[gnanam1990]

Follow-up to #1224 / #897.

A repository-local filter or diff-driver definition currently prevents saving even untracked local memory notes: privacy inspection uses the general status/diff safety gate. This draft proposes a narrower cached-index query for that one inspection.

The merged #1224 intentionally retained the refusal. This changes that policy only for the fixed index query, so it stays draft for the gitsafe owners to review. The active zeromaxing integration continues to preserve main's current policy.

Changes:

• Add gitsafe.IndexEntriesCommand with fixed --literal-pathspecs ls-files --cached -z -- <path> arguments; callers cannot supply arbitrary Git options.
• Retain sanitized repository-location variables, disabled hooks/fsmonitor, optional-write suppression, and literal path handling; strip conflicting inherited pathspec modes.
• Use it only to inspect tracked paths for local-memory privacy. Git failures and tracked notes still refuse writes.
• Preserve the general Command / Check refusal for repository-defined filters and diff drivers. Update the existing memory policy test explicitly to describe this proposed exception.

Regression evidence:

• On unchanged main, TestLocalPrivacyIndexReadDoesNotExecuteConfiguredGitPrograms/untracked fails with "index-only privacy query refused a harmless filter definition".
• With this change, that test passes under the race detector. Tracked-note and corrupt-index controls still refuse writes without changing existing note content.
• Real Git fixtures configure filter clean/smudge/process, diff command/textconv, and fsmonitor tripwires; no marker is created. Literal bracket paths, option-shaped paths, hostile repository redirects and conflicting pathspec modes are covered.
• The fixed query uses the existing Git 1.9 literal-pathspec floor. No dependency or runtime changes.

Validation (native Windows, Go 1.26.11):

• make fmt-check, go vet ./..., go test ./... -p=2 -count=1 -timeout=10m
• go test -race -p=1 -count=1 -timeout=10m ./internal/memory ./internal/tools ./internal/gitsafe
• go run ./cmd/zero-release build and smoke
• make vulncheck, git diff HEAD --check
• Advisory make lint-static: seven existing findings in four files byte-identical to main; no new findings.
• The first full-suite attempt hit two daemon fixture socket-path limits (108 characters). The fixtures pass with a shorter TMP path; the complete suite was then rerun with that external setup correction. The original failure log is retained locally.

The note-sync, Git-fixture environment isolation, and fallback-read caveat repairs are already on main from #1224 and are not duplicated here. Other platforms rely on CI.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Local notes that are not tracked by Git can now be saved in repositories with configured filters or diff drivers, without running those configured programs.
  • Privacy checks for tracked notes continue to block writes when the Git index cannot be read safely.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a Git-safe command for querying one literal path in the cached index. Local privacy checks use this command to identify tracked notes. General Git commands remain blocked for repositories that define filter or diff-driver commands.

Changes

Local privacy-index handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Constrained cached-index query internal/gitsafe/index.go, internal/gitsafe/gitsafe.go, internal/gitsafe/index_test.go	IndexEntriesCommand runs a fixed git ls-files --cached query for one literal path. It removes inherited pathspec-mode variables and does not refuse repositories that define filter or diff-driver commands. Tests cover literal paths, configured programs, and corrupt indexes.
Local privacy-check integration internal/memory/memory.go, internal/memory/escape_test.go, internal/memory/privacy_index_review_test.go	Local privacy checks use IndexEntriesCommand. Git query errors reject tracked-note writes, while untracked-note writes can succeed. Tests verify the safety gate for general Git commands and confirm configured programs do not run.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant LocalWrite
  participant trackedStoreEntries
  participant IndexEntriesCommand
  participant Git
  LocalWrite->>trackedStoreEntries: Check whether the note path is tracked
  trackedStoreEntries->>IndexEntriesCommand: Build a cached-index query for the path
  IndexEntriesCommand->>Git: Run the literal-path index query
  Git-->>trackedStoreEntries: Return index entries or an error
  trackedStoreEntries-->>LocalWrite: Return the tracking result or query error

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Suggested reviewers: jatmn, vasanthdev2004

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to d72c3

The new cached-index query used for local-memory privacy checks can, in a crafted sparse promisor repository, trigger a lazy fetch that runs a program defined by the repository. The rest of the change works as intended. Block lazy fetches in this query before merging, or explicitly accept the exposure.

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- Line 34: Update IndexEntriesCommand so the sparse-index query cannot trigger
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• internal/gitsafe/gitsafe.go
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• internal/gitsafe/index_test.go
• internal/memory/escape_test.go
• internal/memory/memory.go
• internal/memory/privacy_index_review_test.go

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Major · Security & Privacy · Heavy lift

Block implicit fetches in the sparse-index query. Otherwise, the exception can run a repository-defined program.

IndexEntriesCommand runs ls-files --cached. For a sparse index, Git expands the index before it lists entries, and that expansion reads tree objects. If a tree object is missing in a promisor repository, Git runs a lazy fetch. The transport for that fetch runs remote.<name>.uploadpack when the repository sets it. A repository can set this key, so the privacy check can execute a program that the repository defines. The Check path refuses repositories that define filters or diff drivers. This exception does not refuse repositories that define uploadpack.

In a local fixture, the fixed query ran the configured uploadpack command. The command ran even though the fetch then failed.

Stop the query from fetching missing objects. Use a mechanism that is available at the current Git version floor. If no such mechanism exists, do not ship the exception. Do not raise the Git version floor silently.

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Review comment at @internal/gitsafe/index.go at line 34:
Update IndexEntriesCommand so the sparse-index query cannot trigger lazy fetches, using a mechanism supported by the current Git version floor. If no such mechanism is available, remove the exception rather than silently raising the version floor.

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