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cargo install tempyr is the documented install path, so the binary normally lives in ~/.cargo/bin. Git runs hooks with whatever environment the invoking process had, and ~/.cargo/bin reaches PATH through a shell profile.

So in any context that never sources a profile — a non-interactive SSH session, a GUI Git client, a CI step — run_tempyr walks its candidates, finds nothing, and hits return 127. The hook then silently does nothing.

The failure is quiet by design: post-merge and post-checkout swallow it, and pre-commit runs journal lint ... || true. So the index just stops being refreshed and nothing says why.

I hit this on a SteamOS host reached over SSH. Every git pull skipped the post-merge index refresh, while ~/.cargo/bin/tempyr index update --json run by absolute path succeeded immediately.

Change

Look under ${CARGO_HOME:-$HOME/.cargo}/bin — after the PATH lookup, so an explicitly installed or newer tempyr on PATH still wins, and a genuinely missing one still returns 127.

Verification

Built the CLI, generated real hooks with tempyr init in a scratch repo, and compared the resolver with and without the fallback under env -i with a PATH that excludes ~/.cargo/bin and no local target/:

run_tempyr --help under restricted PATH
  before: exit=127   (no output)
  after:  exit=0     "File-based knowledge graph for AI-assisted des..."

sanity: with ~/.cargo/bin back on PATH
  after:  exit=0     (PATH lookup still wins)

Also confirmed the generated hooks still pass sh -n, and added managed_block_falls_back_to_the_cargo_bin_directory, which asserts both candidate paths are present, that the fallback is ordered after the PATH lookup, and that return 127 survives.

cargo test -p tempyr-cli: 131 unit + 58 integration passing, 0 failures. cargo clippy -p tempyr-cli --all-targets reports one warning, in journal_init.rs, which also reproduces on master.

Note on a related issue

While tracking this down I checked whether tempyr ever generated journal lint --strict in the pre-commit hook, since a downstream repo of mine has that and it hard-blocks every commit. It does not — BODY_JOURNAL_LINT has been run_tempyr journal lint >/dev/null || true since 989a019, matching the documented warning-only contract. That edit was made downstream inside the managed block. Nothing to fix here; flagging only because a hand-edit inside # >>> tempyr managed hook >>> is invisible until the next regeneration silently reverts it.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Git hooks can now locate the Tempyr command in the standard Cargo binary directory when it is not available through the system PATH.
    • Supports both Unix-style and Windows executable names.
    • Preserves the existing lookup order and failure behavior when no executable is found.
    • Improves reliability for installations where Cargo-managed binaries are not included in the system PATH.

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The generated Git hook runner searches the Cargo bin directory for tempyr and tempyr.exe after PATH lookup. Tests cover fallback paths, lookup order, executable resolution, exit status 127, and pre-commit behavior.

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Git hook executable fallback

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Cargo bin fallback and coverage
crates/tempyr-cli/src/commands/git_hooks.rs
The generated hook checks ${CARGO_HOME:-$HOME/.cargo}/bin after PATH lookup. Tests verify fallback paths, lookup precedence, executable resolution, failure status 127, and suppressed resolver errors in pre-commit hooks.

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Git hooks can now locate cargo-installed tempyr when shell profiles do not populate PATH, while preserving existing lookup and missing-binary behavior. The change is covered by targeted resolver and hook execution tests and is ready to merge.

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A rabbit checks the PATH at night
Then searches Cargo’s bin with care
tempyr waits beside its twin
tempyr.exe may also win
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In `@crates/tempyr-cli/src/commands/git_hooks.rs`:
- Around line 714-715: Extend the git-hook tests around run_tempyr and the
generated hook bodies to execute the rendered shell scripts instead of relying
only on string assertions. Cover PATH precedence, Cargo fallback, both
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cleak force-pushed the fix/hook-cargo-bin-fallback branch from cf5d18d to aa5a2a4 Compare September 4, 2026 02:51
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`cargo install tempyr` is the documented install path, so the binary normally
lives in ~/.cargo/bin. Git runs hooks with whatever environment the invoking
process had, and that directory reaches PATH through a shell profile. A
non-interactive SSH session, a GUI Git client, or a CI step that never sources
a profile therefore has no ~/.cargo/bin on PATH, `run_tempyr` falls through to
`return 127`, and the hook silently does nothing.

Look under ${CARGO_HOME:-$HOME/.cargo}/bin after the PATH lookup, so an
explicitly installed or newer tempyr on PATH still wins, and a missing one
still reports 127.

Observed on a SteamOS host reached over SSH: every pull skipped the post-merge
index refresh while the same command run by absolute path succeeded.
The existing assertions only inspected the rendered text, which cannot catch a
quoting or ordering mistake in the emitted shell. Run the generated block under
/bin/sh with a cleared environment instead.

The resolver test walks the three states that matter: nothing installed
anywhere reports 127 so callers can distinguish "not installed" from "ran and
failed"; a stub in ~/.cargo/bin with an empty PATH is found through the new
fallback; and a stub on PATH still wins over the cargo-bin copy. A second test
covers the pre-commit body, whose trailing "|| true" must keep the hook exiting
0 even when the resolver reports 127.

Verified by mutation: deleting the fallback from the template turns the first
test red with left: 127, right: 42, which is exactly the reported bug.
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cleak force-pushed the fix/hook-cargo-bin-fallback branch from 67147af to f6efa86 Compare September 4, 2026 03:13
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