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Set up a GitHub project's checkout on this machine from channel creation #204
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on Oct 7, 2026 Validated natively with signed build-only Canary 0.0.20 (#206, run 37650079277; DMG SHA-256
04fe5f0a56910a5cf6b7fcc2ddcde07eb81506607537d4873d01fc47a1ac1840matched, Gatekeeper accepted), installed on natembp and Nate16.- On natembp, existing channels and drafts were kept.
- On Nate16, the sidebar's New channel + in ace2 opened setup with
~/code/ace2, edited to/Users/natebutler/code/ace2. Clone and start channel cloned public ace2 and created a channel within about 12 seconds, with no SSO prompt or error. - The channel
a24ec4567772d9e0(renamed natively tonate16-ace2-test) is listed with natembp's channels under plain ace2. - Read-only peer metadata: host
nate16-1, not hosted, repogithubnext/ace2, project IDgithub:githubnext/ace2, and project/root/Users/natebutler/Code/ace2. macOS resolved the typed lowercase path to the existingCodefolder; only an exact-string path assertion differed. - No model run was checked on Nate16 (no providers configured there). Broader two-host acceptance remains in Verify repository-based project identity in the native app and across two hosts #15.
A GitHub project checked out only on another of the person's hosts showed as
ace2 · natembpon Nate16, and every channel creation entry point was missing or disabled there. The person expected one ace2 project across machines and chose to set up a checkout on Nate16 and run channels there, with a default folder they can change.Expected
~/code/<repo>by default, before cloning. The host clones asynchronously, expands~, normalizes the path, and registers the checkout through the existing project-open machinery. An existing matching checkout is opened; other non-empty folders are refused; failures stay in the form with the path preserved; Ace never deletes a partial clone.gh repo clone githubnext/ace2is refused by organization SAML SSO applied to the gh token even though ace2 is public, while anonymousgit ls-remote https://github.com/githubnext/ace2.gitworks. A plaingit cloneof the validatedhttps://github.com/<owner>/<repo>.gitworks for public repositories and uses existing Git credential helpers only when the server requires authentication.Part of #15; follows #157, which merged repository identity but deliberately creates only from this host's checkout. Dogfooding gap from #5.