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holocron/plugins/git/skills/git-remotes/SKILL.md
Defame1297 6cfc3577e2 docs: trim repeated boilerplate in git, gitea, and bin skills
Finding 13: five blocks of near-identical wording were repeated across
skills within a plugin — the gitea "resolve owner and repo" step (5
skills), the 404-masks-403 note (6 files), the manual pagination
explanation (8 files), the git plugin's main/master force-push refusal
(7 files, some with multiple internal restatements), and the bin
skills' domain-glossary/ADR paragraph (5 skills). Tightened each
instance in place — same meaning, fewer words — rather than extracting
to a shared file, which ADR-0014's one-file-per-skill install
constraint rules out. Left the three git skills' structured-result
JSON shapes alone (coupled to the separate, out-of-scope git-orchestrate
merge candidate, finding 19).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
2026-09-12 19:48:31 +00:00

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---
name: git-remotes
description: >
Use when a git operation — remote config, fetch, push, or pull — touches a
remote, even when the user does not name it.
Not local commits -> `git-commits`.
Not local branches -> `git-branches`.
Not log or bisect queries -> `git-history`.
Not submodule pointers -> `git-submodules`.
metadata:
version: "1.0.3"
category: git
source_keys:
- git-scm-remote-docs
- git-scm-fetch-docs
- git-scm-push-docs
- git-scm-pull-docs
- context7-git-htmldocs
---
## Gotchas
- **`--force-with-lease` alone is not safe** — background processes (IDE plugins, cron jobs) running `git fetch` silently defeat the protection. Combine it with `--force-if-includes`, or pin the explicit `--force-with-lease=<ref>:<sha>` form.
- **Prune does not touch tags by default** — `git fetch --prune` leaves orphaned tags behind. Use `--prune --prune-tags`, or set `fetch.pruneTags true`.
- **Set `pull.ff only` explicitly** — do not trust the installed default.
## Step 1 — Clear the force-push gate
`main`/`master` are a hard refusal: decline a force-push to either regardless of confirmation — no local approval restores what the remote loses. Elsewhere, `rtk git push --force`/`-f` run only after `confirm: true` for that specific push; for a human caller, prompt instead of failing.
## Step 2 — Dispatch
Read the row matching the operation, and only that row — each file is self-contained. A task spanning two operations reads both.
| Operation | Read |
|---|---|
| Add, remove, rename, inspect, or re-point a remote; tracking, mirror, and `set-url` config | `references/remote-config.md` |
| Fetch or prune remote-tracking refs; shallow or partial fetch | `references/fetch.md` |
| Push branches or tags; refspecs; force-push | `references/push.md` |
| Pull — integrate remote changes into the current branch | `references/pull.md` |
## Step 3 — Return format
For agent callers, return:
```json
{
"success": true,
"operation": "push",
"remote": "origin",
"branch": "main",
"output": "...",
"warnings": ["force-with-lease not confirmed"],
"recommendations": ["set `pull.ff only` so the default does not vary by Git version"]
}
```
On failure, set `success: false` and add an `error` field holding the root cause and a recovery suggestion.