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pre-push hook wedges indefinitely (5h19m observed) — silently converts "pushed" into "didn't"

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
git, python, shell
Domain
developer-experience, devtools, testing

Research direction

Start with .githooks/pre-push and scripts/run_tests.sh, then reproduce the hanging push while checking which gate is still running. Trace the reported uv/pytest, lock, file-descriptor, or child-process behavior without assuming the cause. Done means each gate reports progress, hangs fail loudly within its timeout, and the existing test or CI path confirms normal pushes still work.

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Description

Observed 2026-08-20 on brainlayer main checkout.

git push with the pre-push hook ran 5h 19m on one attempt and hung past 10 minutes on a second, with no test process alive underneath (pgrep pytest empty while .githooks/pre-push + scripts/run_tests.sh sat at 05:19:48 elapsed). A full suite normally takes ~14 minutes.

Impact is worse than a slow gate: the push never lands, the shell reports nothing, and the agent believes the branch is pushed. PR #727 sat at the OLD head for hours while its fixes were committed locally — the false-"pushed" state was caught only because Etan checked the live PR head. A gate that hangs converts "pushed" into "didn't" with no signal.

Asks:

  1. Hard timeout inside .githooks/pre-push (per-gate, not just overall) that FAILS LOUDLY rather than hanging.
  2. Find the wedge: likely a gate waiting on something that never arrives (uv/pytest child reaped, lock, or a fd/EMFILE condition — the Codex lane on the same tree reported EMFILE on a broad pytest run the same morning).
  3. Progress output so a hung gate is visibly hung.
  4. Until fixed: agents must verify a push by git log origin/<branch> or the PR headSha, never by the absence of an error.

Workaround used: git push --no-verify with CI as the gate, declared explicitly in the PR/collab.

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