fix(609): close two false-arm holes found in cross-family review

Codex review of the first attempt found both, and both were in the git plumbing
that my unit tests never touched -- they only exercised the pure predicate.

1. HIGH: git's `%s` is the first PARAGRAPH, not the first line. It joins
   consecutive non-blank lines with spaces, so
     `fix: harmless subject`
     `This explains [decisions-edit] on line two.`
   came back as ONE line containing the token and armed it -- the exact
   false-arm this change exists to prevent. The first line is now taken from
   `%B` via `subject_of()`.

2. HIGH: the in-band `\x1f`/`\x1e` field separators were injectable. A subject
   containing a literal `\x1f` was split at the wrong place and its tail read as
   a trailer, arming the token. Framing is now NUL, which git forbids inside a
   commit message and which therefore cannot be injected, with exact-arity
   parsing (fields must be a multiple of three) that refuses to arm otherwise.

Also from the same review:
- Refuse to arm on a `%(trailers:...)` atom echoed literally by a git older than
  2.22, which would otherwise read as a non-empty trailer (exit 0, so `_run`
  returns it rather than None).
- Record corrected: 38 subject-tokened commits in ancestry, not "twenty"; and it
  no longer claims a blanket fail-safe -- `_token_armed` failing is safe, but the
  surrounding `_diff_findings` fails open earlier on an unresolvable merge-base,
  skipping every check. That predates this change.

Adds 8 integration tests that drive `_token_armed` against a real throwaway git
repo -- the gap that let both defects pass. Verified non-vacuous by
reconstructing the old implementation in memory: it arms on both inputs, the new
one does not.

Note `--format` uses git's `%x00` escape, not a literal NUL: a NUL in argv raises
ValueError from subprocess, which broke every diff-engine test until fixed.
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commit 243bec708d
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@@ -3943,14 +3943,24 @@ laundering, archive survivors). `removed` and `demoted` still ran, so the job pr
and it bit in the worst possible place: that PR had hand-resolved an append-vs-append conflict inside
`docs/decisions.md`, which is precisely the operation the guard exists to police.
**Scoping to the subject preserves every historical use.** All twenty prior tokened commits append
`[decisions-edit]` to the subject (or place it mid-subject, as `docs(434):` does); none put it on its
own line, so an "own-line only" rule — the obvious first instinct — would have broken all of them.
The `Decisions-Edit:` trailer is added alongside as the forward-looking form because it can carry a
*reason*, which the bracketed marker cannot.
**Scoping to the subject preserves every historical use.** All 38 prior tokened commits in `main`'s
ancestry carry `[decisions-edit]` in the subject — usually appended, sometimes mid-subject as
`docs(434):` does; none put it on its own line, so an "own-line only" rule — the obvious first
instinct — would have broken all of them. The `Decisions-Edit:` trailer is added alongside as the
forward-looking form because it can carry a *reason*, which the bracketed marker cannot.
**Fail-open posture is unchanged**: if git can't be interrogated the token reads unarmed, so the
guard still runs. Failing the other way would silently disable it, which is the bug being fixed.
**The subject is computed, not taken from git's `%s`.** That atom is the first *paragraph*: it joins
consecutive non-blank lines with spaces, so `fix: harmless` followed by a second line mentioning the
token would arm it. The first line is taken from `%B` instead. Fields are framed with **NUL**, which
git forbids inside a commit message and is therefore the one separator a message cannot inject — an
in-band `\x1f` let a subject containing that byte be split at the wrong place and its tail read as a
trailer. Parsing demands exact arity (a multiple of three fields) and refuses to arm on anything
else, including a `%(trailers:…)` atom echoed literally by a git too old to expand it.
**Unarmed is the safe default for this function**: if git can't be interrogated the token reads
unarmed, so the rationale comparisons still run. Note the *surrounding* `_diff_findings` fails open
separately and earlier — an unresolvable merge-base returns no findings at all, skipping every diff
check including this one. That predates this record and is unchanged by it.
**The general lesson is the one already recorded for CI behaviour**: a check that can silently
no-op is worse than no check, because its green reads as coverage. Verify a guard by *measuring that
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@@ -232,7 +232,14 @@ def _archive_records_at(ref: str):
_TRAILER_KEY = "Decisions-Edit"
_REC_SEP, _FIELD_SEP = "\x1e", "\x1f"
# NUL framing, not \x1f/\x1e. git forbids NUL inside a commit message, so it is the ONLY separator
# a crafted (or merely odd) message cannot inject: a subject containing a literal \x1f would
# otherwise be split at the wrong place and its tail read as a trailer — falsely ARMING the token,
# which is the dangerous direction because arming silently disables the guard.
_NUL = "\x00" # what we SPLIT the output on
_NUL_FMT = "%x00" # what goes in the --format string; a literal NUL in argv raises ValueError
_FIELDS_PER_COMMIT = 3
_UNEXPANDED_ATOM = "%(trailers"
def token_armed_in(subject: str, trailer: str) -> bool:
@@ -253,25 +260,44 @@ def token_armed_in(subject: str, trailer: str) -> bool:
return bool(trailer.strip())
def subject_of(body: str) -> str:
"""The commit's true first line.
NOT git's `%s`: that atom is the first *paragraph*, joining consecutive non-blank lines with
spaces, so `fix: harmless\\nprose about [decisions-edit]\\n\\n…` would come back as one line
containing the token and arm it. Take the first line ourselves from `%B`.
"""
return body.lstrip("\n").split("\n", 1)[0].strip()
def _token_armed(mb: str, head: str) -> bool:
"""True if ANY commit in mb..head carries the token. Unresolvable git → False (guard runs)."""
"""True if ANY commit in mb..head carries the token. Anything unexpected → False (guard runs)."""
out = _run(
[
"git",
"log",
f"--format=%s{_FIELD_SEP}%(trailers:key={_TRAILER_KEY},valueonly){_REC_SEP}",
f"--format=%H{_NUL_FMT}%B{_NUL_FMT}%(trailers:key={_TRAILER_KEY},valueonly){_NUL_FMT}",
f"{mb}..{head}",
]
)
if out is None:
# Same posture as the previous implementation: on git trouble the token is NOT armed, so
# the guard still runs. Failing the other way would silently disable it.
# On git trouble the token is NOT armed, so the guard still runs. Failing the other way
# would silently disable it — the bug this whole function exists to fix.
return False
for entry in out.split(_REC_SEP):
if not entry.strip():
parts = out.split(_NUL)
if parts and not parts[-1].strip():
parts.pop() # trailing inter-record newline after the final NUL
if len(parts) % _FIELDS_PER_COMMIT != 0:
# Exact arity, not best-effort. NUL cannot occur in a commit message, so a bad count means
# the output was truncated or the format atom wasn't understood — refuse to arm.
return False
for i in range(0, len(parts), _FIELDS_PER_COMMIT):
body, trailer = parts[i + 1], parts[i + 2]
if trailer.strip().startswith(_UNEXPANDED_ATOM):
# git too old to expand %(trailers:...): it echoes the atom literally with exit 0, which
# would read as a non-empty trailer and falsely arm. Treat as unarmed.
continue
subject, _, trailer = entry.partition(_FIELD_SEP)
if token_armed_in(subject.strip(), trailer):
if token_armed_in(subject_of(body), trailer):
return True
return False
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@@ -510,3 +510,98 @@ def test_token_NOT_armed_by_body_prose():
def test_token_not_armed_by_empty_or_whitespace_trailer():
assert not dv.token_armed_in("docs: something", "")
assert not dv.token_armed_in("docs: something", " \n ")
# ---- _token_armed INTEGRATION against real git (ersatztv#609 review round 2) ----
#
# The unit tests above only exercise `token_armed_in`. Both false-arm defects found in review
# (git's `%s` folding the first PARAGRAPH, and an injectable in-band separator) lived in the git
# plumbing and passed those tests untouched. These drive the real command.
def _repo(tmp_path, messages: list[str]) -> tuple[str, str]:
"""Build a throwaway repo; return (base_sha, head_sha)."""
import subprocess
def g(*a, **kw):
return subprocess.run(["git", *a], cwd=tmp_path, capture_output=True, text=True, **kw)
g("init", "-q", ".")
g("config", "user.email", "t@e")
g("config", "user.name", "t")
(tmp_path / "f").write_text("base\n")
g("add", "-A")
g("commit", "-qm", "base")
base = g("rev-parse", "HEAD").stdout.strip()
for i, msg in enumerate(messages):
(tmp_path / "f").write_text(f"{i}\n")
g("add", "-A")
g("commit", "-q", "-F", "-", input=msg)
return base, g("rev-parse", "HEAD").stdout.strip()
def _armed(tmp_path, message: str) -> bool:
import os
base, head = _repo(tmp_path, [message])
cwd = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(tmp_path)
try:
return dv._token_armed(base, head)
finally:
os.chdir(cwd)
def test_integration_subject_token_arms(tmp_path):
assert _armed(tmp_path, "fix(460): write null LastScan [decisions-edit]\n\nbody\n")
def test_integration_trailer_arms(tmp_path):
assert _armed(tmp_path, "docs: correct a figure\n\nwhy\n\nDecisions-Edit: the load number was wrong\n")
def test_integration_body_prose_does_not_arm(tmp_path):
assert not _armed(tmp_path, "docs: explain it\n\nThe check matches [decisions-edit] as a substring.\n")
def test_integration_second_line_of_first_paragraph_does_not_arm(tmp_path):
"""git's %s is the first PARAGRAPH, not the first line — it folds line 2 in with a space.
Using %s directly, this message arms the token. It must not: line 2 is body prose.
"""
assert not _armed(tmp_path, "fix: harmless subject\nThis explains [decisions-edit] on line two.\n\nbody\n")
def test_integration_separator_in_subject_cannot_inject(tmp_path):
"""An in-band \\x1f separator was injectable; NUL cannot appear in a commit message."""
assert not _armed(tmp_path, "docs: harmless\x1fsuffix\n\nbody\n")
assert not _armed(tmp_path, "docs: harmless\x1e\x1fsuffix\n\nbody\n")
def test_integration_empty_trailer_does_not_arm(tmp_path):
assert not _armed(tmp_path, "docs: something\n\nbody\n\nDecisions-Edit:\n")
def test_integration_only_a_later_commit_carries_it(tmp_path):
import os
base, head = _repo(tmp_path, ["chore: unrelated\n", "fix: real correction [decisions-edit]\n"])
cwd = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(tmp_path)
try:
assert dv._token_armed(base, head)
finally:
os.chdir(cwd)
def test_integration_unresolvable_refs_do_not_arm(tmp_path):
"""Guard must still RUN when git can't answer; arming on failure would disable it."""
assert not _armed(tmp_path, "docs: x\n") or True # build a repo first
import os
cwd = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(tmp_path)
try:
assert dv._token_armed("nope1", "nope2") is False
finally:
os.chdir(cwd)