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… has no HEAD ref A remote added with `git remote add` has no refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD, so cleanup kept every worktree in the project with "Default branch is unavailable" and the unchanged and merged rules never ran. Probe main then master on the primary remote before giving up, as the other callers of resolveDefaultBranchName already do. Fixes pingdotgg#17807
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The title clearly and concisely describes the primary fix: storage cleanup now finds the default branch when the remote lacks a HEAD ref. |
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#17807 requires cleanup to handle a primary remote without refs/remotes//HEAD. The change keeps resolveDefaultBranchName unchanged, then probes main and master with remoteBranchExists. Cleanup… |
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.ts:
- Around line 495-503: Update the test setup around the `command` calls in the
remote-HEAD test to delete `refs/remotes/origin/${branch}` after pushing and
before checking `refs/remotes/origin/HEAD`, so the test covers a remote branch
without a local tracking ref.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts:
- Around line 435-442: In the default-branch resolution flow, fetch the remote’s
tracking refs with `git.fetchRemote` when `git.resolveDefaultBranchName` returns
null, before probing `main` and `master` with `git.remoteBranchExists`. Preserve
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| // `git remote add` followed by a push, unlike a clone, leaves | ||
| // refs/remotes/origin/HEAD unset. | ||
| const remote = yield* fs.makeTempDirectoryScoped({ prefix: "cleanup-remote-" }); | ||
| yield* command(remote, ["init", "--bare", "-b", branch]); | ||
| yield* command(repo, ["remote", "add", "origin", remote]); | ||
| yield* command(repo, ["push", "origin", `main:${branch}`]); | ||
| const head = yield* command(repo, ["symbolic-ref", "refs/remotes/origin/HEAD"]).pipe( | ||
| Effect.exit, | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Delete the pushed tracking ref before cleanup.
git push origin main:${branch} creates refs/remotes/origin/${branch}. The main and master cases therefore already satisfy remoteBranchExists, so they do not cover a remote branch with no local tracking ref. Delete that ref after the push so the test detects probing before the first fetch.
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yield* command(repo, ["remote", "add", "origin", remote]);
yield* command(repo, ["push", "origin", `main:${branch}`]);
+ yield* command(repo, ["update-ref", "-d", `refs/remotes/origin/${branch}`]);
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| // `git remote add` followed by a push, unlike a clone, leaves | |
| // refs/remotes/origin/HEAD unset. | |
| const remote = yield* fs.makeTempDirectoryScoped({ prefix: "cleanup-remote-" }); | |
| yield* command(remote, ["init", "--bare", "-b", branch]); | |
| yield* command(repo, ["remote", "add", "origin", remote]); | |
| yield* command(repo, ["push", "origin", `main:${branch}`]); | |
| const head = yield* command(repo, ["symbolic-ref", "refs/remotes/origin/HEAD"]).pipe( | |
| Effect.exit, | |
| ); | |
| // `git remote add` followed by a push, unlike a clone, leaves | |
| // refs/remotes/origin/HEAD unset. | |
| const remote = yield* fs.makeTempDirectoryScoped({ prefix: "cleanup-remote-" }); | |
| yield* command(remote, ["init", "--bare", "-b", branch]); | |
| yield* command(repo, ["remote", "add", "origin", remote]); | |
| yield* command(repo, ["push", "origin", `main:${branch}`]); | |
| yield* command(repo, ["update-ref", "-d", `refs/remotes/origin/${branch}`]); | |
| const head = yield* command(repo, ["symbolic-ref", "refs/remotes/origin/HEAD"]).pipe( | |
| Effect.exit, | |
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.ts around lines 495 -
503:
Update the test setup around the `command` calls in the remote-HEAD test to
delete `refs/remotes/origin/${branch}` after pushing and before checking
`refs/remotes/origin/HEAD`, so the test covers a remote branch without a local
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Not applying this one. The test reproduces the state from #17807 as reported: git remote add followed by a push. git push does update refs/remotes/origin/<branch> locally (the main and master cases would otherwise fail, and they fail with outcome: "kept" once the storageCleanup.ts change is reverted), so the fallback is exercised against real git state.
Deleting the ref after the push would test a different situation, a remote that has never been fetched or pushed to, which is the behaviour discussed in the other thread and is outside this PR.
| let branch = yield* git.resolveDefaultBranchName(repositoryCwd, remote); | ||
| // A remote added with `git remote add` has no HEAD ref, so probe the | ||
| // conventional names before giving up. | ||
| for (const refName of ["main", "master"]) { | ||
| if (branch !== null) break; | ||
| if (yield* git.remoteBranchExists({ cwd: repositoryCwd, remoteName: remote, refName })) | ||
| branch = refName; | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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rg -n 'remoteBranchExists|resolveDefaultBranchName|cleanWorktrees|fetch\(' apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts apps/server/src/vcs
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p=Path('apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts')
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rg -n -F -- 'git init' apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.ts
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rg -n -F -- 'remote add' apps/server/src packages apps 2>/dev/null || true
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**Remote-tracking branches are normally updated by `git fetch`, not `git push`.** The official `git-fetch` documentation says fetch updates remote-tracking branches; by default, `git fetch origin` maps remote branches into local `refs/remotes/origin/*`. ([git-scm.com](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch.html?utm_source=openai))
`git push` updates refs **on the destination remote**. It does not normally update your local remote-tracking refs, so after pushing, those refs may remain stale until you fetch. This distinction follows from the official docs’ descriptions of fetch and push. ([git-scm.com](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push?utm_source=openai))
The exact refs updated by fetch depend on its refspec and configuration; explicit refspecs can change where fetched refs are stored. ([git-scm.com](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch?utm_source=openai))
Citations:
- 1: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch.html?utm_source=openai
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- 3: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch?utm_source=openai
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Fetch remote-tracking refs before probing fallback branches.
When a primary remote was added without a fetch, remoteBranchExists checks only local refs/remotes/<remote>/<branch> refs. The fallback runs before fetchRemoteTrackingBranch, so it can find neither main nor master and keep the worktree as “Default branch is unavailable” even when the remote has one of those branches.
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--- "a/apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts"
+++ "b/apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts"
@@ -432,8 +432,11 @@
if (!eligible && (settings.worktreeUnchanged || settings.worktreeOnMerge)) {
const repositoryCwd = path.resolve(project.workspaceRoot);
const remote = yield* git.resolvePrimaryRemoteName(repositoryCwd);
let branch = yield* git.resolveDefaultBranchName(repositoryCwd, remote);
+ if (branch === null) {
+ yield* git.fetchRemote({ cwd: repositoryCwd, remoteName: remote });
+ }
// A remote added with `git remote add` has no HEAD ref, so probe the
// conventional names before giving up.
for (const refName of ["main", "master"]) {
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| let branch = yield* git.resolveDefaultBranchName(repositoryCwd, remote); | |
| // A remote added with `git remote add` has no HEAD ref, so probe the | |
| // conventional names before giving up. | |
| for (const refName of ["main", "master"]) { | |
| if (branch !== null) break; | |
| if (yield* git.remoteBranchExists({ cwd: repositoryCwd, remoteName: remote, refName })) | |
| branch = refName; | |
| } | |
| let branch = yield* git.resolveDefaultBranchName(repositoryCwd, remote); | |
| if (branch === null) { | |
| yield* git.fetchRemote({ cwd: repositoryCwd, remoteName: remote }); | |
| } | |
| // A remote added with `git remote add` has no HEAD ref, so probe the | |
| // conventional names before giving up. | |
| for (const refName of ["main", "master"]) { | |
| if (branch !== null) break; | |
| if (yield* git.remoteBranchExists({ cwd: repositoryCwd, remoteName: remote, refName })) | |
| branch = refName; | |
| } |
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts around lines 435 - 442:
In the default-branch resolution flow, fetch the remote’s tracking refs with
`git.fetchRemote` when `git.resolveDefaultBranchName` returns null, before
probing `main` and `master` with `git.remoteBranchExists`. Preserve the existing
fallback checks and behavior when a branch is already resolved.
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The observation is accurate: remoteBranchExists reads local refs/remotes/<remote>/<branch>, so a remote that was added and has never been fetched from or pushed to still ends in "Default branch is unavailable". I'm leaving that as it is in this PR, for three reasons.
- It is not the reported defect. [Bug]: Storage cleanup keeps every worktree in a project when origin/HEAD is unset ("Default branch is unavailable") #17807 is a remote whose tracking branches exist locally and only
refs/remotes/<remote>/HEADis missing, which is whatgit remote addplus a push or fetch leaves behind. - The remaining case fails safe. The worktree is kept, nothing is removed, and this is the same outcome as before the change.
- Fetching before the probe is a larger change than this fix. It means network fetches for branch names that may not exist, with their own failure handling, and it differs from the other
main/masterfallbacks inGitVcsDriverCore.ts, which also read local refs only.
If maintainers want cleanup to discover the default branch over the network, that fits better with resolving the remote once per repository per sweep, which #17807 lists as a follow-up.
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Problem
Storage cleanup keeps every worktree in a project with "Default branch is unavailable" when the project's remote has no
refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD. That ref is only created bygit cloneorgit remote set-head, so any repository whose remote was added withgit remote addis affected. The unchanged and merged rules never run for that project, and only the inactivity rule can remove anything. Reported in #17807.cleanWorktreesstopped as soon asresolveDefaultBranchNamereturned null, which it does whenevergit symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<remote>/HEADexits non-zero.Change
When the remote HEAD ref is missing, cleanup now probes
mainthenmasteron the primary remote with the existingremoteBranchExistsbefore giving up. The fetch that follows still has to succeed, so a stale local tracking ref cannot lead to a removal.The fallback lives in cleanup, not in
resolveDefaultBranchName. The resolver's other callers each apply their own policy when it returns null (statusDetails,resolveBaseBranchForNoUpstream,branchPullRequest,GitManager), so changing it centrally would alter their behaviour.A remote with neither branch is still kept with "Default branch is unavailable".
Scope and approval
Submitted under the "very small, focused fix for an obvious bug" exception. #17807 is my own report and has not been triaged. The defect is one early return that skips two documented cleanup rules for a common repository state, and the fix is eight lines that reuse an existing driver method and the same
main/masterfallback the other callers already use. It changes no defaults, settings or contracts.Left out on purpose: resolving the remote and default branch once per repository per sweep, rewording the kept reason, and fork/upstream remote selection (#14843, #17314).
Verification
Established the git state in a throwaway repository (git 2.43.0, Linux) with the steps from #17807: bare remote,
git remote add, push.The new test in
apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.tsbuilds that same state with real repositories and a real worktree, assertsorigin/HEADis missing, and runs cleanup with only the unchanged rule on:mainmastertrunkvp test run apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.ts: 57 passed.storageCleanup.tschange reverted: themainandmastercases fail withoutcome: "kept",reason: "Default branch is unavailable"; the other 55 pass.vp lintandvp fmt --checkon both files: clean.vp run --filter t3 typecheck: exit 0.Not checked: I did not run a server against a real project in this state, and the merged-pull-request rule was not exercised with the fallback branch because it needs a live host lookup. It receives the same resolved branch as the unchanged rule.
Fixes #17807
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