{"record":{"id":"83e98e91c9ce37ee","repo":"santifer/career-ops","slug":"update-commit-failed-files-may-be-staged-but-not","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"Update commit failed (files may be staged but not committed).\n    Error: ${e.message.split('\\n')[0]}\n    Please run manually to finish the update:\n    ${recovery}","messagePattern":"Update commit failed \\(files may be staged but not committed\\)\\.\n    Error: (.+?)\n    Please run manually to finish the update:\n    (.+?)","errorType":"exception","errorClass":null,"httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"update-system.mjs","lineNumber":2176,"sourceCode":"        const entries = gitStatusEntries();\n        const changedPaths = new Set(entries.map(entry => entry.path));\n        const allTargetPaths = [...pathsToStage, ...materializedSkillEntrypoints];\n        commitFailed = allTargetPaths.some(p => changedPaths.has(p));\n      } catch (err) {\n        commitFailed = true;\n      }\n\n      if (commitFailed) {\n        const allTargetPaths = [...pathsToStage, ...materializedSkillEntrypoints];\n        const pathspec = allTargetPaths.map(p => `'${p.replace(/'/g, \"'\\\\''\")}'`).join(' ');\n        // Print the command matching the path actually taken. Suggesting the\n        // pathspec form after the index form was selected would tell the user to\n        // run the very thing that drops the staged mode bits — a recovery step\n        // that quietly reintroduces the bug it is recovering from.\n        const recovery = usedIndexCommit\n          ? `git commit -m \"chore: auto-update system files to v${remote}\"`\n          : `git commit -m \"chore: auto-update system files to v${remote}\" -- ${pathspec}`;\n        throw new Error(\n          `Update commit failed (files may be staged but not committed).\\n` +\n          `    Error: ${e.message.split('\\n')[0]}\\n` +\n          `    Please run manually to finish the update:\\n` +\n          `    ${recovery}`\n        );\n      }\n      // Otherwise, genuinely nothing to commit (already up to date)\n    }\n\n    // Verify the update actually produced a coherent install before claiming\n    // success. A client whose local manifest predates the target checks out\n    // only the paths ITS OWN manifest lists, so everything added upstream since\n    // is silently absent and the next script dies with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND.\n    // Re-running apply fixes it (the first pass did update update-system.mjs\n    // itself, so the second pass uses the target manifest) — but only if the\n    // user is told, instead of being shown \"Update complete\" (#1998).\n    const unmaterialized = missingFromTargetManifest(remoteSystemPaths);\n    if (unmaterialized.length > 0) {","sourceCodeStart":2158,"sourceCodeEnd":2194,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/santifer/career-ops/blob/60398d6549a46f5266929538af21cfab94badc75/update-system.mjs#L2158-L2194","documentation":"The final step of `update-system.mjs apply` commits the staged system files (chore: auto-update system files to vX.Y.Z). If `git commit` fails while the changed paths are still staged (confirmed via git status), apply throws this error with a ready-to-copy recovery command that matches the strategy actually used: a plain commit after an index-wide stage, or a pathspec commit when paths were staged individually — the pathspec form preserves staged file modes, so suggesting the wrong one would quietly reintroduce the bug it recovers from.","triggerScenarios":"No git identity configured (user.name/user.email unset, git aborts with 'Please tell me who you are'); a pre-commit hook (husky, pre-commit framework) rejecting the auto-commit; index.lock held by a concurrent git process; detached HEAD or read-only .git.","commonSituations":"Fresh machines and CI runners that never ran git config; hook managers intercepting maintenance commits; users who never let tooling commit.","solutions":["Run the exact `git commit ...` command printed in the error — the files are already staged","If the underlying error was missing identity: git config --global user.name 'Your Name' and user.email, then run the recovery commit","If a hook rejected it, read the hook output and fix or consciously bypass with --no-verify before committing","Verify afterwards with `git log -1` and `git status`"],"exampleFix":"git config --global user.name 'Your Name'\ngit config --global user.email 'you@example.com'\ngit commit -m \"chore: auto-update system files to v1.9.0\"","handlingStrategy":"validation","validationCode":"import { execSync } from 'child_process';\nconst hasIdentity = (() => { try { execSync('git config user.email', { stdio: 'pipe' }); return true; } catch { return false; } })();\nif (!hasIdentity) throw new Error('configure git user.name and user.email before running the updater');","typeGuard":null,"tryCatchPattern":null,"preventionTips":["Configure git identity on every new machine/CI runner before first update","Keep pre-commit hooks from blocking automated maintenance commits (or allowlist them)","Expect one 'chore: auto-update system files' commit per update in your history"],"tags":["git","commit","updater","recovery"],"backgroundTag":"git-commit-failed","analyzedSha":"60398d6549a46f5266929538af21cfab94badc75","analyzedAt":"2026-08-20T23:00:06.764Z","contentChangedAt":null,"schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-09-14T05:17:10.506Z"}