* fix(scripts): warn when spec template is missing in create-new-feature.ps1 (parity with bash)
create-new-feature.sh prints 'Warning: Spec template not found; created empty spec file' to stderr when no spec template resolves, then touches an empty spec. The PowerShell twin created the empty file silently with no warning, so on Windows a missing/broken template tree gave no signal. Emit the same warning on stderr (keeps stdout/JSON pure), matching the bash wording and stream.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: assert create-new-feature.ps1 warns on missing spec template
Regression test for the bash/PowerShell parity fix: with no resolvable spec template, the PowerShell script must emit 'Spec template not found' on stderr (matching bash) while keeping stdout parseable JSON and still creating the empty spec file. Gated on pwsh; decodes stdout/stderr as UTF-8.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Get-BranchName used `[long]$Number = 0` as both the default and the 'auto-detect' sentinel (`if ($Number -eq 0)`), so an explicitly-passed `-Number 0` was indistinguishable from 'not supplied' and silently auto-incremented. The bash twin keys off whether the value is non-empty (`[ -z "$BRANCH_NUMBER" ]`), so `--number 0` is honored and yields FEATURE_NUM 000 -- a cross-platform divergence for identical input.
Use $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('Number') instead, so an explicit value (including 0) is honored and only a missing -Number auto-detects -- mirroring bash. This also aligns the -Timestamp+-Number warning, which bash emits for `--number 0 --timestamp` (non-empty check) but PowerShell previously skipped.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The branch-name generator keeps a short (<3 char) word only when it
appears in uppercase in the description, treating it as an acronym (the
comment says as much). The bash script uses a case-sensitive grep for
this, but the PowerShell script used -match, which is case-insensitive
by default. As a result every short non-stop word was retained on
PowerShell even when lowercase, so the same description produced
different branch names across the two shells (e.g. 'go AI now' ->
001-go-ai-now on PS vs 001-ai-now on bash).
Switch to -cmatch so the check is case-sensitive and the two shells
agree. Adds parity tests covering a dropped lowercase short word and a
kept uppercase acronym.
* feat(init)!: make git extension opt-in and remove --no-git at v0.10.0
- Remove --no-git parameter from specify init command
- Remove git extension auto-installation from init flow
- Git repository initialization (git init) still runs when git is available
- Remove --no-git from all test invocations across the test suite
- Update docs to reflect opt-in git extension behavior
- Replace TestGitExtensionAutoInstall with TestGitExtensionOptIn tests
BREAKING CHANGE: specify init no longer auto-installs the git extension.
Use `specify extension add git` to install it explicitly.
The --no-git flag has been removed.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* refactor(scripts): remove git operations from core scripts
Git functionality is now entirely managed by the git extension.
Core scripts only handle directory-based feature creation and numbering.
- Remove has_git(), check_feature_branch(), git branch creation from core
- Simplify number detection to use only spec directory scanning
- Remove HAS_GIT output from get_feature_paths()
- Remove git remote fetching and branch querying
- Keep BRANCH_NAME output key for backward compatibility
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* refactor: remove all git operations from core
- Remove is_git_repo() and init_git_repo() dead code from _utils.py
- Remove --branch-numbering from init command
- Remove git from 'specify check' (now extension-only)
- Update docs: git is optional prerequisite, check command description
- Fix tests to reflect no-git-in-core reality (fallback to main)
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* refactor(scripts): remove directory scanning and branch fallback from core
Core scripts now resolve feature context exclusively from:
1. SPECIFY_FEATURE env var (set by git extension)
2. .specify/feature.json (persisted by specify command)
Removed find_feature_dir_by_prefix() and directory scanning heuristics —
these are the git extension's responsibility. Scripts error clearly when
no feature context is available.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: introduce feature_numbering, deprecate branch_numbering in init-options
- specify command template now reads feature_numbering (preferred) with
fallback to branch_numbering (deprecated) from init-options.json
- Git extension reads git-config.yml > feature_numbering > branch_numbering
- init now writes feature_numbering: sequential to init-options.json
- Deprecation warning emitted when branch_numbering is used as fallback
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: remove trailing whitespace in common.ps1
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(scripts): persist SPECIFY_FEATURE_DIRECTORY env var to feature.json
When SPECIFY_FEATURE_DIRECTORY is set, get_feature_paths() now writes the
value to .specify/feature.json so future sessions without the env var can
still resolve the feature directory. The write is idempotent — it skips
when the file already contains the same value.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: address review feedback — error messages and docs
- Update error messages in common.sh and common.ps1 to reference
SPECIFY_FEATURE_DIRECTORY instead of SPECIFY_FEATURE (which no longer
resolves feature directories)
- Fix get_current_branch comment (returns empty string, not error)
- Update upgrade.md to reference SPECIFY_FEATURE_DIRECTORY with correct
example paths
- Update local-development.md troubleshooting: replace stale 'Git step
skipped' row with actionable git extension guidance
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(scripts): harden feature.json persistence
- Use json_escape in printf fallback when jq is unavailable (common.sh)
- Replace utf8NoBOM encoding with UTF8Encoding($false) for PowerShell
5.1 compatibility (common.ps1)
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* refactor(scripts): remove dead feature_json_matches_feature_dir functions
These guards are no longer needed since the branch-name validation they
protected against has been removed from check-prerequisites.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* refactor(git-ext): rename create-new-feature to create-new-feature-branch
The git extension's script only creates the git branch — rename it to
reflect that responsibility. The core create-new-feature.sh/.ps1 handles
feature directory creation and feature.json persistence.
Also includes fixes from review feedback:
- common.sh: _persist_feature_json uses json_escape fallback
- common.ps1: Save-FeatureJson uses UTF8Encoding for PS 5.1 compat
- common.ps1: case-sensitive path stripping on non-Windows
- create-new-feature.sh/ps1: output both SPECIFY_FEATURE and
SPECIFY_FEATURE_DIRECTORY
- setup-tasks.sh: fix stale 'Validate branch' comment
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(tests): update references to renamed git extension scripts
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(tests): remove duplicate EXT_CREATE_FEATURE assignments
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Manfred Riem <mnriem@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(scripts): add --dry-run flag to create-new-feature scripts
Add a --dry-run / -DryRun flag to both bash and PowerShell
create-new-feature scripts that computes the next branch name,
spec file path, and feature number without creating any branches,
directories, or files. This enables external tools to query the
next available name before running the full specify workflow.
When combined with --json, the output includes a DRY_RUN field.
Without --dry-run, behavior is completely unchanged.
Closes#1931
Assisted-By: 🤖 Claude Code
* fix(scripts): gate specs/ dir creation behind dry-run check
Dry-run was unconditionally creating the root specs/ directory via
mkdir -p / New-Item before the dry-run guard. This violated the
documented contract of zero side effects. Also adds returncode
assertion on git branch --list in tests and adds PowerShell dry-run
test coverage (skipped when pwsh unavailable).
Addresses review comments on #1998.
Assisted-By: 🤖 Claude Code
* fix: address PR review feedback
- Gate `mkdir -p $SPECS_DIR` behind DRY_RUN check (bash + PowerShell)
so dry-run creates zero directories
- Add returncode assertion on `git branch --list` in test
- Strengthen spec dir test to verify root `specs/` is not created
- Add PowerShell dry-run test class (5 tests, skipped without pwsh)
- Fix run_ps_script to use temp repo copy instead of project root
Assisted-By: 🤖 Claude Code
* fix: use git ls-remote for remote-aware dry-run numbering
Dry-run now queries remote branches via `git ls-remote --heads`
(read-only, no fetch) to account for remote-only branches when
computing the next sequential number. This prevents dry-run from
returning a number that already exists on a remote.
Added test verifying dry-run sees remote-only higher-numbered
branches and adjusts numbering accordingly.
Assisted-By: 🤖 Claude Code
* fix(scripts): deduplicate number extraction and branch scanning logic
Extract shared _extract_highest_number helper (bash) and
Get-HighestNumberFromNames (PowerShell) to eliminate duplicated
number extraction patterns between local branch and remote ref
scanning.
Add SkipFetch/skip_fetch parameter to check_existing_branches /
Get-NextBranchNumber so dry-run reuses the same function instead
of inlining duplicate max-of-branches-and-specs logic.
Assisted-By: 🤖 Claude Code
* fix(tests): use isolated paths for remote branch test
Move remote.git and second_clone directories under git_repo
instead of git_repo.parent to prevent path collisions with
parallel test workers.
Assisted-By: 🤖 Claude Code
* fix: address PR review feedback
- Set GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 for git ls-remote calls to prevent
credential prompts from blocking dry-run in automation scenarios
- Add returncode assertion to test_dry_run_with_timestamp git
branch --list check
Assisted-By: 🤖 Claude Code
* feat(scripts): add --allow-existing-branch flag to create-new-feature
Add an --allow-existing-branch / -AllowExistingBranch flag to both
bash and PowerShell create-new-feature scripts. When the target branch
already exists, the script switches to it instead of failing. The spec
directory and template are still created if missing, but existing
spec.md files are not overwritten (prevents data loss on re-runs).
The flag is opt-in, so existing behavior is completely unchanged
without it. This enables worktree-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines
that create branches externally before running speckit.specify.
Relates to #1931. Also addresses #1680, #841, #1921.
Assisted-By: 🤖 Claude Code
* fix: address PR review feedback for allow-existing-branch
- Make checkout failure fatal instead of suppressing with || true (bash)
- Check $LASTEXITCODE after git checkout in PowerShell
- Use Test-Path -PathType Leaf for spec file existence check (PS)
- Add PowerShell static assertion test for -AllowExistingBranch flag
Assisted-By: 🤖 Claude Code
* fix(scripts): prioritize .specify over git for repo root detection
When spec-kit is initialized in a subdirectory that doesn't have its
own .git, but a parent directory does, spec-kit was incorrectly using
the parent's git repository root. This caused specs to be created in
the wrong location.
The fix changes repo root detection to prioritize .specify directory
over git rev-parse, ensuring spec-kit respects its own initialization
boundary rather than inheriting a parent git repo.
Fixes#1932
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: address code review feedback
- Normalize paths in find_specify_root to prevent infinite loop with relative paths
- Use -PathType Container in PowerShell to only match .specify directories
- Improve has_git/Test-HasGit to check git command availability and validate work tree
- Handle git worktrees/submodules where .git can be a file
- Remove dead fallback code in create-new-feature scripts
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: check .specify before termination in find_specify_root
Fixes edge case where project root is at filesystem root (common in
containers). The loop now checks for .specify before checking the
termination condition.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: scope git operations to spec-kit root & remove unused helpers
- get_current_branch now uses has_git check and runs git with -C to
prevent using parent git repo branch names in .specify-only projects
- Same fix applied to PowerShell Get-CurrentBranch
- Removed unused find_repo_root() from create-new-feature.sh
- Removed unused Find-RepositoryRoot from create-new-feature.ps1
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: use cd -- to handle paths starting with dash
Prevents cd from interpreting directory names like -P or -L as options.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: check git command exists before calling get_repo_root in has_git
Avoids unnecessary work when git isn't installed since get_repo_root
may internally call git rev-parse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(powershell): use LiteralPath and check git before Get-RepoRoot
- Use -LiteralPath in Find-SpecifyRoot to handle paths with wildcard
characters ([, ], *, ?)
- Check Get-Command git before calling Get-RepoRoot in Test-HasGit to
avoid unnecessary work when git isn't installed
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(powershell): use LiteralPath for .git check in Test-HasGit
Prevents Test-Path from treating wildcard characters in paths as globs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(powershell): use LiteralPath in Get-RepoRoot fallback
Prevents Resolve-Path from treating wildcard characters as patterns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: iamaeroplane <michal.bachorik@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The $Number (Int32) parameter was implicitly receiving positional
arguments intended for $FeatureDescription, causing a
ParameterBindingArgumentTransformationException when AI agents
called the script with positional strings.
Add [Parameter(Position = 0)] to $FeatureDescription so it binds
first, and mark $Number with [Parameter()] (no Position) so it
only binds by name (-Number N).
Fixes#1879
Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <455140+mvanhorn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The check_existing_branches (bash) and Get-NextBranchNumber (PowerShell)
functions no longer use the short_name parameter since they now find the
global maximum across ALL features. This commit:
1. Removes the unused parameter from function signatures
2. Updates all call sites to not pass the parameter
This prevents the scripts from failing when the function is called with
the wrong number of arguments.
The check_existing_branches (bash) and Get-NextBranchNumber (PowerShell)
functions were only looking for branches/specs matching the SAME short name
when determining the next feature number. This caused collisions where
multiple features could be assigned the same number if they had different
short names.
For example, if feature 023-ci-optimization existed, creating a new feature
with a different short name would incorrectly use 001 instead of 024.
This fix changes both functions to:
1. Use get_highest_from_branches() / Get-HighestNumberFromBranches to find
the highest number across ALL branches globally
2. Use get_highest_from_specs() / Get-HighestNumberFromSpecs to find the
highest number across ALL spec directories globally
3. Return the maximum of both + 1
The helper functions already existed but were not being used. This fix
properly utilizes them to ensure features are numbered sequentially
regardless of their short names.
Issue: Branch number collisions when creating features with different names
Impact: Prevents multiple features from sharing the same number prefix
Refactored both Bash and PowerShell create-new-feature scripts to modularize and deduplicate logic for determining the next feature number, including new helper functions for extracting the highest number from specs and branches. Improved branch name cleaning and generation. In update-agent-context scripts, removed redundant updates to AGENTS.md for Copilot, streamlining agent update logic.
- Use git ls-remote for more reliable remote branch detection
- Check remote branches, local branches, AND specs directories
- Match exact short-name pattern to avoid false positives
- Ensures no duplicate numbers across all sources
- Add --number parameter to create-new-feature scripts (bash & PowerShell)
- Add check_existing_branches() function to fetch and scan remote branches
- Update branch numbering logic to check remotes before creating new branches
- Update /speckit.specify command to document remote branch checking workflow
- Prevents duplicate branch numbers when branches exist on remotes but not locally
- Maintains backward compatibility with existing workflows
- Falls back to local directory scanning when Git is not available
