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Incremental harvesting reads git diff --name-only as lines. Git quotes non-ASCII and control-character filenames, so the returned strings are not the repository paths. Include filters can silently discard them, and commit-scoped content reads cannot find them. Disabling core.quotePath does not solve control-character quoting.

Use git diff --name-only -z and decode NUL-delimited bytes with os.fsdecode, preserving filenames while retaining sorted, deduplicated results and the existing commit verification.

Real Git regression tests fail on the unchanged detector and pass with this fix. They cover both core.quotePath settings, nested/non-ASCII/spaced/quoted/control-character paths, reading each changed file's committed contents, added and untracked files, unchanged snapshots, and deleted paths. The existing command-contract test is updated for binary output.

Validation: focused tests pass (5 tests); make lint passes including the OpenAPI guardrail; make test passes (1,040 tests run, 6 skipped). Strict mypy reports the same 2,045 pre-existing errors in 193 files, with zero additional diagnostics relative to the backend baseline. Independent review found no blocking issues. Local validation used Python 3.14; repository CI uses Python 3.12.3.

This change concerns ChangeDetector, independently of DiffParser work in #1032 / #1056 and first-run bootstrap work in #1128 / #1129. No dependency or schema changes. Deleted paths remain in the detector output; downstream deletion handling is outside this fix.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Changed-file detection now preserves paths containing Unicode, whitespace, quotes, tabs, and line breaks, so these files can be identified and their committed contents read reliably.
    • Deleted files remain represented in change results, while identical snapshots correctly report no changed paths. These results are consistent across Git path-quoting settings.

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ChangeDetector.get_modified_files_since now reads NUL-delimited Git diff output and decodes each nonempty path. Tests cover paths with special characters, unchanged snapshots, and deleted paths.

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Git diff path handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
NUL-delimited path parsing and regression tests
application/utils/harvester/change_detector.py, application/tests/harvester_test/change_detector_test.py, application/tests/harvester_test/change_detector_paths_test.py
The detector decodes paths from NUL-delimited Git diff bytes. Unit and Git-backed tests check special-character paths, committed contents, unchanged snapshots, and deleted paths.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: preserving special filenames during incremental harvesting.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the filename handling issue, the NUL-delimited Git diff fix, regression tests, and validation results. It is directly related to the changeset.
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