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What & why

A hosted agent could not start in a repository with a submodule once the user had submodule.recurse=true: the worktree's reset --hard HEAD recursed into a submodule whose linked-worktree gitdir is only a stub, and failed the launch. Worktree prep now overrides the user's config for every git call it makes that such a setting can break. The worktree reset and the borrowed snapshot's checkout never recurse into submodules, the review fetch never fetches them, and the standalone snapshot's bookkeeping commit is never signed.

The standalone snapshot also keeps the bytes it copied:

• the user's core.autocrlf/core.safecrlf are pinned off;
• the user's attributes file is replaced by the snapshot's own, which holds * !text !eol (both reset to unspecified, since git resolves each attribute on its own; -text would mark every path binary and void a project rule that sets only eol). Git ranks that file above the machine's attributes and below the project's .gitattributes, so the agent's later git commands still convert only what the project asks for (.git/info/attributes would outrank the project);
• the snapshot's own add, diff and commit also run with GIT_ATTR_NOSYSTEM=1

Where to look

• The review fetch failed even with no user config: fetching a head that moves a submodule fetches that submodule from its own remote by default, and an unreachable or credentialed remote failed the launch
• kcap-cli#1793 edits the same reset --hard HEAD call, so it will need a trivial rebase
• Submodule contents are still not populated in the worktree, as before

Verification

Test	Red, without the overrides	Green
Worktree in a repo with a submodule, global submodule.recurse=true	git reset --hard HEAD failed: fatal: gitfile does not point to a valid repository	passes
Borrowed snapshot, global submodule.recurse=true and submodule.active=.	git checkout --detach HEAD failed, same error	passes
Standalone snapshot, global commit.gpgsign=true with an unrunnable gpg.program	git commit -m Initial snapshot failed: cannot exec	passes
Review fetch of a head that moves a submodule whose remote is gone, default config	git fetch origin refs/pull/7/head:… failed	passes
Standalone snapshot, LF file, global core.autocrlf=true + core.safecrlf=true	the commit is refused	LF kept
Standalone snapshot, user attributes * text=auto and a copied CRLF file	CRLF normalised	CRLF kept; the project's text eol=lf still applies; the agent's later check-attr reads text: unspecified and status is clean
A lower-ranked * text eol=crlf under the snapshot's attributes (built in a scratch repo, since the machine's file cannot be staged)	eol: crlf got through !text alone	text and eol both unspecified
Project rule eol=crlf only, LF file, checkout after the snapshot	LF written (-text voided the rule)	CRLF written
Snapshot git runs, recorded by a git wrapper on PATH	no GIT_ATTR_NOSYSTEM on add	1 on add, diff and commit
WorktreeManagerTests, StandaloneSnapshotTests, GitConfigTransportTests, WorktreeMetadataGateTests and the new class		99 passed, 1 skipped
dotnet publish -c Release of Capacitor.Cli and Capacitor.Cli.Daemon		both built, 0 IL2xxx/IL3xxx warnings

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Worktree and borrowed-snapshot creation now succeeds with Git settings that enable recursive submodules, including when a submodule remote is unavailable.
  • Standalone snapshots preserve applicable user and project attribute rules and file line endings across a wider range of Git configurations, while excluding machine-level attribute rules.
  • Snapshot creation succeeds when user settings enable commit signing or strict line-ending conversion.

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Walkthrough

Git worktree operations now disable submodule recursion. Standalone snapshots preserve user attribute rules while controlling text and EOL attributes, line-ending conversion, system attributes, and commit signing. Git command helpers accept environment overrides.

Changes: Worktree and snapshot behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Disable submodule recursion during worktree creation src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs, test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerTests.cs, test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.cs	Fetch and checkout commands disable submodule recursion. Tests cover user settings that enable recursion and worktree creation after a submodule remote becomes unavailable.
Control standalone snapshot Git settings src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs, test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.cs	Standalone snapshots preserve user attribute rules while resetting text and EOL attributes. Staging and the initial commit use overrides for system attributes and line-ending conversion; the initial commit also disables signing. Capture helpers pass environment overrides to Git. Tests cover attribute precedence, line endings, system attributes, and signing settings.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: nortonandreev, lougarou, inok

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 5bd9b

The change is mergeable: worktree recursion, snapshot attributes, line endings, system attributes, and signing are handled at the intended Git boundaries.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 5bd9b

The changes reduce dependence on personal Git settings while preserving existing preparation safeguards. No introduced security issue was identified. Remaining uncertainty concerns runtime and platform compatibility of the new snapshot configuration.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed controls affect repository-preparation Git processes and snapshot-local metadata. Disabling recursive fetch removes preparation-time contact with submodule remotes; the persistent configuration writes target the newly created snapshot rather than the user’s global configuration.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Repository content still passes through the existing hook and filter suppression controls during materialization and staging. The new environment-aware runner preserves configuration-transport validation, and its supplied environment setting is the fixed GIT_ATTR_NOSYSTEM=1 pair. Configuration overrides continue to append after inherited entries rather than displacing them.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 62.16% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 37 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check		The title clearly identifies the main changes: preventing user submodule recursion and signing settings from affecting worktree preparation and snapshot creation.
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PR Summary by Qodo

Isolate worktree preparation from user Git settings

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 🕐 40+ Minutes

AI Description

• Prevent submodule recursion from breaking review fetches, worktree resets, and borrowed snapshot
 checkouts.
• Keep standalone snapshots independent of user signing and line-ending settings while honoring
 project attributes.
• Add regression tests for submodules, signing, attributes, and copied file bytes.

Diagram

graph TD
  Manager["Worktree manager"] --> Mode{"Workspace mode"} -->|review| Fetch["Nonrecursive fetch"] --> Reset["Nonrecursive reset"]
  Mode -->|borrowed| Checkout["Nonrecursive checkout"]
  Mode -->|standalone| Snapshot["Standalone snapshot"] --> Attributes["Snapshot attributes"] --> Commit["Unsigned commit"]

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High-Level Assessment

Keep the targeted Git overrides and snapshot-owned attributes file. Per-command settings protect preparation without changing the user's configuration; persisting the snapshot settings also protects later Git commands. An info/attributes file was considered but would outrank project attributes.

Files changed (3) +366 / -23

Bug fix (1) +107 / -23

WorktreeManager.csGuard Git preparation and preserve standalone snapshot bytes +107/-23

Guard Git preparation and preserve standalone snapshot bytes

• Disables submodule recursion during review fetches and materializing checkouts, and disables signing for standalone bookkeeping commits. Adds snapshot-local line-ending settings and an attributes file that preserves other user rules while deferring text conversion to project attributes. Extends Git execution helpers to pass the environment override needed to exclude system attributes during snapshot creation.

src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs

Tests (2) +259 / -0

WorktreeManagerTests.csCover review fetch with an unreachable submodule remote +38/-0

Cover review fetch with an unreachable submodule remote

• Adds a regression test showing that fetching a review head which moves a submodule succeeds without contacting the submodule's unavailable remote.

test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerTests.cs

WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.csCover user Git settings across workspace modes +221/-0

Cover user Git settings across workspace modes

• Tests recursive submodule settings in linked and borrowed workspaces and signing settings in standalone snapshots. Verifies copied line endings, user and project attribute precedence, later Git behavior, and exclusion of system attributes during snapshot commands.

test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.cs

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🐞 Bugs (0) 📘 Rule violations (1) 🔗 Cross-repo conflicts (0) 📜 Skill insights (0)

1. Disabled global attributes return ✗ Dismissed

Description

UserAttributesFileAsync treats a successful core.attributesFile lookup with an empty value as
though the setting were absent. When a user explicitly sets it to empty, the fallback lookup can
copy rules from the default global attributes file into the snapshot instead.

Code

src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs[R546-549]

+        if (configured.ExitCode == 0 && configured.Stdout.Trim() is { Length: > 0 } named) return Path.Combine(worktreePath, named);
+
+        var reported = await RunGitCaptureResult(worktreePath, GitTimeout, time, sourceReadOnly: false, [], "var", "GIT_ATTR_GLOBAL");
+        if (reported.ExitCode == 0 && reported.Stdout.Trim() is { Length: > 0 } path) return path;

Relevance

●●● Strong

Correctness edge case: explicit empty configuration should not silently enable a fallback attributes
file.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The non-empty guard discards a successful empty result, after which the method looks up the default
path. CreateSnapshotAttributesFile copies whichever path the method returns.

src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs[543-553]
src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs[528-535]

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The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
A successful lookup of an explicitly empty core.attributesFile falls through to the default global attributes path, allowing rules the user disabled to be copied into the snapshot.

## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs[543-553]

## Recommended Fix
Distinguish a missing config entry from a successful lookup with an empty value. Return no user attributes file for the explicitly empty value, and test the case with a default global attributes file present.

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2. Paths with spaces lose attribute rules ✗ Dismissed

Description

UserAttributesFileAsync calls Trim() on the path returned by Git before using it to locate the
user's attributes file. When a configured path begins or ends with a space, the lookup targets a
different file and the snapshot silently omits the user's rules.

Code

src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs[546]

+        if (configured.ExitCode == 0 && configured.Stdout.Trim() is { Length: > 0 } named) return Path.Combine(worktreePath, named);

Relevance

●●● Strong

Deterministic path-handling bug; history accepts fixes preserving meaningful path syntax.

PR-#1683

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

Both Git path results are trimmed before use; the resulting path is checked for existence and, if
found, its contents become the snapshot's configured attributes file.

src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs[543-549]
src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs[528-537]

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The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Git can return an attributes-file path whose filename begins or ends with spaces, but trimming the whole output changes that path before the file is copied.

## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon/Services/WorktreeManager.cs[543-549]

## Recommended Fix
Remove only the line terminator from Git's output, preserving path whitespace, for both the configured path and the reported default. Add coverage using an attributes-file name with a leading or trailing space.

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3. Git tests can oversubscribe subprocesses 📘 Rule violation ▣ Testability

Description

WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests is marked only with bare [NotInParallel] and lacks
[ParallelLimiter<SubprocessLimit>]. Its tests create repositories and invoke git repeatedly, so
the suite bypasses the shared subprocess limit and can run heavy child processes at full
parallelism.

Code

test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.cs[R12-13]

+[NotInParallel]
+public class WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests {

Relevance

● Weak

Exact recent precedent explicitly rejected adding the subprocess limiter to a Git-heavy test class.

PR-#1913
PR-#1296

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The new test class performs real repository and git-process operations but declares only
[NotInParallel]; the checklist requires classes that spawn real subprocesses to use
[ParallelLimiter<SubprocessLimit>] rather than relying on [NotInParallel].

Rule 2808212: Use ParallelLimiter<SubprocessLimit> for test classes that spawn real subprocesses
test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.cs[12-13]
test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.cs[27-35]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
`WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests` starts many real git subprocesses but uses only `[NotInParallel]`, so it does not participate in the test assembly's shared subprocess limit.

## Fix Focus Areas
- test/Capacitor.Cli.Daemon.Tests.Unit/Services/WorktreeManagerUserGitConfigTests.cs[12-13]

## Recommended Fix
Add `[ParallelLimiter<SubprocessLimit>]` to the test class so all real git subprocesses share the global limiter. Retain the bare `[NotInParallel]` attribute if needed to isolate the process-wide `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL` environment changes.

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