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fix(server): a failed worktree hook shows its output and retry recovers - #34288
A new worktree thread on a Git LFS repo failed at "provision worktree" because git-lfs wasn't installed on the server. That part is a setup problem. T3 turned it into a dead end in two ways:
The UI showed only git worktree add failed. The hook's own message ("This repository is configured for Git LFS but 'git-lfs' was not found on your path...") never reached the user or the trace log.
Retry failed every time with branch_already_exists. The rollback ran git branch -D, but the half-made worktree still held the branch, so git refused. The branch and directory stayed, and the retry derives the same branch and path, so it collided with them.
Addresses the Retry part of #29515. #28373 deleted the branch, but git refuses that while the failed worktree still holds it.
Fix
Hook output in the error. Failed checkouts append the hook or filter's stderr to GitCommandError.detail. This covers both the stock git worktree add and the checkout cache's own git hook run. Git's own fatal:/error:/warning:/hint: lines stay out, along with progress and Preparing worktree. Git's diagnostics already map to a reason, and they can name private refs or paths (an existing test guards that). URL userinfo and query strings are redacted, and the output is capped at 20 lines / 1000 chars. docs/internals/effect-services.md records this as a deliberate exception to the safe-attribute rule, next to DeviceBootError.diagnostics.
Rollback, not adoption. The driver removes the failed worktree when its HEAD is the branch this call just created, then deletes that branch. createBranchAt fails if the branch already exists, so ownership is proven at the moment of failure. A worktree already sitting at the path is never touched, and neither is any branch that existed before the attempt. Reusing leftovers on retry would need to tell an earlier attempt's branch from the user's own branch, and nothing can prove that.
A nonzero post-checkout exit still counts as a failure. Git reports it that way, and a checkout without LFS objects would hand the agent pointer files.
Proof
New test in GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts: a post-checkout hook prints the LFS message plus a credentialed URL and exits 2. The error carries the message with the URL redacted, the branch and worktree are gone, and a retry with the hook fixed succeeds. On main it fails at the stderr assertion. With only the stderr half applied, it fails at the worktree-path assertion. The existing hook-exit test now expects the failed branch to be gone.
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Failed worktree creation now displays hook output and cleans up newly created worktrees so retries can recover. The unresolved credential-redaction concern requires attention because URL query tokens can reach public error messages.
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Walkthrough
Failed worktree hooks now add filtered diagnostics to error details. Failed worktree creation conditionally removes the attempted worktree and branch. Tests cover redaction, rollback, retry, and preservation of a pre-existing worktree.
Git command errors and checkout-cache hook failures can include filtered hook stderr. The formatter removes Git-generated lines, keeps up to 20 lines and 1,000 characters, and redacts URL credentials and query strings. Tests verify diagnostic output and redaction. The guidance documents this exception to the safe-values rule.
Roll back failed worktree creation apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts
Failed worktree creation removes the worktree only when its path was previously free and its HEAD points to the attempted branch, then force-deletes the branch. Tests cover retry behavior and preservation of a pre-existing worktree.
pingdotgg/t3code#29584: Both changes remove a branch after failed worktree creation; this PR also conditionally removes the matching worktree.
pingdotgg/t3code#28373: Both changes clean up a branch after failed worktree creation; this PR also conditionally removes the matching worktree.
pingdotgg/t3code#31461: Both changes process Git output from failed worktree creation; this PR adds filtered, bounded, redacted hook stderr to error details.
Suggested labels:bugfix
Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge, t3dotgg
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to f826b
The change improves worktree hook failure messages and rollback, and the author reported passing tests and a manual run. However, redaction can still miss credentials in some URL forms. A concurrent process could also have an existing worktree force-removed during rollback. Resolve these before merging, or explicitly accept them.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/vcs/gitHookOutput.ts:
- Around line 15-16: Update the output handling that builds detail from
lines.join and URL_USERINFO so GitCommandError.detail and its message expose
only a structured failure category and controlled recovery message, never raw
hook output. Preserve exact stderr only in cause; expose hook diagnostics only
after documenting their authorization and disclosure limits.
- Line 3: Update URL_USERINFO so credential redaction handles embedded @
characters through the final @ within the URL authority, without crossing /, ?,
or #. Add redaction coverage for a URL with an @ in its password and verify the
password suffix is not exposed.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts:
- Line 4306: Resolve worktreePath against cwd before passing it to the rollback
probe so relative input.path values identify the checkout’s worktree and
rollback can remove it. Add a relative-path case to the existing hook failure
and retry test, verifying the retry succeeds.
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A post-checkout hook that exits nonzero (for example the Git LFS hook
without git-lfs installed) failed thread launch with only "git worktree
add failed". The hook's message, which named the fix, was dropped.
Rollback then tried to delete the new branch while the half-made worktree
still held it, so every retry hit branch_already_exists.
Failed checkouts now append the hook's output to the error, without git's
own diagnostics and with URL credentials redacted. Rollback removes the
worktree when it holds the branch this call created, then deletes the
branch.
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…aths
Redact URL query strings and userinfo through the authority's last `@`.
Resolve the rollback probe against the repository so a relative worktree
path is still recognized. Document hook output as a deliberate exception
to the safe-attribute rule.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/vcs/gitHookOutput.ts:
- Line 4: Update URL_PATTERN so a match cannot consume an adjacent URL or cross
output delimiters, ensuring each URL is redacted independently and credentials
and query strings are removed. Add the adjacent-URL case to the redaction test
and verify the second URL’s secret is absent from GitCommandError.detail.
- Line 23: Update redactUrls, used to process joined hook output before the
output limit applies, so its scan runs in linear time even on long repeated `a.`
sequences. Preserve redaction of URL credentials and query strings while
avoiding the regex behavior that can block the server event loop.
- Line 20: Update the hook-output filter using GIT_OWN_LINE so it preserves
hook-written error lines such as an install failure while still excluding
Git-generated diagnostics. Extend the hook-failure test to verify the hook’s
error is returned without exposing Git diagnostics.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts:
- Line 4313: Update the rollback around the branch HEAD check to track whether
this operation successfully created the worktree at worktreePath, separately
from whether HEAD matches refs/heads/${branch}. Force-remove the worktree only
when ownership is confirmed; do not remove an existing worktree based solely on
its branch or HEAD.
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Head 35211e179e3a on a Linux VM. I drove the dev web app (vp run dev) with Playwright and Chrome, and used Claude Haiku 5.5 for the turns. No mocks or fixtures.
Setup: a local repo, ~/lfs-demo, with a .gitattributes LFS pattern and the stock git-lfs post-checkout hook. git-lfs was not installed. I added it as a project in the app and sent a message from a new thread with New worktree selected.
Before (main at d2c25950b4)
The thread fails at provision worktree, and the error only says git worktree add failed.
Every failed attempt leaves its branch and worktree behind. After the first send plus one Retry, the repo had t3/9b37cf9b and t3/b64fe5d1 with registered worktrees. The server logged could not remove the branch of a failed worktree twice.
In this flow, Retry derived a fresh branch name each time, so I never hit branch_already_exists. With git-lfs installed, Retry on main succeeded, but the leaked branches and worktrees stayed.
After (this PR)
The same flow shows the hook's message in the timeline and the banner: "This repository is configured for Git LFS but 'git-lfs' was not found on your path...".
After the failure, git branch and git worktree list showed only main. Nothing leaked.
I installed git-lfs (apt-get install git-lfs) and clicked Retry. The worktree t3/describe-readme was created and Haiku replied.
Recording of the full flow: send, failure with hook output, install git-lfs, Retry, reply. The git-lfs install pause is trimmed.
I created a user branch feature/keep, removed git-lfs, and started another new-worktree thread. It failed with the hook message. Afterwards feature/keep, main, and the earlier thread's t3/describe-readme worktree were all intact, and the failed attempt left nothing behind.
With git-lfs reinstalled, a fresh new-worktree thread ran normally: worktree t3/reply-ok was created and Haiku replied "ok".
CI on this head: 22 passed, 8 skipped (mobile/preview/deploy jobs), none failing.
Not verified
The fast-checkout path (worktreeCheckoutCache.ts, its git hook run error). The fastWorktreeCheckout setting is honored only on macOS servers, and this was Linux, so only the stock git worktree add path ran.
The URL redaction in hook output. The real LFS hook prints no URL, so I relied on the PR's unit test for that.
Desktop and mobile clients. Both render the same server error, but I only drove the web client.
…rees
Stop URL matches at quotes and brackets so adjacent URLs redact separately,
and bound the scheme so the scan stays linear. Force-remove a failed
worktree only when no checkout sat at its path before the attempt.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/vcs/gitHookOutput.ts:
- Line 6: Update the hook-output URL redaction pattern to redact credentials
even when URI userinfo contains an apostrophe, while still distinguishing
enclosing quotes from URL characters or conservatively suppressing ambiguous
tokens. Extend the existing redaction test with the apostrophe-containing
credential case and retain adjacent-URL coverage; preserve redaction of URL
credentials and query strings.
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Major · Security & Privacy · Quick win
Preserve redaction when credentials contain an apostrophe.
An apostrophe is valid in URI userinfo. (rfc-editor.org)
For hook output containing https://user:***REDACTED_URI_PASSWORD***@example.com/lfs, this pattern stops before the apostrophe. The optional userinfo group does not match, so the password remains in the error detail. The supplied GitCommandError.message getter exposes that detail.
Distinguish enclosing quotes from characters inside URL components, or suppress ambiguous tokens conservatively. Extend the existing redaction case with this input while retaining adjacent-URL coverage.
As per coding guidelines, the hook-output exception requires “URL credentials and query strings” to be redacted.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/vcs/gitHookOutput.ts at line 6:
Update the hook-output URL redaction pattern to redact credentials even when URI userinfo contains an apostrophe, while still distinguishing enclosing quotes from URL characters or conservatively suppressing ambiguous tokens. Extend the existing redaction test with the apostrophe-containing credential case and retain adjacent-URL coverage; preserve redaction of URL credentials and query strings.
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A new worktree thread on a Git LFS repo failed at "provision worktree" because
git-lfswasn't installed on the server. That part is a setup problem. T3 turned it into a dead end in two ways:git worktree add failed. The hook's own message ("This repository is configured for Git LFS but 'git-lfs' was not found on your path...") never reached the user or the trace log.branch_already_exists. The rollback rangit branch -D, but the half-made worktree still held the branch, so git refused. The branch and directory stayed, and the retry derives the same branch and path, so it collided with them.Addresses the Retry part of #29515. #28373 deleted the branch, but git refuses that while the failed worktree still holds it.
Fix
GitCommandError.detail. This covers both the stockgit worktree addand the checkout cache's owngit hook run. Git's ownfatal:/error:/warning:/hint:lines stay out, along with progress andPreparing worktree. Git's diagnostics already map to areason, and they can name private refs or paths (an existing test guards that). URL userinfo and query strings are redacted, and the output is capped at 20 lines / 1000 chars.docs/internals/effect-services.mdrecords this as a deliberate exception to the safe-attribute rule, next toDeviceBootError.diagnostics.createBranchAtfails if the branch already exists, so ownership is proven at the moment of failure. A worktree already sitting at the path is never touched, and neither is any branch that existed before the attempt. Reusing leftovers on retry would need to tell an earlier attempt's branch from the user's own branch, and nothing can prove that.A nonzero
post-checkoutexit still counts as a failure. Git reports it that way, and a checkout without LFS objects would hand the agent pointer files.Proof
New test in
GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts: apost-checkouthook prints the LFS message plus a credentialed URL and exits 2. The error carries the message with the URL redacted, the branch and worktree are gone, and a retry with the hook fixed succeeds. Onmainit fails at the stderr assertion. With only the stderr half applied, it fails at the worktree-path assertion. The existing hook-exit test now expects the failed branch to be gone.vp run check:changedpasses.Created with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code.
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