* 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 $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('Number') instead, so an explicit value (including 0) is honored and only a missing -Number auto-detects -- mirroring bash. This also aligns the -Timestamp+-Number warning, which bash emits for `--number 0 --timestamp` (non-empty check) but PowerShell previously skipped.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(scripts): keep PowerShell branch-name acronym match case-sensitive
Get-BranchName keeps a sub-3-character word only when it appears as an
UPPERCASE acronym in the description. The bash twin checks this
case-sensitively (grep "\b${word^^}\b" / grep -qw -- "${word^^}"), but the
PowerShell twin used -match, which is case-INSENSITIVE, so it kept EVERY
short word regardless of case -- contradicting its own comment and diverging
from bash. The same description then produced different spec-directory and
branch names on Windows/PowerShell vs macOS/Linux (e.g. "Add go support" ->
001-go-support instead of 001-support), desyncing specs/, feature.json, and
git branches across a mixed-OS team.
Use the case-sensitive -cmatch so a short word is kept only for a genuine
uppercase acronym, matching bash. Applied to both the core
scripts/powershell/create-new-feature.ps1 and the git extension's
create-new-feature-branch.ps1.
Add bash + PowerShell regression tests (core and git-extension) asserting a
lowercase short word is dropped while an uppercase acronym is kept.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: fix article grammar in branch-name docstrings
Address review: 'an UPPERCASE acronym' -> 'an acronym in UPPERCASE' across the four branch-name case-sensitivity test docstrings (the indefinite article reads cleanly before 'acronym'). Docstring-only; no behavior change.
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>
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>
Clear pre-existing lint debt flagged by repo-wide `ruff check` (the lint
config only scopes src/, so tests/ had drifted). No behavior change.
- F401/F541: drop unused imports and redundant f-string prefixes (autofix)
- E741: rename ambiguous `l` to `ln` in comprehensions
- E702: split semicolon-joined statements onto separate lines
- F841: drop unused bindings while keeping the side-effecting calls
(_minimal_feature, install_from_directory)
Full suite: 3344 passed, 40 skipped. ruff check (repo-wide): clean.
xargs re-parses stdin as shell tokens, causing 'unterminated quote'
errors when feature descriptions contain apostrophes, double quotes,
or backslashes. Replace with sed-based whitespace trim that preserves
input verbatim.
Add regression tests for special characters in descriptions (core and
extension scripts), plus a negative test for whitespace-only input.
Fixes#2339
* ci: add windows-latest to test matrix
Add windows-latest to the pytest job OS matrix so tests run on both
Ubuntu and Windows for all Python versions.
Closes#2232
* test: skip bash-specific tests on Windows
Add sys.platform skip markers to all test classes and methods that
execute bash scripts via subprocess, so they are skipped on Windows
where bash is not available. Mixed classes with both bash and pwsh
tests have markers on individual bash methods only.
* test: fix 3 Windows-specific test failures
- test_manifest: use platform-appropriate absolute path (C:\ on Windows
vs /tmp on POSIX) since /tmp is not absolute on Windows
- test_extensions: add agent_scripts.ps entry and platform-conditional
assertions for codex skill fallback variant test
- test_timestamp_branches: use json.dumps() instead of f-string to
properly escape Windows backslash paths in feature.json
* test: extract requires_bash marker and fix PS test skip
Address PR review feedback:
- Define a reusable requires_bash marker in conftest.py and use it
across all 3 test files instead of repeating the skipif inline
- Move test_powershell_scanner_uses_long_tryparse_for_large_prefixes
into its own TestSequentialBranchPowerShell class so it is not
incorrectly skipped on Windows by the class-level bash marker
* test: use runtime bash check instead of platform check
Replace sys.platform == 'win32' with an actual bash invocation test
to handle environments where bash exists but is non-functional (e.g.,
WSL stub on Windows without an installed distro).
* test: reject WSL bash, accept only MSYS/MINGW on Windows
On Windows, verify uname -s reports MSYS, MINGW, or CYGWIN so the WSL
launcher (System32\bash.exe) is rejected — it cannot handle native
Windows paths used by test fixtures. Add SPECKIT_TEST_BASH=1 env var
escape hatch to force-enable bash tests in non-standard setups.
* ci: add comment explaining Windows bash test behavior
* test: early-reject WSL launcher, fix remaining f-string JSON
- Check resolved bash path for System32 before spawning any subprocess
to avoid WSL init prompts and timeout during test collection
- Convert remaining feature_json f-string writes to json.dumps() so
paths with backslashes produce valid JSON on Windows
* test: use bare 'bash' for detection to match test invocation
On Windows, subprocess.run(['bash', ...]) uses CreateProcess which
searches System32 before PATH — finding WSL bash even when
shutil.which('bash') returns Git-for-Windows. Probe with bare 'bash'
(same as test helpers) so the detection matches actual test behavior.
* feat: Git extension stage 2 — GIT_BRANCH_NAME override, --force for existing dirs, auto-install tests (#1940)
- Add GIT_BRANCH_NAME env var override to create-new-feature.sh/.ps1
for exact branch naming (bypasses all prefix/suffix generation)
- Fix --force flag for 'specify init <dir>' into existing directories
- Add TestGitExtensionAutoInstall tests (auto-install, --no-git skip,
commands registered)
- Add TestFeatureDirectoryResolution tests (env var, feature.json,
priority, branch fallback)
- Document GIT_BRANCH_NAME in speckit.git.feature.md and specify.md
* fix: remove unused Tuple import (ruff F401)
* fix: address Copilot review feedback (#2117)
- Fix timestamp regex ordering: check YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS before generic
numeric prefix in both bash and PowerShell
- Set BRANCH_SUFFIX in GIT_BRANCH_NAME override path so 244-byte
truncation logic works correctly
- Add 244-byte length check for GIT_BRANCH_NAME in PowerShell
- Use existing_items for non-empty dir warning with --force
- Skip git extension install if already installed (idempotent --force)
- Wrap PowerShell feature.json parsing in try/catch for malformed JSON
- Fix PS comment: 'prefix lookup' -> 'exact mapping via Get-FeatureDir'
- Remove non-functional SPECIFY_SPEC_DIRECTORY from specify.md template
* fix: address second round of Copilot review feedback (#2117)
- Guard shutil.rmtree on init failure: skip cleanup when --force merged
into a pre-existing directory (prevents data loss)
- Bash: error on GIT_BRANCH_NAME >244 bytes instead of broken truncation
- Fix malformed numbered list in specify.md (restore missing step 1)
- Add claude_skills.exists() assert before iterdir() in test
* fix: use UTF-8 byte count for 244-byte branch name limit (#2117)
- Bash: use LC_ALL=C wc -c for byte length instead of ${#VAR}
- PowerShell: use [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetByteCount() instead
of .Length (UTF-16 code units)
* fix: address third round of review feedback (#2117)
- Update --dry-run help text in bash and PowerShell (branch name only)
- Fix specify.md JSON example: use concrete path, not literal variable
- Add TestForceExistingDirectory tests (merge + error without --force)
- Add PowerShell Get-FeaturePathsEnv tests (env var + feature.json)
* fix: normalize relative paths and fix Test-HasGit compat (#2117)
- Bash common.sh: normalize SPECIFY_FEATURE_DIRECTORY and feature.json
relative paths to absolute under repo root
- PowerShell common.ps1: same normalization using IsPathRooted + Join-Path
- PowerShell create-new-feature.ps1: call Test-HasGit without -RepoRoot
for compatibility with core common.ps1 (no param) and git-common.ps1
(optional param with default)
* test: add GIT_BRANCH_NAME automated tests for bash and PowerShell (#2117)
- TestGitBranchNameOverrideBash: 5 tests (exact name, sequential prefix,
timestamp prefix, overlong rejection, dry-run)
- TestGitBranchNameOverridePowerShell: 4 tests (exact name, sequential
prefix, timestamp prefix, overlong rejection)
- Tests use extension scripts (not core) via new ext_git_repo and
ext_ps_git_repo fixtures
* fix: restore git init during specify init + review fixes (#2117)
- Restore is_git_repo() and init_git_repo() functions removed in stage 2
- specify init now runs git init AND installs git extension (not just
extension install alone)
- Add is_dir() guard for non-here path to prevent uncontrolled error
when target exists but is a file
- Add python3 JSON fallback in common.sh for multi-line feature.json
(grep pipeline fails on pretty-printed JSON without jq)
* fix: use init_git_repo error_msg in failure output (#2117)
* fix: ensure_executable_scripts also covers .specify/extensions/ (#2117)
Extension .sh scripts (e.g. create-new-feature.sh, initialize-repo.sh)
may lack execute bits after install. Scan both .specify/scripts/ and
.specify/extensions/ for permission fixing.
* fix: move chmod after extension install + sanitize error_msg (#2117)
- ensure_executable_scripts() now runs after git extension install so
extension .sh files get execute bits in the same init run
- Sanitize init_git_repo error_msg to single line (replace newlines,
truncate to 120 chars) to prevent garbled StepTracker output
* fix: use tracker.error for git init/extension failures (#2117)
Git init failure and extension install failure were reported as
tracker.complete (showing green) even on error. Now track a
git_has_error flag and call tracker.error when any step fails,
so the UI correctly reflects the failure state.
* fix: sanitize ext_err in git step tracker for consistent rendering (#2117)
Two test assertions in test_timestamp_branches.py used the regex
`\d{3}` (exactly 3 digits) instead of `\d{3,}` (3 or more digits).
While the underlying shell scripts already handle spec numbers ≥ 1000
correctly — printf "%03d" and PowerShell '{0:000}' both expand naturally
beyond 3 digits, and all detection regexes use {3,} — the overly-strict
test assertions would fail with a misleading error if a fixture ever
contained 1000+ spec directories.
Documentation in README.md, spec-driven.md, and the CLI --branch-numbering
help text implied that sequential spec numbers are always 3 digits, which
could lead users to believe a hard limit of 999 exists.
Changes:
- tests/test_timestamp_branches.py: change two \d{3} assertions to \d{3,}
- src/specify_cli/__init__.py: clarify help text to show numbers expand past 999
- README.md: update --branch-numbering docs to note numbers expand beyond 3 digits
- spec-driven.md: update feature numbering description to include 4-digit example
Fixes#2093
Co-authored-by: alex-zwingli <alex-zwingli@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
* fix: support feature branch numbers with 4+ digits in common.sh and common.ps1
The sequential feature number pattern was hardcoded to exactly 3 digits
(`{3}`), causing branches like `1234-feature-name` to be rejected.
Changed to `{3,}` (3 or more digits) to support growing projects.
Also added a guard to exclude malformed timestamp patterns from being
accepted as sequential prefixes.
Closes#344
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: narrow timestamp guard and use [long] to prevent overflow
- Change [int] to [long] in PowerShell Get-CurrentBranch to avoid
overflow for large feature numbers (>2,147,483,647)
- Narrow malformed-timestamp exclusion from ^[0-9]+-[0-9]{6}- to
^[0-9]{7}-[0-9]{6}- so valid sequential branches like
004-123456-fix-bug are not rejected
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: add regression tests for 4+ digit feature branch support
Cover check_feature_branch and find_feature_dir_by_prefix with 4-digit
sequential prefixes, as requested in PR review #2040.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: reject timestamp-like branches without trailing slug
Branches like "20260319-143022" (no "-<name>" suffix) were incorrectly
accepted as sequential prefixes. Add explicit rejection for 7-or-8
digit date + 6-digit time patterns with no trailing slug, in both
common.sh and common.ps1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* 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