feat(git): add guided repository configuration

[knocking4thcylinder]

Problem

Changing a Git repository's commit identity and large-file diff threshold requires command-line configuration.

Change

Add guided repository settings for Git author name, author email, and core.bigFileThreshold on web, desktop, and mobile. Each field shows its effective and repository values. Save writes a repository override (or an existing worktree override); Reset removes that override and restores the next inherited value. The threshold changes Git's diff treatment; Git checkpoints still include large files. Threshold inputs normalize Git size suffixes and byte counts to MiB on web and mobile, and Save preserves exact fractional MiB values.

Verification

• Focused Git configuration and shared input-formatting tests passed (14/14), including empty values, the built-in threshold, worktree overrides, Git size suffixes, and exact fractional MiB values. RPC authorization coverage passed during the original integration.
• Targeted server, contracts, shared runtime, web, and mobile typechecks passed; focused lint and formatting passed.
• In an isolated web client, a Git threshold of 1g displayed as 1024 MiB and saved with the same byte value. Saving 1.5 MiB wrote exactly 1,572,864 bytes. Reset removed the override and displayed the built-in 512 MiB default.

Native mobile could not be manually exercised because device access is disabled in this environment. Desktop uses the verified web surface.

UI evidence

GPT-6-Sol and GPT-6.1-Sol via the Codex harness in T3 Code.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Configure a Git repository’s commit author name, email, and large-file diff threshold in web and mobile settings.
  • Save repository- or worktree-specific overrides, or reset them to inherited Git settings. Files above the threshold appear as binary in diffs, while remaining in checkpoints.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance for configuring Git repository settings.

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Walkthrough

The change adds Git repository configuration reads and writes for commit author name, commit author email, and the large-file diff threshold. It exposes the operations through VCS RPCs and adds configuration controls to web and mobile settings.

Changes

Git Configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration contracts and client commands packages/contracts/src/git.ts, packages/contracts/src/rpc.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/vcs.ts, apps/server/src/auth/RpcAuthorization.ts	Adds configuration schemas and read/write RPCs, client query and command support, and authorization scope mappings.
Git configuration service and RPC wiring apps/server/src/vcs/VcsConfigurationService.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/VcsConfigurationService.test.ts, apps/server/src/server.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/server.test.ts	Reads effective and repository Git settings, including worktree values. Writes and resets values at the selected scope. Wires the service into server RPCs and tests defaults, normalization, writes, resets, and validation.
Web settings interface apps/web/src/components/settings/VcsConfigurationSettings.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/SourceControlSettings.tsx, docs/user/source-control.md	Adds checkout-based controls for the three settings, including save and reset actions. Documents the settings and large-file diff behavior.
Mobile Git overview settings apps/mobile/src/features/threads/git/GitOverviewSheet.tsx	Adds an expandable configuration panel for repository worktrees, with editable author name, author email, and large-file threshold fields.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SettingsUI
  participant VcsAtoms
  participant WsRpc
  participant VcsConfigurationService
  participant Git
  SettingsUI->>VcsAtoms: request configuration or write a setting
  VcsAtoms->>WsRpc: call VCS configuration RPC
  WsRpc->>VcsConfigurationService: delegate read or write
  VcsConfigurationService->>Git: read configuration or update selected scope
  Git-->>VcsConfigurationService: return configuration result
  VcsConfigurationService-->>WsRpc: return service result
  WsRpc-->>VcsAtoms: return RPC response
  VcsAtoms-->>SettingsUI: provide result

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 67b8d

The reviewed settings changes have no established merge-blocking issue; reset values are refreshed in both interfaces.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 67b8d

Repository settings gain the ability to change commit identity and diff behavior. Writes require an operating permission, but the server accepts a repository path supplied by the caller rather than verifying the checkout selected in the settings interface.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: An authorized caller can supply a Git repository path other than the checkout selected by the settings UI. The new write RPC has no server-side checkout-membership check, so its effective scope is Git repositories accessible to the server within that environment, subject to filesystem permissions. This matters for commit identity and diff configuration if checkouts are expected to be separately controlled.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new capability can change future commit attribution or Git diff treatment in a repository the server process can access. A direct RPC caller with the environment's operate scope is not limited by the web UI's selected-checkout path; no cross-environment reach or additional operating-system privilege is established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — An authenticated environment operator could call the write RPC with a different accessible Git worktree's cwd and set its author identity or diff threshold. Whether that crosses an intended checkout ownership boundary is unresolved; the normal UI does not offer arbitrary path entry.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Session scope authorization precedes the server handler, while repository detection confirms a Git worktree rather than membership in the UI-selected checkout. Existing VCS operations also use caller-supplied cwd under the operate scope, so cwd-based selection itself predates this PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Separate reads and mutations leave a race around which override a save or reset changes. This could cause commit-identity settings to differ from an operator's intended checkout state when another actor changes worktree configuration concurrently; sequential precedence and reset behavior are tested.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If authorization is intended to be checkout-specific, bind the server-side configuration operation to a verified checkout identity rather than relying on the client's cwd. Reconcile displayed configuration after uncertain write outcomes and consider how concurrent scope changes should be handled.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 12 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: guided Git repository configuration.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, the implementation, verification results, UI changes, and limitations. It uses different headings from the template and omits the explicit checklist, but it provi…

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Inline comments:
In @apps/server/src/vcs/VcsConfigurationService.ts:
- Line 87: Update the `core.bigFileThreshold` read handling so an exit code of 1
keeps `largeFile.repository` null but reports Git’s built-in 512 MiB default as
`largeFile.effective`. Preserve the existing behavior for configured thresholds.
- Around line 97-98: Update readValue in VcsConfigurationService to distinguish
a successfully read empty value from a missing key: preserve blank stdout as an
empty string and reserve null for absent keys. Keep this distinction available
to the UI and write’s --unset-all handling so Reset can remove the empty local
override.
- Around line 144-149: Update VcsConfigurationService.write to account for
config.worktree overrides when extensions.worktreeConfig is enabled: detect
worktree values for user.name, user.email, and core.bigFileThreshold, then write
or reset the selected scope explicitly, or report that the override must be
removed before a repository-level change can take effect. Ensure the UI does not
report an active worktree value as inherited.

In @apps/web/src/components/settings/VcsConfigurationSettings.tsx:
- Around line 142-145: Update the `VcsConfigurationSettings` fallback for a
missing `config` so it shows `status.error` when the status query fails and
prompts the user to select a Git checkout when the status query completes with
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Closing under the verification rule. The Git service tests and web Save/Reset checks are useful, but this also adds a separate native Repository configuration form. The PR says that form was not exercised, and the supplied screenshots cover only web. Please provide before/after native UI evidence and focused results for editing, saving, and resetting an override through that form, including the inherited value shown afterward, then request reconsideration.