ci: merge .xcstrings per key instead of per line - #13692
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Two branches that each add a different string key to Resources/Localizable.xcstrings collide positionally, because both insertions land in the same region of one 541k-line JSON object. On PR #13232 that produced 42 conflict hunks, every one of them a pair of disjoint keys — hunk 1 is ours adding `settings.customSidebars.templateUnavailable` against theirs adding `actions.discovery.typeDetail`. Localizable.xcstrings was the fourth most frequent conflicting path across the open pull requests. Add a git merge driver that merges the catalog per key. It is conservative: when both sides change the same key to different values it exits non-zero and lets git write normal conflict markers, so a real disagreement is never resolved silently. Delete-versus-modify conflicts the same way. Formatting is safe to reproduce because the catalog round-trips byte-identically through `json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)` plus a trailing newline. The driver asserts that on all three inputs and falls back to the default driver if any of them is not canonically serialized, so it can never rewrite a file Xcode formatted differently. `.gitattributes` names the driver; `scripts/install-git-hooks.sh` defines it, since git silently ignores a driver a clone has not configured. Verified against the real #13232 conflict: base 6,716 keys, ours 6,735, theirs 6,719, merged 6,738 — every addition from both sides preserved, none invented, none lost. A real `git merge` with the driver enabled completes with zero conflicts where it previously produced 42, and `scripts/lint-xcstrings.py` passes on the result. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds a key-wise three-way merge driver for ChangesXcode string catalog merging
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Git
participant MergeDriver as merge-xcstrings.py
participant CatalogFiles as .xcstrings files
Git->>MergeDriver: Pass base, ours, and theirs paths
MergeDriver->>CatalogFiles: Read and parse catalogs
MergeDriver->>MergeDriver: Merge keys and detect conflicts
MergeDriver->>CatalogFiles: Write the merged ours catalog
MergeDriver-->>Git: Return success or fallback status
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Conflicting catalogs can be left without normal conflict markers, making manual resolution misleading. Materialize the text merge result before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 24 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
✅ Passed checks (24 passed)
Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 11.76% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)
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`install-git-hooks.sh` runs under `set -e`, and `tests/test_preflight_trust.py` runs it inside a temp repo populated with only `scripts/git-hooks`, `scripts/install-git-hooks.sh` and `scripts/verify-push.py`. `chmod +x scripts/merge-xcstrings.py` therefore hit a missing file and aborted the script, erroring all five tests in that suite during setUp. The chmod was redundant regardless: the driver is invoked as `python3 scripts/merge-xcstrings.py`, so its executable bit is never consulted, and the blob is already committed 100755. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@scripts/merge-xcstrings.py`:
- Line 99: Materialize the text-driver fallback for every failure branch in the
merge flow instead of returning nonzero with ours_path unchanged. Add a fallback
helper near the main merge logic that invokes git merge-file with base_path,
ours_path, and theirs_path, then return its status from the parse-error,
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
🔎 Supported by static analysis
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sed -n '1,180p' scripts/merge-xcstrings.py
sed -n '1,180p' tests/test_merge_xcstrings.py
sed -n '1,80p' scripts/install-git-hooks.shRepository: manaflow-ai/cmux
Length of output: 9759
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printf '%s\n' '--- merge-driver bindings ---'
rg -n -C 3 'merge-xcstrings|merge\.xcstrings|xcstrings' --glob '.gitattributes' --glob '*.gitattributes' --glob 'scripts/install-git-hooks.sh' --glob 'README*' --glob 'docs/**' .
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant driver/test locations ---'
nl -ba scripts/merge-xcstrings.py | sed -n '85,120p'
nl -ba tests/test_merge_xcstrings.py | sed -n '45,90p'Repository: manaflow-ai/cmux
Length of output: 34560
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official Git gitattributes custom merge driver nonzero exit status %A result file conflict markers
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Citations:
- 1: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes
- 2: https://public-inbox.org/git/7vzm55fqyv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net/T/
- 3: https://man.archlinux.org/man/gitattributes.5.en
- 4: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35478792/git-merge-driver-is-beeing-executed-without-a-conflict-on-some-files
Materialize the text-driver fallback in %A.
.gitattributes routes *.xcstrings to the custom merge.xcstrings driver. A custom driver must write its result to %A. A nonzero exit reports that the result contains conflicts; it does not cause Git to invoke the built-in text driver.
The parse-error, non-canonical-input, and key-conflict branches return nonzero without writing ours_path. A fallback can therefore leave %A unchanged instead of producing the text driver's merge result or conflict markers. Delegate each fallback to git merge-file or an equivalent operation that writes to ours_path, then return its status. Update the fallback tests so they assert the materialized result rather than unchanged ours.
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import json
+import subprocess
import sys
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+def fallback_merge(base_path: Path, ours_path: Path, theirs_path: Path) -> int:
+ return subprocess.run(
+ ["git", "merge-file", str(ours_path), str(base_path), str(theirs_path)],
+ check=False,
+ ).returncode
+
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- return 1
+ return fallback_merge(base_path, ours_path, theirs_path)
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- return 1
+ return fallback_merge(base_path, ours_path, theirs_path)
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- return 1
+ return fallback_merge(base_path, ours_path, theirs_path)The divergent-key test should also assert conflict markers in merged instead of parsing %A as unchanged JSON.
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In `@scripts/merge-xcstrings.py` at line 99, Materialize the text-driver fallback
for every failure branch in the merge flow instead of returning nonzero with
ours_path unchanged. Add a fallback helper near the main merge logic that
invokes git merge-file with base_path, ours_path, and theirs_path, then return
its status from the parse-error, non-canonical-input, and key-conflict branches.
Update fallback tests to validate the materialized merged output, including
conflict markers for divergent keys.
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Problem
Two branches that each add a different string key to
Resources/Localizable.xcstringsconflict, because both insertions land in the same region of one 541,467-line JSON object. The keys are disjoint; only their position collides.On #13232 this produced 42 conflict hunks, none of them semantic. Hunk 1 is ours adding
settings.customSidebars.templateUnavailableagainst theirs addingactions.discovery.typeDetail.Across the open pull requests I sampled,
Resources/Localizable.xcstringswas the fourth most frequent conflicting path (4 of 35 conflicting PRs), behind.github/workflows/ci.yml,tests/test_ci_change_areas.py, andcmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj— and unlike those it is mechanically resolvable.Resulting behavior
scripts/merge-xcstrings.pymerges the catalog per key rather than per line, so disjoint additions merge cleanly.It is deliberately conservative. When both sides change the same key to different values, or one side deletes what the other modified, it exits non-zero and lets git write normal conflict markers — a real disagreement is never resolved silently.
Formatting cannot drift: the catalog round-trips byte-identically through
json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)plus a trailing newline, and the driver asserts that on all three inputs before writing. If any input is not canonically serialized it falls back rather than reformatting a file Xcode wrote differently..gitattributesnames the driver.scripts/install-git-hooks.sh(already run bysetup.sh) defines it, because git silently ignores a merge driver the clone has not configured — naming it in.gitattributesalone does nothing.Validation
Against the real #13232 conflict:
6,716 + 19 + 3 = 6,738 exactly. Every addition from both sides preserved, none invented, none lost.
End to end: a real
git merge pr13232with the driver enabled completes with exit 0 and zero unmerged paths, where the same merge previously produced 42 conflict hunks. The result is valid JSON, round-trips canonically, andscripts/lint-xcstrings.pypasses.Unit:
tests/test_merge_xcstrings.py, 7 tests, wired intoci-guards.ymlunderpreflight. Two of them assert the driver refuses to resolve — diverging edits to one key, and delete-versus-modify. Two more assert it falls back on non-canonical and unparseable input.test_ci_guard_workflow_structure.py,test_ci_linux_guard_routing.py, andtest_ci_quality_guard_structure.pypass.Remaining gap
scripts/install-git-hooks.shre-run (orsetup.sh) before the driver takes effect. Until then git quietly uses the default driver, so the change is inert rather than wrong.ci.yml's conflicts are migration overhang (see my measurement on [RFC] CI structure: thin router, reusable platform workflows, merge queue, failure ratchet #13095) and are not mechanically resolvable.Incidentally this exercises #13642, which merged today: adding a new step to
ci-guards.ymlauto-derived ownership for both new files (tests/test_merge_xcstrings.py→preflight, quality-determinism;scripts/merge-xcstrings.py→preflight) with no manifest edit — the breakage class that broke main on 09-22.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Adds a git merge driver that merges Xcode string catalogs per key, so two branches adding disjoint string keys to
Resources/Localizable.xcstringsno longer produce line-level conflict hunks.The driver is deliberately conservative: when both sides change the same key to different values, or one deletes what the other modified, it exits non-zero and lets git write normal conflict markers. It only writes a result when all three inputs re-serialize byte-identically, so catalog formatting never drifts. Against the real #13232 conflict it merges with zero conflicts where git previously produced 42, preserving every string addition from both sides. Seven unit tests are wired into CI's preflight guard alongside the existing structure checks.
Migration
scripts/install-git-hooks.sh(orsetup.sh) for the driver to take effect;.gitattributesalone silently falls back to the default driver.tests/test_preflight_trust.pyunderset -ebecause the script file is absent in the temp repo, and it was redundant since the driver is invoked aspython3and the blob is already committed 100755.Written for commit 8017891. Summary will update on new commits.
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