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fix(server): timed-out git commands that ignore SIGTERM no longer stall other git work - #26601
A worktree launch for a branch already checked out in the project root stayed on "Preparing workspace" for about 7 hours. It then reported git worktree add failed (branch_already_exists), an error git returns at once. Git commands with a timeout of 30 s or less share 8 process permits. When such a command timed out, the server sent its process group SIGTERM and then waited for it to exit with no limit, because git was spawned without forceKillAfter. A git process that does not exit on SIGTERM kept its permit until it exited on its own, and every later git call, including worktree creation, queued behind it.
Reproduced on main with the real git driver. Eight git commands with a 1 s timeout run a shell alias that ignores SIGTERM. Each ran until its sleep finished (8 s) and held its permit throughout. A createWorktree for an already checked-out branch, which fails in 57 ms on its own, waited 7.8 s and then failed with the same branch_already_exists.
Change
Every git spawn in GitVcsDriverCore now uses forceKillAfter: "1 second". A timed-out or interrupted command gets SIGTERM first, so git can remove its lock files. If it is still running 1 s later, it gets SIGKILL and its permit is released. The background status fetch already used this 1 s escalation through forceKillAfterMs: 1_000. That was the option's only caller, so the option is removed. Commands that exit normally never reach this cleanup.
New regression test: GitVcsDriver core integration > kills a timed-out git command that ignores SIGTERM in apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts. It fails on main: "the timed-out git command kept running until it finished on its own: expected true to be false". It passes with the fix.
GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts and GitVcsDriver.test.ts pass (228 tests, run with GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null), and apps/server typechecks.
Runtime transcript, eight SIGTERM-ignoring git commands with a 1 s timeout plus createWorktree on an existing branch:
Server-only change with no rendered surface, so there are no captures.
Not checked: macOS and Windows runs. Windows already force-kills the process tree with taskkill /T /F. A git process stuck in uninterruptible sleep cannot be killed by any signal and still blocks.
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No code changes; evidence and verification added below. The earlier runtime transcript was taken at b1d4707b34. Everything below was re-measured at the current head 3c6d27fa7c against the merge-base 30eb7e7bb1.
Evidence
Server-only change, so there are no screenshots, viewports or themes. Each row runs the same driver through the real GitVcsDriver.layer + NodeServices.layer + ServerConfig.layerTest, with real git and fresh synthetic repos, on both revisions. Hostile git processes are shell aliases or hooks that ignore SIGTERM. Times are elapsed ms. Fixture matrix: matrix.md.
Environment: fs-40, Linux 6.1.102, Node v26.13.0, git 2.43.0, @effect/platform-node-shared 4.0.5, 4 CPUs. Driver SHA-256 ebc4c041…0460 (R01–R11, R13, R14) and c0371bd9…3e20 (R12), identical on both sides.
What else changed:
R08: process-group cleanup also runs after a normal leader exit. On both revisions git's process group gets SIGTERM about 10 ms after git exits, and execute returns about 1.1 s after spawn. Before, a descendant that ignores SIGTERM survived and ran to completion. After, it gets SIGKILL 1 s after the SIGTERM. The leader's exit code, output and error mapping are unchanged. Descendants that exit on SIGTERM behave the same on both revisions.
R12: closing the service scope takes ~4.1 s on both revisions because the four fetch workers are torn down one after another. This was already the case before the change.
PIDs, paths, timestamps and normal timing jitter differ. Nothing else changed.
Audit pass 2: R12 INSUFFICIENT (the fifth fetch was not yet queued at shutdown). R12 was recaptured, and the re-audit rated all 14 Linux rows SUFFICIENT. The auditors rebuilt R02, R05 and R12 independently: headline deltas +8.4% / +1.8%, −0.4% / −0.6% and +0.3%, with identical counts. Reports: pass 2 · R12 re-check.
Unverified: cannot-verify windows (R15), cannot-verify macos (R01/R02/R06 corroboration). The optional "Preparing workspace" UI recording was not taken.
CI: 18 pass / 0 fail on 3c6d27fa7c before this round. No push in this round.
Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) in Claude Code inside T3 Code as lead; proof audit and capture by gpt-6.1-sol (Codex).
…s its timeout
These tests reproduce #26577: a timed git command whose process ignores
SIGTERM keeps running, and the caller waits for it, past its timeout,
holding one of the eight git process permits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A git command past its timeout was sent SIGTERM and then awaited with no
bound, so one that ignored the signal kept its process permit and queued
later git calls behind it. Every git spawn now escalates to SIGKILL one
second after SIGTERM, which was already the status fetch's override, so
that override and the option behind it are gone.
Fixes#26577
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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Git commands now default to forced termination one second after SIGTERM, extending the existing background-fetch policy to shared Git execution. Human review is required for this default change, including the cleanup trade-off for commands that resist termination.
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Git child processes now use a fixed one-second delay before force-kill instead of a caller-provided delay. The change removes that option from the public and internal interfaces and adds a non-Windows regression test for a command that ignores SIGTERM.
The per-call force-kill delay was removed from the input and options, along with its forwarding. Git child processes now use a fixed one-second delay. A non-Windows regression test checks that an interrupted command that ignores SIGTERM does not create its marker file.
pingdotgg/t3code#7295: Both changes add SIGKILL handling for subprocesses that ignore SIGTERM, through different subprocess paths.
pingdotgg/t3code#31103: Both changes concern Git checkout timeouts; this change governs termination after a Git command times out.
Suggested reviewers:yash-singh1, yuruzuu
Merge Risk: Low · up to e2eb2
The termination fix remains mergeable with awareness that the regression test can fail spuriously on a delayed host. Keeping the fixture alive until interruption would make the test reliable.
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The title clearly and concisely describes the main fix: timed-out Git commands that ignore SIGTERM no longer block other Git work.
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Issue #26577 requires a prompt branch_already_exists failure when a Git process stalls. GitVcsDriverCore now applies forceKillAfter: "1 second" to every Git spawn. This releases permits when a p…
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The changes remain within issue #26577. The production change adds bounded process termination, removes the obsolete override from the execution API and background fetch, and adds a focused regression…
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Issue #26577 requires a prompt branch_already_exists failure when a Git process stalls. GitVcsDriverCore now applies forceKillAfter: "1 second" to every Git spawn. This releases permits when a process ignores SIGTERM. The regression test covers interruption of a SIGTERM-ignoring Git command. The reported current-head evidence shows the existing-branch worktree failure in about 1.8 seconds.
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The changes remain within issue #26577. The production change adds bounded process termination, removes the obsolete override from the execution API and background fetch, and adds a focused regression test. These changes support the issue objective. No unrelated product area or rendered surface changes are present.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts:
- Around line 1021-1022: Synchronize the hanging `alias.hang` fixture with the
timeout test: have the fixture signal readiness after installing its SIGTERM
trap, and start the timeout only after the test receives that signal. Preserve
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The 200 ms timeout could fire before the shell installed its trap on a
loaded host, so the test could pass without exercising the force-kill.
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- Line 1024: Update the `alias.hang` fixture so it stays alive until
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- test imports and enclosing setup ---'
sed -n '1,80p' apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts
sed -n '995,1045p' apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts
printf'%s\n''--- execute/process implementation ---'
rg -n -F -- 'const execute''execute:''forceKillAfter''Effect.forkChild''ChildProcess' apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts
sed -n '900,1010p' apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts
printf'%s\n''--- test guidance ---'
rg -n -F -- 'it.live''No wall-clock''No sleeps''flaky tests' docs/internals/testing.md AGENTS.md
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 5984
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- executeRaw and execute wrapper ---'
sed -n '920,1015p' apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts
sed -n '1075,1185p' apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts
printf'%s\n''--- subprocess test modes ---'
rg -n -F -e 'it.live' -e 'ChildProcessSpawner' -e 'forkChild' -- apps/server/src/vcs --glob '*.test.ts'||test"$?" -eq 1
printf'%s\n''--- testing guidance excerpts ---'
sed -n '1,45p' docs/internals/testing.md
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 19012
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set -eu
sed -n '965,1080p' apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts
printf'%s\n''--- timeout and interruption references ---'
rg -n -F -e 'timeoutMs' -e 'Effect.timeout' -e 'Fiber.interrupt' -e 'forceKillAfter' -- apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts ||test"$?" -eq 1
printf'%s\n''--- testing guidance ---'
sed -n '1,50p' docs/internals/testing.md
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Do not use a fixed sleep as the interruption window.
After trapped is signaled, the test can be delayed for three seconds before Fiber.interrupt(command) runs. The fixture can then create markerPath, causing a false failure even when interruption terminates the process correctly. Keep the fixture alive until interruption and use Fiber.interrupt(command) as the completion point instead of relying on the sleep deadline.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts at line 1024:
Update the `alias.hang` fixture so it stays alive until
`Fiber.interrupt(command)` interrupts it, rather than using a fixed sleep before
creating `markerPath`; treat completion of `Fiber.interrupt(command)` as the
interruption point and ensure the fixture cannot create the marker afterward.
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On fresh synthetic state, fill the server's shared Git pool with eight five-second commands that ignore SIGTERM, then request a new-worktree thread on checked-out branch-X through T3 MCP. Four prerequisite repositories avoid per-repository checkout serialization. Both runs use the real server and Chromium 156 at 1280×800, light theme; the app terminal shows measured process liveness and the actual MCP outcome.
Exported stills were pixel-identical to captures taken at least 500 ms earlier after cropping unrelated animation/cursor regions. The replay selector is redacted; recordings trim startup. Evidence output is unchanged.
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Direct interruption, cooperative SIGTERM cleanup, and other operating systems were not separately exercised; this proof covers Linux timeout escalation.
The exact one-second grace was not measured at subsecond precision; samples show termination between 5 and 7 seconds.
This proof does not establish the cause of the historical seven-hour incident.
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Problem
A worktree launch for a branch already checked out in the project root stayed on "Preparing workspace" for about 7 hours. It then reported
git worktree add failed (branch_already_exists), an error git returns at once. Git commands with a timeout of 30 s or less share 8 process permits. When such a command timed out, the server sent its process group SIGTERM and then waited for it to exit with no limit, because git was spawned withoutforceKillAfter. A git process that does not exit on SIGTERM kept its permit until it exited on its own, and every later git call, including worktree creation, queued behind it.Reproduced on main with the real git driver. Eight git commands with a 1 s timeout run a shell alias that ignores SIGTERM. Each ran until its
sleepfinished (8 s) and held its permit throughout. AcreateWorktreefor an already checked-out branch, which fails in 57 ms on its own, waited 7.8 s and then failed with the samebranch_already_exists.Change
Every git spawn in
GitVcsDriverCorenow usesforceKillAfter: "1 second". A timed-out or interrupted command gets SIGTERM first, so git can remove its lock files. If it is still running 1 s later, it gets SIGKILL and its permit is released. The background status fetch already used this 1 s escalation throughforceKillAfterMs: 1_000. That was the option's only caller, so the option is removed. Commands that exit normally never reach this cleanup.Scope and approval
Fixes #26577
Triaged via the automated issue flow.
Verification
New regression test:
GitVcsDriver core integration > kills a timed-out git command that ignores SIGTERMinapps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts. It fails on main: "the timed-out git command kept running until it finished on its own: expected true to be false". It passes with the fix.GitVcsDriverCore.test.tsandGitVcsDriver.test.tspass (228 tests, run withGIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null), andapps/servertypechecks.Runtime transcript, eight SIGTERM-ignoring git commands with a 1 s timeout plus
createWorktreeon an existing branch:createWorktreeon an existing branchd07c0a7c7b)branch_already_existsb1d4707b34)branch_already_existsruntime-transcript.txt · driver: scratch26577.test.ts (not committed)
Server-only change with no rendered surface, so there are no captures.
Not checked: macOS and Windows runs. Windows already force-kills the process tree with
taskkill /T /F. A git process stuck in uninterruptible sleep cannot be killed by any signal and still blocks.Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) in Claude Code inside T3 Code; reviews by gpt-6.1-sol (Codex) and Claude Opus 5.5.
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No code changes; evidence and verification added below. The earlier runtime transcript was taken at
b1d4707b34. Everything below was re-measured at the current head 3c6d27fa7c against the merge-base 30eb7e7bb1.Evidence
Server-only change, so there are no screenshots, viewports or themes. Each row runs the same driver through the real
GitVcsDriver.layer+NodeServices.layer+ServerConfig.layerTest, with real git and fresh synthetic repos, on both revisions. Hostile git processes are shell aliases or hooks that ignore SIGTERM. Times are elapsed ms. Fixture matrix: matrix.md.createWorktreebranch_already_exists; fresh worktree succeedsindex.locktaskkill /T /Fcannot-verify windowsEnvironment: fs-40, Linux 6.1.102, Node v26.13.0, git 2.43.0,
@effect/platform-node-shared4.0.5, 4 CPUs. Driver SHA-256ebc4c041…0460(R01–R11, R13, R14) andc0371bd9…3e20(R12), identical on both sides.What else changed:
executereturns about 1.1 s after spawn. Before, a descendant that ignores SIGTERM survived and ran to completion. After, it gets SIGKILL 1 s after the SIGTERM. The leader's exit code, output and error mapping are unchanged. Descendants that exit on SIGTERM behave the same on both revisions.Scripts (scratch, not committed): driver-v3.test.ts · driver-r12.test.ts · fixture26601.py · r01-exact-head-test-overlay.test.ts. Logs: r01-before-exact.log · r01-after-exact.log · raw-attempts.tar.gz · R12-raw-logs.tar.gz · index.md.
Verification log
cannot-verify windows(R15),cannot-verify macos(R01/R02/R06 corroboration). The optional "Preparing workspace" UI recording was not taken.