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feat: implement issue #1607 — dev-lead force-pushes from a stale base and silently discards maintainer steering commits (observed on #1604: a human commit was destroyed and its decision reverted) - #1610
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request hardens dev-lead force-push protection by reconciling remote commits, identifying steering commits, pinning leases, and logging discarded commits. It adds stale-base detection and audits pull-request histories. Tests cover reconciliation, escalation, push behavior, and fingerprint detection. ChangesDev-lead push safety
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This PR improves force-push protection, but the current implementation can still replace concurrent branch commits when remote refresh fails or commit identity is spoofed, while the audit may miss discarded history and report success after incomplete data collection. Because these paths can silently destroy maintainer changes, the PR is unsafe to merge until the safeguards and audit failure handling are corrected. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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DevLead->>push_no_clobber: Request push
push_no_clobber->>RemoteGit: Fetch remote head
RemoteGit-->>push_no_clobber: Return remote SHA and commits
push_no_clobber->>Rebase: Incorporate foreign steering commits
Rebase-->>push_no_clobber: Return rebased HEAD or conflict
push_no_clobber->>GitHubSummary: Record steering or escalation
push_no_clobber->>RemoteGit: Force-push with pinned lease
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The implementation addresses remote-head incorporation, conflict escalation, pinned force-push protection, steering-commit preservation, audit coverage, and regression tests [ Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 63.64% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 8 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.) ✨ Finishing Touches 💡 1📝 Generate docstrings 💡
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This pull request introduces robust stale-base push protection and audit mechanisms to prevent force-pushes from silently discarding concurrent steering commits. It adds a read-only audit script to detect the stale-base sibling fingerprint, updates the push guard to fetch and incorporate remote heads before pushing, and adds comprehensive unit tests. The reviewer's feedback focuses on shell script optimizations and robust error handling, specifically suggesting to avoid masking API failures in the audit script, and to replace subshell-spawning pipelines (like grep and sed) with pure Bash alternatives in the sibling detection and push guard scripts.
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In `@prompts/dev-lead/rebase.md`:
- Around line 39-40: Update the retry instructions in the rebase procedure to
fetch the latest ${HEAD_REF} before repeating the rebase and push steps, then
incorporate that updated remote head while preserving the existing ${BASE_REF}
reconciliation flow.
In `@scripts/dev-lead-stale-base-audit.sh`:
- Around line 33-36: Update the audit flow around detect_stale_base_siblings to
retrieve force-push history, including each event’s beforeCommit and
afterCommit, and compare both commit graphs so discarded SHAs remain detectable.
Remove the || true suppression for required API and enumeration operations,
propagating failures with a nonzero audit result when data is unavailable. Add a
regression test covering a SHA discarded by a force-push.
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Automated review — APPROVED ✓
Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 33e30de804ca9e2992b705a1720dc438b2cf4137
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)
Summary
Re-review after cycle-1 fix-request: the MAJOR finding (gh-api failure masked by '2>/dev/null || true' in the stale-base audit, producing a false-clean exit 0 for a CI-gating script) is properly resolved — the guard was removed so a fetch failure now aborts loudly under set -euo pipefail, with an explanatory comment. Both MINOR style advisories were also fixed (here-string in incorporate_remote_head; array-length check in detect_stale_base_siblings). No new issues introduced; the only other commits since the prior review are a merge of main (README refresh). All six acceptance criteria of #1607 are implemented with hermetic bats coverage, all substantive CI is green, and there are zero unresolved review threads.
Linked issue analysis
Closes #1607 (dev-lead force-pushes from a stale base, silently discarding maintainer steering commits — a maintainer commit was destroyed on #1604). All ACs are substantively addressed: (AC1/AC2) incorporate_remote_head re-fetches the true remote head and rebases onto it, or returns 2 (stop/escalate) on an un-incorporable steering commit — verified by tests that assert the remote head is preserved and no push occurs; (AC3) force-pushes log the discarded SHA(s); (AC4) foreign-identity commits are classified via a spoof-resistant anchored noreply-email match (attacker-@ and evil+@ are explicitly tested as FOREIGN) and called out in the run summary; (AC5) a maintainer commit pushed after dev-lead's last fetch survives — the test asserts the resulting head contains BOTH commits; (AC6) a bounded read-only audit (dev-lead-stale-base-audit.sh + stale-base-siblings.sh) detects the shared-parent sibling fingerprint, including force-pushed-away heads recovered from the activity log. The rebase prompt now pins pushes with --force-with-lease --force-if-includes, and a lib-wide test forbids any un-pinned lease.
Findings
- RESOLVED (prior MAJOR): API-error masking on the per-PR commit-graph fetch removed (scripts/dev-lead-stale-base-audit.sh:34-38) — a gh api failure now fails the audit loudly instead of reporting a false clean.
- RESOLVED (prior MINOR, style): foreign_oneline now uses a here-string loop (scripts/lib/git-push-guard.sh:148); sibling counting uses an array-length check instead of a grep subshell (scripts/lib/stale-base-siblings.sh:53).
- RESIDUAL MINOR (non-blocking): the branch lookup and force-push 'before'-recovery fetches in audit_one remain soft ('2>/dev/null || true'). This is documented best-effort — a GC'd 'before' commit legitimately 404s — and no longer compounds a false-clean since the primary graph fetch fails loud; worst case the supplementary discarded-head recovery is skipped, never a clean verdict over a failed primary fetch.
- INFO: secret-scanning MCP tool unavailable in this run; the gitleaks CI check passed and the diff introduces no credential-like content (test identities use noreply placeholder emails).
- INFO: prior review confirmed push_no_clobber/push_with_merge_guard signatures are unchanged, so the 8 downstream consumers pinning dev-lead-reusable.yml are unaffected.
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All substantive checks SUCCESS: shellcheck, ShellCheck, bats, unit, unit-tests, actionlint, CodeQL, Analyze (actions/python), Secret scan (gitleaks), SonarCloud (quality gate passed), agent-shield, holdout-guard, validate-fixtures, prompt-coverage, and all stub/permission/structure gates. The single CANCELLED entry ('review / review') is a superseded run of this review cascade itself, not a code check. mergeable=MERGEABLE; mergeStateStatus=BLOCKED only pending this review.
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Prevent stale-base pushes from discarding maintainer commits
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✅ No discarded maintainer steering commits✅ Safer force-pushes after concurrent branch updates✅ Clearer escalation for conflicting changes💡 Usage Guide
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