docs: prepare v0.5.0 Git workflow release

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Makes the completed Git workflow phase coherent for v0.5.0: user docs, roadmap and status, a UX copy pass, and cross-service regression tests. No version bump, because Release Please owns that (release PR #30).

Merge #37 first. While checking what shipped, I found two dead ends where commit or push became impossible without someone getting into the container to fix it. Both are fixed in #37 (fix:, so they reach the changelog). These docs describe the behaviour after that fix. The two PRs touch different hunks and merge cleanly; I checked the combined tree locally.

Shipped (v0.5.0, user-visible)

• Changes tab (stack and repository): every draft as a diff. Choose which drafts to commit (up to 100 per commit). Draft count on the tab and a draft badge in the stack header.
• Validation before commit on exactly the selected contents. Errors always block. Warnings, including hard-coded secret values, need Commit despite warnings, and that override is audited.
• Git author identity per user under Settings → Account. Commits are blocked without it; browsing and drafts still work.
• Commit and Commit & Push to the tracked branch. Each commit is created in an isolated worktree and kept as a local commit.
• Safe push: fetches first and re-checks the expected remote head and ancestry, then pushes with one plain refspec. Never force pushes. If the remote moved, nothing is sent ("The remote branch changed since your copy was last updated.").
• Outdated-draft protection: drafts whose base changed (remotely or in a local commit) can't be committed.
• Work is never discarded: drafts are kept after a successful or failed commit or push, and a failed push keeps the local commit for retry.
• Stack History tab: commits that touched the stack as of the last fetch, with per-file diffs. Secret, binary, large and symlinked files show no contents.
• Audit events git.commit, git.push, git.push_rejected and git.commit_validation_overridden, with ids, SHAs and counts only.

What this PR changes

• Docs: GIT_WORKFLOW.md is now a user guide first: draft → commit, identity, validation, push, remote changes, failed pushes, history, and recovering an unpushed local commit. The existing technical reference and API contract follow, corrected where they had drifted (no "touched dependency paths" in stack diffs; branch/PR flow marked as not shipped; security section matches the implementation). The page is published under "Start here". getting-started.md gains 5. Commit and push. README, overview, installation, DATA_MODEL (it said drafts are deleted after push, which isn't true), ARCHITECTURE layout, SECURITY, TESTING and GIT_PROVIDER are updated to match.

• Roadmap/status: PR UI/UX plan + UI-1 foundation (tokens, primitives, sidebar shell, UI tests) #4 / Git workflow is marked complete in MVP_PLAN, and PR PR #3 — Source workspace: stacks, VS Code-style editor, drafts, docs #5 / deployment routing is the next active phase (MVP_PLAN, AGENTS.md, README, docs index). The UI/UX plan's change indicator is marked implemented (sidebar badge still open).

• Copy pass (no behaviour change):

  • Failure alerts lead with plain language; codes and "fast-forward" appear only as technical detail. git_operation_failed maps reason (auth, network, timeout and so on) to a sentence.
  • The outdated-draft guidance was wrong: it said "save again", but saving keeps the old base. It now says to copy, discard and redo the edit.
  • The remote-changed alert distinguishes "fetch and commit again" from "an unpushed local commit needs manual recovery", using state.ahead.
  • Removed stale strings: "Commit and push arrive in the next update" (editor) and "write scope for commit/push later" (connect-repository token help).
  • History explains that it shows the last fetch.

• Tests: new tests/integration/git-workflow-journey.test.ts with three journeys that cross services:

  1. Draft → commit → (not in history while unpushed) → push → fetch → stack history and detail show the commit only in the stack it touched, with author and diff; the audit carries stack ids but no contents, message or email; drafts are kept.
  2. A push refused for a bad credential returns reason: auth, keeps the commit and drafts, leaks neither token into the response, logs or audit, and has no remote URL in the git.* events; after the credential is fixed, the push succeeds.
  3. The documented manual recovery of a stranded unpushed commit really works and the kept drafts can be committed on the new remote.

  Per-outcome cases already covered in git-workflow.test.ts (outdated, missing identity, validation, remote changed, rejection, infrastructure failures) are not duplicated.

Deferred (not in v0.5.0)

• Deployment routing (PR PR #3 — Source workspace: stacks, VS Code-style editor, drafts, docs #5): DeploymentProvider, Portainer/generic deployment webhooks, forge webhook receiver, relevance rules, selective deploy
• Infisical / SecretProvider (PR feat(release): automated releases, security scanning and GHCR images #6)
• Runtime observation and Deployment Watch (PR build(docker): Bump node from 24-bookworm-slim to 26-bookworm-slim #7)
• PWA / offline drafts (PR build(deps): Bump @playwright/test from 1.56.1 to 1.63.0 in the javascript-dependencies group #8)
• In-app merge/rebase or full conflict editor
• Forge branch / pull request workflow (optional for PR UI/UX plan + UI-1 foundation (tokens, primitives, sidebar shell, UI tests) #4; did not ship)
• SSH remotes; automatic draft cleanup after push

Validation

Run on this branch (rebased onto main):

• pnpm check: format, lint, typecheck; Vitest 27 files / 350 tests passed
• pnpm build: passed
• pnpm test:e2e with E2E_GIT_REMOTE=https://github.com/docker/awesome-compose.git E2E_STACK_ROOT=nginx-golang: 32 passed, 8 skipped (mobile-only skips by design)
• scripts/smoke.sh against the standalone production build: passed
• Migration drift (pnpm db:generate --name ci-drift-check): no schema changes
• pnpm audit --prod: no known vulnerabilities
• All relative Markdown links and anchors checked; one stale anchor in GIT_PROVIDER.md fixed
• Merged with fix: stop the Git workflow getting stuck after a push or page reload #37 locally: clean auto-merge, typecheck and both workflow test files (33 tests) pass

Not run locally: gitleaks and Trivy (CI covers them; no workflow, Dockerfile or lockfile changes here).

Follow-ups (not needed to release v0.5.0 safely)

• Discard an unpushed local commit in-app. It's currently a documented git update-ref -d by the operator (GIT_WORKFLOW.md → "Recovering an unpushed local commit"). The recovery itself is covered by a test, but I couldn't run the exact docker compose exec command against a real container here.
• "Update draft to the current version" for outdated drafts, so users don't have to copy, discard and redo.
• Show unpushed local commits when Changes loads. After fix: stop the Git workflow getting stuck after a push or page reload #37, Push comes back on the next commit attempt, not automatically on page load.
• Sidebar draft badge (UI/UX plan); automatic cleanup of committed drafts after push.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated the v0.5.0 Git workflow guides with details on draft retention, validation, safe pushes, remote changes, and stack history.
  • Clarified Git provider permissions and marked deployment routing as the next planned phase.
• User Experience
  • Improved workflow messages for blocked commits and failed pushes, including guidance for outdated drafts and recovery.
  • Clarified that history reflects the last fetched snapshot and may not include older commits.

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Walkthrough

The changes mark the Git workflow as available in v0.5.0 and update its user and technical documentation. Interface messages clarify workflow outcomes and draft recovery. New integration tests cover history, rejected pushes, and recovery after remote divergence.

Changes

Git workflow release documentation and outcome messaging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release status and documentation navigation AGENTS.md, README.md, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/INDEX.md, docs/index.md, docs/manifest.json, docs/plans/*, docs/providers/GIT_PROVIDER.md	Project status and documentation now identify the Git workflow as available in v0.5.0. They describe the next deployment-routing phase and update links, architecture notes, provider status, and plans.
Workflow instructions and documented constraints docs/GIT_WORKFLOW.md, docs/getting-started.md, docs/SECURITY.md, docs/installation.md, docs/domain/DATA_MODEL.md, src/server/application/git-repository-service.ts, src/server/domain/draft.ts, src/server/persistence/schema.ts, src/server/providers/git/registry.ts	Guidance describes draft retention, validation, tracked-branch pushes, history, failure handling, security controls, and provider permissions. Server comments clarify draft and workflow responsibilities.
Changes, draft, and history messages src/ui/source/changes-view.tsx, src/ui/source/doc-workspace.tsx, src/ui/source/history-view.tsx, src/ui/source/stack-editor.tsx	Interface messages explain commit and push outcomes, remote changes, outdated drafts, and when pushed commits appear in History.
Git workflow journey validation docs/TESTING.md, tests/e2e/changes-commit.spec.ts, tests/e2e/source.spec.ts, tests/integration/git-workflow-journey.test.ts	Test guidance and assertions cover workflow outcomes, history, push rejection with retry, draft retention, and recovery after remote divergence.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to eda09

The remote-change screen explains that retained work must be transferred manually, but the journey tests do not protect that guidance. This is a bounded risk; adding the assertion is a small follow-up before relying on the message.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to eda09

The change affects 5 systems.

Changed systems: docs, src, tests, AGENTS.md, README.md

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Systems and components

• observed — docs (service) was modified; 13 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — src (ui) was modified; 8 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — tests (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — AGENTS.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in AGENTS.md: The active phase changes from PR #4’s Git workflow to PR #5’s deployment routing, with its scope listed; PR #4 is marked complete and released in v0.5.0. Secrets providers, runtime watch, and PWA work remain deferred.
• observed — Modified behavior in AGENTS.md: The architecture reference now identifies the code layout as extended through v0.5.0 instead of through PR #2.
• observed — Modified behavior in README.md: The status text replaces the previous availability and roadmap descriptions: change review is no longer listed as an existing feature, and committing drafts, safe push, and Git history are now described as available in v0.5.0, with their stated validation, push, draft-retention, and history behavior. Deployment routing is now described as next.
• observed — Modified behavior in README.md: Adds a documentation-table link to the Git workflow guide, describing its coverage of commits, pushes, remote changes, and stack history.

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- Around line 129-131: Update the fetched-commit description to distinguish
History from the editor, docs, and environment views: state that those views
include drafts, but History lists commits from the fetched repository state
only.
- Around line 110-113: Update the push-failure guidance in the Stack Manager
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readers with a retained local commit to the recovery instructions in
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tests/e2e/changes-commit.spec.ts (1)

213-214: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the retained-commit recovery instructions.

The remote-changed E2E test checks that the SHA was not pushed and that Stack Manager never force-pushes. It does not check the new instruction that merge and rebase are unavailable and the work must be brought across by hand. The integration journey tests the backend recovery flow, not the alert text. If the alert loses this guidance, both tests can still pass.

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   await expect(page.getByText(/never force pushes/i)).toBeVisible();
   await expect(page.getByText(/aaaaaaa was not pushed/)).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(
+    page.getByText(/can't merge or rebase yet, so this work needs to be brought across by hand/i),
+  ).toBeVisible();

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Review comment at @tests/e2e/changes-commit.spec.ts around lines 213 - 214:
Update the remote-changed E2E test near the assertions for force-push behavior
and the unpushed SHA to also assert that the alert says merge and rebase are
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