Beagle SCM

PUT-003 MED: multi-path / glob be put is per-path, not aggregated (repeat banner + PUTNONE spam)

A glob (or shell-expanded multi-path) be put, e.g. be put */*/*.sh, where most matches are unchanged, emits — PER ineligible match — a fresh put: banner, a sniff: put: no eligible paths line, Error: PUTNONE, AND a redundant Error: NONE. The eligible matches DO stage; it is the unchanged ones that turn a benign "most files unchanged" put into a wall of error spam. An unchanged match in a multi-path put should be a SILENT skip, not a per-path error pair. Native be (sniff). Sibling of BE-008 (unchanged empty-put → silent no-op) and the BE-003/BE-006 error-line work. Method: Issues.

Input

Context

• Observed (be put */*/*.sh over the beagle test dir, most .sh unchanged):

  - 23:02 put put:beagle / put …/tag-blobs-from-keeper.sh (staged OK) - …/tags-from-git.sh is unchanged — skipped - sniff: put: no eligible paths / Error: PUTNONE / Error: NONE (×N)

• Even with NO unchanged paths, a multi-path put REPEATS the banner per path:

  be put be/test/bro/reentry/driver.js be/test/get/guard/guard.js → two put:be/test hunks (one file each), NOT one hunk listing both (the user ask).

• Same PUTNONE/NONE spam recurs under be post sub-recursion: an unchanged /

  empty sub-put prints put put: + Error: PUTNONE + Error: NONE per sub (seen landing this batch: subs html, beagle/abc).

• sniff/PUT.c:1119-1121: `if (emitted==0){ if (skipped>0) fprintf(stderr,

  "sniff: put: no eligible pathsn"); return PUTNONE; }` — a put PASS that stages nothing but skipped ≥1 unchanged path returns PUTNONE + the stderr line.

• sniff/PUT.c:207 / :1026 set the is unchanged skip reason; the single-file

  be put file.c unchanged-skip (:987) is the intended quiet case.

• The glob/multi-path dispatch runs the put pass per match (or per project/sub),

  so each all-unchanged pass re-emits the banner + PUTNONE (the repeated put:beagle).

• The redundant 2nd line Error: NONE is the dog/sniff CLI error reporter

  surfacing the suffix-NONE twice — the BE-003/BE-006 stacked-error class.

Goals

• ONE put: banner / HUNK per invocation listing ALL staged paths — not one

  banner per path (the "must be one hunk" requirement).

• A glob / multi-path be put stages the eligible matches and SILENTLY skips the

  unchanged ones: NO per-match banner for a wholly-skipped match, NO per-match PUTNONE, NO Error: NONE spam.

• Overall exit OK when ≥1 path staged; PUTNONE only when the WHOLE expansion had

  nothing eligible (then ONE clean line, not a per-match pair).

Constraints

• Do NOT regress: single-file be put file.c is unchanged skip (PUT.c:987),

  the truly-empty bare put → PUTNONE (BE.cli.c), or -q swallowing *NONE (sniff/SNIFF.cli.c:193). Native sniff/keeper only; no JS.

WIP

Design decisions

• Treat a glob / multi-path put as ONE staging set: aggregate eligibility, so a

  skipped match neither prints a banner nor returns PUTNONE on its own; only the aggregate emptiness yields a single PUTNONE.

• Suppress the redundant second Error: NONE (fold into BE-003 uniform line).

TODOs

• Repro-first: a tree where */*/*.sh matches many files, ≤1 changed; assert

  today's per-match PUTNONE/Error: NONE spam, then a single clean result. (sniff/test/refuse.sh Scenarios 5+6, test/put/01-states)

• Aggregate the multi-path/glob dispatch (one pass; skipped ⇒ silent).

  (sniff/PUT.c::put_stage_named multi = nuris > 1, PUT.c:770/1029/1074/1131)

• Verify single-file unchanged-skip + bare-empty-put PUTNONE unchanged; -q quiet.

  (PUT.c:1035 is unchanged kept; PUT.c:1141 aggregate summary only for nuris>1)

Blockers and bummers

• Decide where the glob expands (shell vs be internal) — the fix must handle a

  received PATH LIST (shell-expanded) and an internal glob alike.

Outcome

• LANDED: sniff/PUT.c::put_stage_named — a

  multi-path/glob put (nuris>1) silently skips unchanged matches (no per-path banner / PUTNONE / no eligible paths); one-changed → ONE put: hunk. Single-file is unchanged — skipped + bare-empty PUTNONE preserved. Tests: sniff/test/refuse.sh (PUT-003 cases), test/put/01-states. beagle 464/464 + be 65/65 green. Residual (DESIGN, not a one-liner): a wholly no-op SUB still relays a banner-only put:<sub> hunk — needs a HUNKTableAbort / defer-banner / relay-filter change to the shared HUNK contract (status/get/ls). The doubled Error: NONE 2nd line is the BE-003/BE-006 error-line class.

• Land audit 2026-07-07: no PUT-003-tagged commit in jab log; the fix rode the

  untagged 25/26Jun batch (1fd33d9f/0447e4a7 "JS-065..JS-091 … beagle"). Verified in-tree at tip b0fb0ce4: PUT.c PUT-003 comments + refuse.sh cases present, wtlog shows no pending sniff/PUT.c put row since the 26Jun get.

• Residuals delegated: no-op-sub banner-only put:<sub> relay + PUTNONE/NONE

  stderr cascade → BE-008 (open); doubled Error: NONE → BE-003/BE-006.