fix(tools): preserve file encoding on overwrite - #988
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Changeswrite_file encoding preservation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to When reading an existing file fails, overwrite can proceed without preserving its BOM or line-ending format, causing unexpected byte changes. This is a bounded correctness risk that should receive explicit owner follow-up before merge. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Reviewed exact head 3f47d7e8048a5e9223d758d815aad0ba884319fa.
Third-party integration gate: clear. This PR changes only the existing internal/tools implementation/tests and adds no module, SDK, service, provider, plugin, vendored code, remote asset, or dependency.
Verdict: CHANGES_REQUESTED
[Medium] Keep the full-file observation after transparent encoding preservation
modelKnownContent is captured before preserveWriteFileEncoding, but the equality gate at internal/tools/write_file.go:128 compares it with the byte-restored content. Therefore every CRLF- or BOM-preserving overwrite takes the unequal branch even when format-on-write is disabled or is a no-op. FileTracker.Record has already cleared the old observation at line 127, and line 129 does not restore it. The next write_file overwrite (and similarly a subsequent edit into the file) is refused as “not read in this session,” although Zero just received and wrote the complete replacement.
I reproduced this on the PR head with a tracked two-line CRLF file: mark it fully seen, overwrite it with LF-normalized model content, then assert tracker.SeenWhole(path) and perform a second overwrite. The assertion fails immediately; without that assertion, the second overwrite is blocked by the unseen-file guard.
Please distinguish the deterministic encoding restoration from an external formatter rewrite. For example, retain the post-preservation bytes as the model-equivalent write baseline, compare the formatter result against that value, and restore whole-file coverage when only the transparent BOM/EOL transformation occurred. Add a regression covering two successive tracked writes (or write followed by edit) for CRLF and BOM+CRLF.
Validation performed:
- New byte-preservation tests: pass
go test ./internal/tools -count=1: pass without the generated reproducer- Focused
go test -race: pass go vet ./internal/tools: passgofmt -dandgit diff --check: clean- Generated FileTracker lifecycle regression: fail as described above
- All current GitHub checks: green
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In `@internal/tools/write_file.go`:
- Around line 101-104: Update the existing-file handling around os.ReadFile in
the write flow to return the read error instead of proceeding when reading
absolutePath fails. Preserve assigning priorBytes and priorContent only on
successful reads, and ensure the subsequent write cannot bypass
preserveWriteFileEncoding for an existing file.
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| if prev, rerr := os.ReadFile(absolutePath); rerr == nil { | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Stop the overwrite when reading the existing file fails.
Line 101 ignores os.ReadFile errors. The subsequent write then skips preserveWriteFileEncoding.
For example, a write-only existing CRLF or BOM file can be overwritten with unpreserved caller bytes. Return an error when the prior read fails.
Proposed fix
if existed {
- if prev, rerr := os.ReadFile(absolutePath); rerr == nil {
- priorBytes = prev
- priorContent = string(prev)
+ prev, rerr := os.ReadFile(absolutePath)
+ if rerr != nil {
+ return errorResult("Error writing file " + relativePath + ": " + rerr.Error())
}
+ priorBytes = prev
+ priorContent = string(prev)
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In `@internal/tools/write_file.go` around lines 101 - 104, Update the
existing-file handling around os.ReadFile in the write flow to return the read
error instead of proceeding when reading absolutePath fails. Preserve assigning
priorBytes and priorContent only on successful reads, and ensure the subsequent
write cannot bypass preserveWriteFileEncoding for an existing file.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
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[P1] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
internal/tools/write_file.go:101
This branch forked from27b319ca, while livemainis1b5db176and now includes 13 changed files across active MCP/OAuth and TUI work. The current merge is mechanically clean, but the repository treats a stale base as a blocker: it can conceal integration regressions and leaves the review evidence tied to an outdated target.Rebase this branch onto the current
main, preserve the intended encoding-restoration behavior when resolving any future overlap inwrite_file, then rerun the focusedinternal/toolstests plus the required project validation on the rebased head. This keeps the change scoped to the approved encoding fix while establishing a reviewable, current integration point.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
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[P2] Fail closed when an existing file cannot be read
internal/tools/write_file.go:101
The overwrite path establishes that the target exists, but treats the subsequentos.ReadFileerror as if there were no prior bytes.priorBytesremains nil, sopreserveWriteFileEncodingis skipped andos.WriteFilestill replaces the file. A write-only existing CRLF/BOM file can therefore be overwritten successfully with the model’s normalized bytes, losing its original EOL convention and BOM—the exact transformation this change is intended to avoid.The root cause is that capturing the existing bytes is both the source for the preview and a prerequisite for safe encoding restoration, yet the code makes that capture optional after it has committed to the existing-file overwrite path. Please make an unsuccessful prior-byte read a fail-closed write error before
os.WriteFile(and add a regression for a writable-but-unreadable existing target). That preserves the new-file pass-through behavior while ensuring an existing file is never silently overwritten through the unpreserved fallback.
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Summary
write_fileoverwrites normalized contentBefore the fix, the regression rewrote CRLF as LF and removed the BOM.
Fixes #967
Verification
go test ./internal/tools -count=1make fmt-checkgo build ./...go vet ./...go test ./...go run ./cmd/zero-release buildgo run ./cmd/zero-release smokemake lint-staticmake vulncheckgit diff HEAD --checkSummary by CodeRabbit