Merge pull request #144 from dan-claude-bot/fix/monotonic-uniqueness-first

fix(changelog-monotonic): check uniqueness before anything base-side
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@ -59,26 +59,18 @@ skip() {
if [ "$strict" = "1" ]; then
echo "changelog-monotonic: $* — and CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT=1, so this is a FAILURE, not a skip." >&2
echo " CI sets STRICT because a guard that quietly stops guarding is worse than no guard." >&2
echo " (Uniqueness on HEAD already passed; it is containment that cannot run.)" >&2
echo " Fix the checkout, not this script: the base ref must be fetched (fetch-depth: 0)." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "changelog-monotonic: SKIPPED — $*"
echo " (Nothing was checked. In CI this same condition is a hard failure.)"
echo "changelog-monotonic: containment SKIPPED — $*"
echo " (Uniqueness on HEAD already ran and passed — only the deleted-heading"
echo " half needs the history. In CI this same condition is a hard failure.)"
exit 0
}
[ -f "$changelog" ] || { echo "changelog-monotonic: no such file: $changelog" >&2; exit 1; }
git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1 \
|| skip "not inside a git work tree, so there is no history to compare against"
git rev-parse --verify --quiet "$base_ref^{commit}" >/dev/null \
|| skip "base ref '$base_ref' does not resolve here (a shallow clone, or a fork checkout without the upstream remote)"
merge_base="$(git merge-base "$base_ref" HEAD 2>/dev/null || true)"
[ -n "$merge_base" ] \
|| skip "no merge base between '$base_ref' and HEAD (unrelated histories, or a clone too shallow to reach one)"
# The set of RELEASE headings: '## <token> ...' where <token> looks like a
# version. Field $2, the same split changelog-armed.sh and release-notes.sh
# use, so the three cannot disagree about what a section header is.
@ -90,14 +82,6 @@ headings_raw() {
}
headings() { headings_raw | sort -u; }
# The changelog may not exist at the merge base at all (the commit that adds
# it). Nothing to have deleted, so nothing to assert.
base_file="$(git show "$merge_base:$changelog" 2>/dev/null || true)"
[ -n "$base_file" ] || {
echo "changelog-monotonic: $changelog does not exist at the merge base ($(git rev-parse --short "$merge_base")) — nothing could have been deleted."
exit 0
}
# --- uniqueness on HEAD (the #118 class) -------------------------------------
# Containment catches a DELETED heading. It cannot catch a DUPLICATED one: the
# duplicate is head-side SURPLUS, and `comm -23` (base minus head) is blind to
@ -149,6 +133,34 @@ EOF
exit 1
fi
# --- everything below needs the HISTORY ------------------------------------
# Uniqueness is settled. What follows is containment, which compares HEAD
# against the merge base and therefore genuinely depends on the base ref, the
# merge base, and the base blob. Each of those can be unavailable for reasons
# that are not the author's fault (a shallow clone, a fork checkout without
# the upstream remote, the commit that first adds the changelog), so each
# degrades rather than failing — which is exactly why the uniqueness half must
# NOT live down here (#143). It asks nothing of the history, and gating it
# behind these conditions let a duplicate exit 0 on a message about deletion.
git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1 \
|| skip "not inside a git work tree, so there is no history to compare against"
git rev-parse --verify --quiet "$base_ref^{commit}" >/dev/null \
|| skip "base ref '$base_ref' does not resolve here (a shallow clone, or a fork checkout without the upstream remote)"
merge_base="$(git merge-base "$base_ref" HEAD 2>/dev/null || true)"
[ -n "$merge_base" ] \
|| skip "no merge base between '$base_ref' and HEAD (unrelated histories, or a clone too shallow to reach one)"
# The changelog may not exist at the merge base at all (the commit that adds
# it). Nothing to have deleted, so nothing to assert.
base_file="$(git show "$merge_base:$changelog" 2>/dev/null || true)"
[ -n "$base_file" ] || {
echo "changelog-monotonic: $changelog does not exist at the merge base ($(git rev-parse --short "$merge_base")) — nothing could have been deleted (uniqueness on HEAD already passed)."
exit 0
}
base_headings="$(printf '%s\n' "$base_file" | headings)"
head_headings="$(headings < "$changelog")"
@ -197,4 +209,17 @@ EOF
fi
count="$(printf '%s\n' "$base_headings" | grep -c . || true)"
head_count="$(printf '%s\n' "$head_headings" | grep -c . || true)"
# The success line has two honest forms, because this step now runs on two
# shapes of event. On a push to main the merge base IS HEAD: containment
# compared the file against itself and asserted nothing, and deletion is
# undetectable on that event by construction. Reporting "all N still present"
# there would be the same dishonesty the skip messages were fixed for — a log
# claiming a check that did no work. Uniqueness is the half that actually ran,
# so that is the half the line names.
if [ "$merge_base" = "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" ]; then
echo "changelog-monotonic: containment vacuous (the merge base IS HEAD, so nothing could have been deleted between them) — uniqueness on HEAD checked $head_count release heading(s)."
else
echo "changelog-monotonic: all $count release heading(s) at the merge base ($(git rev-parse --short "$merge_base")) are still present in $changelog"
fi

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@ -68,19 +68,30 @@ jobs:
# says which check found the drift without anyone reading a suite.
- name: changelog is armed for the next entry
run: bash .github/scripts/changelog-armed.sh
# ...and no SHIPPED release heading was deleted (#122). Its own step for
# the same reason as the one above — when it goes red the log names the
# invariant that broke — but a DIFFERENT invariant: armed is a fact
# about this tree, monotonicity is a fact about this tree versus its
# merge base. Pull requests only: on a push to main the merge base IS
# HEAD, so the assert is vacuous and would only add a green step that
# proves nothing. STRICT=1 so a checkout that cannot reach the base ref
# ...and no SHIPPED release heading was deleted or DUPLICATED (#122, #143).
# Its own step for the same reason as the one above — when it goes red the
# log names the invariant that broke — but a DIFFERENT invariant: armed is
# a fact about this tree, monotonicity is a fact about this tree versus
# its merge base. STRICT=1 so a checkout that cannot reach the base ref
# fails here instead of skipping quietly forever.
- name: no shipped changelog heading was deleted
if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
#
# NOT pull-request-only, and that is the #143 fix at the workflow level.
# The two halves have different vacuity: DELETION is vacuous on a push to
# main (the merge base IS HEAD), but DUPLICATION is vacuous on no tree at
# all, so gating the whole script on `pull_request` left a duplicate that
# reached main by any other route unasserted forever.
#
# The `|| github.ref_name` fallback is load-bearing, not defensive. On a
# push event `github.base_ref` is EMPTY, so the argument would collapse to
# a bare `origin/`, which does not resolve — and STRICT=1 correctly
# promotes that to a hard failure, turning every push to main red. With
# the fallback it resolves to the pushed branch, whose merge base with
# HEAD is HEAD or its parent: containment passes vacuously, exactly as the
# old `if` intended, while uniqueness now runs on every push.
- name: no shipped changelog heading was deleted or duplicated
env:
CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT: '1'
run: bash .github/scripts/changelog-monotonic.sh "origin/${{ github.base_ref }}"
run: bash .github/scripts/changelog-monotonic.sh "origin/${{ github.base_ref || github.ref_name }}"
# The multi-user rehearsal, on a REAL incus — a GitHub runner is root on a
# disposable VM, which is exactly the substrate the rehearsal needs. It runs

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@ -131,6 +131,46 @@ which records not just what changed but what each drill run proved.
### Fixed
- **`changelog-monotonic.sh` no longer lets a duplicate heading through on the
paths where it cannot see the base** (#143) — the uniqueness half is a
property of HEAD alone, but it sat downstream of the base-ref, merge-base and
base-blob conditions, so each of those degradations returned success on a tree
with a duplicate in plain sight.
The base-blob case was the worst of the three because it was not a skip at
all: a branch that *introduces* `CHANGELOG.md` exited 0 through a bare
`exit 0`, on a message that was true about deletion and silent about the
duplicate in front of it. `STRICT=1` could not reach it — STRICT guards the
two `skip()` calls, and that path is not one of them. Off CI the two skips had
the same shape, so a shallow clone or an unpacked tarball would not look at a
duplicate the author was about to push.
This inverted the value of the two halves. Deletion is the failure that needs
a diff to see; duplication is the one `release-notes.sh` actually mis-renders,
re-arming its grab on the second heading and absorbing whatever sits between
the copies (#118). The half with the live extraction bug behind it was the
half with the most ways to silently not run.
Fixed by moving, not rewriting: uniqueness now runs directly after the file
exists, before any git access. The skip messages say *containment* skipped and
that uniqueness already passed, so a skip no longer claims nothing was
checked — and the success line got the same treatment, because dropping the
gate made `merge_base == HEAD` a routine path rather than a degradation. On a
push to main containment compares the file against itself and asserts nothing,
so the line now reports containment *vacuous* and names uniqueness as the half
that ran, instead of claiming N headings were verified present by a comparison
that could not have detected their absence.
The guard is also no longer gated to `pull_request` — deletion is vacuous on
a push to main, but duplication is vacuous on no tree, so a
duplicate reaching main by any other route went unasserted. That gate could
not simply be dropped: `github.base_ref` is empty on a push, and a bare
`origin/` under `STRICT=1` is a hard failure on every push to main, so the
base ref falls back to `github.ref_name`.
Found by `claude-bot-andresmgsl` reviewing the ports in heavy-duty/rig#99 and
heavy-duty/cast#134, which inherited the ordering from here.
- **A failed rollup read no longer reads as "nothing is failing"** — when
`gh pr view` returned nothing, the fallback left the `statusCheckRollup`
*key* absent, and `checks_state` collapsed that into the same `NONE` as a PR

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@ -394,7 +394,8 @@ check "monotonic: a base with no release headings passes (nothing to delete)" 0
# silently (which is the failure shape this repo keeps refusing). CI closes
# the hole from the other side with STRICT.
G="$(grepo mono-nobase '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' '' '- **Shipped**')"
check "monotonic: an unresolvable base ref SKIPS, saying nothing was checked" 0 "SKIPPED" mono "$G" no-such-ref
check "monotonic: an unresolvable base ref SKIPS containment" 0 "containment SKIPPED" mono "$G" no-such-ref
check "monotonic: ...and says uniqueness already ran, not that nothing did" 0 "already ran" mono "$G" no-such-ref
check "monotonic: ...naming the base ref it could not resolve" 0 "no-such-ref" mono "$G" no-such-ref
check "monotonic: ...and warning that CI treats it as a failure" 0 "hard failure" mono "$G" no-such-ref
check "monotonic: STRICT turns that skip into a red run" 1 "is a FAILURE, not a skip" mono_strict "$G" no-such-ref
@ -402,17 +403,86 @@ check "monotonic: ...and points at the checkout, not the script" 1 "fetch-depth:
# Outside a work tree at all (a tarball, an unpacked release).
mkdir -p "$WORK/mono-nogit"
printf '%s\n' '# Changelog' '' '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' > "$WORK/mono-nogit/CHANGELOG.md"
check "monotonic: outside a git work tree it skips rather than erroring" 0 "SKIPPED" \
check "monotonic: outside a git work tree it skips containment, not everything" 0 "containment SKIPPED" \
mono "$WORK/mono-nogit" main
check "monotonic: a missing changelog refuses by path (never a skip)" 1 "no such file" \
bash "$MONO" main "$WORK/nope.md"
# --- #143: uniqueness is a property of HEAD, so nothing base-side may gate it -
# Containment needs the merge base. Uniqueness needs only the file in front of
# it. Before #143 the duplicate check sat downstream of the base-ref, merge-base
# and base-blob conditions, so each of the three degradation paths below exited
# 0 on a tree with a duplicate in plain sight — the base-blob one not even via
# skip(), but a bare `exit 0` that STRICT could not reach. These cases pin the
# ORDER, which is the actual invariant; asserting the exit code alone is what
# let the original ship (the base-absent case below was green before and after).
grepo_nocl() { # a repo whose main has NO changelog at all
local d="$WORK/$1"
mkdir -p "$d"
git -C "$d" init -q -b main
git -C "$d" config user.email test@example.invalid
git -C "$d" config user.name test
echo seed > "$d/README.md"
git -C "$d" add README.md
git -C "$d" commit -qm base
git -C "$d" checkout -q -b pr
echo "$d"
}
add_changelog() { # <dir> <lines...> — the PR introduces the file
local d="$1"; shift
{ echo "# Changelog"; echo; printf '%s\n' "$@"; } > "$d/CHANGELOG.md"
git -C "$d" add CHANGELOG.md
git -C "$d" commit -qm head
}
# The changelog is absent at the merge base AND the PR introduces a duplicate.
G="$(grepo_nocl mono-143-newdup)"
add_changelog "$G" '## Unreleased' '' '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' '' '- **a**' '' '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' '' '- **stranded**'
check "monotonic: a duplicate introduced where the base had no changelog is CAUGHT (#143)" 1 "DUPLICATE release heading" mono "$G" main
check "monotonic: ...and STRICT does not change that (it was never a skip)" 1 "DUPLICATE release heading" mono_strict "$G" main
# ...and the clean counterpart still exits 0, now saying uniqueness did run.
G="$(grepo_nocl mono-143-newok)"
add_changelog "$G" '## Unreleased' '' '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' '' '- **a**'
check "monotonic: ...while a CLEAN introduced changelog still passes" 0 "nothing could have been deleted" mono "$G" main
check "monotonic: ...saying uniqueness was checked, not that nothing was" 0 "uniqueness on HEAD already passed" mono "$G" main
# No git at all: uniqueness still has everything it needs.
mkdir -p "$WORK/mono-143-nogit"
printf '%s\n' '# Changelog' '' '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' '' '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' > "$WORK/mono-143-nogit/CHANGELOG.md"
check "monotonic: a duplicate OUTSIDE a git work tree is caught (#143)" 1 "DUPLICATE release heading" \
mono "$WORK/mono-143-nogit" main
# Unresolvable base ref: same — the skip is containment's, not the script's.
G="$(grepo mono-143-nobase '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' '' '- **Shipped**')"
head_changelog "$G" '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' '' '- **a**' '' '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' '' '- **b**'
check "monotonic: a duplicate is caught even when the base ref will not resolve (#143)" 1 "DUPLICATE release heading" mono "$G" no-such-ref
# --- the push-to-main shape: containment vacuous, uniqueness real ----------
# With the pull_request gate gone (#143), merge_base == HEAD is a ROUTINE path,
# not a degradation. Containment compares the file against itself and asserts
# nothing, so a line reading "all N still present" would claim a check that did
# no work — the same dishonesty the skip messages were fixed for. The success
# line therefore has two forms, and this pins which one each event gets.
G="$(grepo mono-vacuous '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' '' '- **Shipped**')"
check "monotonic: HEAD as its own base reports containment VACUOUS, not verified" 0 "containment vacuous" mono "$G" HEAD
check "monotonic: ...and names uniqueness as the half that actually ran" 0 "uniqueness on HEAD checked" mono "$G" HEAD
# shellcheck disable=SC2016 # $1/$2 expand in the child shell, by design
check "monotonic: ...and does NOT claim headings were still present" 1 "" \
bash -c 'cd "$1" && bash "$2" HEAD | grep -q "are still present"' _ "$G" "$MONO"
# The PR shape keeps the containment wording — the two must not collapse.
head_changelog "$G" '## 0.8.0 — 2026-07-19' '' '- **Shipped**' '' '## 0.9.0 — 2026-07-20' '' '- **New**'
check "monotonic: a real base still reports containment, naming the count" 0 "still present" mono "$G" main
# --- and the real tree, through the real script ----------------------------
# HEAD as its own base: the merge base is HEAD, so the sets are identical by
# construction. Proves the script runs against the actual CHANGELOG.md and
# parses its real headings, without depending on an `origin/main` that a
# fresh clone or a detached CI checkout may not have.
check "monotonic: THIS tree passes against itself (the parser meets reality)" 0 "still present" \
# HEAD as its own base is now the VACUOUS-containment path (#143), so the
# assertion moved to uniqueness's count — which is the stronger proof of the
# original intent anyway: it says the parser read the REAL CHANGELOG.md and
# found real headings in it, rather than that a self-comparison came out equal.
check "monotonic: THIS tree passes against itself (the parser meets reality)" 0 "uniqueness on HEAD checked" \
mono "$ROOT" HEAD
# The guard is only a guard if CI runs it — and only if CI runs it with the
@ -424,6 +494,30 @@ check "ci.yml: ...with full history, or the merge base is unreachable" 0 "" \
grep -qF 'fetch-depth: 0' "$ROOT/.github/workflows/ci.yml"
check "ci.yml: ...and STRICT, so a skip is a red run and not a green one" 0 "" \
grep -qF 'CHANGELOG_MONOTONIC_STRICT' "$ROOT/.github/workflows/ci.yml"
# #143: the step must NOT be pull-request-only — duplication is vacuous on no
# tree — and dropping that gate is only safe with the base-ref fallback, since
# `github.base_ref` is empty on a push and a bare `origin/` under STRICT is a
# hard failure on every push to main.
# Scoped to the step's OWN block, deliberately. A file-wide negative would
# forbid any FUTURE step in ci.yml from being pull_request-gated and would fail
# citing #143 when one legitimately is — #143 constrains this step, not the file.
# Terminates on a new STEP or a new JOB. The job boundary is not optional: the
# monotonic step is the LAST step of `check`, so stopping only at the next
# `- name:` runs the block into the `rehearsal` job below and swallows its
# job-level `if:`. That reintroduces the very bug the scoping fixed — an
# unrelated edit failing while citing #143 — just moved from "any step in the
# file" to "this step plus the head of the next job".
mono_step_block() {
awk '/^ - name: no shipped changelog heading/ {f=1; print; next}
f && (/^ - / || /^ [^ ]/) {exit}
f {print}' "$ROOT/.github/workflows/ci.yml"
}
# Anchored: an `if:` appearing inside a `run:` line is not a step condition.
mono_step_gated() { mono_step_block | grep -q '^ if:'; }
check "ci.yml: the monotonic step itself is not pull_request-gated (#143)" 1 "" mono_step_gated
check "ci.yml: ...and the block was actually found (guards the awk above)" 0 "changelog-monotonic" mono_step_block
check "ci.yml: ...and falls back to ref_name, so a push has a base to resolve" 0 "" \
grep -qF 'github.base_ref || github.ref_name' "$ROOT/.github/workflows/ci.yml"
check "CONTRIBUTING: names the append-only rule for release headings" 0 "" \
grep -qF 'changelog-monotonic.sh' "$ROOT/CONTRIBUTING.md"