The bare origin had no main HEAD, so the clone had no commits and stage_repository
re-cloned it as an interrupted install; a plain-path clone also ignores --filter.
The test passed on the unfixed installer. Use -b main and a file:// URL, and assert
the checkout was converted in place.
Installers have cloned with --filter=tree:0 since c3e9ac87a7. A treeless
clone keeps commits only, and git requests a missing tree without telling
the server which trees it already has, so every checkout and every
path-filtered history walk re-downloads complete directory snapshots
(~0.58 MB per commit for this repo). GitHub's own guidance is that
treeless clones are for throwaway CI builds, not long-lived checkouts;
the blobless layout keeps every commit and tree local and fetches only
file contents on demand.
- install.sh / install.ps1 clone --filter=blob:none (same release tags,
--commit pins and ancestor checks the treeless switch was made for).
- hermes update (post-update step) converts an existing tree:0 checkout once with
`git fetch --refetch --filter=blob:none origin` (~120 MB, ~8 s
from GitHub) and records the new filter only after it succeeds, so a
failed refetch retries next update.
- The shallow-heal conversion unshallows as blob:none instead of tree:0.
- checkout_contains asks git with GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH: a recorded SHA the
checkout lacks is "not contained", never a download of that commit's
whole history.
`scripts/run_tests.sh tests/<dir>/` is how a change gets its regression
coverage run, so a test filed under the wrong directory is a test nobody
runs when that code changes. Two kinds of drift had accumulated.
Parallel directories for one source package, folded into the mirror:
tests/acp -> tests/acp_adapter (its __init__/conftest move with it)
tests/cli -> tests/hermes_cli (prompt_toolkit fixture merged into
hermes_cli/conftest.py)
tests/run_agent -> tests/agent (backoff fixture becomes
agent/conftest.py)
tests/relay -> tests/gateway/relay
tests/state -> tests/hermes_state
246 loose files at tests/ root, routed by the package they import/patch:
hermes_cli, hermes_state, agent, gateway, tools, plugins, tui_gateway, cron.
Installer and desktop-update script tests go to tests/scripts/{install,
desktop_update}/. 43 tests of root-level modules (batch_runner, utils,
hermes_constants, packaging) stay at the root.
Filenames drop their issue numbers (95 files: test_89315_x.py -> test_x.py);
the number stays in the module docstring where it has context.
Collisions: test_cli_skin_integration.py existed in both tests/ and tests/cli
with different subsets — merged into one (10 tests, all kept);
run_agent/test_pre_compress_memory_context.py -> agent/..._handoff.py;
tests/test_account_usage.py -> agent/test_account_usage_fetch.py;
tests/test_web_server.py -> hermes_cli/test_web_server_ws_ping.py.
Deleted: test_minisweagent_path.py (empty since PR #2804),
test_model_picker_scroll.py (tested a private copy of the logic, imported
nothing), test_process_loop_event_loop_warning.py (asserted asyncio behaviour,
imported nothing from Hermes).
Repo-root path arithmetic (Path(__file__).parents[N], dirname chains) is
bumped for the 202 files that changed depth and verified by evaluating every
such expression against the new location. classify_changes' desktop-updater
lane prefix, tests-os.yml's ignore glob and every in-tree path comment follow
the moves. tests/test_tests_tree_layout.py keeps the tree from drifting back.
