pi-mono/packages/coding-agent
Petr Houška e3da248ea9
fix(coding-agent): keep updating git packages when git clean fails (#11648)
Closes #11597

## Problem

On Windows, `pi update` stopped with `git clean -fdx failed with code 1`
for git extensions such as pi-lens.

1. Another pi session has the extension loaded, so a native module
(`@ast-grep/napi` `.node`) or `ast-grep.exe` is open in that process.
2. npm renames the in-use package dir to
`node_modules/@ast-grep/.napi-win32-x64-msvc-<hash>`. Windows allows the
rename, but npm cannot delete the dir afterwards.
3. The next `pi update` runs `git reset --hard`, then `git clean -fdx`.
git prints `warning: failed to remove ...: Invalid argument` and exits
1.
4. pi threw, leaving the checkout at the new commit with the old
dependencies.

The suggested `-ffdx` does not help. Reproduced locally (git 2.52,
Windows): with a running `.exe`, or a `.node` loaded by another node
process and its dir renamed, both `-fdx` and `-ffdx` fail with `Invalid
argument`. Once the process exits, `-fdx` succeeds.

## Fix

In `cleanAndInstallGitDependencies`, a failed `git clean` no longer
aborts the update. pi:

- prints a warning that files may be in use by another pi session
- still runs `npm install`, so dependencies match the new commit
- keeps the `.pi-update-incomplete` marker, so the next update retries
the clean

## Tests

- `test/git-update.test.ts`: new regression test. A failing clean still
updates and installs dependencies, warns, and keeps the marker. The next
update cleans and removes the marker.
- `test/package-manager.test.ts`: updated the test that expected the
throw.

`npm run check` reports `install-lock is out of date`, and
`package-manager.test.ts > should expand ~ in exclusion and exact
patterns` fails on Windows. Both also happen on `main` without this
change.
2026-10-31 18:19:44 +01:00
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docs docs(coding-agent): list external limitations as known issues with remedies (#11647) 2026-10-31 17:55:58 +01:00
examples fix: remove vulnerable dependency chains 2026-10-31 17:54:29 +01:00
install-lock fix: remove vulnerable dependency chains 2026-10-31 17:54:29 +01:00
schemas feat(coding-agent): add PI_SELF_UPDATE_COMMAND and selfUpdateCommand for pi update (#11629) 2026-10-30 22:30:39 +01:00
scripts docs(ai,coding-agent): generate models.json reference from schemas (#11038) 2026-10-16 21:53:00 +01:00
src fix(coding-agent): keep updating git packages when git clean fails (#11648) 2026-10-31 18:19:44 +01:00
test fix(coding-agent): keep updating git packages when git clean fails (#11648) 2026-10-31 18:19:44 +01:00
.gitignore Fix tool call ID normalization for cross-provider switches to Anthropic/GitHub Copilot 2026-01-13 04:07:10 +01:00
CHANGELOG.md fix(coding-agent): keep updating git packages when git clean fails (#11648) 2026-10-31 18:19:44 +01:00
package.json fix: remove vulnerable dependency chains 2026-10-31 17:54:29 +01:00
README.md feat(coding-agent): add Nix flake (#9137) 2026-10-02 18:30:51 +02:00
tsconfig.build.json feat(coding-agent): remove the experimental server stack and the client, protocol, and server packages 2026-10-12 10:41:59 +00:00
tsconfig.examples.json chore: migrate pi packages to earendil works scope 2026-05-07 15:59:42 +02:00
vitest.config.ts fix: use bounded runtime paths for Unix sockets 2026-08-14 17:02:03 +03:00

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