the machine's file cannot be staged)eol: crlfgot through!textalonetextandeolboth unspecifiedeol=crlfonly, LF file, checkout after the snapshot-textvoided the rule)gitwrapper on PATHGIT_ATTR_NOSYSTEMon add1on add, diff and commitWorktreeManagerTests,StandaloneSnapshotTests,GitConfigTransportTests,WorktreeMetadataGateTestsand the new classdotnet publish -c ReleaseofCapacitor.CliandCapacitor.Cli.Daemon🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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