From f609a4da2af6f1bd5b5bc077488e5c18954657cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wout Stiens <71498452+StiensWout@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:19:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(server): detect repositories after initialization

---
 apps/server/src/vcs/VcsDriverRegistry.test.ts | 45 +++++++++++++++++++
 apps/server/src/vcs/VcsDriverRegistry.ts      |  5 ++-
 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/apps/server/src/vcs/VcsDriverRegistry.test.ts b/apps/server/src/vcs/VcsDriverRegistry.test.ts
index 7a531a5adcc..0ad2450eb19 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/vcs/VcsDriverRegistry.test.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/vcs/VcsDriverRegistry.test.ts
@@ -92,4 +92,49 @@ describe("VcsDriverRegistry", () => {
       );
     }).pipe(Effect.provide(layer));
   });
+
+  it.effect("detects a repository created after a negative lookup", () => {
+    let insideWorkTreeChecks = 0;
+    const layer = Layer.effect(VcsDriverRegistry.VcsDriverRegistry, VcsDriverRegistry.make).pipe(
+      Layer.provide(NodeServices.layer),
+      Layer.provide(
+        Layer.mock(VcsProjectConfig.VcsProjectConfig)({
+          resolveKind: (input) => Effect.succeed(input.requestedKind ?? "auto"),
+        }),
+      ),
+      Layer.provide(
+        Layer.mock(VcsProcess.VcsProcess)({
+          run: (input) =>
+            Effect.sync(() => {
+              const command = normalizeGitArgs(input.args).join(" ");
+              if (command === "rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree") {
+                insideWorkTreeChecks += 1;
+                return insideWorkTreeChecks === 1
+                  ? {
+                      ...processOutput(""),
+                      exitCode: ChildProcessSpawner.ExitCode(128),
+                      stderr: "fatal: not a git repository",
+                    }
+                  : processOutput("true\n");
+              }
+              if (command === "rev-parse --show-toplevel") {
+                return processOutput("/repo\n");
+              }
+              if (command === "rev-parse --git-common-dir") {
+                return processOutput("/repo/.git\n");
+              }
+              return processOutput("");
+            }),
+        }),
+      ),
+    );
+
+    return Effect.gen(function* () {
+      const registry = yield* VcsDriverRegistry.VcsDriverRegistry;
+
+      assert.equal(yield* registry.detect({ cwd: "/repo" }), null);
+      assert.equal((yield* registry.detect({ cwd: "/repo" }))?.repository.rootPath, "/repo");
+      assert.equal(insideWorkTreeChecks, 2);
+    }).pipe(Effect.provide(layer));
+  });
 });
diff --git a/apps/server/src/vcs/VcsDriverRegistry.ts b/apps/server/src/vcs/VcsDriverRegistry.ts
index 0bf95c2ffba..f40e1dadea3 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/vcs/VcsDriverRegistry.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/vcs/VcsDriverRegistry.ts
@@ -115,7 +115,10 @@ export const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
     (key) => detectResolvedKind(parseDetectionCacheKey(key)),
     {
       capacity: DETECTION_CACHE_CAPACITY,
-      timeToLive: (exit) => (Exit.isSuccess(exit) ? DETECTION_CACHE_TTL : Duration.zero),
+      timeToLive: Exit.match({
+        onSuccess: (detected) => (detected === null ? Duration.zero : DETECTION_CACHE_TTL),
+        onFailure: () => Duration.zero,
+      }),
     },
   );