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Description

When find failed before or after emitting partial results, copying could return success with missing content, allowing git gtr new or git gtr pr to continue into hooks and tool launches. Preserve discovery failures throughout recursive tree merging, Bash 3.2 file-pattern fallbacks, batched directory discovery, and staging cleanup.

The change keeps pipefail scoped to subshells, preserves raw NUL records during tree merges, and retains discovery failures after restoring the working directory. Existing newline-name policy, destination permissions, safety checks, and successful no-match/exclusion behavior remain intact. Already-copied data remains in place on failure.

Motivation

Addresses bug-scan finding 13 and completes the discovery-side error propagation left after #228.

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)

Testing

Tested on macOS with Bash 3.2 and Bash 5.3, using disposable repositories and narrowly injected find failures.

• Added deterministic failures before and after NUL-delimited output, covering recursive merges, both file fallback scans, shallow/bounded/recursive directory scans, selective traversal, and staging cleanup.
• CLI regression coverage verifies copy, new, and pr return failure; failed creation does not start post-create/post-cd hooks or requested tools, and porcelain mode emits no success records. A successful control verifies the configured hooks and tools actually run.
• Bash 5 copy-focused suite: 117 passed.
• Full Bash 3.2 suite, run with isolated configuration per file: 1,000 tests across 43 files; 998 passed initially. Two interactive Readline completion tests failed. The wrapper-only case passed on rerun; the remaining case hit its 15-second prompt timeout, which also reproduced on unchanged main at 849e590.
• ShellCheck, Bash syntax checks, generated-completion verification, and git diff --check passed.

Linux, Windows, and Git 2.17 were not exercised locally. No new Git commands or newer Bash features are introduced.

Breaking Changes

None. Discovery errors now return failure instead of being silently accepted.

Checklist

• Read CONTRIBUTING.md and followed the project's style guidelines
• Added regression coverage for the failure and sibling discovery paths
• Noted platform coverage and unrelated full-suite failures
• No new external dependencies
• No new commands, flags, configuration keys, or completion changes required

License Acknowledgment

This contribution is made under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Copy operations now report failures when they cannot fully discover files or directories, rather than continuing with incomplete results.
  • Failed staged copies are cleaned up and are not published.
  • Commands that rely on copying stop before running hooks or requested tools, or reporting success, when discovery fails.
  • Successful copies, including cases with no matching files, continue to work.

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Walkthrough

Copy discovery failures now return errors instead of allowing incomplete copies to report success. The change covers recursive copying, pattern and directory scans, staging cleanup, and new and pr command outcomes.

Changes

Copy discovery failure propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Propagate failures through copy paths lib/copy.sh, tests/copy_discovery.bats, tests/copy_discovery_helper.bash	A shared helper preserves find failures across tree copying, pattern expansion, and selective traversal. Tests cover empty and partial discovery results, plus successful no-match cases.
Report directory and staging failures lib/copy.sh, tests/copy_discovery.bats	Directory resolution reports scan failures after restoring the working directory. Staging cleanup failures remove staging and return failure. Tests check these paths and successful excluded or empty discovery.
Verify worktree command outcomes tests/copy_discovery_integration.bats	Integration tests verify that failed discovery stops copy, new, and pr from reporting success or running hooks and requested tools.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• coderabbitai/git-worktree-runner#220: Propagates copy failures through copy, new, and pr; this PR extends that failure path to discovery errors.
• coderabbitai/git-worktree-runner#210: Introduced NUL-delimited discovery and staged directory copies, which this PR updates to propagate discovery and cleanup failures.

Suggested reviewers: natoboram, howonlee

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to cad07

Copy discovery failures now reach the affected commands without an established merge-blocking regression. The change is ready to merge after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to cad07

The change prevents incomplete copies from being treated as successful and stops hooks and tools after discovery fails. Copying remains nontransactional: failed worktrees and already-copied data can remain.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated exposure is filesystem state in the selected repository worktrees under the invoking user's authority. The copy command can target multiple worktrees with --all, but returns on the first copy failure without rolling back earlier destinations. The inspected change does not add a remote entrypoint or elevated execution authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Copy failure terminates new and pr before post-create hooks and editor or AI-tool launches. Generated Bash, Zsh, and Fish wrappers independently check the returned status before --cd directory selection and postCd dispatch, so retaining a failed worktree does not itself trigger that continuation.
• observed — A newly staged directory is published only after Git-control-file cleanup and verification succeed. The PR adds an explicit failure gate for the cleanup scan itself, preserving the existing later verification gate.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The fault-injection helper is loaded by the discovery tests and prepends a test-local find wrapper. It fails only a selected argument sequence and delegates other scans to the real find. Its public-entrypoint classification does not demonstrate a new production trust boundary.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 77.78% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: propagating copy discovery failures.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 77.78% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 9 functions across 4 files.

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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_{A rabbit checks each trail of bytes,
And marks a failed scan plainly.
No partial path can claim success,
No hidden error slips by.
The worktree waits until scans are sound,
Then hops along its way.}

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Review info

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• Source mode: Auto
• Repository: coderabbitai/git-worktree-runner
• Branch: main
• File: .coderabbit.yaml
• Commit: 4d4a8f0
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Commits

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Files selected for processing: 4

• lib/copy.sh
• tests/copy_discovery.bats
• tests/copy_discovery_helper.bash
• tests/copy_discovery_integration.bats

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