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fix(workspaceindex): skip git-ignored and build-cache dirs in Scan only - #1117
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Scan has a fixed file budget, and build output (Cargo target/, Python virtualenvs, caches) could exhaust it before real source was reached: repo-map reported truncation and ranked fingerprint files above code. Inside a git work tree, Scan now asks git for the ignored set (`git status --porcelain=v1 -z --ignored=matching .`), so the repo's own .gitignore, nested ignore files, info/exclude and core.excludesFile all apply, including names no fixed list anticipates (.locust_env/). Outside a work tree, or when git is missing, older than 2.16, fails, or exceeds 5s, a fixed list of common build/cache directory names stands in. ShouldSkipDir is unchanged: glob, grep, list_directory and path autocomplete share it and must keep seeing target/, .venv/ and friends. The lookup runs with GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0 so a per-turn scan never takes .git/index.lock next to a concurrent git command. Fixes Twigpine#1108
WalkthroughWorkspace scans now use Git’s ignored-path data when available. When Git data is unavailable, scans skip a fixed set of build and cache directory names. Tests cover repository scans, fallback behavior, and symlink traversal. ChangesWorkspace scan behavior
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Scan as workspaceindex.Scan
participant Lookup as gitIgnoredPaths
participant Git as Git
participant FS as filesystem
Scan->>Lookup: Request ignored paths for scan root
Lookup->>Git: Get repository prefix and ignored status
Git-->>Lookup: Return command results
Lookup-->>Scan: Return relative ignored paths or unavailable status
Scan->>FS: Traverse workspace entries
Scan->>Scan: Filter ignored paths or apply fallback skips
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: making workspaceindex.Scan skip Git-ignored and build-cache directories without changing behavior for other tools. Linked Issues check [ #1108]Scannow skips common build and cache directories when Git data is unavailable. Inside a work tree, it skips paths reported by Git, including nested ignore rules and ignored files. The fixed…Out of Scope Changes check The Git lookup, timeout, lock suppression, parser safeguards, tests, fixture rename, and documentation update support [ #1108]'s workspace scan and file-budget objective. The changes remain in `workspa…
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… status In `git status --porcelain=v1 -z`, a rename or copy record is followed by one more NUL field holding the original path, with no XY prefix. The parser inspected every field, so an original name beginning with "!! " read as an ignored entry: after `git mv "!! a" b`, a tracked file "a" disappeared from Scan. Move the parsing into parseIgnoredStatus, which consumes that field for R or C in either status column, and test it directly and end to end.
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Thanks, this is the shape I asked for: git decides inside a work tree, the fixed list only applies outside one, ShouldSkipDir is unchanged, and the tests isolate the global and system git config. internal/workspaceindex, internal/repomap and internal/workspaceseed pass here on Windows with nothing skipped. Three things before it goes in:
- Disable
core.fsmonitoron the status call. A repository's own.git/configcan setcore.fsmonitorto a command, andgit statusruns it. With that set in a scratch repo, the exact commandgitIgnoredPathsruns wrote a marker file; with-c core.fsmonitor=falseadded, it didn't.Scannow runs this on every turn through the workspace seed, and Zero already refuses project hooks and plugins in an untrusted workspace, so git shouldn't run project-supplied code here either. Putting-c core.fsmonitor=falseingitCommandcloses it. The TUI's startup sweep has the same gap, but that's separate from this PR. - Pass
--untracked-files=normalexplicitly. Withstatus.showUntrackedFiles=noin the user's or the repo's config, git refuses--ignored=matching("Unsupported combination of ignored and untracked-files arguments"), so every scan quietly takes the fallback list. Naming the mode on the command line makes the result independent of that setting. - Merge main. The red Security & Code Health check is GO-2026-6617 and GO-2026-6613 in Go 1.26.6's standard library, which is what the vulnerability note above is about. Main moved to Go 1.26.9 in #1124, so merging main clears it; nothing in this change is involved.
Requesting changes for the first two.
…=normal for status Scan's git status lookup must not run a repository's core.fsmonitor hook or fail when status.showUntrackedFiles=no would reject --ignored=matching.
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Review comments at @internal/workspaceindex/gitignore_test.go:
- Around line 240-261: Update TestGitIgnoredPathsDisablesRepoFsmonitor to make
the hook’s marker path shell-safe across platforms by converting it to forward
slashes and safely quoting it. Add a positive control that runs Git status,
verifies the hook creates the marker, and removes it before calling Scan; retain
the existing assertion that Scan does not run the hook.
Review comments at @internal/workspaceindex/gitignore.go:
- Around line 115-116: Update gitCommand to filter inherited GIT_DIR,
GIT_WORK_TREE, GIT_INDEX_FILE, and GIT_COMMON_DIR entries from the child
environment before appending GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0. Add a regression test that
sets GIT_DIR to another repository and verifies Scan uses root’s own ignore
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| func TestGitIgnoredPathsDisablesRepoFsmonitor(t *testing.T) { | ||
| root := t.TempDir() | ||
| initGitRepo(t, root, ".locust_env/\n") | ||
| writeFile(t, root, "README.md", "# x\n") | ||
| writeFile(t, root, ".locust_env/lib/x.py", "x\n") | ||
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| marker := filepath.Join(root, ".fsmonitor-ran") | ||
| script := filepath.Join(root, "fsmonitor-hook.sh") | ||
| if err := os.WriteFile(script, []byte("#!/bin/sh\ntouch "+marker+"\n"), 0o755); err != nil { | ||
| t.Fatalf("write fsmonitor hook: %v", err) | ||
| } | ||
| runGit(t, root, "config", "core.fsmonitor", script) | ||
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| if _, err := Scan(root, Options{MaxDepth: DefaultMaxDepth}); err != nil { | ||
| t.Fatalf("Scan: %v", err) | ||
| } | ||
| if _, err := os.Stat(marker); err == nil { | ||
| t.Fatalf("fsmonitor hook ran during Scan (marker %q exists)", marker) | ||
| } else if !os.IsNotExist(err) { | ||
| t.Fatalf("stat marker: %v", err) | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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marker="$tmp/.fsmonitor-ran"
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git -C "$tmp" -c user.name=zero-test -c user.email=zero-test@example.invalid config core.fsmonitor "$script"
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status = Path(sys.argv[1]).read_bytes()
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Git for Windows core.fsmonitor hook shell execution Windows path backslashes sh touch
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If you’re asking whether a `core.fsmonitor` hook can run a shell command such as `touch` on Git for Windows: **yes**. Git invokes the configured hook through a shell (`use_shell = 1`) and passes the protocol version and last-update token as arguments. The hook must write changed **working-tree-relative paths** to stdout, NUL-separated—not merely run `touch`. ([github.com](https://github.com/git-for-windows/shears-builds/blob/main/fsmonitor.c?utm_source=openai))
For shell paths, prefer forward slashes (`C:/...`) or paths relative to the repository. In shell syntax, backslashes may escape following characters, so an unquoted Windows-style path can be mangled. The sources establish Git’s shell invocation and fsmonitor output protocol; they don’t document a specific `touch`/backslash failure, so the exact behavior depends on the command and quoting.
What exact command or failure are you troubleshooting?
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- 1: https://github.com/git-for-windows/shears-builds/blob/main/fsmonitor.c?utm_source=openai
Make the fsmonitor marker path shell-safe on Windows.
Git for Windows can run the #!/bin/sh hook, so skipping Windows is not correct. However, filepath.Join produces backslashes on Windows, and the script embeds that path unquoted in touch. The shell can remove those backslashes, so the hook can run while the expected marker remains absent. The test can then pass without checking the override.
Convert the path to forward slashes, quote it, and use a positive control:
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marker := filepath.Join(root, ".fsmonitor-ran")
script := filepath.Join(root, "fsmonitor-hook.sh")
- if err := os.WriteFile(script, []byte("#!/bin/sh\ntouch "+marker+"\n"), 0o755); err != nil {
+ shellMarker := strings.ReplaceAll(filepath.ToSlash(marker), "'", "'\"'\"'")
+ if err := os.WriteFile(script, []byte("#!/bin/sh\ntouch '"+shellMarker+"'\n"), 0o755); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("write fsmonitor hook: %v", err)
}
runGit(t, root, "config", "core.fsmonitor", script)
+ runGit(t, root, "status", "--porcelain=v1", "-z", "--untracked-files=normal", "--ignored=matching", ".")
+ if _, err := os.Stat(marker); err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("fsmonitor hook did not run in positive control: %v", err)
+ }
+ if err := os.Remove(marker); err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("remove positive-control marker: %v", err)
+ }
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Review comment at @internal/workspaceindex/gitignore_test.go around lines 240 -
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Update TestGitIgnoredPathsDisablesRepoFsmonitor to make the hook’s marker path
shell-safe across platforms by converting it to forward slashes and safely
quoting it. Add a positive control that runs Git status, verifies the hook
creates the marker, and removes it before calling Scan; retain the existing
assertion that Scan does not run the hook.
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| cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, "git", append([]string{"-C", dir, "-c", "core.fsmonitor=false"}, args...)...) | ||
| cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), "GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0") |
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Remove inherited Git repository-location variables from the child environment.
gitCommand passes os.Environ() to the child process unchanged. Git hooks and some wrapper shells set GIT_DIR, GIT_WORK_TREE, GIT_INDEX_FILE, or GIT_COMMON_DIR. Zero can run inside such an environment, for example when an agent runs it from a hook. In that case -C dir changes only the working directory. GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE still choose the repository. rev-parse --show-prefix and status then describe a different repository, and Scan skips files using that repository's ignore list. Remove these variables before you append GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0.
Proposed fix
- cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), "GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0")
+ env := make([]string, 0, len(os.Environ())+1)
+ for _, kv := range os.Environ() {
+ switch strings.SplitN(kv, "=", 2)[0] {
+ case "GIT_DIR", "GIT_WORK_TREE", "GIT_INDEX_FILE", "GIT_COMMON_DIR",
+ "GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY", "GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES", "GIT_PREFIX", "GIT_NAMESPACE":
+ continue
+ }
+ env = append(env, kv)
+ }
+ cmd.Env = append(env, "GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0")Add a regression test that sets GIT_DIR to another repository and confirms that Scan still uses root's own ignore rules.
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Review comment at @internal/workspaceindex/gitignore.go around lines 115 - 116:
Update gitCommand to filter inherited GIT_DIR, GIT_WORK_TREE, GIT_INDEX_FILE,
and GIT_COMMON_DIR entries from the child environment before appending
GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0. Add a regression test that sets GIT_DIR to another
repository and verifies Scan uses root’s own ignore rules.
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Hi @Vasanthdev2004 — thanks again for the detailed review; it helped a lot.
I also merged The same git hardening is not applied to the TUI's startup workspace sweep; as you said, I'd keep that separate and am happy to open an issue for it if useful. The workflows on the new head are waiting for approval to run, if you can release them. |
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Summary
Makes
workspaceindex.Scanskip git-ignored paths and common build-cache directories, so the scan budget (repo-map, MCP resources, the per-turn workspace seed) is spent on source instead oftarget/,.venv/or.locust_env/. This is the shape approved on the issue: everything new lives inScan, andShouldSkipDiris unchanged.What changes
ShouldSkipDiris untouched, soglob,grep,list_directoryand path autocomplete keep seeingtarget/,.venv/,__pycache__/and the rest.git status --porcelain=v1 -z --ignored=matching .. That covers nested.gitignorefiles,info/exclude,core.excludesFile, and names no list anticipates.target,__pycache__,.venv,venv,.pytest_cache,.terraform,.mypy_cache,.ruff_cache. It is a separate helper, notShouldSkipDir.targetis real source there, and git already knows what is build output.What the issue asked for
gitIgnoredPaths.status --ignored=<mode>landed in 2.16 and--porcelain=v1in 2.11. Older git rejects the arguments and takes the non-git path. The git-backed tests skip below 2.16 and say so.buildSystemPromptParts→workspaceSeedContext). Measured: 10ms on Zero itself (1,544 tracked files), 20ms warm / 120ms cold on a 2,411-file Python repo with a large virtualenv. Two short-lived processes (rev-parse --show-prefix, thenstatus) under the 5s bound.BuildFromWorkspace's doc comment said "It performs no git operations"; it now names the one read-only lookup.GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0(git 2.15; older git ignores it), so a per-turngit statusnever takes.git/index.locknext to agit commit.Edge cases covered by tests
.gitignore-only names (.locust_env/,*.db), an ignored file inside an untracked directory (ls-files --directorymisses it,statusdoes not), and a non-ASCII ignored directory (-z, no C-quoting).--show-prefixto Scan's relative paths.target/inside a repo is scanned.target/debug/.fingerprintfiles, the real source is reached andTruncatedstays false.PATH, even inside a repo: no error, the fixed list applies.ShouldSkipDirstill returns false for every name in the fixed list.GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=1does not re-enable the lock.Tests are hermetic:
HOME,USERPROFILE,XDG_CONFIG_HOME,GIT_CONFIG_GLOBALandGIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEMare redirected, andGIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIESkeeps aTMPDIRinside some repo from turning a "not a repo" fixture into one.Known limitation:
git statusdoes not descend into a nested independent repository or a submodule, so a build directory inside one is not reported as ignored.mainscans those today too, so this is not a regression; I left it out to keep the change focused.One unrelated fixture changed:
repomap's symlink test named its real directorytarget, which the non-git fallback now skips. It is renamed toreal-dir, with a comment.Linked issue
Fixes #1108
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issue-approvedlabel.go build ./...,go vet ./..., andgo test ./...pass locally (withumask 022 TMPDIR=/tmp TZ=UTC; see feat(providers): opt-in ZERO_RESPONSE_HEADER_TIMEOUT override for slow first-byte deployments #1106 for the workstation-only failures without them).gofmtclean.-racewhere relevant).Verification
On commit
6e57f7fb, based onmainat99721c76:make fmt-check,go vet ./...,go test -count=1 ./...,go test -raceonworkspaceindex,repomapandworkspaceseed,go run ./cmd/zero-release build,go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke,make vulncheck,git diff HEAD --check: pass.make lint-static: only the 4 findings already onmain(installtest,proxydialx2,web_fetch.go); none in changed files.Cross-compile (
go vet+go test -c) forwindows/amd64,darwin/amd64,darwin/arm64: pass. Tests were not run on macOS or Windows.Each new test fails when its part of the fix is reverted, one revert at a time:
GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0TestGitCommandDisablesOptionalLocksShouldSkipDir(the earlier draft)TestShouldSkipDirLeavesScanOnlyDirsVisibleToTools,TestScanKeepsTrackedBuildCacheNamedDirInsideGitRepoTestScanKeepsTrackedBuildCacheNamedDirInsideGitRepomain)TestScanHonorsRepoGitignore,…FromSubdirectoryRootTestScanSkipsBuildCacheDirsOutsideGit,TestScanFallsBackWhenGitUnavailablels-files --directoryinstead ofstatusTestScanHonorsRepoGitignore,…FromSubdirectoryRootgosecandsemgrep(p/golang): no new findings compared withmain.gitleakson the branch commit: clean.No dependency changes (
go.mod/go.sumuntouched).Notes
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