fix(tools): preserve CRLF line endings and UTF-8 BOM on write_file overwrite - #1064
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WalkthroughThe write file tool preserves an existing file’s UTF-8 BOM and CRLF line endings during overwrite. Binary files do not receive CRLF conversion. Tests verify both behaviors and successful overwrite status. ChangesWrite format preservation
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Some overwrites can still lose existing line-ending or BOM formatting, including formatted files when format-on-write is enabled. Resolve these preservation gaps before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2 | ❌ 3❌ Failed checks (3 warnings)
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🟠 Major · Normalize control-byte separators before shape matching. · redaction.go:173-228
internal/redaction/redaction.go:173-228
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winNormalize control-byte separators before shape matching.
RedactStringuses contiguous shape regexes that exclude NUL and ESC. A plain-textAKIA/ASIAcredential with either byte inserted inside its suffix therefore bypasses shape matching and remains in scrubbed output. This path is reachable through tool-result scrubbing. Strip or normalize these bytes before applying the shape patterns, and add regression cases for both bytes.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/tools/write_file.go`:
- Around line 121-124: Update the format-on-write flow around
maybeFormatWrittenFileScoped and normalizeContent so formatter output is
reapplied with the existing file’s detected BOM and CRLF style before writing
and recording the tracker baseline. Ensure the final baselined content preserves
both properties when priorContentKnown is true, while retaining current behavior
for new or unknown files.
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In `@internal/redaction/redaction.go`:
- Around line 173-228: The RedactString flow must normalize embedded NUL and ESC
control bytes before applying contiguous credential shape patterns, so AKIA/ASIA
secrets containing either separator are still redacted. Add this normalization
before the shape-matching rewrites and add regression coverage for both byte
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In `@internal/tools/write_file.go`:
- Around line 212-216: Update the CRLF detection logic in the write-file helper
to scan the complete loaded data rather than truncating inspection at 4096
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| scanLen := len(data) | ||
| if scanLen > 4096 { | ||
| scanLen = 4096 | ||
| } | ||
| crlf = bytes.Contains(data[:scanLen], []byte("\r\n")) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Scan all prior text before selecting CRLF output.
When the first CRLF sequence occurs after byte 4096, this helper reports crlf == false. An overwrite with LF input then changes that CRLF file to LF. The full prior file is already loaded. Scan all non-binary bytes, and add a regression test with a CRLF sequence after the current limit.
Based on learnings: new edge-case logic needs focused regression coverage.
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In `@internal/tools/write_file.go` around lines 212 - 216, Update the CRLF
detection logic in the write-file helper to scan the complete loaded data rather
than truncating inspection at 4096 bytes, while preserving the existing
binary-data handling. Add focused regression coverage for a CRLF sequence
occurring after the previous scan limit and verify overwrite output retains CRLF
formatting.
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Changes requested — this duplicates #988, which is on the approved parent issue and handles two cases this one gets wrong.
Reviewed at c4b4f70b, base 99721c76 (0 behind).
Mergeability gates
Wrong parent issue. The body says Fixes #969, but #969 is "security: RedactString misses secrets split by a NUL or ESC" — a redaction bug with nothing to do with write_file. The issue that actually describes this work is #967, "fix(tools): write_file rewrites CRLF files and drops UTF-8 BOM", which carries issue-approved.
#988 is already on #967 and touches the same two files. internal/tools/write_file.go and internal/tools/write_tools_test.go are modified by both PRs, and @jatmn is mid-review on #988 with findings against its current head. Two PRs fixing one issue should end with one finished and the other closed with credit, not with whichever lands first.
I am not raising this as a judgement of the work — the detection logic here is clean and the tracker interaction is correct (the normalized content is what reaches commitFileContents, modelKnownContent, and FileTracker.Record, so the conflict guard is not disturbed). It is a process outcome.
What I verified
Built c4b4f70b and drove the real tool through Run(..., overwrite: true).
1. A deliberate line-ending change cannot be expressed, and is not disclosed.
requested = "line1\nline2\n"
on disk = "line1\r\nline2\r\n"
status = ok
summary = "Overwrote f.txt (2 lines)."
The caller asked for LF with no BOM and got CRLF with a BOM. The write reports success and the summary says nothing about the rewrite, so a caller told to "convert this file to LF" reports that it did. There is no parameter to opt out.
2. One stray CRLF converts the entire file. detectLineEndingAndBOM returns crlf = bytes.Contains(...) — any occurrence, not the dominant one:
prior file = "a\r\nb\nc\nd\n" (1 CRLF, 3 LF)
requested = "1\n2\n3\n"
on disk = "1\r\n2\r\n3\r\n" every line converted
Mixed endings are common in real repositories, and this turns a single anomaly into a whole-file rewrite — a diff touching every line of a file the caller meant to change in one place.
3. The 4096-byte window — already raised by CodeRabbit on this head, and I confirmed it: a CRLF file whose first CRLF sits past byte 4096 is treated as LF and converted. Credit to that comment; I am only noting it reproduces.
How #988 handles the same cases
Not to argue for the author, but because it is the reason I am pointing at it rather than asking for changes here:
useCRLF := existingCRLF > existingLF— dominant, so case 2 stays LF- counts over the whole file, so case 1's window problem does not arise
- adds
line_endings(auto/lf/crlf) andbom(auto/add/remove), which is the opt-out case 1 needs - fails closed when the existing file cannot be read, rather than overwriting without the evidence
Suggested resolution
Close this in favour of #988 and have #967 credit both of you, or — if the maintainers prefer this smaller change as the one to finish — repoint the body at #967, switch to a dominant-ending count over the whole file, and add an explicit override. Either way the two PRs should not both proceed.
Not covered
I did not review #988's own correctness beyond the three cases above; @jatmn has open findings on it. I ran this on macOS only — the Windows behaviour of both PRs is unexercised here.
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First review from me, at c4b4f70b. @gnanam1990 has already been through this carefully and I reach the same place, so this is mostly confirmation plus the platform he said he could not cover. I also approved the CI runs, which had never run because the fork gate was holding them: 9 of 9 green.
The issue link needs repointing whichever way this goes. The body says Fixes #969, and #969 is the redaction bug about secrets split by a NUL or ESC. GitHub has taken it literally, so merging this would close a security issue nothing here touches. It is already misdirecting review: the automated pass on this head spent its finding on internal/redaction/redaction.go and asked you to normalize control bytes there. The issue that describes this work is #967. That is a one-line edit to the description and worth doing today even if the PR itself goes nowhere.
On Windows, driven through write_file itself, @gnanam1990's two cases reproduce exactly as he described.
prior asked this head main #988
1 CRLF, 3 LF (mixed) LF all CRLF LF LF
CRLF only, first CRLF at 5000 LF LF LF CRLF
The first is the one that would be felt: one stray CRLF anywhere in the first 4096 bytes converts every line of the file, so a one-line change comes back as a whole-file diff. The second is the window, and I built the fixture so it separates the two designs rather than passing on both: a file that is CRLF throughout, with nothing but a long first line before the first CRLF. Counting both endings across the whole file, which is what #988 does, gets both right.
Two things in this version that #988 does not have, so they are not lost if this one closes: the NUL check keeps a binary prior file's content out of the conversion, and a lone CR in the content is left alone. #988 converts both. I looked for a file in this repository that would care and found one, a PNG, so I do not think either is worth blocking #988 over, but they were the right instincts.
The defect both PRs share is ZERO_FORMAT_ON_WRITE=1. The preservation runs before format-on-write, and a formatter that normalizes endings, gofmt for one, is the last writer. A tracked CRLF Go file read whole, overwritten, then overwritten again:
first write CRLF kept? second write
main ok n/a ok
this head ok NO refused, not read exactly in this session
So the file comes out LF regardless and the session is then blocked from the next write. Identical on #988, where @jatmn has the seen-range half open. Here there is no line_endings option to work around it with. I mention it because if the maintainers prefer to finish this smaller change instead, that is the part that still has to be solved either way: the preservation has to re-apply to the formatter's output rather than run ahead of it.
I agree with @gnanam1990's resolution: finish #988 and close this one, with #967 crediting both of you. Requesting changes to match that, not because the work is poor. The detection is clean, the tracker interaction is correct, and the fact that #988 is further along is an accident of it having been open since August.
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@dongsinhho one follow-up on the issue link, so it is unambiguous rather than just a note in my review: #969 now has its own PR, #1067, which fixes the redaction bug it actually describes. Nothing there overlaps with this change. So the |
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@Vasanthdev2004 @gnanam1990 Thanks for the review. I agree to close this PR I'll fix the issue reference to #967. Please keep me credited in #967 or #988 for the implementation and tests from this PR. |
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Description
Fixes #967
When
write_fileoverwrote an existing file, it previously rewrote the file using standard LF line endings and omitted the UTF-8 BOM header if one existed.This PR preserves the original file's text encoding markers and line endings:
\x00in the first 4KB) to avoid unwanted line-ending transformation.Changes
detectLineEndingAndBOMininternal/tools/write_file.goto check for BOM, binary NUL bytes, and scan up to 4KB for CRLF.normalizeContentininternal/tools/write_file.goto normalize content before commit.internal/tools/write_tools_test.go:TestWriteFileToolOverwritePreservesBOMAndCRLF: verifies BOM + CRLF preservation.TestWriteFileToolOverwriteIgnoresBinary: verifies binary files with CRLF are not normalized.Verification
go fmt ./...go vet ./internal/tools/...go test -v ./internal/tools/...Summary by CodeRabbit