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Vasanthdev2004 833573681a fix(update): require a Homebrew receipt before refusing self-update
Review found the keg check was shape-only, and it was right: a directory
tree a user built themselves can have exactly a keg's shape. Classifying
one as Homebrew refuses a `zero upgrade` that would have worked
perfectly, on a machine Homebrew has never touched.

Two changes, cheap one first. The shape rule now requires the full
<prefix>/Cellar/<formula>/<version>/bin/<binary> depth rather than one
segment fewer, which already excludes the exact path the review raised.
Then, only for a path that still looks like a keg, one Stat for
INSTALL_RECEIPT.json — the file Homebrew writes into every keg and
nothing else does.

The receipt is what the old comment argued against, on the grounds that
it would put filesystem I/O on a path that runs at every version check.
That is no longer true of it: the Stat happens only after the shape test
has already matched, so an ordinary install still reaches no filesystem
here at all.

A directory named INSTALL_RECEIPT.json is not a receipt, which a bare
Stat would have accepted silently.

NOT taken: the same review asked for the Homebrew branch to be moved
ahead of the cross-target one in upgradeGuidance. That ordering is
deliberate and already pinned by
TestUpgradeGuidanceKeepsCrossTargetAnswerForHomebrew, whose comment
predicted exactly this reading — "it reads like an ordering bug until you
see which question is being answered". Homebrew is a property of the
binary on THIS machine; when the check was asked about a different
target the answer belongs to that other machine, and `brew upgrade zero`
would change this one instead. The reasoning is now recorded at the
branch as well as in the test, so the next reader finds it in both
places.

The install docs claimed detection was the Cellar path alone, which
undersold it, and stated the self-update rule absolutely in one paragraph
before excepting mise in the next. Both say the same thing now.
2026-08-19 17:04:24 +05:30
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