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Run all mandatory pre-push verification steps for the torrust-tracker project. Covers the pre-push script (automated checks), output modes, and log-directory configuration. Use before pushing or when running the nightly toolchain checks and the full stable test suite. Triggers on "pre-push checks", "run pre-push", "verify before push", or "push checks".

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Run Pre-push Checks

Git Hook (Recommended Setup)

The repository ships a pre-push Git hook that runs ./contrib/dev-tools/git/hooks/pre-push.sh automatically on every git push. Install it once after cloning:

./contrib/dev-tools/git/install-git-hooks.sh

After installation the hook fires automatically; you do not need to invoke the script manually before each push.

For AI agents: before invoking the script manually, check whether the hook is installed:

./contrib/dev-tools/git/check-git-hooks.sh

If installed, skip the manual run — git push will trigger it automatically. Running both would execute every check twice.

Automated Checks

⏱️ Expected runtime: ~5 minutes on a modern developer machine with warm caches. AI agents should set a command timeout of at least 15 minutes before invoking ./contrib/dev-tools/git/hooks/pre-push.sh.

For AI agents — git push is a long-running command: When the pre-push hook is installed, git push runs the full check suite (~5 minutes) before sending objects to the remote. Do not poll, retry, or issue a second git push while the first is still running. Wait for the IDE terminal-completion notification (exit code + output) before taking any follow-up action.

Use a generous timeout for git push itself (at least 20 minutes), because cold-cache runs can be significantly slower than warm-cache runs. Quiet output during tests is normal; do not cancel early unless there is concrete failure output.

To avoid parsing shared terminal history (which other commands or the user may have populated), redirect the output to a dedicated file and read that file for results:

git push <remote> <branch> > .tmp/push-output.txt 2>&1; echo "Exit: $?" >> .tmp/push-output.txt

The .tmp/ directory is git-ignored. Clean stale files periodically.

Run the pre-push script. It must exit with code 0 before every push.

For AI agents: set TORRUST_GIT_HOOKS_LOG_DIR=.tmp so per-step log files are written inside the workspace (git-ignored) instead of /tmp (outside workspace, requiring permission prompts):

TORRUST_GIT_HOOKS_LOG_DIR=.tmp ./contrib/dev-tools/git/hooks/pre-push.sh

The script runs these steps in order:

  1. cargo +nightly fmt --check - nightly format check
  2. cargo +nightly check ... - nightly workspace check
  3. cargo +nightly doc ... - nightly documentation build
  4. cargo +stable test --tests --benches --examples --workspace --all-targets --all-features - all tests

Steps already covered by pre-commit (machete, linters, doc tests) are intentionally omitted — they always run before each commit. E2E tests are excluded because they are slow and run in CI, which is the merge authority.

Output Modes

The pre-push script supports concise human output, verbose human output, and JSON output for automation.

# Default: text + concise
./contrib/dev-tools/git/hooks/pre-push.sh

# Explicit text + concise
./contrib/dev-tools/git/hooks/pre-push.sh --format=text --verbosity=concise

# Text + verbose streaming command output
./contrib/dev-tools/git/hooks/pre-push.sh --format=text --verbosity=verbose

# Compatibility alias
./contrib/dev-tools/git/hooks/pre-push.sh --format=text --verbose

# Structured output (single JSON document to stdout)
./contrib/dev-tools/git/hooks/pre-push.sh --format=json

Flag behavior:

  • --format=<text|json> defaults to text
  • --verbosity=<concise|verbose> defaults to concise
  • --verbose is an alias for --verbosity=verbose
  • Duplicate --format/--verbosity flags: last value wins
  • Invalid values or unknown flags exit with code 2 and print usage guidance to stderr
  • In --format=json, structured output remains JSON regardless of verbosity value
  • Per-step logs are written to TORRUST_GIT_HOOKS_LOG_DIR (default: /tmp)

For restricted agent environments that cannot write outside the workspace, run with:

TORRUST_GIT_HOOKS_LOG_DIR=.tmp ./contrib/dev-tools/git/hooks/pre-push.sh

The .tmp/ directory is git-ignored. Because .tmp/ is workspace-local, clean stale pre-push-*.log files periodically.

Check Tier Ownership

Check ownership is intentionally split by gate:

  • Pre-commit: fast local gate (cargo machete, linter all, cargo test --doc --workspace)
  • Pre-push: nightly toolchain checks + full stable test suite (no duplicates of pre-commit; no E2E)
  • CI: merge authority with full validation and E2E matrix jobs

E2E tests are intentionally excluded from both pre-commit and pre-push. They run only in CI. Pre-push does not repeat pre-commit steps — since every push is preceded by a commit, those checks have already passed.

Troubleshooting Output Modes

  • Concise mode shows high-signal per-step summaries only. On failure, it prints the log path and a short failure tail.
  • Verbose mode streams full command output to the terminal. Use this for deep local debugging.
  • JSON mode emits one structured document to stdout; diagnostics and usage errors go to stderr.
  • If concise output is too short for debugging, re-run the same command with --format=text --verbosity=verbose.

Troubleshooting Long git push Runs

  • If git push appears quiet, check whether the pre-push suite is still running before retrying.
  • Do not assume SSH/GPG/passphrase prompts are the only cause of delay; long test phases are common.
  • Only treat it as SSH idle-timeout after seeing explicit connection-close errors.