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Four fixes from the cross-repository review, one commit each, every one with a regression test. Three of them are cases where the CLI reported a pass or exit 0 without having checked what the user thought it checked.

  1. CC201 allowed names are anchored to the whole branch name. The generated regex only anchored the first alternative and none had $, so main-backup, master2, HEADless and develop-x all passed. Allowed types and allow_branch_names are now re.escaped; PR-.+ stays a pattern.
  2. CC001 exempts exactly the subjects git writes itself. The old (Merge).*|(fixup!.*) exemption let Merged stuff into main and fixup!! nonsense through while rejecting Revert "feat: init" under the default config (so allow_revert_commits never got a say). The exemption is now Merge , Revert ", fixup! , squash! , amend! , and CC006/CC007/CC009 remain the policy switches for whether those commits are allowed.
  3. inherit_from failures are reported. A malformed github: shorthand, an unreachable URL, an unreadable local parent or invalid TOML in the parent all fell back to the local config with exit 0 and no output. Behaviour is still fail-open, as documented, but one line now goes to stderr: ⊘ inherit_from "…" could not be loaded: <reason>; continuing with the local config. http:// values are refused with a reason rather than treated as a missing file.
  4. Invalid CCHK_* warnings go to stderr, so --format json stays parseable.

Behaviour changes worth a release note

  • Branches that merely start with an allowed name now fail CC201.
  • Author prose starting with Merge or fixup! that is not git's exact prefix is now held to the Conventional Commits format; Revert "…", squash! and amend! subjects now pass CC001.
  • One stderr line when a parent config cannot be loaded.

No new git subprocess calls. pytest: 823 passed (plus the pre-existing root-only permission test). pre-commit run --all-files: all hooks pass.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved configuration inheritance error handling with clear warnings while continuing to use the local configuration when parent configurations cannot be loaded.
    • Restricted remote configuration loading to secure HTTPS URLs.
    • Kept JSON output valid by sending invalid environment variable warnings to stderr.
    • Corrected branch-name validation to require complete matches and properly handle special characters.
    • Recognized Git-generated commit subjects, including merge, revert, fixup, squash, and amend messages.

shenxianpeng and others added 4 commits September 6, 2026 19:27
The CC201 regex anchored only the start of each alternative, so any
branch that merely began with an allowed name passed: "main-backup",
"master2", "HEADless", and "develop-x" (with "develop" in
allow_branch_names) were all accepted. Anchor every alternative at both
ends so an allowed name must match the whole branch name; "PR-.+" stays
a pattern, and branch types and configured names are now regex-escaped
so a dot in a name means a dot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
CC001 exempted anything starting with "Merge" or "fixup!", so author
prose such as "Merged stuff into main", "Mergeable widgets" and
"fixup!! nonsense" escaped the format check, while git's own
'Revert "..."', "squash! ..." and "amend! ..." subjects failed it even
though allow_revert_commits defaults to true. Exempt exactly the
prefixes git writes: "Merge ", 'Revert "', "fixup! ", "squash! " and
"amend! " (trailing space or quote included). Whether such commits are
allowed remains CC006/CC007/CC009's decision, and it matches the
"Merge " / "fixup! " skip logic the subject rules already use.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
A parent config that could not be loaded was dropped without a word: a
malformed "github:" shorthand, an unreachable URL, an unreadable local
path, or invalid TOML in the parent (the last one was not caught for a
fetched parent at all). Loading stays fail-open as documented, but every
failure now prints one line to stderr naming the value and the reason
and saying the local config is used on its own. Nothing goes to stdout,
so --format json output stays parseable. Non-HTTPS URLs are refused with
the same message rather than being treated as a missing local file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
The "Warning: Invalid value for CCHK_..." message went to stdout, so
`CCHK_SUBJECT_MAX_LENGTH=abc commit-check -m --format json` produced
output that no JSON parser could read. Send it to stderr; the warning
text and the skip-and-continue behaviour are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
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@shenxianpeng shenxianpeng changed the title fix: anchor branch names, exempt only git-written subjects, report config failures fix: anchor branch names, exempt only git subjects, report config errors Sep 6, 2026
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The changes make parent configuration failures explicit while preserving fail-open behavior, route warnings to stderr, preserve JSON stdout, and tighten conventional-commit and branch-name regex handling.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Parent configuration loading
commit_check/config.py, tests/config_test.py
Parent configurations support GitHub shorthands, URLs, and local files. Invalid or unreachable sources now raise errors, and inheritance failures print stderr warnings before continuing locally.
Diagnostic stream handling
commit_check/config_merger.py, tests/config_merger_test.py, tests/main_test.py
Invalid environment variable warnings move to stderr. Tests verify that JSON output remains valid on stdout.
Commit and branch regex rules
commit_check/rule_builder.py, tests/engine_test.py, tests/rule_builder_test.py
Git-generated subjects are exempted from conventional-commit validation. Branch names are escaped and fully anchored. Tests cover accepted names, rejected prefixes, and Git-generated subjects.

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An HTTPS parent configuration can be redirected to an unencrypted download, allowing configuration policy to be changed in transit. Prevent redirect downgrades before merging parent configuration.

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  participant LocalConfig
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  LocalConfig->>ConfigMerger: parse invalid environment variable
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  ConfigMerger-->>LocalConfig: continue with configured values
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- Line 86: Update the URL-opening flow around urllib.request.urlopen to use a
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Comment thread commit_check/config.py Outdated
urlopen follows an HTTPS-to-HTTP redirect by default, so a parent
config fetched through inherit_from could be swapped for a cleartext
download on the way to being merged into the policy. The fetch now
goes through an opener whose redirect handler refuses any target that
is not https://, and the refusal is reported like any other load
failure.

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❌ 6 regressed benchmarks
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❌ test_load_from_url_network_error 1.2 ms 1.5 ms -20.11%
❌ test_load_from_url_http_error 1.2 ms 1.5 ms -19.85%
❌ test_inherit_from_url_failure_is_ignored 1.2 ms 1.5 ms -19.41%
❌ test_inherit_from_http_url_is_rejected 1.2 ms 1.4 ms -13.26%
❌ test_inherit_from_nonexistent_file_is_ignored 344.1 µs 385.1 µs -10.63%
❌ test_inherit_from_key_is_removed_from_result 336.7 µs 376.3 µs -10.54%
🆕 test_load_from_url_rejects_non_https N/A 1.4 ms N/A
🆕 test_revert_subject_passes_under_the_default_config N/A 380.3 µs N/A
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shenxianpeng and others added 3 commits September 6, 2026 20:11
Escaping every allowed branch type on each rule build cost about a
third of RuleBuilder's time (twenty-one names under the default
config). The escaped alternation is now computed once per tuple of
names and cached, so a build with the default config does no escaping
at all. The three branch-name benchmarks go back to asserting the
regex's shape; TestBranchRegexIsAnchored already exercises the engine.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
build_opener at module import made every import of commit_check.config
(and the two tests that reload it) pay for handlers most runs never
use. The opener is now created the first time a parent config is
fetched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CodSpeed status after the two performance commits:

  • The 74 rule_builder regressions (escaping every allowed branch type on each build) are gone since 9337dbf, which caches the escaped alternation per tuple of names.
  • The two -97% module-reload benchmarks (test_config_tomli_fallback_direct, test_tomli_import_fallback) are gone since 2b8fc7c, which builds the HTTPS-only opener on first use instead of at import.

Six benchmarks remain flagged, all in tests/config_test.py, all between -10% and -20%:

Benchmark Base Head What it measures now
test_load_from_url_network_error 1.2 ms 1.5 ms _load_from_url raises instead of returning {}
test_load_from_url_http_error 1.2 ms 1.5 ms same
test_inherit_from_url_failure_is_ignored 1.2 ms 1.5 ms failure caught, one line written to stderr
test_inherit_from_http_url_is_rejected 1.2 ms 1.4 ms http:// now refused with a reason instead of silently treated as a missing file
test_inherit_from_nonexistent_file_is_ignored 344 µs 387 µs open() failure caught, one line written to stderr
test_inherit_from_key_is_removed_from_result 337 µs 375 µs same path

Every one of these is the inherit_from failure path, and the extra work is the point of this PR: the parent config could not be loaded, so the CLI now raises internally and prints one stderr line saying why, where it used to fall back silently. That is a few microseconds per failed parent-config load and never on a run whose config loads. I am not going to trade the diagnostic for the benchmark, so these six should be acknowledged in CodSpeed rather than fixed. Codecov, Sonar and the test matrix are green on the current head.


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#569 anchored every alternative of the CC201 regex, which fixed the real
bug (a branch merely starting with an allowed name passed: "main-backup"
was accepted as "main"), but it also regex-escaped the configured types
and names. That turned values that had always been patterns into
literals.

commit-check-action's own commit-check.toml is one of them:

    [branch]
    allow_branch_names = ["create-pull-request/.+"]

added in commit-check-action#231 to let peter-evans/create-pull-request
open branches (commit-check-action#225). Escaped, it can only ever match
a branch literally named "create-pull-request/.+", so every repository
using that recipe would start failing CC201 on a CLI upgrade. The
built-in "PR-.+" is a pattern for the same reason, and was never escaped.

Interpolate the configured types and names as written, as before #569,
and keep the anchoring: "create-pull-request/update-deps" passes again
while "main-backup" and "develop-x" stay rejected. Escaping was also the
reason the alternation had to be cached, so the lru_cache helper goes
with it.

The README now says an entry is a regex matched against the whole type
or branch name, which is what the code has always done.
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