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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
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WalkthroughWorkspace scans now use Git’s ignored-path data when available. If 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: updating workspaceindex.Scan to skip Git-ignored and build-cache directories without changing other tools' behavior. Linked Issues check [ #1108] The PR addresses the scan-budget problem inworkspaceindex.Scan. Git work trees use Git ignored-path results, including subdirectory scans and nested ignore rules. Non-Git, unavailable-Git, …Out of Scope Changes check The changes support [ #1108]. The Git helper, timeout, environment filtering, fsmonitor and lock safeguards, parser tests, workspace-seed documentation, and fixture rename directly support safe 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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- 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,
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- Around line 115-116: Update gitCommand to filter inherited GIT_DIR,
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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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Thanks Fabio, both of my points are fixed in 2dc4049. Taking --untracked-files=normal back out makes TestScanHonorsRepoGitignoreWhenShowUntrackedFilesNo fail, so that one is pinned.
CodeRabbit's two open comments both hold up when I check them, and kevin asked for them, so I'm holding for those two:
- The fsmonitor test can't fail on Windows. With
-c core.fsmonitor=falseremoved,TestGitIgnoredPathsDisablesRepoFsmonitorstill passes here. The hook script has the marker path unquoted, and sh drops the backslashes:touch C:\tmp\run\markercreates a file namedC:tmprunmarkerin the current directory. So the hook runs, but the marker the test checks for is never created. A forward-slash path plus a positive control (status once without the override, and require the marker) would make it fail on all three platforms. - Inherited
GIT_DIRandGIT_WORK_TREE. Git exports both to hooks. With them pointing at another repository, Scan on the same root returned.locust_env/lib/x.py, which root's own.gitignoreexcludes; with a clean environment it doesn't. Dropping the repository-location variables ingitCommandfixes it.
The red Windows smoke job was TestExecCommandForegroundServerReturnsSessionAndServesHTTP, the Windows runner flake tracked in #1097, and has nothing to do with this change. It passed on re-run, so CI is green now.
No need for a separate issue about the TUI sweep. I'm taking that one.
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Git exports GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE to hooks. With those pointing at another repository, Scan kept .locust_env/lib/x.py, which root's own .gitignore excludes.
On Windows, sh treats an unquoted backslash path as escapes, so the hook ran and the marker the test stats was never created. Require a status without the override to create that marker first.
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Checked locally: On #1133: understood. Whichever PR lands second moves |
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🟠 Major · Prevent repository commands during the read-only scan. · gitignore.go:54-60
internal/workspaceindex/gitignore.go:54-60
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPrevent repository commands during the read-only scan.
git statuscan launch a configuredfilter.<name>.cleancommand when a modified tracked file requires comparison with the index.gitCommanduses a fixed argv, but Git launches the filter itself. This allows repository-controlled command execution during MCP resource enumeration.Replace this status lookup with path enumeration plus
git check-ignore --stdin -z. Preserve the current nested-directory handling and path normalization.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 54-60: Replace the git status lookup in the scan with path
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… slashes Smoke (windows-latest) failed TestGitIgnoredPathsDisablesRepoFsmonitor because core.fsmonitor was set to a backslash script path. Git for Windows hands that value to sh, which consumes the separators, so the hook never runs and the marker is never created. The test now stores a quoted forward-slash path. The product code is unchanged.
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Both are fixed at 4fce277, and I checked that each test now fails without its fix on Windows. With -c core.fsmonitor=false removed, TestGitIgnoredPathsDisablesRepoFsmonitor fails with fsmonitor hook ran during gitIgnoredPaths, so the positive control does its job here now. With the environment filter removed, TestScanIgnoresInheritedRepositoryLocation fails with .locust_env/lib/x.py back in the file list. internal/workspaceindex, internal/repomap and internal/workspaceseed pass.
The clean-filter case stays with #1133 as I said, so it doesn't hold this up. Approving.
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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
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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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