fix(server): checkpoints work in Windows workspaces with paths over 260 characters

[K3irara]

What Changed

On Windows, the checkpoint commands that read or write the working tree now run with -c core.longpaths=true. That covers capture's git add -A and its nested-repo recovery ls-files --others, plus restore's git restore, git clean and git reset. makeVcsDriverShape reads HostProcessPlatform once, so the flag is never added on macOS or Linux.

Added a test that runs a real capture and restore with the platform set to win32 and then linux. It checks that those four commands get the flag only on win32, and that the checkpoint still round-trips.

Why

Git for Windows cannot open paths longer than MAX_PATH (260 characters) unless core.longpaths is on, and it is off by default. In a workspace with such a path, every turn fails to checkpoint. The error does not say why:

VCS process failed in GitVcsDriver.checkpoints.captureCheckpoint: git (D:\...\CatRadarTesting) exited with 128 - Process exited with a non-zero status.

To reproduce it outside T3, run the same command T3 does, with a temporary GIT_INDEX_FILE and no core.longpaths in the user's config (Git 2.53.0.windows.1, files of 297 to 304 characters):

git -c core.fsmonitor=false -c sparse.expectFilesOutsideOfPatterns=false add -A -- .
warning: could not open directory '<path>': Filename too long   (37x)
error: open(".openclaude/.astra/.../OWNER-ACTIVATION-004-CATBUILD.md"): Filename too long
error: unable to index file '.openclaude/.astra/.../OWNER-ACTIVATION-004-CATBUILD.md'
fatal: adding files failed

With -c core.longpaths=true added, the same command succeeds. Whether it fails depends on which ~/.gitconfig Git sees at runtime, so users see it come and go depending on how they launch T3. The test suite never hit this because apps/server/src/testUtils/gitConfig.setup.ts already forces core.longpaths=true for every Git child it spawns.

I also checked it through the driver on Windows. The workspace had a 304-character file, and I overrode the suite's core.longpaths to false. Without the flag, captureCheckpoint failed with the error above (raw git add: fatal: unable to stat '<dir>/OWNER-ACTIVATION-004-CATBUILD-….md': Filename too long). With the flag, the checkpoint captured the file, and restoreCheckpoint wrote it back.

Why only these commands:

• The other checkpoint commands (read-tree, ls-files -v, write-tree, commit-tree, update-ref, diff between refs) never open working-tree paths.
• GitVcsDriverCore (status, branches, worktrees) is a separate executor. Its tests match on exact argv, so it is left for a separate change if wanted.

A -c flag overrides the user's config, so this also applies when a user has explicitly set core.longpaths=false. That is intentional. Checkpoints only snapshot and restore paths that already exist in the workspace, so there is nothing to protect by letting them fail.

Checklist

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Verdict: Approved at db2e6c8

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, localized Windows-only bug fix that adds a per-command Git compatibility setting to existing checkpoint capture and restore operations. Tests cover both Windows and non-Windows behavior, with no product-default or static-analysis changes.

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Checkpoint-related Git commands use core.longpaths=true on Windows. On other platforms, they receive no additional long-path argument. Tests exercise checkpoint capture and restore on Windows and Linux.

Changes

Checkpoint Git commands

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure and verify checkpoint Git commands apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.test.ts	The driver adds a Windows-only long-path argument to checkpoint staging, embedded-repository recovery discovery, restore, cleanup, and index reset. Tests check command arguments and restored file contents on Windows and Linux.

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The checkpoint commands now receive the long-path setting on Windows, and the added test covers capture, recovery, and restore. No actionable merge-blocking issue is established.

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Changed systems: apps/server

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• observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts: Imports HostProcessPlatform to determine the runtime platform for checkpoint command configuration.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts: Adds a Windows-only core.longpaths=true Git configuration argument; other platforms receive an empty argument list.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts: Checkpoint staging now includes the platform-specific long-path arguments before git add.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts: Embedded-repository recovery discovery now includes the platform-specific long-path arguments when listing untracked files.

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1120-1157: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the Windows recovery-discovery command.

The added test uses a normal repository, so git add -A succeeds and the git ls-files --others recovery branch is not reached. Existing recovery tests create an uncommitted nested repository and reach that branch, but they do not override the platform or assert its arguments. Therefore, removing core.longpaths=true from the recovery command would not fail a test.

Add a Windows recovery case that creates an uncommitted nested repository and asserts -c core.longpaths=true on the ls-files --others invocation.

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In `@apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.test.ts` around lines 1120 - 1157, Extend
the checkpoint recovery tests around `captureCheckpoint` and `restoreCheckpoint`
to create an uncommitted nested repository and override `HostProcessPlatform` to
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In `@apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.test.ts`:
- Around line 1120-1157: Extend the checkpoint recovery tests around
`captureCheckpoint` and `restoreCheckpoint` to create an uncommitted nested
repository and override `HostProcessPlatform` to `win32`; assert the recovery
`ls-files --others` invocation includes `-c core.longpaths=true`.

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