Three review findings, all before the hook is wired:
is_shell_lib excluded */lib/tests/* but not */tests/lib/*. Both are test
code; the second nesting made the gate demand tests/lib/tests/run_all.sh
for 10 helper files. It would have fired precisely while editing test
helpers to write the suites this ratchet asks for. Reseeded 125 -> 115.
--seed now refuses (exit 1) when a reseed would ADD an entry, instead of
a header comment asking nicely. It reads tracked files only, so an
unstaged probe seeds normally -- staging it produces the refusal with
the allowlist left byte-identical.
The parent commit's docs claimed an exempt file loses its exemption when
next modified. It does not: check_files exempts allowlisted paths
unconditionally, verified by staging an edit and getting exit 0. Fixed
the text, not the code -- making an edit trip the gate would block
routine work across 115 of 198 libraries, which is the repo-wide gate
this ratchet exists to avoid.
Also corrects the "a percentage is unreachable" rationale: commit
53e80462 reached 100% on an entry script with no suppressions. Presence
is still the right bar, because that took per-file mount analysis.
Krzysztof kuhy Rudnicki
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