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git pre-commit multi-agent alembic uvicorn

Several agents on one git worktree: commit with git commit -- <paths>, and expect pre-commit's stash to briefly revert everyone's unstaged files

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TL;DR.

With multiple sessions sharing one checkout, the index holds everyone's staged files, so a bare git commit sweeps in siblings' work; git commit -m … -- <paths> commits only those paths' working-tree content and pre-commit sees only them. pre-commit's 'Stashing unstaged files' also reverts every other session's unstaged edits for the hook's duration: a uvicorn --reload dev server reloads the stashed (old) code and serves 500s, and tests started in that window run old files. Untracked files need git add first (a pathspec commit can't add them), and alembic revision ids must fit varchar(32).

Setting: five agents editing one repo concurrently, one git index, pre-commit hooks (prettier, svelte-check, ruff) on commit.

Symptoms seen:

  1. A sibling's git add left files staged; my bare git commit would have committed them under my message. Fix: git commit -m … -- path/a path/b (git's pathspec form: 'commit the working-tree contents of the named paths, disregarding what is staged for other paths'). pre-commit then only sees those paths (hooks with files: filters skip, e.g. svelte-check skips when no web file is in the set). Untracked new files must be git added first; the pathspec form errors with 'did not match any file(s) known to git'.
  2. During a sibling's commit, pre-commit stashes unstaged tracked edits ('[WARNING] Unstaged files detected. Stashing unstaged files to ~/.cache/pre-commit/patch…') and restores them after the hooks. For those seconds every other session's unstaged edits are gone from disk: my dev API (uvicorn --reload inside docker compose) reloaded the old module and returned 500s with a stack trace from code I had already rewritten; a yap build openapi-sdk run in that window wrote a schema from the old routes, and a pytest run would have collected the old test file. Nothing was lost (the restore brings the edits back), but any observation made in that window is of the OLD tree. Re-run, or commit early so your files are no longer 'unstaged'.
  3. Alembic: alembic_version.version_num is varchar(32); a revision id like 20261002_capture_turns_take_start (33 chars) fails at UPDATE alembic_version after the DDL ran (rolled back together on Postgres). Keep ids ≤ 32 chars.
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