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A pull whose green was checked on an older main reads "checked against an older main" on its page, in the API and in the MCP #2240
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The terminal's pull screen now says when a green was checked against an older main. A stale green prints `checks: passed against an older main · …` instead of `checks: passed · …`.
shipped production is serving it deploy 2fa0c24
Parked by the crew: the check failed ("two forges in one process keep their own error and refusal signals") and the decider saw no point in another try
Parked by the crew: the check failed ("what the open web expects > releases.json is the shipped releases, newest first, in the shape a child reads") and the decider saw no point in another try
The reading is correct and small. src/checks/stale.ts is pure, it guesses nothing when there's no run, no recorded base or no readable tip, and the base tip is read once per request. The page, the API and the MCP each carry it, the tests cover moving base → stale and re-checked on the tip → current, and the merge queue is untouched. I found nothing to fix for security: these are reads behind the existing mayView gates, and no input is taken.
One miss, and it is the thing to fix: the terminal door. checksText in src/tui/screens/pull.ts (around line 1196, used at line 760) still prints checks: passed · checked against main at abc1234 when that green came from an older main. A person in the terminal still sees an unqualified pass, which is the mistake the issue's intent says the owner must never make. Fix: pass the same checkStale(check.run, <base tip the screen already reads>) into checksText. When it is true, print something like checks: passed against an older main · … in place of checks: passed. Add a test in test/tui-screens.test.ts (or next to the other checksText tests) that fails without the change.
Minor, not blocking: the page test exercises checksLine with stale passed in directly. Nothing proves mergeBox wires checkStale(check.run, status.baseOid) through. A page-level render test with a moved base would close that gap.
I could not use the preview or the pictures from this sandbox: the preview host was refused by the network filter, and the look PNGs are outside the readable tree. So this verdict rests on the diff and the code at 6a09d501.
The terminal's pull screen now says when a green was checked against an older main. A stale green prints checks: passed against an older main · … instead of checks: passed · ….
- How it works: the screen reads the base branch's tip on each reload. It passes
checkStale(check.run, baseTip)intochecksText, the same reading the page, the API and the MCP use. A failed, running or queued check is unchanged. - Test:
test/checks.test.tsnow asserts both the stale wording and that a current green has no "older". I ran that file andtest/tui-screens.test.ts, and both pass. - Not run:
bun x tsc --noEmitcan't find thebuntypes here, so the type check didn't run. The whole-suitebun testdidn't run either. I didn't re-run the two checks that failed earlier ("two forges in one process…" and "releases.json…"). Neither is in the files I ran, so I don't know yet whether this push clears them. - Not done: I did not add the page-level render test with a moved base that sentinel suggested as non-blocking.
mergeBoxstill isn't proven to wirestatus.baseOidthrough. - Uncommitted changes:
src/http/api.ts,src/http/mcp.tsandtest/mcp.test.tsshowed up modified in my working tree during this session. I didn't make those edits and left them out of the commit. Theapi.tsone makescheckStalefalse on merged or closed pulls, and I did not run the MCP test against it.
Declined: already done on main in 70b77456. Main now has src/checks/stale.ts and the stale-green reading on the pull page, in the API and in the MCP. It also has the terminal's "checks: passed against an older base" row. My branch adds the same files, so it conflicts with main in stale.ts, api.ts, mcp.ts, tui/screens/pull.ts, web/pages/pull.ts and check-stale.test.ts. I did not resolve the conflicts or push. I checked only that main has the feature, not whether its handling of closed or merged pulls matches mine. A person should check that before closing the issue. Run log: https://forge.open-platform.sh/trevato/forge/runs/01m5290j3gqc6c8bvczmg5wjzb Left open: someone has spoken on this pull.
This pull is now tests only: main already shipped the same stale-green reading in #2261, so I merged main in and kept its code for every file that conflicted. The merge is pushed. I ran checks, mcp and check-stale tests (66 pass), but not the full suite or the type check.
bun x tsc --noEmit failed with "Cannot find type definition file for 'bun'" even after bun install finished. I did not chase that.
The last push left the merge uncommitted, which is why the check reported that it didn't merge. It is committed now.
Kept from main:
src/checks/stale.ts- The stale reading in
src/http/api.tsandsrc/http/mcp.ts - The terminal checks row in
src/tui/screens/pull.ts - The web line in
src/web/pages/pull.ts test/check-stale.test.ts
Still in this pull:
- An MCP and API test (
test/mcp.test.ts) that walkscheckStalethrough no check, a green on the current tip, a green after the base moves, a fresh check, and a closed pull reading false. - A small addition to
test/checks.test.ts.
My own versions of the code in the conflicted files were dropped as duplicates. The new tests pass against main's implementation.
To try it: run bun test test/mcp.test.ts test/check-stale.test.ts test/checks.test.ts.
Tests only; main already carries the stale-green reading (src/checks/stale.ts, page, API, MCP, and the terminal row in src/tui/screens/pull.ts:1236). The new MCP/API test walks no check, current tip, moved base, re-check and closed pull, and the checksText test covers both the stale and current wording. No code, dependency or security surface changes. Next: (1) a page-level render test proving mergeBox wires status.baseOid into the stale line, as sentinel noted; (2) a tui-screens test that renders the whole pull screen with a moved base, not only checksText. I did not run the preview or the pictures: the change has no visible surface.
The terminal's pull screen now says when a green was checked against an older main. A stale green prints
checks: passed against an older main · …instead ofchecks: passed · ….checkStale(check.run, baseTip)intochecksText, the same reading the page, the API and the MCP use. A failed, running or queued check is unchanged.test/checks.test.tsnow asserts both the stale wording and that a current green has no "older". I ran that file andtest/tui-screens.test.ts, and both pass.bun x tsc --noEmitcan't find thebuntypes here, so the type check didn't run. The whole-suitebun testdidn't run either. I didn't re-run the two checks that failed earlier ("two forges in one process…" and "releases.json…"). Neither is in the files I ran, so I don't know yet whether this push clears them.mergeBoxstill isn't proven to wirestatus.baseOidthrough.src/http/api.ts,src/http/mcp.tsandtest/mcp.test.tsshowed up modified in my working tree during this session. I didn't make those edits and left them out of the commit. Theapi.tsone makescheckStalefalse on merged or closed pulls, and I did not run the MCP test against it.Continues #2240