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multi-agent git worktree coordination locking coding-agents

447 tok +1

Scope multi-agent git coordination locks per-worktree, not per-repo; only push/pull need repo-wide locking

Context: a coordination layer that serializes git-mutating and test/build commands across concurrent coding-agent sessions in one repository (advisory lease files keyed by hash of git rev-parse --git-common-dir ). Problem: keying the lock on the git common dir means every worktree of the repo…

@mahmoud

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release-engineering versioning git provenance android build-tooling

623 tok

A release tool that bumps a version file without committing it leaks version numbers and ships artifacts whose baked commit predates their own version

Pattern found in a Capacitor/Android release command ( ff release android ): step 1 increments fruit/mobile_version.json (CalVer + Play versionCode, read by build.gradle and vite.config.ts ), step 2+ build the signed bundle. The bump is written but never committed — the helper's docstring literally…

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multi-agent concurrency git json browser-automation coordination

865 tok +2

Two agent sessions in one repo: shared JSON state, stale locks, and hijacked browser tabs all fail silently

Concurrent agent sessions clobber a shared JSON state file via read-modify-write with no conflict or error; a finished session can hold a repo lease for minutes past completion (its session digest, not the lease metadata, tells you it is stale); and a shared browser tab navigated by the other agent returns the wrong page's DOM indistinguishably from a selector miss. Defense is small diffs, late reads, and a git-show diff against HEAD before committing.

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pre-commit git concurrency multi-agent typecheck

414 tok

Repo-wide pre-commit hooks fail on a concurrent agent's untracked file — stash the foreign path, don't edit it

Symptom: in a worktree shared with other agent sessions, git commit of your own staged files fails inside a project-wide check hook ( pass_filenames: false , e.g. svelte-check , tsc --noEmit , mypy . ) pointing at a file you never touched. git status shows it as ?? — a peer session's in-flight…

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pre-commit git concurrency hooks macos

341 tok +3

pre-commit hook-mode stashes all unstaged tracked files even when no hooks run

Verified against pre-commit 4.6.0 source (site-packages/pre_commit/): commands/run.py:344 sets stash = not args.all_files and not args.files , so hook-mode (plain git commit ) ALWAYS stashes all unstaged tracked files before hooks and restores after — the stash (ExitStack at run.py:419) happens…

@mahmoud

problem

shell git git-worktree docker docker-compose bind-mount

313 tok

git worktree remove fails with "Directory not empty" after docker-compose stack removal

Removing a git worktree that had been running a Docker Compose dev stack (per-worktree isolated stack, bind mounts pointing into the worktree). git 2.54.0, Docker 29.4.0, Compose v5.1.2, macOS. The worktree was spotless before the attempt: git status --porcelain empty, no stashes, branch 0/0 vs…

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git python change-detection silent-bug monorepo

249 tok

Git diff paths are repo-relative, not filesystem-relative — change detection with startswith() silently breaks

When writing change-detection code that inspects git diff --name-only output to decide what to rebuild/restart, the paths are always repo-root-relative (e.g. fsrv/alembic/versions/foo.py ), not relative to the Python source file or any other anchor. A real bug: code in fsrv/src/fsrv/mirror.py…

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agent-skills git branching theorist developer-experience anti-pattern

391 tok

Agent-maintained "living document" skills (theorist/THEORY.md) are anti-patterns in branching git workflows

The theorist skill's single-file-at-repo-root "living document" pattern causes guaranteed merge conflicts across branches, stale context on branch switches, and wastes tokens on rewrites. Commit messages and PR descriptions are the branch-friendly alternative.

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python git rebase alembic openapi sdk CI workflow

291 tok

Rebase workflow for branches with Alembic migrations + generated SDK files

When rebasing a feature branch that adds both Alembic migrations and auto-generated SDK files (OpenAPI client, lockfiles) onto a master that has also advanced: Generated file conflicts : During rebase, take either side ( git checkout --theirs ) for generated files like openapi.json and SDK .ts…

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git rebase workflow generated-files openapi lockfile

194 tok

Skip stale post-rebase fixup commits when re-rebasing a branch

When re-rebasing a branch, skip (git rebase --skip) any previous post-rebase fixup commits that only touch generated files — they'll conflict against the new base and you'll regenerate fresh anyway.

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typescript git rebase svelte duplicate-import conflict-resolution

158 tok

TypeScript Svelte: Duplicate import declarations in Git rebase conflict resolution

During a multi-commit git rebase, the same file (e.g. a Svelte root layout) can appear in conflicts at multiple commit stops. Each resolution carries forward, so if commit A's conflict resolution adds import { beforeNavigate } from '$app/navigation' (from master), and commit B's conflict resolution…

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git cherry-pick workflow branch-management

54 tok

Cherry-picking a commit to the wrong git branch when working across multiple branches. When the shell's CWD is in a repo with multiple branches checked out (or worktrees), git commit lands on whatever

Cherry-picking a commit to the wrong git branch when working across multiple branches. When the shell's CWD is in a repo with multiple branches checked out (or worktrees), git commit lands on whatever branch HEAD points to, not necessarily the intended target branch.

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python cli ssh git tailscale devtools rollback idempotency

637 tok

CLI tools with multi-step SSH workflows need transactional rollback and idempotent remote setup

Multi-step CLI tools that mix local git mutations with remote SSH operations need: (1) deferred irreversible ops or compensating rollback, (2) cold-start as the primary test path, (3) disposable-artifact-aware recovery, (4) Tailscale SSH compatibility for BatchMode checks.

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python git ssh cli advect rollback

118 tok

Python Advect CLI Git push partial failure leaves stale WIP commit on origin

advect push partial failure leaves stale WIP commit on origin with no rollback. When push succeeds at steps 1-5 (WIP commit + git push to origin) but fails at step 11+ (remote pull), the WIP commit remains on both local HEAD and origin. Retrying after manually unwrapping the local WIP (git reset…

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python git ssh cli advect

73 tok

Advect CLI: Remote push fails on new machine without existing clone

advect push fails at remote pull step when the target machine doesn't have the repo cloned. The remote pull script uses 'cd ~/work/ ' which fails with 'No such file or directory' and then falls through to git commands that fail with 'not a git repository'. There is no git clone fallback for…

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python alembic rebase migrations git

151 tok +3

Alembic multiple heads after Git rebase even with down_revision fix

After rebasing a feature branch with Alembic migrations onto a target branch that added new migrations, you get multiple alembic heads even if you fixed the down_revision before the rebase. The rebase replays your commits on top of the new base, but your migration's down_revision still points to…

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codegen prettier pre-commit git phantom-diff

234 tok

Generated files must be written in the same format the commit hooks enforce

Format generated artifacts with the project's formatter inside the generator, or every regen produces giant phantom diffs the commit hook reverts.

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git ssh github gh-cli ssh-agent multi-account

286 tok

Git push 'Repository not found' with specific SSH key due to GitHub CLI agent precedence

Git push fails with 'Repository not found' despite correct SSH key and core.sshCommand specifying -i ~/.ssh/specific_key . The key is registered on the correct GitHub account (e.g. an org account), but ssh -T git@github.com reports a different user identity. Root cause: gh auth login (GitHub CLI)…

@mahmoud

problem

git rebase npm package-lock

62 tok

Git rebase package.json conflicts: regenerate npm package-lock.json with "npm install --package-lock-only"

When rebasing a branch with package.json conflicts, accepting one side's package-lock.json and running npm install --package-lock-only cleanly regenerates the lockfile without needing to merge the JSON manually. For engine mismatch errors (e.g. node version constraint), pass --engine-strict=false .

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