Recognize a Bundled -ff as Worktree Remove's Own Double-Force

[ptr727]

Qodo's review of the develop -> main promotion PR (#1098) found that worktree remove's force check only matched exact -f/--force tokens. Git requires -f given twice to remove a locked worktree, and confirmed live: git worktree remove -ff <path> forcibly removes a locked worktree's uncommitted content exactly as -f -f does, which the exact-token check missed entirely.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved safety checks for git worktree remove commands using repeated or bundled force flags, including -ff.
  • Locked worktree removal now correctly requires two force flags.
  • Preserved valid path arguments supplied after --.
  • Added safeguards against unsafe primary-checkout removal attempts.

• Documentation

  • Clarified force-flag requirements and supported worktree removal behavior.

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Walkthrough

The primary-checkout safety guard now detects bundled -f flags for git worktree remove, including -ff. Documentation and self-tests cover the -- argument boundary and locked-worktree removal.

Changes

Worktree removal protection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bundled force flag detection and validation host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py, host-setup/agent-safety/README.md	The guard detects -f within short-option clusters before --. Self-tests verify denial of git worktree remove -ff ../x and allowance of git worktree remove -- -f. Documentation describes the supported force-flag forms and exemptions.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk:⚪ Minimal · up to 0c0f6

This localized change improves recognition of bundled double-force usage for worktree removal, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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PR Summary by Qodo

Detect bundled -ff in worktree removal safety checks

🐞 Bug fix🧪 Tests📝 Documentation🕐 10-20 Minutes

AI Description

• Detect bundled short -f flags when classifying forced worktree removals.
• Deny git worktree remove -ff to protect locked worktrees with uncommitted changes.
• Document and regression-test Git's bundled double-force syntax.

Diagram

graph TD
A["Git argv"] --> B["Command classifier"] --> C["Worktree remove"] --> D{"Contains force?"}
D -->|Yes| E["Deny removal"]
D -->|No| F["Allow removal"]

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High-Level Assessment

The targeted bundled-character scan is the appropriate approach because worktree remove has no unrelated short option containing f. Reusing checkout-specific detection would also recognize unrelated checkout flags, while invoking Git solely to parse options would add unnecessary complexity.

Files changed (2) +24 / -3

Bug fix (1) +18 / -1

gh-write-guard.pyBlock bundled force flags on worktree removal+18/-1

Block bundled force flags on worktree removal

• Extends primary-checkout worktree removal classification to scan short-option tokens for 'f', catching bundled '-ff' while retaining exact '-f' and '--force' handling. Adds a self-test proving the bundled double-force command is denied.

host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py

Documentation (1) +6 / -2

README.mdDocument bundled double-force worktree removal+6/-2

Document bundled double-force worktree removal

• Explains that 'git worktree remove -ff' is equivalent to repeated '-f' and can remove locked worktrees with uncommitted content. Aligns the documented safety policy with the corrected guard behavior.

host-setup/agent-safety/README.md

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🟡 Changes recommended

The new worktree remove force-flag scan should stop at -- to avoid misclassifying positional arguments (and a self-test should cover this sentinel behavior).

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the primary-checkout mutation guard to recognize git worktree remove -ff <path> as a forced removal, matching Git's behavior where -f must be provided twice to remove a locked worktree.

Changes:

• Expand worktree remove force-flag detection to treat bundled short-option clusters containing f (including -ff) as forced.
• Add a regression test case asserting git worktree remove -ff is denied in a primary checkout.
• Document the -ff behavior in the agent-safety README to explain why exact-token matching is insufficient.

File summaries

File	Description
host-setup/agent-safety/README.md	Documents that worktree remove supports bundled -ff which behaves like -f -f for locked worktrees.
host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py	Updates force detection for worktree remove and adds a self-test case for -ff.

Review details

Suppressed comments (1)

host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py:2890

• Add a self-test case for the -- end-of-options sentinel so the new worktree remove force detection does not regress by scanning positional arguments after -- (for example, git worktree remove -- -f should be allowed).

 (
"git worktree remove -ff ../x",
"/primary",
{"/primary": True},
None,

• Files reviewed: 2/2 changed files
• Comments generated: 1
• Review effort level: Lite

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1. Test prose uses semicolon✓ Resolved📜 Skill insight✧ Quality

Description

The new test-case explanation uses a semicolon as prose punctuation between content and `an
exact-token check`. Agent-authored test prose must use separate sentences or another ASCII
punctuation form.

Code

host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[2894]

+ "worktree, confirmed live to forcibly remove one with uncommitted content; an "

Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent repository history explicitly accepts removing semicolons from agent-authored prose.

PR-#1041
PR-#991

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Evidence

PR Compliance ID 2826756 prohibits semicolons in agent-authored prose, including test text. The
newly added explanatory string contains content; an exact-token check.

host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[2894-2894]
Skill: comment-and-doc-style

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The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The added test explanation uses a semicolon as prose punctuation, which the repository checklist prohibits.
## Issue Context
Preserve the explanation while splitting the clauses into separate sentences or using a comma where grammatically appropriate.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[2893-2896]

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2. Bundled-force comment is verbose✓ Resolved📜 Skill insight⚙ Maintainability

Description

The new -f explanation is a long implementation narrative rather than a concise comment. This
makes the safety-critical classifier harder to scan and violates the one-line concise-comment
requirement.

Code

host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[980]

+ # `-f` is bundled the same way checkout/switch's own force flags already are, since `remove` has no other short option `-f` could combine with: git requires `-f` given *twice* to remove a locked worktree, and confirmed live that the bundled `-ff` spelling satisfies that requirement exactly as `-f -f` does, forcibly removing a locked worktree's uncommitted content, which an exact-token check alone would miss entirely.

Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent history accepts concise-comment fixes, supporting this explicit verbosity issue.

PR-#1068
PR-#982

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Evidence

PR Compliance ID 2826677 requires comments to be concise and one line by default. The added comment
at line 980 packs the Git semantics, live verification, consequences, and prior-check limitation
into one very long narrative.

host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[980-980]
Skill: comment-and-doc-style

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The new bundled-force comment is an excessively long prose explanation rather than a concise code comment.
## Issue Context
Keep only the constraint needed to understand why bundled `-f` must be detected. The surrounding comments and tests already document the broader safety behavior.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[980-980]

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3. Paths mistaken for force flags✓ Resolved🐞 Bug≡ Correctness

Description

_primary_checkout_verdict scans all arguments after remove, so a path after -- whose name is
-ff or another single-dash string containing f is incorrectly classified as forced and denied.
This blocks valid unforced removals such as git worktree remove -- -ff, even though -- makes
-ff the worktree path rather than an option.

Code

host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[R984-985]

+ a in ("-f", "--force") or (a.startswith("-") and not a.startswith("--") and "f" in a)+ for a in args[1:]

Relevance

●●● Strong

This is a concrete deterministic parsing bug: tokens after -- must be treated as paths, not options.

PR-#1053

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The command tokenizer retains every argv token, including -- and subsequent path tokens; the
changed predicate then scans the entire args[1:] sequence without respecting that terminator. The
adjacent checkout handling explicitly recognizes -- as semantically significant, while the new
tests cover -ff only as an option and omit the post-terminator path case.

host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[398-423]
host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[977-990]
host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[2879-2905]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution
## Issue description
The broadened force-option predicate scans path arguments following Git's `--` option terminator, causing paths such as `-ff` to be denied as forced removals.
## Issue Context
Preserve detection of bundled force options such as `-ff`, but only while parsing option tokens before `--`. Add a regression case for `git worktree remove -- -ff` (or an equivalent single-dash path containing `f`) that must remain allowed.
## Fix Focus Areas
- host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[983-986]
- host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py[2879-2905]

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Review mode: ⚖️ Balanced: This changes runtime command-safety logic for destructive worktree removal; the behavior is localized, but the security-sensitive guard warrants a complete single-pass review.

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Inline comments:
In `@host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py`:
- Around line 984-985: Update the force-flag detection in the relevant guard
logic to scan only _args_before_double_dash(args[1:]), so arguments after “--”
are treated as operands rather than options. Preserve recognition of standalone
and bundled force flags before the delimiter, and add a self-test covering git
worktree remove with “-- -ff” as an unforced removal.

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[ptr727]

Answering the suppressed finding "Add a self-test case for the -- end-of-options sentinel" (no thread to resolve): already addressed in 5456828, alongside the -- cutoff fix itself. git worktree remove -- -f is now a permanent self-test case, confirmed live before being added.

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🟡 Changes recommended

The docs/selftest incorrectly claim worktree remove needs double force for locked worktrees, and the new -ff detection is overly broad (can misclassify unrelated -<...f...> tokens as force).

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Suppressed comments (1)

host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py:979

• Update this comment: git worktree remove does not require -f twice to remove a locked worktree (double --force is documented for git worktree move when the destination is locked). The key behavior to document here is that -ff is parsed as -f -f, so an exact-token -f check misses it.

 # `-f` is bundled the same way checkout/switch's own force flags already are: git requires `-f` given twice to remove a locked worktree, and `-ff` satisfies that, confirmed live.

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[ptr727]

Answering the suppressed finding about the comment above worktree remove's force scan claiming double---force is documented for worktree move rather than remove (no thread to resolve): re-verified directly against real git 2.47.3 rather than the docs citation. A locked worktree's own remove attempt (no force, single -f) produces git's own literal error 'fatal: cannot remove a locked working tree; use "remove -f -f" to override or unlock first', naming remove specifically. -f -f (or bundled -ff) does successfully remove it, confirmed live. The comment's claim matches what git 2.47.3 actually does; not changing it.