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Description

After git gtr clean --merged or --closed validates a PR/MR tip, a preRemove hook can commit new work or change branches. Cleanup previously removed the worktree and could force-delete the newer, unmatched branch tip.

Revalidate branch identity and commit after preRemove, skipping removal if the state changed or cannot be verified, including with --force. Delete the branch using git update-ref --no-deref -d with the validated old tip so a concurrent update makes deletion fail safely. Preserve checked-out, rebase, and bisect protections, hook ordering, and branch metadata on failed deletion.

Motivation

Addresses bug-scan finding 16 (ccf1b4ce-b0cb-492b-a6c3-c51eb09376e0): protect commits added after provider validation. The existing initial-tip lookup protection remains unchanged.

Type of Change

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

Testing

• bats tests/cmd_clean.bats: all 56 tests pass, including 15 new regression cases.
• ShellCheck across binaries, libraries, commands, and adapters.
• ./scripts/generate-completions.sh --check.
• Bash syntax and git diff --check.
• macOS Bash 3.2 / Git 2.50.1 CLI smoke: create, dry-run cleanup, unchanged-tip cleanup, hook commits with --force, navigation, listing, hooks, and metadata.

All 36 BATS files were exercised with isolated configuration and disposable repositories. Seven failures in cmd_pr.bats (3), debug_trap.bats (3), and platform.bats (1) were independently reproduced on untouched baseline 4f58129. The final cleanup suite was rerun after adding the rebase/bisect protections. Hosting-service responses were stubbed.

Regression coverage includes hook commits, same-tip branch switches, detached HEAD, renames, failed/empty post-hook lookups, successful unchanged-tip cleanup, and a real Git ref update injected immediately before final deletion. Both post-hook and atomic-tip protections are tested with --force.

Breaking Changes

None. If a branch changes after its worktree has already been removed, cleanup retains the branch and its metadata and emits a warning.

Checklist

• Read CONTRIBUTING.md and followed repository shell conventions.
• Performed manual testing on macOS.
• Added regression coverage.
• No new dependencies, commands, flags, or completion changes.
• Implementation remains compatible with Bash 3.2 and uses Git commands available in Git 2.17; runtime validation used Git 2.50.1.

License Acknowledgment

This contribution is submitted under the repository's Apache License 2.0.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Cleanup skips removing a worktree if its branch or commit changes during cleanup, or if its state cannot be verified.
  • Branches are removed only when they still point to the validated commit and are not checked out elsewhere or reserved by an active Git operation.
  • Cleanup preserves branches when their state changes or deletion cannot be safely confirmed, avoiding unintended branch removal.

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Walkthrough

Cleanup revalidates the candidate branch after the preRemove hook. If its identity or tip changed, or cannot be verified, cleanup skips worktree removal. After removal, cleanup deletes the branch only if its ref still matches the validated tip and no worktree or Git operation reserves it.

Changes

Worktree cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Post-hook branch validation lib/commands/clean.sh, tests/cmd_clean.bats	Cleanup checks the branch identity and tip after preRemove. Tests cover changed branches, detached HEAD, failed lookups, unchanged tips, and hook ordering.
Validated branch deletion lib/commands/clean.sh, tests/cmd_clean.bats	Cleanup checks worktree and rebase/bisect state before deleting the ref with the validated tip. Tests cover concurrent ref changes, symbolic refs, checked-out branches, and operation state.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: natoboram

Merge Risk: Low · up to 882b7

A concurrent checkout during cleanup can leave another worktree pointing to a deleted branch. The race is narrow, but owners should be aware of it.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 882b7

The change substantially improves protection against deleting newly committed work. However, checking worktree reservations separately from branch deletion widens a narrow local concurrency window in which a branch newly checked out elsewhere can still be deleted. The demonstrated scope is one local repository, not broader remote access or privilege.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: The replacement deletion helper snapshots checked-out and rebase/bisect reservations before deleting the ref through update-ref. A concurrent same-tip checkout after those checks is not rejected by the old-tip condition and can leave an active worktree with a dangling branch HEAD. Compared with the previous git branch deletion, the intervening subprocesses and state scans widen the reservation-check window. This is a local shared-state failure-containment concern, not evidence of new remote authority.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified concurrency concern is bounded to branch refs, branch metadata, and worktrees sharing the selected local Git repository. Triggering it requires a concurrent local Git operation or equivalent repository-write capability; the inspected change does not establish a remote attacker path or privilege gain.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The PR strengthens the boundary between provider-authorized cleanup and mutable local hook effects. Hook-induced branch or commit changes, detached HEAD, and unverifiable post-hook state prevent worktree removal even with --force. A later committed ref update is independently protected by conditional deletion.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Forced worktree removal still permits discarding uncommitted contents when the validated tip has not changed. The underlying --force removal behavior is unchanged by this PR; the new commit guard is not a guarantee for uncommitted files.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: protecting validated branch tips during cleanup.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 85.71% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentati…
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.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 85.71% which is sufficient. 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 7 functions across 2 files.

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_{A rabbit checks the branch tip twice,
Then guards each ref with care precise.
If hooks have moved the commit along,
Cleanup leaves the worktree strong.
No newer work slips out of sight,
The burrow rests with refs just right.}

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Review comments at @tests/cmd_clean.bats:
- Line 301: Update the negated assertions in the clean tests so failures are not
masked by Bash/Bats `set -e`: replace the checks for detached `HEAD`, deleted
`refs/heads/validated-tip`, and removed `branch.validated-tip.*` metadata with
explicit conditional assertions that fail when the checked command succeeds.
Preserve the existing commands and their intended absence checks.

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