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Phase 3 of #364, flow 1 of four: the new-site clone is the write with the narrowest blast radius, a repository that did not exist before, and the one that unlocks the spike's cheapest finding. #385 asks for the --filter=blob:none decision to be taken deliberately rather than by default; it is taken here. Stacked on #402 (reads).

What changes

  • src/git-clone.cjs: git clone --filter=blob:none --single-branch --branch trunk --progress, with the repository config the app relies on written at clone time (core.autocrlf=false, core.symlinks=false, core.longpaths=true on Windows). Progress comes from Git's stderr lines as { phase, loaded, total }, the one deliberate exception to the porcelain-only rule: Git has no machine format for progress, and an unparsed line is dropped, never shown.
  • wordpress:setup (src/main.js) calls it, hands the child to the before-quit sweep for the length of the clone, and removes the directory it created if the clone fails, so a half-written tree is never adopted as a site. The terminal line the renderer shows keeps its <phase> <loaded>/<total> shape.
  • isomorphic-git leaves main.js. Its remaining callers are the write flows behind trunk-update.js, ticket-branches.js and patch-apply.js, next in the stack.
  • The trunk update's fetch depth stops being a constant (src/trunk-update.js). A site the old engine made is shallow and a depth-1 re-fetch is what keeps it cheap; a site this PR makes has the full history and asking for depth 1 there would make it shallow, throwing away on the first update what the clone just paid for. .git/shallow is Git's own marker, so the repository answers the question.
  • Docs: the user guide no longer says Git is isomorphic-git; AGENTS.md and the review standard say where the clone lives.

Partial, not shallow. A site the app makes now carries the whole history of wordpress-develop without the blobs of old commits: 53,413 commits, .git at 101 MB, in 10.2 s on a home connection (measured below). That is a merge base for every pull request (#351) at the cost of a bigger .git, and no flow the app runs needs a blob that is not there. Rejected: --depth=1 (what the old engine did; no history, no merge base) and a full clone (gigabytes).

Deliberately not here: a cancel button for a running clone (no renderer control exists today; the quit sweep covers the app closing), the other three write flows, retiring ensureAutocrlf.

How to test this

Platforms: macOS and Windows (paths, long paths, read-only objects on delete).

Starting state: the Buildkite artifact for the current head installed; network on.

  1. Create WordPress Core site, pick a folder, name it with a space. Expected: the card shows phases (receiving objects 1234/56789, resolving deltas, updating files), then the setup checklist continues into npm install as before.
  2. In the new site's folder: git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository prints false, git log --oneline | wc -l is in the tens of thousands, git config --local --list lists core.autocrlf=false, remote.origin.promisor=true, remote.origin.partialclonefilter=blob:none.
  3. Link a ticket, edit a file, open the patch. Expected: the patch shows the edit, nothing else.
  4. Delete the site from the app, with its dev server and build watch stopped. Expected: the folder is gone (Windows: this is the read-only-objects path Deleting a site on Windows silently leaves behind anything a real Git wrote #381 fixed, now exercised by a real clone). With either process still running the deletion fails with EBUSY on Windows and the folder stays: preexisting, the handler never stopped the site's children, tracked as Deleting a site while its dev server or build watch runs fails with EBUSY on Windows, and nothing says so #414.
  5. Turn the network off and create another site. Expected: the row disappears and the folder the app created is not left behind. The failure itself is only rendered inside the create dialog, which is already closed by then, so the row vanishing silently is what you will see: preexisting (createSiteError in index.jsx), noted as a follow-up.
  6. Quit the app in the middle of a clone. Expected: no git or git-remote-https process survives (Activity Monitor / Task Manager).

What must not have happened: a site folder left on disk after a failed clone; a git from PATH involved (unset it and repeat step 1); the setup checklist stalling after the clone.

Cannot be tested by hand yet: "Update to latest trunk" on a site this PR created runs the old engine's fetch and checkout against a partial clone. The depth is right now, pinned by a test against the loopback remote, but whether isomorphic-git's fetch and forced checkout handle a promisor repository over the real remote is unverified; that flow moves in the next PR of the stack, and the two merge together.

Risks and limitations

  • An editor with blame on a partial clone fetches history lazily. VS Code with GitLens, or git blame by hand, makes the host Git fetch every missing blob of the file's history (fetch --filter=blob:none --stdin), one round trip per commit; offline, blame fails. The app never runs blame; this is the cost of --filter=blob:none for a contributor who opens the site in an editor that does.

  • Trunk update on a partial clone (see above) is the reason this PR is not mergeable alone; it is stacked so the topmost build carries both.

  • .git is 101 MB for a fresh site against 54 MB for a four-day-old shallow clone the old engine made on the same machine; the working tree is the same 225 MB either way.

  • LC_ALL=C is now pinned in git-binary.cjs alongside the rest of the environment: the progress phases and the fatal: line are gettext-translated, Git for Windows ships the translations, and a non-Latin locale would have meant a several-minute clone with no progress at all. Not reproducible on macOS, whose dugite payload carries no share/locale, so this is a reasoned fix rather than an observed one.

  • Sites the old engine made are out of support in this series. Decided on 2026-09-07: no backwards compatibility for sites isomorphic-git created; a later PR of the stack detects them and asks the contributor to create a new site (patch export stays available to rescue parked work). fetchDepth above exists only so the old engine's update does not damage a new clone before that PR lands, and goes when the fetch moves to the binary.

  • Review: see the Review outcome section.

Related

Part of #364 and #385. Stacked on #402 (merge that first). Next: ticket branches, trunk update, patch flows, then #386.


Design decisions and alternatives considered
  • Config at clone time through --config rather than a -c per later call: the repository carries its own truth, and crlfArgs in git-read.cjs sees an explicit local value and stays out of the way. Sites the old engine made keep the synthesised view.
  • cwd is the parent of the target: a clone is the one command whose target is an argument, and the directory may not exist yet.
  • Progress from stderr, parsed by a line-buffered reader so a percentage split across chunks is reported once. Server-side phases carry a remote: prefix; both shapes are handled.
  • removeTree on failure, not fse.remove: Git may already have written read-only objects into the tree by the time the transport fails.
  • No new cancel IPC: nothing in the renderer offers one for a clone today. The child is registered so quitting ends it; a cancel control is a product change for its own PR.
Review outcome (required — see AGENTS.md)

/self-review against the parent branch, judgement pass run with fresh context. npm run lint clean, unit suite green on both Node runtimes before and after. 3 [fix here] · 2 [follow-up], all four fixes in the second commit, each with a test that fails on the first commit.

Fixed

  • Architecture 🟡: the first "Update to latest trunk" re-shallowed the new clone. updateToLatestTrunk asked for depth: 1 unconditionally, and isomorphic-git applies the server's shallow <newTip> line before the packfile is written, fails to read the tip it was just told about and records the boundary anyway. The benefit this PR exists for did not survive one update. The depth follows .git/shallow now. The fetch fixture was hiding it twice over: it served a truncated pack whatever the client asked for, and its origin had no history behind the tip, so a "shallow" clone of it was never shallow.
  • Architecture 🟡: progress now arrives on a stderr listener rather than in the awaited chain the old engine used, so a window closed mid-clone (on macOS the app and the clone both live on) made the next send throw Object has been destroyed into the stream: an uncaught exception in the main process, not a rejected invoke. Every send in the handler goes through one guarded notify.
  • Tests 🟡: the failed-clone test asserted the store and the tracker but never that the half-written directory was gone, so deleting the removal kept the suite green. The stub writes into the directory before failing now.
  • Cross-platform 🔵: LC_ALL=C, as above.

Follow-up, not here

  • Architecture 🔵: before-quit kills the clone but does not wait for the removeTree that follows, so quitting mid-clone can still leave an unregistered half-clone on disk. Same residual every swept child has; a quit that waits is its own change.
  • The stub of ./trunk-update in ipc-wiring.test.cjs exposes only what the setup path reaches, so ensureAutocrlf reads as undefined inside loadMain there. Nothing reaches it today; the next test that does gets a confusing TypeError rather than a stub.

Checked and cleared: stderr is not accumulated without bound (Git redisplays progress on change plus a one-second timer), cwd is explicit, both error and close are handled behind one latch, detached/windowsHide come from SPAWN_OPTIONS, and the integration test drives the real bundled binary over file:// rather than mocking the clone.

Measured

wordpress-develop cloned through cloneSite on macOS arm64, home connection, 2026-09-07:

wall time 10.2 s
.git 101 MB
working tree 225 MB
commits 53,413, --is-shallow-repository false
phases seen counting objects, compressing objects, receiving objects 266,209, resolving deltas 197,755, updating files 6,113
git status --porcelain=v2 -z -uall right after clean, 295 ms
config core.autocrlf=false, core.symlinks=false, remote.origin.promisor=true, remote.origin.partialclonefilter=blob:none

The #364 spike measured 9.0 s for the old engine's shallow clone on the same machine class, so the history costs nothing visible in time.

Screenshots: the setup card shows Git's phase names in the progress line where it showed isomorphic-git's; same card, same place.

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The application now clones sites with the bundled Git binary using blob filtering and progress reporting. Clone processes are tracked, stopped during shutdown, and cleaned up after failures. Git output uses a stable locale. Repository updates request shallow fetches only for shallow repositories. Architecture and setup documentation now describe the split between bundled Git cloning and remaining isomorphic-git write flows.

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14-14: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Performance — 🔵 low — [fix here]: Describe the partial clone.

cloneSite uses --filter=blob:none without --depth, and the setup chain runs npm install and npm run build after cloning. The clone keeps full history while older blob contents remain deferred. Replace “downloads the full wordpress-develop repository” with wording that describes a full-history partial clone and on-demand blob downloads.

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Architecture — 🔵 low — [fix here]: Describe the bundled Git runtime accurately.

main.js calls cloneSite, which reaches child_process.spawn() with the Git binary resolved by dugite. Git therefore runs as a bundled native process, not only as JavaScript/WASM. Update this file, AGENTS.md, and docs/guide/getting-started.md to distinguish the bundled Git binary from the JavaScript/WASM runtimes. Preserve the statement that users need no host Git installation.

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In `@src/git-clone.cjs`:
- Line 105: Update cloneSite’s stderr handling around pending so retained
diagnostics are bounded: continue streaming progress, but keep only a fixed-size
tail of pending/output and separately preserve the extracted fatal: or error:
reason for GitError. Ensure the close/error path uses the bounded diagnostic
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Performance · 🟡 medium · [fix here] — Bound clone diagnostics. cloneSite retains every stderr chunk until close, while pending can retain an unterminated fragment. Git sideband-64k limits packet size, not total diagnostics, so retained memory can grow throughout a clone and may degrade availability. Continue streaming progress, but retain only a bounded diagnostic tail and the extracted fatal: or error: reason for GitError.

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* @return {{depth?: number}} Spread into the fetch options.
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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const { url, uploadPackRequests } = await serveRepo(t, path.join(origin, '.git'));
const dir = path.join(root, 'site');
await git.clone({ fs, http: gitHttp, dir, url, ref: 'trunk', singleBranch: true, depth: 1, noTags: true });
await git.clone({ fs, http: gitHttp, dir, url, ref: 'trunk', singleBranch: true, ...(shallow ? { depth: 1 } : {}), noTags: true });

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Tests 🟡 medium [fix here] — Exercise the bundled-Git partial-clone state.

The fixture creates a complete isomorphic-git clone, not the --filter=blob:none repository created by cloneSite. The existing clone test does not run updateToLatestTrunk. Add an integration case that updates a repository created by cloneSite and verifies that the update preserves its history and does not create .git/shallow.

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integration test in the existing clone/update test suite that creates the
repository through cloneSite, invokes updateToLatestTrunk, and verifies history
is preserved and .git/shallow is absent. Do not use the direct git.clone fixture
for this case; exercise the bundled-Git partial-clone state produced by
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Windows walkthrough, 2026-09-09, Windows 11 VM with no Git installed, Buildkite artifact of #411 (a52e684, same tree as the current stack heads after the chain rebase).

Clone: config --local --list shows remote.origin.promisor=true, remote.origin.partialclonefilter=blob:none, core.autocrlf=false, core.longpaths=true; no .git\shallow; .git is 100 MB; status --porcelain empty. Minor: core.symlinks=false appears twice in the config (once from git init on Windows, once written by the app); harmless.

Delete: a fresh site with nothing running is removed whole, Test-Path false, so the read-only-objects path #381 fixed works on Windows. A site whose dev server and build watch were still running was not: EBUSY on the root, folder left intact, no notice shown. Preexisting (the handler never stopped the site's children), tracked as #414; step 4 of the body now says so, and step 5's wording about the card reporting a failed clone is corrected (the error only renders inside the closed dialog).

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Flow 1 of phase 3 of #364 (#385): the first write the binary makes, and
the one whose blast radius is a repository that did not exist before.

src/git-clone.cjs runs `git clone --filter=blob:none --single-branch
--branch trunk --progress`, writes the repository config the app relies
on at clone time (core.autocrlf=false, core.symlinks=false, and
core.longpaths=true on Windows) and turns Git's progress lines into
`{ phase, loaded, total }` events, the same `<phase> <loaded>/<total>`
line the terminal panel already shows. Partial, not shallow: the whole
history comes down without the blobs, which is a merge base for every
pull request (#351) at about 57 MB, and nothing the app does afterwards
needs a blob that is not there.

wordpress:setup hands the child to the quit sweep for the length of the
clone and removes the directory it created if the clone fails, so a
half-written tree is never adopted as a site. isomorphic-git leaves
main.js; its remaining callers are the write flows behind the facades.

The wiring tests stub cloneSite where they stubbed isomorphic-git's
clone; a new integration test clones from a local repository over
file:// (a transport the old engine never had) and checks the config,
the promisor remote, the missing older blob and the progress shape. The
user guide stops saying Git is isomorphic-git.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J4uRM5JosAcMbKXowaXyVu
Findings from the judgement pass, all verified against the code.

The trunk update re-shallowed the new clone. `updateToLatestTrunk` asked
for `depth: 1` unconditionally, and isomorphic-git applies the server's
`shallow <newTip>` line before the packfile is written, fails to read the
tip it was just told about and records the boundary anyway: the first
update a contributor ran threw away the history the partial clone had
just paid for, and with it the merge base every pull request needs
(#351). The depth now follows the repository, which answers the question
itself through `.git/shallow`: sites the old engine made stay shallow
and cost nothing more, sites the binary made keep their history. The
fetch fixture had been serving a truncated pack whatever the client
asked for, and its origin had no history behind the tip, so neither half
of the difference was visible; both are fixed, and the new test fails on
the old code.

Progress no longer reaches a destroyed window. The clone reports from a
stderr listener rather than from the awaited chain the old engine used,
and on macOS a closed window leaves the app and the clone running, so a
send into the dead webContents was an uncaught exception in the main
process rather than a rejected invoke. Every send in the handler goes
through one guarded `notify`; the clone still finishes and still
registers the site with nobody listening.

The failed-clone test asserted the store and the tracker but never that
the half-written directory was gone, so deleting the removal kept the
suite green. It writes into the directory before failing now, and the
removal is what the test pins.

`LC_ALL=C` is pinned with the rest of the environment. Git's progress
phases and its `fatal:` line are the one non-porcelain output the app
parses, Git for Windows ships the gettext translations, and a non-Latin
locale meant a contributor watched a several-minute clone with no
progress at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013bqghuMjo6GQFEdRrZtNJS
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