fix(redact): a typo'd subcommand no longer exits 0 having done nothing

main() recognised exactly two subcommands and let everything else fall through
to the stdin scan. On empty stdin that prints "(no findings)" and exits 0, so:

    $ gstack-redact install-prepush-hooks    # plural typo
    gstack-redact scan — repo UNKNOWN
      (no findings)
    $ echo $?
    0

No hook was installed, and the operator has every reason to believe the
credential guard is armed. A guard that silently no-ops must never exit 0.

Two smaller faults in the same dispatch, both of which lead people here:

- There was no --help handler, so `gstack-redact --help` fell through to the
  scanner. Piping a credential to it scanned the secret and exited 3.
- With no piped input and no --from-file, readInput() blocks on readSync(fd 0)
  until an EOF that an interactive terminal never sends. That prints nothing
  at all, so it reads as a hang rather than as "this is a filter, feed it".

Now: --help/-h/help prints usage and exits 0; an unrecognised positional
prints the offender and exits 1; a TTY with nothing piped in prints usage
instead of blocking. "scan" stays accepted, because the human output header
reads "gstack-redact scan — repo …" and that is what people type.

Usage errors exit 1, deliberately not 2 or 3. Those mean MEDIUM and HIGH
findings and callers gate dispatch on them, so a usage error exiting 2 would
be read as "medium findings — prompt the user". A test pins that.

Tests: 4 written failing first, then fixed. Full suite 7,722 pass / 0 fail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-08-17 10:05:32 -07:00
committed by Garry Tan
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -95,3 +95,47 @@ describe("gstack-redact oversize fails closed", () => {
expect(stdout).toContain("too large");
});
});
describe("gstack-redact argv dispatch", () => {
// The bug: main() recognised exactly two subcommands and let everything else
// fall through to the stdin scan, which reports "no findings" and exits 0.
// So `install-prepush-hooks` (plural typo) installed no hook and still looked
// like success — the credential guard silently absent while the operator
// believes it is armed. A guard that no-ops must never exit 0.
test("a typo'd install subcommand fails loudly instead of exiting 0", () => {
const { code, stderr } = run(["install-prepush-hooks"], "");
expect(code).not.toBe(0);
expect(stderr).toContain("unknown subcommand");
});
test("an unknown positional never reports a clean scan", () => {
const { code, stdout } = run(["totally-bogus"], "");
expect(code).not.toBe(0);
expect(stdout).not.toContain("HIGH=0");
});
// Usage errors must not collide with the findings codes (2 = MEDIUM,
// 3 = HIGH); a caller gating on those would read a typo as "findings".
test("usage errors exit 1, not a findings code", () => {
expect(run(["totally-bogus"], "").code).toBe(1);
});
test("--help prints usage and exits 0 without scanning", () => {
const { code, stdout } = run(["--help"], "key AKIA1234567890ABCDEF");
expect(code).toBe(0);
expect(stdout).toContain("STDIN");
expect(stdout).not.toContain("HIGH=1");
});
// "scan" is what the human output header ("gstack-redact scan — repo …")
// invites people to type, so it stays an accepted alias for the default
// filter mode. Rejecting it would break that muscle memory for no gain.
test("the 'scan' alias still scans normally", () => {
expect(run(["scan"], "key AKIA1234567890ABCDEF").code).toBe(3);
expect(run(["scan"], "just prose").code).toBe(0);
});
test("flags are still parsed, not mistaken for subcommands", () => {
expect(run(["--json"], "just prose").code).toBe(0);
});
});