test-clone

name	test-clone
description	Test the orchestrator library by deploying it into a target Go repository and running the test plan. Failures indicate bugs in the orchestrator code,

test-clone command

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Command: Test Clone

Test the orchestrator library by deploying it into a target Go repository and running the test plan. Failures indicate bugs in the orchestrator code, which get fixed in this repository.

Scope. Run this from inside the orchestrator repository itself — the one that ships test-plan.yaml at its root and pkg/orchestrator/ in its tree. It patches orchestrator source when a test fails, so it does nothing useful anywhere else.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS is a Go module reference in module@version format, or a local directory path.

Examples:

• /test-clone github.com/<owner>/<module>@v0.20260214.1 — any Go module you can fetch
• /test-clone /path/to/local/repo

Workflow

1. Read the test plan

Read test-plan.yaml from the orchestrator repo root. Parse preconditions and test cases.

2. Scaffold the target

ORCH_ROOT="$(pwd)"

If the argument contains @, it is a module@version. One command downloads, copies, git-initializes, and scaffolds:

REPO_DIR=$(mage scaffold:push "module@version")

If the argument is a local path, scaffold it directly:

REPO_DIR="$1"
mage scaffold:push "$REPO_DIR"

The scaffold copies orchestrator.go into magefiles/, detects project structure, generates configuration.yaml, wires go.mod with a replace directive, and verifies mage -l.

If scaffold fails, read the error and fix $ORCH_ROOT/pkg/orchestrator/scaffold.go before retrying.

Record the orchestrator repo state before running tests so you can verify it was not accidentally modified:

cd "$ORCH_ROOT"
ORCH_HASH_BEFORE=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
ORCH_DIRTY_BEFORE=$(git status --porcelain)

3. Verify preconditions

• On main branch with clean working tree
• mage available: which mage
• configuration.yaml present (created by scaffold)

4. Run test cases

Execute each test case from test-plan.yaml in order. For each:

1. Run setup commands in $REPO_DIR
2. Run the command
3. Check expected exit code
4. Verify expected state (directory existence, branch names, file contents, stdout)
5. Run mage reset between tests for clean state

Track results:

#	Test name	Result	Notes
1	...	PASS/FAIL	...

5. Fix failures

Bugs are in the orchestrator library, not the target project.

1. Read the error output
2. Identify root cause in $ORCH_ROOT/pkg/orchestrator/
3. Fix the orchestrator code in $ORCH_ROOT
4. The replace directive picks up the fix immediately
5. Re-run the failing test in $REPO_DIR
6. Commit the fix: cd "$ORCH_ROOT" && git add -A && git commit -m "Fix: <description>"

If a fix breaks other tests, revert. After 3 attempts on a single test, mark it as unfixable and continue.

If the failure is a setup issue (not an orchestrator bug), fix it in $REPO_DIR and note it separately.

6. Full regression pass

After fixing failures, re-run ALL test cases. Repeat until clean.

7. Verify orchestrator repo is unchanged

After all tests pass, verify that the orchestrator repo was not accidentally modified by the test run:

cd "$ORCH_ROOT"
ORCH_HASH_AFTER=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
ORCH_DIRTY_AFTER=$(git status --porcelain)

Compare ORCH_HASH_BEFORE with ORCH_HASH_AFTER and ORCH_DIRTY_BEFORE with ORCH_DIRTY_AFTER. If the repo has new uncommitted changes or new commits that are not intentional fixes, report the unexpected modifications as a test failure.

Intentional fixes committed during step 5 will change the HEAD hash. That is expected. Untracked files, modified go.mod/go.sum, or changed configuration.yaml in the orchestrator repo are not expected and indicate a bug.

8. Report and clean up

Summarize:

1. Target module and version tested
2. Total test cases: run / passed / failed / skipped
3. Fixes applied to the orchestrator
4. Skipped tests (unfixable)
5. mage stats output from $ORCH_ROOT, where that target exists

rm -rf "$(dirname "$REPO_DIR")"

Rules

• Orchestrator fixes go into THIS repo ($ORCH_ROOT). Commit them here.
• Target workspace ($REPO_DIR) is ephemeral.
• Do not push any changes. Everything is local.