Two invariants had been established by hand and left ungated, which is the
"a remedy that only works if someone remembers" pattern:
- scripts/check_ignore_consistency.sh fails the commit if any TRACKED file
is also gitignored. .binary-allowlist used to *instruct* the reader to
re-run that check; now it is enforced. Verified both ways -- passes on the
tree, and fails when an ignored file is force-added.
DOCS-runnability.md now really has two columns. Each environment writes only
its own gates/runnability-<env>.tsv and the doc renders from both, so a CI run
cannot clobber the local results. The ci tsv is gitignored: committing a copy
generated here would label this machine's capabilities as the runner's.
Rendering it surfaced a classic bug -- awk's NR==FNR idiom silently swallows
the SECOND file when the first is empty, so the table came out with a header
and no rows. It compares FILENAME instead.
runnability.yml deliberately does NOT diff against a committed baseline. A
status is a property of the machine, so `runnable` locally and `blocked` on a
runner is correct rather than drift, and diffing would make the workflow red
by construction. It fails on `error` instead -- a runner that crashes or
reports an unknown kind.
Then five more courses were actually run, because EADS alone had produced four
real bugs and one sample proves nothing:
- ECOAR and EPFU build (nasm + 32-bit gcc, and gcc respectively).
- ECOTE's 17 test modules could not run AT ALL. Its package is named `code/`,
which shadows the standard library: pytest's debugging plugin imports pdb,
pdb imports code, and it got this directory instead, so the suite died
with an INTERNALERROR before collecting a single test. Renamed to
translator/ with all 17 imports updated -- 26 tests now pass.
- A LaTeX report builds. That one exposed a hazard rather than a bug:
latexmk wrote its PDF beside the source, and in a course where the built
name matches the submitted one it would have silently overwritten a
tracked deliverable. Both the LaTeX and C++ runners now build into a
gitignored build/, and rebuilding ECOGR leaves `git status` empty.
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All 44 directories now probe: 38 runnable, 5 no-code, 1 blocked (ENUME needs
MATLAB or Octave, neither of which is on this machine).
The runners are stubs over one shared scripts/course_lib.sh rather than 44
copies of the logic, for the same reason the gates live in ~/utils. A stub
passes its kind as ARGUMENTS -- course_main --kind python --entry ... -- "$@"
-- rather than setting globals, because globals a linter cannot see being read
mean SC2034 on every one of them, and the only cure would be 44 disables.
Fixed along the way:
- Generating the stubs overwrote Programming/PSD/run.sh, the original
coursework runner. Restored, and given a --probe early exit instead so it
is otherwise untouched: it installs packages with sudo and starts Kafka,
which is exactly what a probe must not trigger.
- The probe guard only recognised runners containing the literal --probe, so
the new stubs (which delegate to the library) all read unprobed. It now
also accepts delegation to course_lib.sh.
- Blocked probes reported "unknown" because _require_any prints the tool it
found, so probes redirected its stdout -- swallowing the failure reason
too. Split into _probe_any, and ENUME now says exactly what it needs.
- shellcheck runs with -x so it follows the sourced library; without it every
stub reports SC1091 and the only alternative is a per-file disable. The
library itself carries `# shellcheck shell=bash` because it has no shebang
on purpose -- it is sourced, never executed.
Then EADS was actually run, and three of its six C++ files did not compile:
- lab3.cpp: copyDictionary was declared taking Dictionary* but its body used
Node members, and the copy constructor called copyTree(), which does not
exist. The copy also dropped key and balanceFactor. Now compiles AND runs,
printing its AVL tests.
- MidTerm/task2.cpp: a const mismatch between declaration and definition, a
stray semicolon before a function body, findNode calling a Tree method on
a treeNode*, and a while loop that never advanced. sumNodeSub also had no
base case -- unreachable before, because the const mismatch meant its body
was never compiled.
These compiled years ago because older GCC did not diagnose uninstantiated
template bodies. Fragments with no main() are now type-checked with -c rather
than linked, since two of these files are exam answers, not programs.
Binaries go to a gitignored build/ -- an extensionless executable dropped next
to its source is not something .gitignore catches by name.
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Five files were outside README / CLAUDE* / DOCS* / TODO*, and two were over
the 250-line cap. Both gates now pass repo-wide.
Renames: the two lowercase readme.md files, and three documents into DOCS-*.
The AIS requirements doc split at its own boundary into functional (101) and
non-functional (174). The WDWR report split into six numbered sections behind
an index that keeps the original filename, 38-235 lines each; 753 lines of
body plus the 18-line header account for all 771 original lines, so nothing
was dropped.
That WDWR file needed checking before splitting: it sits next to main.tex and
main.pdf and looked like a conversion of them. It is not -- main.tex is
project 25406 and the markdown is project 18402, a different document. So it
is authored content and the split is real work, not churn on a build artifact.
Filled the three empty READMEs and replaced ECOTE's, which was a stale copy of
the root README still claiming the group projects were excluded -- they were
merged in by subtree some time ago.
EOPSY/lab1 turned out not to be the code-free directory the survey suggested:
it has modify.sh and modify_examples.sh. The oddly-named empty files beside
them are the exercise's OUTPUT, committed so the before/after state is
visible, and its README now says so rather than leaving them looking like junk.
CLAUDE.md follows the testsAndMisc structure. Writing it caught a nice one:
the md-naming marker is a biconditional, so quoting the literal removal string
in a non-TODO file fails the gate. The gate was right; the text is rephrased.
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Untracked (--cached, so they stay on disk): 76 LaTeX artifacts, 7 .xdv XeTeX
intermediates, 18 -eps-converted-to.pdf from epstopdf, 32 files of .NET
obj/Debug/net6.0 output including three copies of lab2.dll, 16 .class/.o, the
9 MB Nx cache with its native .node, and an entire committed Python
virtualenv at ECOTE/program/ecote (python 3.10.10, 18 files).
The existing 407-line LaTeX .gitignore was NOT unused as I first assumed --
it already covered *.aux and *.class, and the artifacts simply predate it. So
this appends the categories it missed (*.o, obj/, .venv/, .nx/, target/)
rather than rewriting something that was working.
The second half is the more interesting bug. Auditing with
git ls-files | git check-ignore --stdin --no-index
found 130 files that were tracked AND ignored. That combination fails
silently: `git add` on such a file is not an error, the edit just never
lands. Causes were dist/ swallowing the vendored jQuery/Bootstrap bundle,
.vscode/ and .idea/, and -- the good one -- the LaTeX template's man-page
patterns *.[1-9] and *.[1-9][0-9] matching EPFU's date-named report
directories, so doc/21.11/ read as a man page section and took report.pdf
and seven screenshots with it.
32 of those 130 turned out to be more build output and were untracked too;
the rest got targeted ! overrides. The first attempt used a blanket
!NotProgramming/EMISY/** which re-enabled that course's own LaTeX artifacts,
so it is narrowed to the *.1 schematic exports that actually needed it.
TRAK's nested .gitignore excluded the .vscode DIRECTORY, which stops git
descending, so no root-level ! can reach inside -- that one had to be fixed
at its source.
Both invariants now verified: 0 tracked files ignored, and 0 of the 189
untracked artifacts leaked back into view.
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