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Summary

  • fail closed when hardreset finds destination-only commits or cannot verify ancestry
  • use an expected destination SHA lease for the final ref mutation
  • add explicit forcehardreset for users who intentionally want destructive mirroring, while retaining the race barrier
  • cover behind, identical, ahead, diverged, API-failure, race, and explicit-force cases

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  • deno task check
  • deno task test (39 passed)
  • git diff --check

Fixes #654.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added forcehardreset as an explicit merge option for destructive branch resets.
    • Added safeguards to standard hard resets, preventing overwrites when the destination contains unique commits.
    • Added concurrency protection so resets abort if the destination changes during the operation.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration documentation to explain safe hard resets and the destructive opt-in behavior.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for safe resets, forced resets, validation failures, and concurrent updates.

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The pull processor now supports safe and forced hard resets. Safe resets reject destination-only commits and use GraphQL reference updates with an atomic beforeOid. The schema, tests, README, and Deno test permissions were updated accordingly.

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Hard reset support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Merge method contract and dispatch
src/utils/schema.ts, src/utils/schema.test.ts, src/processor/pull.ts
The schema accepts forcehardreset. processMerge passes the base reference, expected SHA, upstream SHA, repository ID, and force flag to hardResetCommit.
Safe reset validation and GraphQL update
src/processor/pull.ts, src/processor/pull.test.ts, deno.json
hardResetCommit rejects destination-only commits unless forced, skips identical SHAs, and updates the reference with GraphQL using beforeOid. Tests cover comparison, update, error, and forced paths. The test task adds hostname permission.
Configuration documentation
README.md
The README describes safe hard reset behavior and the forcehardreset opt-in.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Pull
  participant GitHubCompareCommits
  participant GitHubGraphQL
  Pull->>GitHubCompareCommits: Compare destination and upstream commits
  GitHubCompareCommits-->>Pull: Return comparison result
  Pull->>GitHubGraphQL: Update reference with beforeOid and afterOid
  GitHubGraphQL-->>Pull: Return update result or mismatch error
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c932b

Configured forced resets cannot run for conflicting or unresolved pull requests, defeating the explicit recovery path for destination divergence. Resolve the dispatch ordering before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 4 files. (2 skipped: 2 … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main change: preventing the default hard reset from discarding destination-only fork commits.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #654 concerns unexpected file removal during pull. The PR changes default hardreset to compare destination-only commits, reject ahead or diverged destinations, and fail closed on compare error…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within issue #654. README.md documents the safe default and explicit force behavior. Schema changes and schema tests support the new merge method. Pull tests verify the safety rules…
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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 4 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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In `@src/processor/pull.ts`:
- Line 192: Update the dispatch flow in processMerge so forcehardreset executes
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preserving the destination SHA lease through hardResetCommit. Add a
dispatch-level test using mergeable: false to verify forcehardreset still runs
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Comment thread src/processor/pull.ts

if (rule.mergeMethod === "hardreset") {
if (
rule.mergeMethod === "hardreset" || rule.mergeMethod === "forcehardreset"

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not gate forcehardreset on pull request mergeability.

checkAutoMerge returns when incomingPR.mergeable === false. processMerge also returns at Line 189 when mergeability cannot be established. A conflicting PR therefore cannot execute forcehardreset, although a hard reset does not perform a merge.

Dispatch forcehardreset before both mergeability gates. Keep the destination SHA lease in hardResetCommit.

Add a dispatch-level test with mergeable: false to prevent the helper-only test from hiding this failure.

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In `@src/processor/pull.ts` at line 192, Update the dispatch flow in processMerge
so forcehardreset executes before the mergeability gates in checkAutoMerge and
processMerge, while preserving the destination SHA lease through
hardResetCommit. Add a dispatch-level test using mergeable: false to verify
forcehardreset still runs when the pull request is conflicting.

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