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Teknium 9d4b3e5470 fix: harden hermes update against diverged history, non-main branches, and gateway edge cases (salvage #3489) (#3492)
* fix: harden `hermes update` against diverged history, non-main branches, and gateway edge cases

The self-update command (`hermes update` / gateway `/update`) could fail
or silently corrupt state in several scenarios:

1. **Diverged history** — `git pull --ff-only` aborts with a cryptic
   subprocess error when upstream has force-pushed or rebased. Now falls
   back to `git reset --hard origin/main` since local changes are already
   stashed.

2. **User on a feature branch / detached HEAD** — the old code would
   either clobber the feature branch HEAD to point at origin/main, or
   silently pull against a non-existent remote branch. Now auto-checkouts
   main before pulling, with a clear warning.

3. **Fetch failures** — network or auth errors produced raw subprocess
   tracebacks. Now shows user-friendly messages ("Network error",
   "Authentication failed") with actionable hints.

4. **reset --hard failure** — if the fallback reset itself fails (disk
   full, permissions), the old code would still attempt stash restore on
   a broken working tree. Now skips restore and tells the user their
   changes are safe in stash.

5. **Gateway /update stash conflicts** — non-interactive mode (Telegram
   `/update`) called sys.exit(1) when stash restore had conflicts, making
   the entire update report as failed even though the code update itself
   succeeded. Now treats stash conflicts as non-fatal in non-interactive
   mode (returns False instead of exiting).

* fix: restore stash and branch on 'already up to date' early return

The PR moved stash creation before the commit-count check (needed for
the branch-switching feature), but the 'already up to date' early return
didn't restore the stash or switch back to the original branch — leaving
the user stranded on main with changes trapped in a stash.

Now the early-return path restores the stash and checks out the original
branch when applicable.

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Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-03-27 23:12:43 -07:00
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