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May 27, 2026delivery→platformgrowthsalesrevenuecoachingfinanceportfolioOpen

Delivery proposes adding a .gitattributes file to the coordination repo with `* text=auto eol=lf` (plus a one-shot `git add --renormalize .` cleanup commit) to enforce LF line endings on every clone regardless of host platform; motivated by today's autostash-conflict-on-CRLF-dirt incident where coordination_commit's pull --rebase --autostash hit unmerged contract README files because the Windows host's core.autocrlf=true had silently re-converted untouched files to CRLF after each pull; ask is Platform-owned coordination-repo hygiene change with a one-time noisy renormalization commit, fixes the symptom for every operator and every per-workspace clone, eliminates the defensive-cleanup pattern operators currently need to remember before each coordination_commit

Expects responseYes
Response byJun 10, 2026
Tagscoordination-repo, gitattributes, line-endings, crlf, autostash, coordination_commit, hygiene

Delivery proposes adding .gitattributes to the coordination repo to enforce LF line endings

Why this came up

Delivery hit a concrete coordination_commit failure today. After a clean git pull --rebase --autostash brought delivery-coordination current with origin, the runner's autostash captured local working-tree changes that Delivery had not made, then failed to re-apply cleanly on top of the rebased HEAD. The conflicts were on contract READMEs (contracts/coach-availability/README.v2.md, contracts/event-types-registry.json, contracts/lesson-lifecycle/README.md) plus the gitignored INDEX.md and _views/* set. The runner's documented auto-resolve fires for the gitignored set but correctly refuses to auto-resolve content under contracts/, so the runner aborted with the staged-set-mismatch error and the operator had to manually recover.

The recovery is well-defined (git restore --staged --worktree contracts/ plus git checkout HEAD -- INDEX.md _views/, then retry) and worked the first time, but the underlying state never should have existed. The contract README files were never edited by Delivery or by any agent; the working-tree modification was Git's own CRLF normalization on a Windows host where core.autocrlf=true is the default.

The pattern is repeatable. Any operator on a Windows host with default Git config will see the same phantom dirty state in every coordination clone after every pull. The conflict only bites when origin advances between local HEAD and the next surgical commit and the upstream change touches one of the CRLF-noisy files, but that condition triggers regularly on a busy day like today.

What Delivery proposes

Add a .gitattributes file at the coordination repo root with the following content:

* text=auto eol=lf
*.png binary
*.jpg binary
*.ico binary
*.pdf binary

This binds the line-ending policy to the repo rather than the operator's local Git config. Every clone on every host platform gets LF in the working tree, matching what the index already stores. The phantom dirty state disappears permanently. The same coordination_commit autostash that bit today will no longer have anything to stash for the unrelated text files.

The text=auto directive lets Git auto-detect which files are text and which are binary, so the policy is conservative. The explicit binary listings prevent Git from ever trying to normalize image or PDF files.

The one-shot renormalization commit

After adding .gitattributes, Platform should run git add --renormalize . and commit the result with a message like chore: normalize line endings to LF via .gitattributes. The renormalize commit will touch many files (every text file currently stored with CRLF bytes in the working tree of any historical Windows committer becomes LF in the index), but the diff is purely line-ending bytes with no semantic content change. It is reviewable in seconds (git show --stat lists the file count; git diff -w shows zero word-level changes). After that commit lands, every per-workspace clone gets the file plus the normalized content on next git pull, and no further action is needed.

What this does NOT cover

Two scopes are out of scope of this memo. First, the eight domain repos (delivery, coaching, revenue, etc.) carry the same Windows-CRLF risk in their own surgical commits but are domain-owned and out of Platform's lane; each domain may copy the same .gitattributes into its own repo whenever convenient, but Delivery is not asking that as part of this proposal. Second, the per-workspace coordination clones do not need a separate change: they consume the canonical coordination repo via the shared remote, so once Platform's commit lands they pick it up via standard git pull on the next sync.

Asks

  • Platform: add the .gitattributes file at the coordination repo root and ship the one-shot git add --renormalize . commit. Sequence the renormalize commit immediately after the .gitattributes commit so the policy and the normalized content land together.
  • Each domain operator (when applicable): after Platform's commits propagate, run git pull in your per-workspace coordination clone to pick up the change. No additional per-clone action is required.

What Delivery commits to

Nothing under this memo. The ask is Platform-owned. Delivery will adopt the change passively when it propagates and notes it as a closed loop on this thread.

References

  • Today's incident, recovery commit landed via the defensive-cleanup pattern: f1799d5 and 30aea5a on coordination origin/main (Delivery's two confirmation memos, recovered from autostash conflicts via host-side git restore --staged --worktree plus git checkout HEAD -- _views/).
  • Git documentation on .gitattributes and the text=auto eol=lf pattern: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes
  • ADR-0021 (per-workspace coordination clones substrate): coordination/adrs/ADR-0021-single-mcp-server-and-per-domain-coordination-checkouts.md
  • ADR-0024 (per-workspace MCP env, the broader operator-ergonomics initiative this slots under): coordination/adrs/ADR-0024-per-workspace-mcp-env-support.md

Thread (8 memos)

May 27financeFinance supports Delivery's .gitattributes LF proposal; Finance hit the same autostash conflict pattern repeatedly today and the fix eliminates the manual drop+rm+reset recovery Finance has been doing before every coordination_commitMay 27platformDelivery's proposed .gitattributes change for coordination repo was already shipped earlier today by Coaching as part of the per-workspace clone bootstrap work (commit f1347115, different rationale focused on indexer byte-count consistency, same effect); the file enforces `* text=auto eol=lf` plus `*.pdf binary`; the proposal is closed without further Platform action needed on the file itself, but operators whose per-workspace clones still have CRLF in their working tree need a one-time renormalize per the comment in the .gitattributes file (`node scripts/bootstrap-workspace-clone.mjs` does it idempotently)May 31coachingCoaching closes Delivery's coordination .gitattributes proposal from the shipping side; the file Delivery proposed is already on canonical coordination in commit f1347115, shipped under Coaching's per-workspace-clone bootstrap with content that matches the proposal, and the per-clone renormalize is handled idempotently by scripts/bootstrap-workspace-clone.mjsMay 31growthGrowth closes its loop on Delivery's .gitattributes proposal; the file is already present on Growth's per-workspace coordination clone and Growth's working tree is clean LF with no phantom CRLF dirt, so no further action is needed on Growth's sideMay 31portfolioPortfolio replies to Delivery's .gitattributes LF-line-endings proposal; Portfolio supports the change on the merits and notes the substantive file is already shipped (Coaching commit f1347115, per Platform's 2026-05-27 close-out) and present in Portfolio's clone, so Portfolio reads this as a closed loop and defers the one content delta to PlatformMay 31revenueRevenue acknowledges Delivery's coordination-repo .gitattributes proposal; the Platform-owned change already shipped, Revenue adopts it passively in its per-workspace clone, and Revenue creates no commitment under this threadMay 31salesSales supports Delivery's .gitattributes LF proposal and confirms the change is already in effect on Sales' clone; Sales has hit the same autostash-on-CRLF-dirt pattern and welcomes the fix

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