From 14524f7e491effdba6851e05cfa42a98159a9daf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: garrytan <garrytan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 07:59:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: a touch whose identity read comes back empty keeps the
 recorded identity and its runs (GST-1205 review)

Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 bin/gstack-lease | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/bin/gstack-lease b/bin/gstack-lease
index f4007f85a..1efc45145 100755
--- a/bin/gstack-lease
+++ b/bin/gstack-lease
@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ case "$VERB" in
     }
     _tmp="$DIR/.$PID.$$"
     _id=$(identity "$PID") _keep="" _held=0 _now=$(date +%s)
+    [ -n "$_id" ] || _id=$(head -1 "$DIR/$PID" 2>/dev/null)
     if [ -f "$DIR/$PID" ] && [ "$(head -1 "$DIR/$PID" 2>/dev/null)" = "$_id" ]; then
       if [ -n "$RUN" ]; then _keep=$(fresh "$DIR/$PID" "run $RUN"); else _keep=$(fresh "$DIR/$PID" hold); fi
       [ -z "$(sed -n '2,$p' "$DIR/$PID" 2>/dev/null | grep -v '^$')" ] && _held=1