fix(update-system): keep an upstream negation ahead of newly appended rules - #4142
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… rules Upstream orders its own negations against its patterns deliberately: `!test-fixtures/**` sits AFTER `applications.md` so that it wins. An install that already had the negation but not the newer pattern skipped the negation as present and got the pattern appended at the end, after it. Later lines win, so the reconciled file inverted upstream's intent and re-ignored the upgrade fixtures that upstream's own suite requires to be committed. After the appended block is built, any upstream negation that the local file already has AND that upstream places after one of the newly appended patterns is appended again, so it keeps the position upstream gave it. A negation the local file lacks needs nothing: the main loop already emitted it in upstream's own order. One upstream places BEFORE the new rules is left alone, since repeating it would hand it a win upstream never gave it. Repeating a line is not rewriting one, so the promise never to modify a local line still holds, and a duplicate negation is a no-op to git. Reconciling the result again is byte-identical, so an update does not rewrite the file forever.
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In `@update-system.mjs`:
- Line 2057: Update the rule-append logic around the index boundary check so the
appended suffix preserves upstream order and includes relevant existing local
negations between missing rules, rather than placing all missing rules before
negations. Ensure the interleaved pattern case yields *.log, !keep/**,
keep/secret.md, with keep/secret.md ignored and keep/other.log unignored, and
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Reproduce interleaved negations in upstream order:
update-system.mjs:2057 appends all missing rules before existing local negations. For upstream *.log, !keep/**, keep/secret.md and local !keep/**, the appended suffix becomes *.log, keep/secret.md, !keep/**; the repeated negation overrides keep/secret.md.
Changing the boundary to lastAddedIndex removes that override, but it does not preserve the negation’s relationship with the first missing rule. Build the appended suffix in upstream order, including relevant existing negations. Add a regression test that expects *.log, !keep/**, keep/secret.md, with keep/secret.md ignored and keep/other.log unignored.
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In `@update-system.mjs` at line 2057, Update the rule-append logic around the
index boundary check so the appended suffix preserves upstream order and
includes relevant existing local negations between missing rules, rather than
placing all missing rules before negations. Ensure the interleaved pattern case
yields *.log, !keep/**, keep/secret.md, with keep/secret.md ignored and
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I reviewed the owned test tests/gitignore-reconcile.test.mjs. It is sound and mutation-sensitive, and it drives the real reconcile.
The test imports the real reconcileGitignore from update-system.mjs and calls it directly, plus it carries a source-level guard that update-system.mjs reads the upstream blob untrimmed via gitShowRaw, matching the existing source-guard pattern in the file. The new block sets a local ['node_modules/', '!test-fixtures/**', '*.log'] against an upstream that places !test-fixtures/** after applications.md/follow-ups.md, then asserts with literal expecteds that added is exactly applications.md,follow-ups.md, that the negation's lastIndexOf lands after both new patterns (the whole point of the fix), and that a second pass is byte-identical. The mirror block proves a negation that upstream places before the new rules is not re-appended (filter(=== '!keep/**').length === 1), so the fix is not a blind always-duplicate.
I mutation-checked both halves. Neutralizing the restore append fails the two "negation ends up after" assertions, and removing the position guard fails the "earlier negation is not repeated" assertion (expected 1, got 2), each exiting 1, green again on revert (38 passed). No vacuous shape, no process.exit( so test-all runs it. User-layer safety is covered too: since .gitignore is a file users also write, the assertions pin text.startsWith(local) (the user's lines untouched byte-for-byte) and that the user's own negation stays at its original index, plus the file asserts CRLF and escaped-trailing-space byte-identity.
Owned test sound, not a false-pass. The substance is in update-system.mjs, which is a red-line for me, so the routing and merge decision there is the maintainer's; I am speaking only to the owned test.
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Fixes #4127.
Reproduced
Your case as a test, before any change — a local
.gitignorethat already has!test-fixtures/**but not the newer unanchored rules:The two rules land at the end of the file, after the user's copy of the negation, and later lines win.
The change
Exactly the shape you proposed. After the appended block is built, an upstream negation is appended again when it (a) already exists locally and (b) sits after one of the newly appended patterns in upstream's own file:
Two cases deliberately do nothing:
localLinesis the pre-loop snapshot, so those are excluded rather than duplicated.The
never modify a local linepromise is intact: repeating a line is not rewriting one, the local text is still a verbatim prefix of the result, and the user's own copy of the negation stays at the index they put it. A duplicate negation is a no-op to git.Testing
tests/gitignore-reconcile.test.mjs:text.startsWith(local)still holds, and that the user's copy has not moved;.gitignoreforever (the property the existing self-consistency case protects);Negative control: disarming the restoration loop reddens exactly the two new assertions and nothing else.
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tests/doctor-tracked-bak-files.test.mjsfails 3/3 here, on this branch and on a stashed clean tree alike —doctor.mjscrashes against a temp target in my environment. Unrelated to this change; mentioning it so the count is not a surprise.)Disclosure: I am an AI agent working on behalf of @L4XB, who reviewed and authorised this change. The measurements above were run locally; no human line-reviewed the diff.
Summary
Users can run
.gitignorereconciliation without upstream negations losing precedence.When newer rules such as
applications.mdandfollow-ups.mdare appended, an existing!test-fixtures/**rule is repeated after them. Existing local lines remain unchanged:update-system.mjs:2046-2055.The reconciliation does not repeat negations that upstream placed before the new rules:
update-system.mjs:2056-2058.Tests
Regression tests cover precedence, unchanged local lines, idempotence, and the inverse ordering case:
tests/gitignore-reconcile.test.mjs:134-171.Relevant test suites pass. The local
doctor.mjsfailure is unrelated.Files changed
update-system.mjs:2014-2058tests/gitignore-reconcile.test.mjs:134-171No changes were made to
AGENTS.md,modes/,DATA_CONTRACT.md,providers/, or.github/.