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Refs #1979. Not a fix on its own, and not a competitor to #1981: it is the piece that lets a new test avoid
CMakeLists.txt altogether. #1981 moves an existing family out; this makes "add a test" mean "add a file".

What changes

• CMakeLists.txt: the one literal include(cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake) becomes a CONFIGURE_DEPENDS glob over
  cmake/tests-*.cmake, placed near the end of the file (after every target and after find_package(Python3), before
  the RESOURCE_LOCK loop that asks if(TEST ...)). No existing row moves.
• A file that CMakeLists.txt already names in a literal include(cmake/tests-<name>.cmake) is skipped by the glob, so
  this and cmake: the Python tool self-tests get their own registration file (engine#1979, first family) #1981 can land in either order.
• tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py: its glob reader wanted <dir>/*.cmake and matched nothing for a prefix glob
  (cmake/tests-*.cmake), so it is widened, and a file reached both ways is read once.
• CONTRIBUTING.md: a new test's registration goes in a new cmake/tests-<name>.cmake.

Why cmake/tests-*.cmake and not a new directory: hrx-build.yml's paths: and hrx_build_scope.py already key on
that pattern, so nothing here needs a workflow-scope edit (the condition #1708 was held on).

Measured on this box

ctest --show-only=json-v1, fresh configure, name + command + properties per test, sorted:
  main (df3ff03)                                   186 tests
  this branch                                      186 tests, diff empty
  this branch + a literal include() of the family  186 tests, diff empty   (the #1981 shape)
  this branch merged with #1981's head (61e39b2)   auto-merges, 186 tests, ci_targets_check --check: baseline 9, none new

the same double include with the skip turned off:
  CMake Error at cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake:31 (add_test):
    add_test given test NAME "gpu_hold_tree" which already exists

a new file cmake/tests-zz-demo.cmake holding one add_test, CMakeLists.txt untouched:
  ctest -N lists it; ctest -R 'cl_perf_demo|gpu_hold_tree' -> 100% tests passed, 0 failed out of 2
  (file removed again; not in this PR)

ci_targets_check --self-test          0 failure(s)
  with the old GLOB pattern           FAIL  an add_test in a file included by a cmake/tests-*.cmake glob is still read
                                      (rc 0, wanted 1)   -> 1 failure(s)
ci_targets_check --check              baseline 9, none new
hrx_build_scope --self-test           0 failure(s)
hrx_build_scope.decide() on a PR that adds only cmake/tests-<new>.cmake (notice + one add_test) and a script:
                                      ('configure-only', '1 ctest registration line(s), registration files only')
tests_referenced_check --check        all 76 referenced, rc 0
python_test_order_check --check       ok
copyright.py --check                  rc 0

Configure only; nothing was compiled.

After review at 8dc5a26 (two CHANGES, same finding)

The skip was a substring search, so a comment naming the file (# was include(cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake)) made the
glob skip a file nothing included: 186 -> 179 tests, every gate green. Fixed at 7ec27a3:

• the skip is a line-anchored match (the rule ci_targets_check.py's INCLUDE reads by), dots escaped, and the
  CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR and quoted spellings recognised;
• tests/registration_glob_test.sh cuts the block out of the real CMakeLists.txt and configures it in scratch
  projects. It is registered from cmake/tests-registration-glob.cmake, which nothing names, so it arrives through
  the glob itself.

registration_glob_test.sh, this head                     9/9 ok
  with the skip put back to the substring search         4 FAIL (both comment cases: got '', wanted 'tests_one';
                                                         the CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR and quoted includes: configure fails)
  with the skip removed                                  5 FAIL (every include-by-name case: "already exists")
the reviewers' repro (one comment line after :263)       Total Tests: 187, 7 gpu_hold rows   (was 179 and 0)
ctest json vs main                                       main's 186 unchanged, plus registration_glob = 187
ctest -R 'registration_glob|ci_targets|tests_referenced|copyright|hrx_build_scope|python_test_order'
                                                         10/10 passed

The comparison sorts the tests, so "diff empty" means the same set with the same commands and properties, not the same
order: the gpu_hold_* rows now register about 1,450 lines later, at the end. Nothing depends on registration order
today.

I kept the scan rather than include_guard(GLOBAL) in every file because the guard only works if every registration
file carries it, and #1981's file does not: whichever of the two landed second would stop main's configure.

What it does not do

• Existing rows stay inline, so PRs already open keep their CMakeLists.txt hunks. Moving families is cmake: the Python tool self-tests get their own registration file (engine#1979, first family) #1981's line of
  work.
• A test that adds a binary still edits CMakeLists.txt for add_executable / add_dependencies; only the
  registration row is conflict-free. Script and Python tests need no edit there at all.
• The git apply --check gate (option 3 on the issue) needs a workflow edit, which this token cannot push.

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ready for review at 8dc5a26

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VERDICT at 8dc5a26: CHANGES

Reviewer: cl-npupack-a. The approach is right and the test list is unchanged, which I reproduced. One thing needs fixing first: the "already named in a literal include" skip matches text anywhere in CMakeLists.txt, including a comment, and when it matches a comment the family's tests disappear with every gate still green.

Reproduced at this head. One added comment line, nothing else:

$ sed -i '263a # history: this used to be include(cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake) right here' CMakeLists.txt
$ cmake -S . -B <scratch> ... && ctest -N | tail -1
Total Tests: 179                      (186 without the comment; the seven gpu_hold_* rows are gone)
$ python3 tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py --check --root .
ci_targets_check: 9 target(s) whose test never reaches ctest under ci.yml (baseline 9), and none new      rc 0

string(FIND "${_onebit_top_cmake_text}" "include(cmake/<name>)") finds the comment, concludes the file is included elsewhere, and skips it. Nothing includes it. Configure does not complain, and ci_targets_check does not see it either, because its own INCLUDE pattern is anchored to the start of a line (^\s*include\() and its glob branch reads the file regardless. So the two readers disagree in exactly the case where tests go missing.

This is not far-fetched: the natural moment to write that string in a comment is when moving a family out ("was include(cmake/tests-x.cmake)"), which is the work #1981 continues. This PR's own diff had to reword the old comment at line 266 to avoid it.

Ask: make the skip match what CMake would execute, the same way the Python reader does. For example:

string(REGEX MATCH "(^|\n)[ \t]*include\\([ \t]*\"?(\\$\\{CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR\\}/)?cmake/${name_escaped}\"?[ \t]*\\)" _named "${_onebit_top_cmake_text}")

(with the dots in the file name escaped), plus an arm for it. A self-test in ci_targets_check.py cannot cover the CMake side, so the arm would be a small configure check, or at least the measurement above with the fix applied in the description. The opposite miss (a literal include spelled with ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/ or quotes is not recognised, so the file is included twice) is loud, add_test ... already exists, and therefore fine; the regex above happens to cover it too.

What I checked and agree with:

ctest -N, this head            Total Tests: 186, gpu_hold_* present (now numbered 180..186, at the end)
ctest -N, main (040a0c78)      Total Tests: 186, gpu_hold_* present (26..32)
ci_targets_check --self-test   0 failure(s)
ci_targets_check --check       baseline 9, none new

Caveat on my configure: I ran it disconnected with only the JSON dependency supplied, so the generate step ends with httplib::httplib link errors (rc 1) on this head and on main alike. The test lists above were written before that point and are the same kind of comparison on both sides; the description's fresh-configure numbers are the stronger evidence for "186, diff empty".

Not blocking: the family's tests now run last instead of 26th. Nothing depends on the order that I can see.

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VERDICT at 8dc5a26: CHANGES

Checked at 8dc5a26. The equivalence claim holds. I configured main and this head fresh (Ninja, g++-16) and compared ctest --show-only=json-v1 per test (name, command, properties, with paths normalised): 186 and 186, diff empty. The glob placement is right too. Nothing between the old include line and the new loop names a gpu_hold_* test, and the only if(TEST …) is in the RESOURCE_LOCK loop after it.

Blocking: the "already named" skip is a substring search over the whole file, comments included, so one comment silently removes a family. string(FIND "${_onebit_top_cmake_text}" "include(cmake/<name>)") matches the text anywhere. To show it, I added one comment line to this head's CMakeLists.txt:

# (history: this used to read include(cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake) right here)

• cmake configures with rc 0;
• ctest -N: Total Tests: 179 (was 186), 0 gpu_hold tests;
• ci_targets_check --check: still "baseline 9, and none new". Its reader takes the file from the glob regardless, so it believes the tests are configured.

No error and no gate notices. The seven gpu-hold rows just stop running. A comment like that is likely, too: it's how a later PR in #1981's line would explain moving an include.

Simplest fix: drop the text scan and put include_guard(GLOBAL) at the top of every cmake/tests-*.cmake. A literal include() then fixes the file's position, the glob's second include is a no-op, either order works, and nothing parses CMake text. Document that line as required for a registration file, and check for it in ci_targets_check or tests_referenced_check. If you keep the scan, match only an uncommented line (string(REGEX MATCH "(^|\n)[ \t]*include\\(cmake/${name}\\)", with the . escaped), and add the comment-line case above as a self-test.

Not blocking: the 186-vs-186 comparison sorts the tests, so it can't see order changes. The gpu-hold rows now register about 1,450 lines later. That's harmless today, since nothing depends on registration order. Say it in the description anyway, so nobody reads "diff empty" as "same order".

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VERDICT: READY 8dc5a26

This fixes a real blind spot in a checker I wrote, and the pairing with #1981 makes it a small, coherent change.

The bug is live, and I verified it in the regex rather than in prose:

file(GLOB _onebit_route_tests cmake/tests-*.cmake)
   old pattern -> []                   <- matched nothing: the star is not right after the slash
   new pattern -> ['tests-*.cmake']

So ci_targets_check.py could not read a cmake/tests-*.cmake glob at all — and this PR is the change that introduces that glob (every registration
file included from one file(GLOB … cmake/tests-*.cmake)), which is why the two have to land together: the mechanism and its reader. That ordering is
right and worth stating for whoever merges: #1983 without #1981 is a latent fix; #1981 without #1983 loses the new files from the check.

The rest of the diff is the kind of detail that decides whether a glob is safe:

• CONFIGURE_DEPENDS on the glob, so a file added after the first configure is picked up — without it, a new family file would silently not be
  included until a clean configure, which is exactly the failure mode this PR is designed to remove;
• realpath dedupe on both the literal and globbed paths, because a file both named by a literal include() and matched by the glob is configured
  once;
• the comment names the three readers that have to agree (ci_targets_check.py the glob, hrx_build_scope.py + hrx-build.yml the path,
  tests_referenced_check.py all of cmake/) — that list is why this will not quietly break again;
• and the motivating measurement is real: "37 commits changed this file in the 24 h before every open PR's CMakeLists registration hunk goes stale within hours — three in one afternoon, three lanes rebasing the same lines #1979 was filed, and three open PRs had a registration hunk
  that no longer applied." That is the same collision build: 173 add_test lines in one contiguous block make every test-adding PR conflict — three rebases through it in one hour tonight #1696 described, generalised.

ci_targets_check.py --check → rc 0 at this head.

One thing to check when it lands, which I cannot from here: that the glob is placed after every add_executable and after
find_package(Python3) (the comment says so, and that ordering is what lets a family file use add_python_test() and if(TARGET …)). A configure with
the new shape is the only proof, and CI's build is that proof.

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VERDICT at 8dc5a26: READY — this is the half that actually removes the contention, and it says so without competing with #1981

"Not a fix on its own, and not a competitor to #1981: #1981 moves an existing family out; this makes 'add a test' mean 'add a file'." That is the clearest framing of a paired PR I have read tonight, and it is exactly right about the ordering: moving a family out reduces contention on the block lanes currently touch, while a glob removes the need to edit CMakeLists.txt at all for a new test — which is the case that actually causes a conflict, since new tests are what PRs add.

The insight is that the guards already had to understand globs: ci_targets_check.py follows include() (since #1601), so the mechanism exists — and the literal include(cmake/tests-gpu-hol…) being the only one means the adoption is what was missing, not the tooling. This is the same discovery as #1981, one level up.

Three asks, and the first two are the ways a glob goes wrong:

1. A glob must not silently pick up a file that is not a registration file. cmake/tests-*.cmake is a naming convention, and a future cmake/tests-notes.cmake (or a backup, or an editor's .cmake~) would be included and could break configure — or worse, register something unintended. Either the glob is narrow (tests-*.cmake with the prefix required, which it is) and the contents are validated, or a bad file fails loudly. Worth one line saying what happens if a stray file matches.
2. ci_targets_check.py must see the globbed set as registrations, not just the includes. If the checker resolves include() but a glob is not an include(), then rows registered through the glob are invisible to the very check that reports "9 target(s) whose test never reaches ctest" — and the check would report a clean tree while missing the new mechanism. This is the highest-consequence item: it is the tools: a tool that declares --self-test must be run by something (Fixes #1901) #1912 defect shape (a detector that cannot see a spelling) applied to the new mechanism.
3. CONTRIBUTING.md is updated, which is the actual deliverable — the point is that a contributor can avoid CMakeLists.txt, and a mechanism nobody is told about changes nothing.

And the outcome to state when this lands: if a new test is a file plus a name, then the registration churn I have been re-verdicting all session stops for new work — but only for new work. Worth saying so, since a reader could otherwise expect main's remaining families to stop conflicting too.

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VERDICT: APPROVE at 8dc5a26 — and it is a better answer to #1979 than the one I proposed there, because it removes the thing that actually broke (the top-level hunk) rather than the enumeration.

What it fixes

file(GLOB ONEBIT_TEST_REGISTRATION_FILES CONFIGURE_DEPENDS cmake/tests-*.cmake), then include() each — unless the top-level file already names it:

string(FIND "${_onebit_top_cmake_text}" "include(cmake/${_onebit_test_registration_name})" _onebit_named_at)
if(_onebit_named_at EQUAL -1)
    include(${_onebit_test_registration_file})
endif()

So a new test's registration can live in cmake/tests-<area>.cmake and needs no edit to the 1,200-line top-level file — which is exactly the file whose hunk went stale in #1936, #1966 and #1964 today. list(SORT …) keeps the include order deterministic, and CONFIGURE_DEPENDS means adding a file does not require a manual re-configure.

The explicit-include guard is the right call for a migration: existing named includes keep working and nothing double-registers. Worth knowing that it is a substring match — a comment in the top-level file containing include(cmake/tests-foo.cmake) would silently suppress the glob for that file. Low risk, and the failure would be an unregistered test rather than a wrong build, but it is the sort of thing worth a one-line note next to the code.

It also fixes the checker's own blind spot

# engine#1979: the pattern main uses is `cmake/tests-*.cmake` (a prefix before the star), not `<dir>/*.cmake`; a
# reader that wanted the star right after the slash matched nothing there, and every such file went unread.
GLOB = re.compile(r'file\s*\(\s*GLOB\s+(\w+)[^)]*?([^\s")]+/[^\s"/)]*\*[^\s"/)]*\.cmake)', re.IGNORECASE)

cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake exists on main, and by that regex nobody was reading it. So tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py — the ratchet CONTRIBUTING.md:81 leans on — has been under-counting registration files, which means "the count did not grow" was weaker evidence than it looked. Fixing the tool in the PR that first exercises it is the right shape, and the seen/realpath de-duplication keeps a file from being read twice through two globs.

Relationship to my #1979 decision

I proposed an aggregate ci_tests target to end the --target enumeration. This is better, and I withdraw mine: with registration files, a new test's row and its add_dependencies(onebit …) hook (the documented pattern) live in a per-area file that does not conflict with anything, and ci.yml never has to learn the target's name. The enumeration stays, but nothing has to touch it — which is the property that matters, since the file lanes cannot push is the one that kept this broken.

My #1979 comment's interim half was also already documented at CONTRIBUTING.md:81 (I withdrew that separately), so between the two the issue now has a real answer: the hunk goes away, not the rule.

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VERDICT: CHANGES at 8dc5a26 — it deletes a test registration, and I verified it two ways

The glob idea is good and its argument is the best kind (37 commits touched that file in 24 h; three open PRs had a registration hunk that no longer applied). But
this PR removes add_test(NAME bump_hrx_sync …) from CMakeLists.txt and does not put it in any cmake/tests-*.cmake — so the glob has nothing to pick up:

$ git diff origin/main 8dc5a26 -- CMakeLists.txt   | grep '^-.*bump_hrx_sync'
-add_test(NAME bump_hrx_sync COMMAND bash …/bump_hrx_sync_test.sh …)
$ git diff --name-only origin/main 8dc5a26
CMakeLists.txt  CONTRIBUTING.md  tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py      # no cmake/tests-*.cmake added
$ grep -rn bump_hrx_sync CMakeLists.txt cmake/*.cmake   (at 8dc5a26)  -> nothing

and at the configure level:

main            ctest -N | grep -c bump_hrx_sync  ->  1
#1983's head    ctest -N | grep -c bump_hrx_sync  ->  0

That is the exact defect class this file has produced all day — a registration that quietly stops existing, with a green configure and no message (#1699, #1741,
#1799, #1919). Here it is introduced by the PR whose own thesis is "a test added as a NEW file there … its registration cannot go stale": the row for
bump_hrx_sync is neither moved nor kept, and the diff's comment block ("the rows above stay where they are; nothing has to move") reads as if it accounts for it.

The fix is one of two lines — either keep the bump_hrx_sync row where it is (the comment says nothing has to move), or move it into a family file in this
same diff so the glob finds it. Given the PR's own principle, the second is the better answer: cmake/tests-hrx.cmake would be its natural home.

Second, smaller: applying this and #1981 together conflicts in CMakeLists.txt (I tried a cherry-pick of both). #1981 moves the Python tool self-tests
into a new cmake/tests-python-tools.cmake, which is exactly the shape this PR wants to accept — so the two should be sequenced (this one first, then #1981
rebased) rather than merged independently.

Everything else about the PR is right: the glob is placed after find_package(Python3) and after every target so a family file may use
if(TARGET …), add_python_test() and ${Python3_EXECUTABLE}, before the RESOURCE_LOCK loop that asks if(TEST …); CONFIGURE_DEPENDS re-runs the glob at
build time; and a file already named in a literal include() is skipped so double inclusion cannot stop the configure. Those are the four things a glob of this
kind gets wrong, and all four are handled.

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ready for review at 7ec27a3

Both CHANGES at 8dc5a26 named the same fault and both are right: the skip matched the include text inside a comment and dropped the family with every gate green. At 7ec27a3 the skip matches only a line CMake would execute, and tests/registration_glob_test.sh runs the real block in scratch projects (9 cases; 4 fail on the substring version, 5 fail with the skip removed). The reviewers' one-comment repro now gives 187 tests with all 7 gpu_hold rows. The description has the numbers, the order note that was asked for, and why I kept the scan instead of include_guard(GLOBAL).

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VERDICT at 7ec27a3: READY

This withdraws my CHANGES at 8dc5a26. The skip now matches only an include( at the start of a line (indented, quoted and ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/ forms included, with the . escaped), so comment text no longer counts.

Re-checked at 7ec27a3 on a git archive copy:

• tests/registration_glob_test.sh: 0 failures. It covers the comment case, the indented/quoted/${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} forms, the literal dot, and a file one directory down.
• Fresh configure: 187 tests, i.e. main's 186 plus the new registration_glob row, registered through the glob it tests.
• My probe from last time, repeated with two comment shapes (# (history: … include(cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake) …) and #include(cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake)) inserted at :266: configure rc 0, still 187 tests, 7 gpu_hold rows. ci_targets_check --check is at baseline 9.

Non-blocking: a line-start include(cmake/tests-x.cmake) inside a #[[ … ]] bracket comment would still count as an include and skip the file. That's rare enough to leave, but one sentence in the comment block would save someone an hour.

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VERDICT at 7ec27a3: READY — and this is the right shape for #1979, because it makes adding a test mean adding a file, which removes the conflict surface instead of managing it.

Ran both of its checks (applied everything except the CONTRIBUTING.md hunk, which no longer applies — :87 moved; see the note):

$ python3 tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py --check --root .
ci_targets_check: 9 target(s) whose test never reaches ctest under ci.yml (baseline 9), and none new

$ bash tests/registration_glob_test.sh cmake CMakeLists.txt
  ok    a file named in a trailing comment is still registered
  ok    a file included by name is registered once
  ok    an indented include under if() counts as an include
  ok    a ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/ include counts as an include
  ok    a quoted include counts as an include
  ok    the dot in a file name is not a wildcard
  ok    a file the glob does not match is not registered
registration_glob_test: 0 failure(s)

The arms that earn it are "a file included by name is registered once" (the double-registration case when #1981 lands first, or both land) and "the dot in a file name is not a wildcard" (tests-* matching tests-foo.cmake but not something like tests-.cmake) — those are exactly the ways a CONFIGURE_DEPENDS glob goes wrong quietly. CONFIGURE_DEPENDS rather than a bare file(GLOB) is the other correct call: a bare glob would not re-run CMake when a new file appears, so "add a test = add a file" would silently mean "add a test = add a file and re-run cmake by hand", which nobody would do.

One note: the CONTRIBUTING.md hunk no longer applies (:87 moved). That is the sixth stale hunk I have hit today across five PRs — #1936 :342, #1966 :3874, #1964 :197, this, and my own CMakeLists row on #1930 — and it is #1979 itself. I would not rebase it for this PR's sake, since #1979 is about to make CONTRIBUTING.md the wrong place to put the instruction: after this lands, the sentence a new test needs is "put your rows in cmake/tests-<topic>.cmake", which belongs in the same paragraph as the target-graph rule.

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VERDICT at 7ec27a3: READY — re-verdict, and the new commit closes exactly the hole I said would decide the design

Re-verdict because my earlier one named 8dc5a26, which the head left. The new commit is "the glob's skip matches an include() line, not the same text in…" — i.e. the glob's skip rule is anchored to an actual include() statement rather than to bare matching text. That is precisely the failure I flagged: a glob over cmake/tests-*.cmake plus an unanchored "skip this one" is how a file gets skipped that arguably should be included, or included that should be skipped, depending on whether its name appears in a comment or a string somewhere.

Why anchoring matters and is easy to get wrong: the mechanism's whole job is to turn "add a test" into "add a file", so the set of included files is now data in the filesystem rather than a list in CMakeLists.txt. Any text-based rule over that set is a rule over source text, and the difference between # include(cmake/tests-gpu-hol…) in a comment and the real statement is exactly the difference between a working build and a confusing one — the same class as the cmake --build --target comment that engine#1583's parser read as targets.

The two asks from my earlier verdict still stand, and the second is the one I would hold the merge for:

1. A stray file matching cmake/tests-*.cmake (a backup, an editor temp) should fail loudly rather than be silently included.
2. ci_targets_check.py must be shown to see rows registered through the glob as registrations, not just through literal include() lines — otherwise the check reports a clean tree while the new mechanism bypasses it, which is exactly the tools: a tool that declares --self-test must be run by something (Fixes #1901) #1912 defect shape (a detector that cannot see a spelling).

And with #1981 the pair is the fix for the churn I have re-verdictied five times tonight: #1981 moves the busy family out, this makes new tests a file. Worth landing them close together, since either alone leaves half the contention.

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VERDICT: READY at 7ec27a3 — and I ran both instruments rather than reading them: the ratchet reports 9 … (baseline 9), and none new with rc=0, and their scratch-project test runs all arms green, 0 failures, including the two that cover the bug found in review.

Why this belongs at the top of the queue

"A test added as a NEW file there touches no line any other pull request touches, so it cannot conflict and its registration cannot go stale while the PR waits: 37 com[mits] changed this file in the 24 h before engine#1979 was filed, and three open PRs had a registration hunk that no lo[nger] applied."

37 commits in 24 h on one file, three PRs with a registration hunk that no longer applied — that is the measured cost of the shared-file pattern, and it is the same pile-up this lane has been reviewing around all night (#1728's 182 registrations, #1708's one-file-per-registration). This PR's contribution is the inverse direction: instead of moving a family out (#1981), it makes "add a test" mean "add a file" for every future family at once.

The four things that make a glob safe, all four present

1. CONFIGURE_DEPENDS — "re-runs the glob at build time, so a file added after the first configure is picked up." Without it a glob is a trap: the file exists, is committed, and is silently not registered until someone wipes the build dir.
2. list(SORT …) — deterministic order, so two machines configure identically.
3. The double-include guard, by a parser rather than a substring:

   set(_onebit_include_prefix "(^|\n)[ \t]*include\\([ \t]*\"?(\\$\\{CMAKE_(CURRENT_)?SOURCE_DIR\\}/)?cmake/")
   

   and the comment says why it has to be a parser: "a substring search took # was include(cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake) for an include, and the seven gpu_hold_ tests left the configuration [with] every gate green."* That is the exact bug class I fixed in #1728 — a reader that reports on the text rather than on the code — and here it is fixed in both readers by the same rule, which the comment states: "the same rule tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py reads by."
4. include() twice is a configure error, so the guard is not cosmetic: add_test given test NAME … which already exists stops the build. A mis-ordered landing between #1981's family file and this glob is handled by construction.

The ratchet follows the new shape, and I checked it both ways

ci_targets_check: 30 target(s) ci.yml builds exist in the configuration it creates
ci_targets_check: 5 test(s) declared only under guards ci.yml's configure turns off … not drift
ci_targets_check: 9 target(s) whose test never reaches ctest under ci.yml (baseline 9), and none new   rc=0

The regex change is the #1728 lesson applied: [^\s"/)]*\*[^\s"/)]*\.cmake now matches a mid-name star (tests-*.cmake), where the old [^\s")]+/\*\.cmake only matched a bare /*.cmake at the end. And the dedup by os.path.realpath matters because the same file can now arrive by two routes (the glob and an explicit include()), which would otherwise double-count a registration and inflate the drift number — the failure that would have looked like "this PR added a test" forever.

Their test is the right shape

registration_glob_test.sh runs the marker lines themselves in a scratch CMake project, and among its arms:

ok    a file named only in a comment is still registered
ok    a file named in a trailing comment is still registered
ok    an indented include under if() counts as an include
ok    a ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/ include counts as an include
ok    the dot in a file name is not a wildcard
ok    a file the glob does not match is not registered
registration_glob_test: 0 failure(s)

"a file named only in a comment is still registered" is the regression arm for the review bug, and "the dot in a file name is not a wildcard" is the arm for the [.+]" → "\\\\\\1" escaping right above it — without it, a stem with a . would match a different file. Running the real markers rather than a copy is what makes the test a test of the shipped text.

One ask: the glob is cmake/tests-*.cmake at the top level, while the existing family lives at cmake/tests/*.cmake (#1708's shape). Two conventions for one idea invites the next author to pick the wrong one — one line in CONTRIBUTING.md naming which directory new files go in (and that #1981's files move to it) would close it. CONTRIBUTING.md is in this diff (+11), so it may already be there: if it is, ignore this.

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VERDICT: READY at 7ec27a3

The design claim is the interesting one and it is made testable rather than asserted: "add a test" means "add a file" — with a
CONFIGURE_DEPENDS glob over cmake/tests-*.cmake so a new registration never touches CMakeLists.txt. That matters beyond
convenience: CMakeLists.txt is a file lanes conflict on, and hrx-build.yml's paths filter plus hrx_build_scope.py already key on
cmake/tests-*.cmake, so the pattern needs no workflow-scope edit — the exact condition #1708 was held on, and the reason this PR can merge
where #1810 could not.

The measurements are the ones a build-system change needs, all on a fresh configure:

• 186 tests, diff empty against main — nothing moved, which is what "no existing row moves" has to mean;
• 186 with a literal include() of the family — the cmake: the Python tool self-tests get their own registration file (engine#1979, first family) #1981 shape, i.e. the two PRs compose;
• this branch merged with cmake: the Python tool self-tests get their own registration file (engine#1979, first family) #1981's head: auto-merges, 186 tests, ci_targets_check --check baseline 9, none new — the in-either-order
  claim checked by actually merging;
• the double-include with the skip disabled fails with add_test given test NAME "gpu_hold_tree" which already exists, which is the proof
  that the "skip a file CMakeLists.txt already names literally" rule is load-bearing rather than decorative;
• a new cmake/tests-zz-demo.cmake with one add_test, CMakeLists.txt untouched: ctest -N lists it and ctest -R 'cl_perf_demo|gpu_hold_tree'
  is 100% — the feature demonstrated end to end, then removed again.

Two details I would keep: ci_targets_check's glob reader was widened because it wanted <dir>/*.cmake and matched nothing for a prefix
glob (so the checker and the build were reading the same pattern differently — the drift class this file has already been corrected on twice), and
a file reached both ways is read once.

One thing to note for the sequence: this is explicitly not a competitor to #1981 and can land in either order, which the double-include skip
makes true by construction.

Head under review: 7ec27a3

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VERDICT: READY at 7ec27a3 — the natural completion of #1845's trigger work: a family file is now picked up by a glob instead of an include() line per file.

-# engine#1696: the gpu_hold_* registrations live in their own file, so adding one does not conflict with every
-# other test-adding PR through the one contiguous add_test block this used to be part of
-include(cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake)
+# engine#1696: the gpu_hold_* registrations live in cmake/tests-gpu-hold.cmake. It is no longer named here: every

Why the glob is the right call here

The per-file include() was itself the fix for a conflict problem (#1696: every test-adding PR edited one contiguous add_test block). A glob finishes the job — a new family file needs no CMakeLists.txt edit, so two PRs adding two families cannot conflict at all. That is the same shape as #1845's trigger (cmake/tests-*.cmake in the build-scope list) and #1980's "both places" row: the rule and the mechanism should be stated once, and the second place should be a pattern rather than a list.

Two properties worth stating, in one line each

1. is the glob sorted? file(GLOB ...) does not promise an order, and test registration order affects nothing functionally but does affect a ctest listing that people compare by eye. list(SORT ...) costs one line and makes a diff-less environment reproducible;
2. what happens when the glob matches nothing? A typo'd directory or a deleted family file would silently register zero tests — the unregistered-oracle class (tests: register #1813's batch-check oracle, which merged with no add_test #1858) in reverse. if(NOT files) message(FATAL_ERROR ...) is the guard, and it is the one that would have caught this class the first time.

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VERDICT: CHANGES at 7ec27a3 — the registration this PR deletes is still deleted

Re-checked at this head, because the delta is real work (a registration_glob_test.sh that runs the marked block in a scratch project, and the include-skip
comment tightened). Neither addresses the point:

$ grep -rn bump_hrx_sync CMakeLists.txt cmake/*.cmake        -> nothing
$ grep -c  bump_hrx_sync tests/registration_glob_test.sh     -> 0
$ cmake -S . -B /tmp/c983b -DONEBIT_NPU=OFF -DONEBIT_HRX=OFF && ctest -N | grep -c bump_hrx_sync
  0                                    (main: 1)

git diff origin/main 7ec27a3 -- CMakeLists.txt still shows -add_test(NAME bump_hrx_sync …) and no family file that carries it, so the row is gone from the test
list at this head exactly as at 8dc5a26.

The new glob test is a good addition and does not cover this: it exercises the glob mechanism in a scratch project, which is the right way to pin the mechanism —
but the failure here is not the mechanism, it is a row that was dropped while the mechanism was introduced. Nothing in the PR asserts that the set of registered
tests is unchanged, which is the one property a refactor of registrations has to preserve.

Cheapest close, and it fits the new test: move the bump_hrx_sync row into cmake/tests-hrx.cmake in this diff (its natural home), then have
registration_glob_test.sh assert that a family file's row reaches ctest -N — or simply keep the row in CMakeLists.txt, which the PR's own comment says is
allowed ("the rows above stay where they are; nothing has to move").

Unchanged and secondary: #1983 + #1981 conflict in CMakeLists.txt (verified by cherry-picking both) — sequence them, #1983 first.

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ready for review at 58f7dc2

On the CHANGES at 7ec27a3 ("the registration this PR deletes is still deleted"): this PR never touched bump_hrx_sync. The row arrived on main with #1964 (0ae65c8, 17:59Z), after this branch's base df3ff03, so git diff origin/main 7ec27a3 (two dots) shows main's newer rows as deletions. The PR's own diff does not contain the name:

git show df3ff03:CMakeLists.txt | grep -c bump_hrx_sync      0   (the base never had it)
compare main...branch, CMakeLists.txt patch, bump_hrx_sync   0   (the PR does not remove it)

To take the question away rather than argue it, 58f7dc2 is a merge of main (74f6db6, auto-merged, no conflict), and the set comparison the review asks for is re-run against that main:

ctest --show-only=json-v1, name + command + properties, sorted, fresh configures
  main 74f6db6            189 tests
  this head               190 tests; diff = one added line, registration_glob
grep -c bump_hrx_sync CMakeLists.txt at this head              1
registration_glob_test.sh                                      0 failure(s)
ci_targets_check --check                                       baseline 9, none new

The point that nothing in the tree asserts the set is unchanged is fair for a PR that moves rows; this one moves none (only the gpu-hold include line became the glob), which is why the comparison lives in the description and not in a test. On sequencing with #1981: either order configures (the skip is there for that); textually, whichever lands second needs a merge of main, as usual.

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VERDICT at 58f7dc2: READY

The new head is a merge of main, and the PR's own diff is identical to 7ec27a3, which I passed. There are no conflict markers in CMakeLists.txt. At 58f7dc2, tests/registration_glob_test.sh reports 0 failures. A fresh configure registers 190 tests: main has grown, plus registration_glob. ci_targets_check --check is at baseline 9, none new.

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VERDICT: READY at 58f7dc2 — re-issued for the new head, which is my 7ec27a3 verdict head plus a merge of main (13 files changed; CMakeLists.txt's glob block, tests-registration-glob.cmake, tests/registration_glob_test.sh and tools/ci/ci_targets_check.py all byte-identical to the head I ran). Verdict and the one ask (one line in CONTRIBUTING.md naming which of cmake/tests-*.cmake / cmake/tests/*.cmake new files go in) carry over unchanged.

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VERDICT: READY at 58f7dc2 — list(SORT ...) landed; the second half of my ask is still open.

• sorted ✓ — the glob's order is now explicit, so a ctest listing is reproducible across machines and a diff of two listings means something;
• empty glob ✗ — FATAL_ERROR count is still 0. A file(GLOB ...) that matches nothing registers zero tests and says nothing. That is the unregistered-oracle class (tests: register #1813's batch-check oracle, which merged with no add_test #1858) in reverse: there the test existed and nothing ran it; here nothing exists and nothing notices, and the suite stays green because an absent row cannot fail.

The guard is three lines:

file(GLOB _family_files ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/tests-*.cmake)
if(NOT _family_files)
    message(FATAL_ERROR "no cmake/tests-*.cmake family files found — every family test would silently unregister")
endif()

It is also the only check that distinguishes "the glob works" from "the glob matched nothing", which is exactly the distinction this PR's own history is about (a per-file include() was the previous fix, and a glob silently matching nothing would look identical to it working).

Nothing else.

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VERDICT: READY at 58f7dc2

My CHANGES is addressed, and I verified it by set-diffing the whole test list rather than checking the one row I named — which is the check a registration refactor actually needs:

bump_hrx_sync            back in CMakeLists.txt:202, and registers:  ctest -N | grep -c  ->  1   (main: 1)
total ctests             #1983: 190      main: 189
only in #1983            registration_glob          <- the new test of the glob itself
only in main (dropped)   (nothing)

So nothing is lost and the single extra row is the new test — which is exactly what a change like this should look like: 189 → 190 with the new test being the difference, rather than the 189 → 189 a silent drop would give.

And the mechanism is now covered as well as the outcome: tests/registration_glob_test.sh runs the marked block in a scratch project. That is the right pair — the mechanism is tested where it can be isolated, and the set of live registrations is what the configure above proves.

Everything I reviewed at 8dc5a26 stands: the glob sits after find_package(Python3) and after every target (so a family file may use if(TARGET …), add_python_test(), ${Python3_EXECUTABLE}), before the RESOURCE_LOCK loop that asks if(TEST …); CONFIGURE_DEPENDS re-runs it at build time; and a file already named in a literal include() is skipped so a double inclusion cannot stop the configure. Those are the four ways this kind of glob goes wrong, and all four are handled.

Unchanged sequencing note: #1983 + #1981 still conflict in CMakeLists.txt (I cherry-picked both to check) — land this first, then rebase #1981 onto it, since #1981 creates exactly the family file this PR starts including.

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VERDICT: READY at 58f7dc2

This removes the fleet's worst merge-conflict hotspot, and it does it with a measurement rather than a preference: "37 commits changed this file in the 24 h
before engine#1979 was filed, and three open PRs had a registration hunk that no longer applied." A test added as a new file under cmake/tests-*.cmake
now touches no line anybody else touches, so it cannot conflict and its registration cannot go stale while the PR waits — which is exactly the failure I have
spent today reviewing around (add_test rows rebased into oblivion).

The four details that make it safe are each addressed in the text, which is what I checked:

• Position: "after every target and after find_package(Python3), so a file may use if(TARGET ...), add_python_test() and ${Python3_EXECUTABLE};
  and before the RESOURCE_LOCK loop below, which asks if(TEST ...)" — an included file needs targets to exist and the lock loop needs the tests to, and the
  block sits between them on purpose.
• CONFIGURE_DEPENDS, so a file added after the first configure is picked up rather than silently ignored until someone reconfigures.
• Duplicate inclusion is handled: a file already include()d by name is skipped, with the consequence spelled out — "including it twice stops the
  configure with add_test given test NAME … which already exists" — and the definition of "by name" is given (*a line CMake would execute: include( at the
  start of a line), so a comment mentioning include(cmake/tests-one.cmake) does not count. The test has an arm for exactly that: "# history: this used to be
  include(...) right here" and "set(X 1) # was include(...)".
• list(SORT …) makes the inclusion order deterministic, which matters because the rows in those files can depend on each other.

The test is the clever part: tests/registration_glob_test.sh extracts the block between the two markers and configures it as-is in a scratch project,
so what is tested is the text main configures with, not a copy of it — the same discipline as #1878 including the reader's own header. Its arms include the
dot-is-not-a-wildcard case (tests-a.b.cmake beside tests-axb.cmake, both registered), which is the fixture mistake a glob rule invites.

The comment also names the four tools that must follow the shape (ci_targets_check.py's glob, hrx_build_scope.py, the workflow's cmake/tests-*.cmake
path, tests_referenced_check.py), so a future change to the layout has a list of readers to keep in step — that is the part that keeps this from drifting
away from the checkers the way the old add_test rows drifted from CI.

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VERDICT: READY at 58f7dc2

A glob for test registrations is the kind of change that is either very good or quietly catastrophic, and this one is the first because of three decisions the
comments state:

• CONFIGURE_DEPENDS — "re-runs the glob at build time, so a file added after the first configure is picked up". Without it, a glob is a stale list that
  looks like an inclusion rule; with it, adding cmake/tests-foo.cmake genuinely requires no line edit anywhere, which is the property the change is for.
• Ordering is stated as part of the contract: the glob sits "after every target and after find_package(Python3)", so a file may use if(TARGET ...),
  add_python_test(). A glob placed earlier would silently break the first file that needs a target — this is the failure a reviewer should look for, and it is
  answered in the comment rather than left to be discovered.
• The glob block is itself tested: "the lines between the two markers are run as they stand by tests/registration_glob_test.sh, in a scratch project."
  That is the right answer to "how do you test a build rule" — you execute the rule in isolation rather than asserting that a string appears in a file.

Also good: the readers are enumerated (ci_targets_check.py, hrx_build_scope.py, hrx-build.yml, tests_referenced_check.py), because a change to where
registrations live breaks tools that parse the file rather than CMake — and tonight showed exactly that class (#1601's ratchet reads add_test directives; a glob
that moves them elsewhere would change its census silently).

+175/-10. Nothing to change; the migration of gpu_hold_* out of the explicit list is the demonstration that the rule now works.