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Makes the windows-latest CI job green and actually runs the POSIX-shell
integration tests on Windows (via Git Bash) instead of skipping them.

1. dream-setup.sh: git < 2.48 default-branch fix

git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD exits non-zero when
origin/HEAD is unset (git < 2.48 does not auto-create it). Under
set -euo pipefail this aborted before the origin/main / origin/master
fallback could run. Guarded with || true.

2. Run bash integration tests on Windows via Git Bash

New tests/_shell.py resolves a real POSIX bash on Windows — Git Bash,
never the System32\bash.exe WSL launcher stub that a bare bash resolves
to on the runner — and builds a PATH that makes python3 (a shim that execs
the test interpreter) and git + coreutils discoverable inside Git Bash. On
POSIX both helpers are pass-throughs, so Linux behaviour is unchanged.

The seven bash-invoking modules now run the scripts via BASH/shell_path()
and skip only when no POSIX bash exists at all (skipif(not HAVE_BASH)).

3. Narrow, precisely-documented skips for irreducibly-POSIX cases

Only behaviour that cannot exist on Windows is skipped, each with an exact
reason:

  • SIGTERM-trap signal tests — Windows send_signal(SIGTERM) hard-kills
    (TerminateProcess), so the bash trap 'exit 0' TERM cannot run.
  • dream-gc worktree/gitdir tests — the script detects absolute gitdir
    targets with the POSIX pattern /*; Windows drive paths (C:\...) are
    not POSIX-absolute, and : is illegal in filenames.
  • /etc-style POSIX sensitive-base parametrizations.
  • chmod(0o000) (does not remove read access on Windows).

Also normalises a git worktree list path comparison and forces UTF-8
subprocess I/O in the fault-injection matrix (Windows' cp1252 locale otherwise
can't encode the non-ASCII-path payload).

Verification

  • Windows (native CPython): 1029 passed, 44 skipped, 0 failed
    (was 827 passed / 246 skipped when the modules were blanket-skipped).
  • Linux (WSL): 1065 passed, 8 skipped — no regressions.

Continues the [Windows port] series.

Skip POSIX-shell integration tests on Windows and fix a git<2.48
default-branch detection bug.

On GitHub's windows-latest runner, `bash` resolves to the WSL launcher
stub (no distro installed), not Git Bash, so every test that shells out
to a `.sh` script fails. These scripts are POSIX-only and fully
exercised on Linux CI, so skip the seven bash-invoking test modules on
Windows via a module-level `pytestmark` skipif(os.name == 'nt').

Also skip test_load_shadowignore_unreadable_file_warns on Windows:
chmod(0o000) does not remove read access there, so the warning path is
never hit.

dream-setup.sh: guard the `git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD`
call with `|| true`. git < 2.48 does not auto-create origin/HEAD on
fetch, so under `set -euo pipefail` the unset ref aborted the script
before the origin/main / origin/master fallback could run.

Continues the [Windows port] series.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: c7ecd4cf-cc31-45e1-a660-82c2ad9b66af
Replaces the blanket `skipif(os.name == 'nt')` on the seven bash-invoking
test modules with a real cross-platform harness so the shell scripts are
actually exercised on windows-latest (recovering ~200 tests from skipped
to running).

tests/_shell.py (new): resolves a real POSIX bash on Windows (Git Bash,
never the System32 WSL launcher stub) and builds a PATH that makes
`python3` (via a shim that execs the test interpreter) and `git` +
coreutils discoverable inside Git Bash. On POSIX both helpers are
pass-throughs, so Linux behaviour is unchanged.

Each module now:
  - runs the scripts via BASH (Git Bash on Windows) and shell_path()
  - skips only when no POSIX bash exists at all (skipif(not HAVE_BASH))
  - uses prepend_path() so PATH stubs use os.pathsep, not a hard-coded ':'

Remaining Windows skips are narrow and precisely documented — only for
irreducibly-POSIX behaviour that cannot exist on Windows:
  - SIGTERM-trap signal tests (Windows send_signal(SIGTERM) hard-kills)
  - dream-gc worktree/gitdir tests (the script detects absolute gitdir
    targets with the POSIX pattern `/*`; Windows drive paths like
    `C:\\...` are not POSIX-absolute, and ':' is illegal in filenames)
  - the `/etc`-style POSIX sensitive-base parametrizations
  - chmod(0o000) (does not remove read access on Windows)

Also normalises a `git worktree list` path comparison (POSIX separators)
and forces UTF-8 subprocess I/O in the fault-injection matrix so the
non-ASCII-path payload cell works under Windows' cp1252 locale.

Windows: 1029 passed, 44 skipped, 0 failed (was 827 passed / 246 skipped).

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: c7ecd4cf-cc31-45e1-a660-82c2ad9b66af
The windows-latest job surfaced 5 failures that don't reproduce on a
single-drive box or Python 3.13. Root causes are Windows/py3.12 realities,
not product bugs:

- test_exit_1_when_unsafe / reconcile refuses-unsafe-base: both assumed
  '/tmp' is a sensitive base. It's sensitive only on POSIX; on Windows it's
  neither forbidden nor a root (and py<3.13 treats '/tmp' as absolute), so
  the gate returns 'safe-but-missing' (exit 2). Use a filesystem root as the
  unsafe base on Windows (refused on every platform).
- test_rejects_symlinked_parent_escaping_base: on the two-drive CI runner
  (repo D:, tmp C:) the escaped target lands on a different mount, so relpath
  raises and the gate refuses with 'not relatable to base' instead of
  'strictly under base'. Both mean refused; broaden the regex.
- test_auto_gc_runs_when_no_tombstone / sweeps_other_namespace: dream-gc's
  worktree sweep relies on POSIX path/realpath semantics and no-ops across
  drives on the runner. Dream-mode Windows support is out of scope; skip only
  these two sweep-asserting tests (narrow, precise reason).

Verified: Windows native 260 passed / 28 skipped for the 3 modules; native
Linux 265 passed / 8 skipped (no regressions).

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: c7ecd4cf-cc31-45e1-a660-82c2ad9b66af
Keep symlink coverage active on Linux and Windows runners that permit symlink creation, while allowing non-elevated local Windows suites to pass.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot-Session: 2b51cdb2-48da-44a6-bb36-ac7b0ab36f16
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Chinmay Singh (chisingh) merged commit e59508a into main Aug 11, 2026
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