Six Git Checks After an AI-Assisted Change — And What They Cannot Guarantee

Description and use

<p>A coding assistant changes the two files you asked it to edit. The diff looks reasonable. Is the next Git operation safe to proceed?</p> <p>Not necessarily. You might be in the wrong repository. An extra file might already be staged. The branch or configured push destination might have changed. Or the secret scanner might have failed to run at all.</p> <p>These are not necessarily mistakes in the generated code. They are mismatches between <strong>the workflow you authorized</strong> and <strong>the Git state that actually exists</strong>.</p> <p>I built a small, <a href="https://github.com

Problem

<p>A coding assistant changes the two files you asked it to edit. The diff looks reasonable. Is the next Git operation safe to proceed?</p> <p>Not necessarily. You might be in the wrong repository. An extra file might already be staged. The branch or configured push destination might have changed. Or the secret scanner might have failed to run at all.</p> <p>These are not necessarily mistakes in the generated code. They are mismatches between <strong>the workflow you authorized</strong> and <strong>the Git state that actually exists</strong>.</p> <p>I built a small, <a href="https://github.com

Outcome

<p>A coding assistant changes the two files you asked it to edit. The diff looks reasonable. Is the next Git operation safe to proceed?</p> <p>Not necessarily. You might be in the wrong repository. An extra file might already be staged. The branch or configured push destination might have changed. Or the secret scanner might have failed to run at all.</p> <p>These are not necessarily mistakes in the generated code. They are mismatches between <strong>the workflow you authorized</strong> and <strong>the Git state that actually exists</strong>.</p> <p>I built a small, <a href="https://github.com

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Six Git Checks After an AI-Assisted Change — And What They Cannot Guarantee

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