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Closes #1935

What

The parsers normalize CRLF to LF on read, but nothing restored the file's convention on write. On a Windows checkout (core.autocrlf=true) that turned every rewrite into a whole-file change.

Archiving a change that adds one requirement to a CRLF spec, before and after:

before:  21	14	openspec/specs/demo/spec.md
after:    7	 0	openspec/specs/demo/spec.md

The file also stays CRLF instead of being silently converted to LF.

Changes

  • specs-applywriteUpdatedSpec writes an updated spec back with the convention the file already used. A spec that does not exist yet stays LF.
  • file-system — same fix for updateFileWithMarkers, so installing or updating shell completions in a CRLF .bashrc/.zshrc no longer leaves mixed endings, which bash reports as $'\r': command not found.
  • pack-version-check — spawns npm through cross-spawn, since execFile cannot resolve npm.cmd on Windows. This guard is ubuntu-only in CI today, so it currently fails for a maintainer validating a release from a Windows workstation.

New src/utils/line-endings.ts holds the detect/restore pair. The internal LF-only invariant is unchanged — only the write boundary differs, so buildUpdatedSpec and every serialization path still work in LF.

Tests

29 new tests:

  • specs-apply.line-endings — CRLF and LF round trips through the real writeUpdatedSpec path, new-file default, and mixed-ending input.
  • line-endings — the utility, including the CRLF/LF tie and a lone CR.
  • marker-updates — CRLF preserved on both insert and replace, LF unchanged, new file LF.
  • path-containment — regression tests pinning that path.win32.relative already folds case, so C:\Repo vs c:\repo is correctly treated as inside the root, and that a sibling directory, a traversal escape, and another drive are still rejected. These exist so a future "make it case-insensitive" change cannot quietly loosen the traversal guard.

pnpm build, pnpm test, pnpm exec tsc --noEmit, pnpm lint all pass locally.

Two tests fail on main before this branch (artifact-workflow › Cursor skills, config-profile › in-process apply) and still fail after; they look unrelated and I left them alone.

Why CI did not catch this

.gitattributes pins only skills/** to LF, and test fixtures are written by the tests themselves with \n, so the windows-latest job only ever sees LF content. The new tests construct CRLF in-process rather than relying on checkout behavior, so they exercise this on every platform regardless of the runner's git config.

Notes

Written with Claude Code (Claude Opus 5). I verified the behavior by reproduction rather than inspection — the 21/14 → 7/0 numbers above are measured from an actual openspec archive run, not estimated.

Worth recording what turned out not to be broken, since I checked: openspec validate handles CRLF correctly (a CRLF copy of this repo's own 62-item openspec/ tree produces byte-identical validate output), and isPathWithin already handles Windows case variance. I left both alone and added the containment tests to keep it that way.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Preserve existing LF or CRLF line endings when updating specification and marker-managed shell files.
    • Normalize mixed line endings consistently, while new files continue to use LF.
    • Improve Windows compatibility when running npm-based version checks.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for line-ending preservation, normalization, and Windows path containment behavior.

The parsers normalize CRLF to LF on read, but nothing restored it on
write. On a Windows checkout (core.autocrlf=true) that turned every
rewrite into a whole-file change: applying a delta that added one
requirement produced a diff of 21 insertions and 14 deletions, burying
the real change. Archiving the same spec now writes 7 insertions and 0
deletions.

- specs-apply: write an updated spec back with the convention the file
  already used; a spec that does not exist yet stays LF.
- file-system: same fix for updateFileWithMarkers, so installing shell
  completions into a CRLF .bashrc/.zshrc no longer leaves mixed endings,
  which bash reports as "$'\r': command not found".
- pack-version-check: spawn npm through cross-spawn, since execFile
  cannot resolve npm.cmd on Windows.

Adds src/utils/line-endings.ts for the detect/restore pair, plus tests
pinning the CRLF round trip through the real write paths. Also adds
regression tests for path containment under Windows case variance:
path.win32.relative already folds case, and those tests pin both halves
of the contract so a future "case-insensitive" change cannot quietly
loosen the traversal guard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change preserves existing LF or CRLF endings when specs and marker-managed files are rewritten. New files use LF. The version-check script uses cross-spawn, and tests cover line endings and Windows path containment.

Changes

Compatibility updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Line-ending preservation
src/utils/line-endings.ts, src/core/specs-apply.ts, src/utils/file-system.ts, test/core/*, test/utils/line-endings.test.ts, test/utils/marker-updates.test.ts, .changeset/*
Adds line-ending detection and conversion helpers. Spec updates and marker-managed files preserve existing endings, while new files use LF. Tests cover dominant-ending selection, ties, mixed content, and write behavior.
Windows command execution
scripts/pack-version-check.mjs
Replaces execFileSync with cross-spawn and adds explicit spawn and non-zero-exit error handling.
Windows path containment validation
test/utils/path-containment.test.ts
Adds tests for case-insensitive Windows path containment and case-sensitive POSIX containment.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SpecUpdate
  participant LineEndingHelpers
  participant FileSystem
  SpecUpdate->>FileSystem: read existing target
  SpecUpdate->>LineEndingHelpers: match rebuilt content to original
  LineEndingHelpers-->>SpecUpdate: content with matching endings
  SpecUpdate->>FileSystem: write updated target
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The Windows containment cases will not catch a regression in the production containment guard. Route them through that guard to make the new regression coverage effective.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The line-ending implementation and its tests are within issue [#1935]. However, scripts/pack-version-check.mjs changes process spawning from execFileSync to cross-spawn, and `test/utils/path-con… Remove the unrelated cross-spawn implementation and path-containment tests from this pull request, or associate them with a separate linked issue and pull request. Update the changeset so it documents only the line-ending fix if those cha…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 54.55% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 8 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preserving existing file line endings during rewrites, with Windows context.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#1935] requires write-side preservation of an existing spec's line-ending convention and the same behavior for marker-managed shell files. src/core/specs-apply.ts reads the existing target an…
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The line-ending implementation and its tests are within issue [#1935]. However, scripts/pack-version-check.mjs changes process spawning from execFileSync to cross-spawn, and test/utils/path-containment.test.ts adds unrelated Windows and POSIX path-containment tests. The linked issue does not define either objective. The changeset also documents the unrelated cross-spawn change.

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Remove the unrelated cross-spawn implementation and path-containment tests from this pull request, or associate them with a separate linked issue and pull request. Update the changeset so it documents only the line-ending fix if those changes are removed.

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* the comparison case-insensitive by hand has to keep both halves true.
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Test the production containment guard.

isPathWithin duplicates the containment logic but does not call FileSystemUtils.assertPathWithin. If the production guard regresses to a prefix comparison, these assertions still pass. Route these cases through the production guard, or through its closest exported API.

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Nice work on this, Travis. The core fix is clean and the test coverage is thorough.

Two things I'd flag:

1. Test nesting issue in marker-updates.test.ts (should fix before merge)

The new describe('line endings', ...) opens inside describe('updateFileWithMarkers') at line 286 but doesn't close before the }); that previously closed updateFileWithMarkers. That brace now closes line endings instead, which means describe('removeMarkerBlock') ends up accidentally nested inside updateFileWithMarkers. Tests still pass (the nesting is syntactically valid and removeMarkerBlock tests don't break with the extra beforeEach/afterEach), but the structure is wrong.

Fix: add }); to close describe('line endings') before the existing }); that closes updateFileWithMarkers, then remove the extra }); added near the end of the file.

2. Path containment tests (nit, fine to leave)

CodeRabbit flagged this too — the tests define a local isPathWithin that reimplements the logic instead of calling through FileSystemUtils.assertPathWithin. They're still useful as documentation of path.win32.relative behavior, but routing through the production API would catch regressions in the actual guard.

Everything else looks good. The line-endings.ts utility is well-designed (correct tie-breaking toward CRLF, lone-CR handling, empty-string fallback), and the integration into both write paths is clean.

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Heads-up @GQAdonis — I picked this up to drive it to review-ready, but your fork is owned by the Prometheus-AGS organization, and GitHub doesn't honour "allow edits by maintainers" on org-owned forks (the API reports maintainerCanModify: true, but a maintainer push comes back 403). So I couldn't push the changes here.

I've opened #1958 with your commit carried over unchanged and your authorship preserved, plus:

  • the test-nesting fix alfred flagged,
  • the path-containment tests routed through FileSystemUtils.assertPathWithin / resolveProjectArtifactPath instead of a private copy of the logic (that guard turned out to have no coverage at all),
  • one more instance of the same bug: removeMarkerBlock's blank-line collapse rebuilt its separator as a bare \n, so removing a managed block from a CRLF CLAUDE.md or rc file left a lone LF behind.

Full suite is clean against the main baseline. Nothing here is a criticism of the original — the core fix was already well-designed, and the CRLF detection and tie-breaking in line-endings.ts carried over as-is.

Closing this one is up to you or a maintainer; I've left it open. Thanks for the fix.

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Landed via #1958, merged to main in 1d35e908 — thank you for this one, @Prometheus-AGS.

main now carries the whole fix from this PR: src/utils/line-endings.ts, the writeUpdatedSpec and marker-block write paths in specs-apply.ts and file-system.ts, the removeMarkerBlock separator rebuild, and the cross-spawn change to scripts/pack-version-check.mjs, along with the line-endings and marker-update tests.

Nothing left to land here, so closing as superseded rather than as rejected.

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