fix: give the test suite a git identity dependabot[bot] won't trip - #285
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TestRealCommitCheckBinary pipes a message to the real, unmocked commit-check binary. actions/checkout sets no git identity, and with no local user.name, commit-check's ignore_authors handling falls back to the checked-out HEAD commit's own author to decide whether to skip -- correct for an existing commit, not for a message piped in for a commit that doesn't exist yet. On a Dependabot PR that author is dependabot[bot], which the org's inherited commit-check.toml lists under [commit] ignore_authors, so the message check silently skips (status "skip", exit 0) instead of running -- test_failing_message and test_passing_message then fail on the resulting rc/status, on every OS and Python version in the matrix. A neutral, non-ignored git identity before the tests run keeps the suite testing the piped message, not incidentally re-testing ignore_authors skip logic.
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The previous commit worked around one symptom (no git identity -> commit-check falls back to HEAD's author -> ignore_authors matches a bot -> the piped message check silently skips) by giving the test step a git identity in CI. That leaves TestRealCommitCheckBinary coupled to more than it should be about: it still runs from this repo's checkout, so it still picks up commit-check.toml, which still inherits the org's shared config over the network on every test run, and it still resolves ignore_authors and every other repo-level setting -- none of which the test's own docstring says it is about. Run it from an isolated, empty directory instead. commit-check reads cchk.toml/commit-check.toml only from its cwd (no upward search), so an empty cwd gets the built-in defaults on their own: no config file, no network fetch, no ignore_authors, and -- since git commands run from a non-repository directory return nothing -- no HEAD author to fall back to either. The test now only exercises what it says it exercises: the CLI's JSON contract for a piped message. This supersedes the git-identity workaround, which is no longer needed and is reverted here.
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In `@main_test.py`:
- Around line 2817-2824: Update the test setup around setUp and _run to
construct a sanitized subprocess environment: remove all CCHK_* variables and
disable global and system Git configuration before calling main.run_check_json,
then pass that environment through the subprocess path so inherited settings
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| def setUp(self): | ||
| tmpdir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() | ||
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| def _run(self, message: str) -> tuple[int, dict]: | ||
| rc, data, raw = main.run_check_json(["--message"], input_text=message) | ||
| rc, data, raw = main.run_check_json( | ||
| ["--message"], input_text=message, cwd=self._cwd |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Pass a sanitized environment to the real-binary test. run_check_json calls subprocess.run without env, so the temporary cwd does not prevent inherited CCHK_* settings or global/system Git configuration. An inherited ignore_authors value can mark the message checks as skipped, which breaks the passing and failing JSON assertions. Remove CCHK_* variables and disable global/system Git configuration in the test environment before invoking the subprocess.
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In `@main_test.py` around lines 2817 - 2824, Update the test setup around setUp
and _run to construct a sanitized subprocess environment: remove all CCHK_*
variables and disable global and system Git configuration before calling
main.run_check_json, then pass that environment through the subprocess path so
inherited settings cannot alter the JSON assertions.
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Why #284 (
chore(deps): bump commit-check from 2.17.0 to 2.18.0) went redmain_test.py::TestRealCommitCheckBinaryruns the real, unmockedcommit-checkbinary against a message piped over stdin. It ran from this repo's own checkout, whosecommit-check.tomlinherits the org's shared config over the network.actions/checkoutsets no git identity, and with no localuser.name, commit-check'signore_authorshandling falls back to the checked-out HEAD commit's own author (_resolve_current_authorincommit_check/engine.py) -- correct for an existing commit, not for a prospective message that hasn't been committed yet.On a Dependabot PR, HEAD's author is
dependabot[bot], which the org's inheritedcommit-check.tomllists under[commit] ignore_authors. So the piped message check silently skips ("status": "skip", exit 0) instead of running, andtest_failing_message/test_passing_messagefail their rc/status assertions -- on every OS and Python version in the matrix, pluscoverage.Verified: this reproduces identically on both commit-check 2.17.0 and 2.18.0, so it is unrelated to the version bump #284 carries -- and it only started showing up now because
TestRealCommitCheckBinarywas added in #279, and #284 is the first Dependabot run since.Fix
Run the unmocked test from an isolated, empty directory instead of the repo checkout.
commit-checklooks forcchk.toml/commit-check.tomlonly in its cwd (no upward search), so an empty cwd gets the built-in defaults with no config file, no network fetch of the org config, noignore_authors, and no HEAD commit to fall back to -- the test goes back to exercising only what it says it does: the CLI's JSON contract for a piped message.main.run_check_json()gained an optionalcwdparameter (defaultNone, i.e. unchanged for the one real call site in the action itself) to make this possible.An earlier commit on this PR worked around just the symptom with a git-identity step in CI; that's reverted here in favor of the isolation fix, which is strictly better -- it also removes the test suite's incidental network dependency on
commit-check/.github.Verified locally: reproduced the exact CI failure (isolated
HOMEwith no git identity, a HEAD commit authoreddependabot[bot],ignore_authors = ["dependabot[bot]"]) and confirmed the fix resolves it regardless of that surrounding state. Full suite: 199 passed, 8 subtests passed.pre-commit: clean.Root cause, filed separately
The underlying bug is in commit-check core, not this repo: a stdin-supplied message should never fall back to an unrelated existing commit's author for
ignore_authors. Filing that against commit-check core; this PR only fixes the test here.#284
#284 itself is a routine dependency bump with no real failure in it -- once this merges, re-running its checks (or
@dependabot recreate) should go green.Summary by CodeRabbit