adopt-project.py execute: under a non-UTF-8 locale, a moved or dropped path that is not ASCII kills git rm after both legs are pushed

The 2026-10-12 ruling, to pass the path to git rm as bytes, is not done yet.

From the v1.1.0 triage of the v1.0.0 known limits on #457. One pull request covers the lines below.

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X1: git rm gets a non-ASCII path as text, so under a non-UTF-8 locale execute dies after both legs are pushed. Where: adopt-project.py _mount_the_legs. Effort M; Linux, macOS. On main 3121945: adopt-project.py:6771 still hands git rm a str path; the 2026-10-12 ruling (pass bytes) is not done. (source)

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X1: under LC_ALL=C PYTHONUTF8=0, execute hands a moved or dropped path that is not ASCII to git rm as an argument subprocess cannot encode, so plan and check pass, both legs are pushed, and the run ends in a UnicodeEncodeError traceback. Ruled 2026-10-12: pass git the exact bytes the tree holds, under any locale.
— #457, body

CLAIMED — lane openRepoShape-1, session 300f8f46-004a-4e72-8587-4f192be2e108@Eagle, 2026-10-14T22:33:35Z, for #527

Logged in lanes/log/openRepoShape-1.md at d98d3bbf9a2df73dc4d3992d1ecbce74deea7596.

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1. existing `CLAIMED —` comments on opensoft/openRepoShape#527:
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2. `gh pr list --repo opensoft/openRepoShape --state all --search "#527"`, kept where the row or its body names `#527`:
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3. `git ls-remote --heads git@github.com:opensoft/openRepoShape` branches naming `527` as a whole token:
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tests/test_adopt_git_rm_bytes.py: a `git rm` git refuses is tested to…

tests/test_adopt_git_rm_bytes.py: one README constant for the three "…

tests/test_adopt_git_rm_bytes.py: its docstring cites #527's review, …

adopt-project.py: `execute` hands `git rm` each path the split moves …

Merge origin/main (4cf5fb0) into l3-563-docs

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adopt-project.py `execute`: under a non-UTF-8 locale, a moved or dropped path that is not ASCII kills `git rm` after both legs are pushed #527