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resolve-refcache-conflicts

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Skill for resolving static/refcache.json merge or rebase conflicts in the current branch or a specified PR.

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static/refcache.json is an auto-generated file. Resolving conflicts requires first taking the integration branch's side, finishing the merge/rebase, then running npm run fix:refcache to restore any URLs unique to the active branch.

Prerequisites

If the current branch has a merge or rebase in progress, then skip the rest of this section and jump to Preparation.

The current branch must be clean (git status --short). If not clean, offer to run git stash or git commit to clean it up, or stop.

If $ARGUMENTS is a PR number, then check out the PR branch with: gh pr checkout $ARGUMENTS.

Preparation

At this point, we are ready to resolve the conflicts in the active branch:

  1. Determine the integration reference ($BASE_BRANCH) and fetch it:

    • If an upstream remote exists: git fetch upstream, use upstream/main.
    • Otherwise: git fetch origin, use origin/main.

  2. If merge or rebase is in progress (git status), skip this step. Otherwise, ask the user whether to run git merge $BASE_BRANCH or git rebase $BASE_BRANCH, then run it.

  3. If there are no conflicts: stop, we are done.

  4. Conflicts other than static/refcache.json: resolve them with the user.

  5. If no static/refcache.json conflict remains: stop, we are done. Otherwise, proceed to Resolve.

Resolve

  1. Check out the $BASE_BRANCH version of static/refcache.json. Assumes the active branch is being rebased/merged from $BASE_BRANCH, not the other way around:

    OperationCommand
    Rebase of active branch onto $BASE_BRANCHgit checkout --ours static/refcache.json
    Merge of $BASE_BRANCH into active branchgit checkout --theirs static/refcache.json

  2. Stage the resolved files, then continue:

    • Rebase: git add static/refcache.json && git rebase --continue
    • Merge: git add static/refcache.json && git commit --no-edit
    • If other files were resolved in Preparation step 4, git add those too before continuing.

  3. Rebase only: for each subsequent rebase stop that conflicts on static/refcache.json, repeat Resolve steps 1–2. If other paths are also conflicted on that stop, run Preparation step 4 first.

  4. Run npm run fix:refcache once, after the entire rebase/merge completes. Note: this runs a full Hugo build and link check — requires network, installed npm dependencies, and populated submodules; can take several minutes.

  5. Commit the changes, if any:

    git add static/refcache.json
git diff --cached --quiet static/refcache.json || \
   git commit -m "Refresh refcache after resolving conflicts"

  6. Push:

    • Merge: git push
    • Rebase: git push --force-with-lease