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Summary

Replaces Set-Content -Encoding utf8NoBOM (PS6+-only) with
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllText(..., [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new($false))
(PS5.1-compatible) at all four remaining call sites across three
.tmpl files, closing the gap PR #212 deliberately left open (those
sites are only text-diffed via chezmoi execute-template, never
executed, by the current test suite).

This PR was drafted and self-reviewed, but not auto-merged

Issue #214's own autopilot-suitability score is 2/5 (below this repo's
floor), specifically because run_once_before_20-deploy-ssh-keys.ps1.tmpl
writes SSH private/public key material and asked for deliberate human
review rather than a mechanical pass. This PR was implemented and
verified interactively, but per the issue's own request I'm stopping
here for your review rather than proceeding through F3 autonomous
merge. Two things specifically worth your judgment:

  1. ciGate-adjacent, but unrelated aside -- not blocking, just
    noting: run_once_before_10-import-gpg-keys.ps1.tmpl (the existing
    precedent this PR's pattern is copied from) strips a leading UTF-8
    BOM from secret content before writing
    ($gpgKeyContent.TrimStart([char]0xFEFF)).
    run_once_before_20-deploy-ssh-keys.ps1.tmpl has no equivalent
    step, and this PR does not add one -- the issue's proposed change
    didn't ask for it, and adding transformation logic to key material
    felt like scope creep for a security-sensitive file. Worth deciding
    separately whether SSH key content from your secret manager needs
    the same treatment.
  2. Issue fix(pwsh): utf8NoBOM PS5.1 incompatibility remains in 3 unexecuted .tmpl scripts #214 said "all three [sites] currently use -NoNewline" --
    verified against the actual source this is not quite right:
    generate-git-profiles.ps1.tmpl's site does not have
    -NoNewline (only the authorized-keys site and both deploy-ssh-keys
    sites do). I implemented the fix against the real, verified
    per-site behavior rather than the issue's summary: the
    git-profiles site now explicitly appends [System.Environment]::NewLine
    after the captured content to preserve Set-Content's default
    (adds one platform newline) behavior. Empirically verified
    byte-for-byte equivalent to the prior behavior for both shapes (see
    Testing below).

Changes

  • home/run_once_before_20-deploy-ssh-keys.ps1.tmpl: both the private-
    and public-key write sites now capture the here-string into a
    variable, then WriteAllText it (no newline added, matching the
    prior -NoNewline call).
  • home/run_onchange_after_generate-authorized-keys.ps1.tmpl: same
    swap; the joined content already carries its own explicit trailing
    newline, so this is a direct mechanical replacement.
  • home/run_onchange_after_generate-git-profiles.ps1.tmpl: same swap,
    plus an explicit + [System.Environment]::NewLine to preserve the
    prior default (non--NoNewline) Set-Content behavior -- see point
    2 above.
  • tests/powershell/signing-resolve.Tests.ps1: the commit-ssh alias forwards extra arguments exactly once test extracts the rendered
    template's here-string body via a regex anchored on ^@' at the
    start of a line; updated to ^.*@' since the source now reads
    $profileContent = @' on that line. (This test's own comments at
    the extraction site already anticipated exactly this fix shape --
    "Preserve the trailing newline Set-Content used to add; WriteAllText
    writes $Matches[1] exactly as-is" -- strong independent
    corroboration that appending [Environment]::NewLine is the
    intended behavior-preserving fix here, not just my own reasoning.)
  • tests/powershell/fixtures/deploy-ssh-keys.ps1 +
    tests/powershell/deploy-ssh-keys.Tests.ps1 (new): the SSH-key
    deploy template had zero existing test coverage. Adds a fixture
    mirroring the existing generate-authorized-keys/generate-git-profiles
    pattern (hardcoded values standing in for the Go-template
    range/dig calls Pester can't process) plus 8 tests covering:
    no-BOM, byte-exact content (no added newline), multi-line content
    round-tripping, multiple-key handling, icacls restriction applied
    to the private key only, skip-if-exists, and idempotent re-run. All
    key material in the fixture/tests is synthetic placeholder text, not
    real keys.

Testing

  • Empirical byte-equivalence (pwsh 7.6.4, this sandbox): confirmed
    both call shapes (-NoNewline and default) produce byte-identical
    output between the old Set-Content -Encoding utf8NoBOM[...] and
    the new WriteAllText pattern.
  • Invoke-Pester tests/powershell/ -Output Detailed: 210 passed, 5
    failed
    (same 5 failures reproduce identically on unmodified
    master -- OnIdle/PSFzf/PSReadLine/VS Code chord/tailscale tests,
    unrelated pre-existing host-environment artifacts) -- zero new
    failures, +8 from the new deploy-ssh-keys suite.
  • tests/bash/helpers/bats-core/bin/bats tests/bash/: 239 passed, 6
    failed (same 6 MISE_TRUSTED_CONFIG_PATHS-related failures reproduce
    identically on unmodified master) -- zero new failures.
  • npx cspell on every changed/new file: 0 issues.
  • No PS5.1 environment was available in this sandbox to execute these
    templates directly; this repo's own CI (test.yml, windows-latest)
    runs a real Windows PowerShell 5.1 leg with a version assertion, so
    the new deploy-ssh-keys fixture tests get genuine PS5.1 coverage
    there.

Acceptance criteria (from #214)

  • No Set-Content -Encoding utf8NoBOM (or utf8BOM/UTF8NoBOM)
    remains in any .tmpl file under home/
  • Rendered output byte-for-byte matches prior behavior (no BOM, no
    added trailing newline where none was added before) -- verified
    empirically, see Testing
  • Manual verification of a real chezmoi apply producing usable
    key files for the SSH deploy template -- not done in this
    sandbox
    (no real secret-manager access, no Windows PS5.1
    environment); the new synthetic-fixture Pester suite plus CI's
    real PS5.1 leg are the closest automatable substitute. If you
    have a configured secret manager, a real chezmoi apply run
    before merging would close this out fully.

Fixes #214

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved SSH key and generated PowerShell profile output with consistent BOM-free UTF-8 encoding.
    • Preserved key contents exactly, including embedded and trailing newlines where applicable.
    • Maintained private-key permissions on Windows and reliable handling of existing files.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for deployment, encoding, permissions, repeated runs, and multiple key pairs.
    • Improved validation for supported PowerShell profile output formats.

Set-Content -Encoding utf8NoBOM rejects on PowerShell 5.1 (PS6+-only
encoding literal). PR #212 fixed every call site exercised by a test;
these four sites across three chezmoi templates were left out since
their bodies are only text-diffed, never executed, by the current
suite -- but chezmoi apply under real PS5.1 still hits them.

Replaces each with [System.IO.File]::WriteAllText(...,
[System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new($false)), the pattern already used in
run_once_before_10-import-gpg-keys.ps1.tmpl. Verified byte-for-byte
equivalence against the prior Set-Content behavior empirically (pwsh
7.6.4), including platform-newline restoration for the one site
(generate-git-profiles.ps1.tmpl) that does not use -NoNewline --
correcting the issue's own premise that all three sites use
-NoNewline; only the other two actually do.

Adds a new deploy-ssh-keys fixture + Pester suite (synthetic key
material only) covering the two SSH-key-writing sites, which
previously had zero test coverage -- run_once_before_20-deploy-ssh-keys
writes SSH private and public key material and needed careful review
rather than a mechanical pass alone.

Fixes #214

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The templates replace Set-Content -Encoding utf8NoBOM with explicit BOM-less UTF-8 WriteAllText calls. SSH deployment tests validate exact bytes, permissions, skipped files, and reruns. Profile extraction tests accept assigned here-strings.

Changes

PowerShell UTF-8 output compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
SSH key byte-preserving deployment
home/run_once_before_20-deploy-ssh-keys.ps1.tmpl, tests/powershell/fixtures/deploy-ssh-keys.ps1, tests/powershell/deploy-ssh-keys.Tests.ps1
Private and public SSH keys use BOM-less UTF-8 writes without trailing newlines. Tests cover exact bytes, multiple keys, permissions, existing files, and idempotent reruns.
Generated profile and authorized-key output
home/run_onchange_after_generate-authorized-keys.ps1.tmpl, home/run_onchange_after_generate-git-profiles.ps1.tmpl, tests/powershell/signing-resolve.Tests.ps1
Authorized keys and generated profiles use explicit BOM-less UTF-8 writes. Profile content is assigned before writing, and here-string extraction accepts the assignment form.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b3d59

The change replaces PS6-only encoding with PS5.1-compatible writes and adds focused coverage for SSH-key output behavior. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the PowerShell encoding fix across the three affected template scripts.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides a complete summary, testing details, acceptance criteria, known limitations, and review considerations.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address all four affected call sites, preserve output behavior, and add targeted SSH deployment coverage for issue [#214].
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The test fixture, Pester tests, and regex update directly support the encoding changes and introduce no unrelated code changes.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Inline comments:
In `@tests/powershell/fixtures/deploy-ssh-keys.ps1`:
- Around line 47-52: Update tests/powershell/fixtures/deploy-ssh-keys.ps1 lines
47-52 and 65-70 to include the single terminal line feed produced by the
rendered private-key and public-key here-strings, without adding another
newline. Update tests/powershell/deploy-ssh-keys.Tests.ps1 lines 53-75 to rename
the relevant tests and adjust expected bytes to verify preservation of that
existing terminal line feed.

In `@tests/powershell/signing-resolve.Tests.ps1`:
- Around line 134-139: Update the here-string regex in the signing-resolve test
to restrict the opener prefix to a single line by replacing the cross-line
wildcard with a character class excluding carriage returns and newlines. Add a
fixture covering multiple profiles and verify the expected profile is captured
rather than the last one.
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  • home/run_once_before_20-deploy-ssh-keys.ps1.tmpl
  • home/run_onchange_after_generate-authorized-keys.ps1.tmpl
  • home/run_onchange_after_generate-git-profiles.ps1.tmpl
  • tests/powershell/deploy-ssh-keys.Tests.ps1
  • tests/powershell/fixtures/deploy-ssh-keys.ps1
  • tests/powershell/signing-resolve.Tests.ps1

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Comment thread tests/powershell/signing-resolve.Tests.ps1 Outdated
- deploy-ssh-keys fixture: model a secret ending in a trailing
  newline (the conventional shape for a real SSH key secret from a
  file or secret manager), matching this repo's fixture-fidelity
  guideline; add a dedicated test asserting that trailing newline
  survives untouched with no second newline appended, and split the
  no-newline-secret assertion onto the public key alone (the
  multi-line-content test already covers the private key's no-newline
  shape).
- signing-resolve.Tests.ps1: fix a real bug in the prior commit's own
  regex edit -- `^.*@'` is greedy under (?ms) dot-matches-newline and
  spans every rendered profile, capturing the LAST here-string instead
  of the first when more than one profile renders. Confirmed
  empirically with a two-profile simulation before and after.
  Constrained to `^[^\r\n]*@'` (same-line only) per CodeRabbit's
  suggested fix. The single-profile test in this file doesn't surface
  the bug (only one here-string exists to match), but it is a latent
  correctness issue for any future multi-profile test.

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Pull request overview

This PR eliminates the remaining PowerShell 5.1-incompatible Set-Content -Encoding utf8NoBOM usage in home/*.ps1.tmpl scripts by switching to [System.IO.File]::WriteAllText(..., [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new($false)), while preserving the prior byte-level newline behavior. It also adds/updates Pester coverage to validate the sensitive SSH-key write path and the git profile generator’s here-string extraction.

Changes:

  • Replace Set-Content -Encoding utf8NoBOM with BOM-less UTF-8 WriteAllText in three .tmpl scripts, preserving per-site newline behavior (including explicit platform newline where previously implied).
  • Update the signing-resolve test’s here-string extraction regex to handle variable-assignment prefixes before @'.
  • Add a new SSH key deploy fixture + Pester suite that asserts byte-for-byte output (no BOM, no added newline), skip-if-exists behavior, and Windows ACL restriction calls.

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tests/powershell/signing-resolve.Tests.ps1 Updates the here-string extraction regex to tolerate ... = @' prefixes without over-capturing.
tests/powershell/fixtures/deploy-ssh-keys.ps1 New pre-rendered fixture exercising the SSH key deployment behavior with synthetic key material.
tests/powershell/deploy-ssh-keys.Tests.ps1 New Pester coverage for BOM-less UTF-8 writes, newline preservation, idempotency, and private-key-only ACL restriction.
home/run_onchange_after_generate-git-profiles.ps1.tmpl Captures the here-string into a variable and writes via WriteAllText, explicitly preserving the prior trailing newline behavior.
home/run_onchange_after_generate-authorized-keys.ps1.tmpl Switches to WriteAllText while preserving the existing explicit trailing newline behavior.
home/run_once_before_20-deploy-ssh-keys.ps1.tmpl Switches private/public key writes from Set-Content utf8NoBOM -NoNewline to BOM-less UTF-8 WriteAllText (no newline added).

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39-93: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a non-ASCII value to the encoding fixture.

The current fixture values in tests/powershell/fixtures/deploy-ssh-keys.ps1:11-80 are ASCII. These assertions prove BOM absence, newline behavior, and exact bytes for ASCII input, but they do not prove UTF-8 encoding for non-ASCII input. Add a valid non-ASCII key comment or focused encoding case, then assert its exact UTF-8 bytes.

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In `@tests/powershell/deploy-ssh-keys.Tests.ps1` around lines 39 - 93, Add a
non-ASCII character to a fixture value used by the deploy-SSH-keys tests, then
extend the relevant exact-byte assertion to compute expected bytes with BOM-free
UTF-8 and compare them against the generated file. Keep the existing BOM,
newline, and ASCII content assertions unchanged.

105-145: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise every configured key path in the path-sensitive tests.

The ACL tests inspect only id_primary, and the existing-file and rerun tests also inspect only id_primary. A regression in id_secondary or either .pub branch can pass. Check both private ACL calls for /inheritance:r, /grant:r, and sample-user:(F). Check that neither public path calls icacls. Apply the skip and byte-equality assertions to all four paths.

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In `@tests/powershell/deploy-ssh-keys.Tests.ps1` around lines 105 - 145, The
path-sensitive tests currently cover only id_primary; extend them to exercise
id_primary, id_primary.pub, id_secondary, and id_secondary.pub. Validate
private-key icacls calls for both private paths include /inheritance:r,
/grant:r, and sample-user:(F), confirm neither public path invokes icacls, and
apply existing-file preservation plus rerun byte-equality assertions to every
configured path.
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In `@tests/powershell/deploy-ssh-keys.Tests.ps1`:
- Around line 39-93: Add a non-ASCII character to a fixture value used by the
deploy-SSH-keys tests, then extend the relevant exact-byte assertion to compute
expected bytes with BOM-free UTF-8 and compare them against the generated file.
Keep the existing BOM, newline, and ASCII content assertions unchanged.
- Around line 105-145: The path-sensitive tests currently cover only id_primary;
extend them to exercise id_primary, id_primary.pub, id_secondary, and
id_secondary.pub. Validate private-key icacls calls for both private paths
include /inheritance:r, /grant:r, and sample-user:(F), confirm neither public
path invokes icacls, and apply existing-file preservation plus rerun
byte-equality assertions to every configured path.

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