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buzz/desktop/scripts
8995316844 fix(desktop): use forward slashes for git credential.helper on Windows (#3023)
## Problem

On Windows, Projects **Remote** view shows an empty file tree and
Sync/Clone fails with a mangled credential-helper path, for example:

```
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Buzz\git-credential-nostr.exe get: line 1:
C:Users<user>AppDataLocalBuzzgit-credential-nostr.exe: command not found
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://<relay>/git/...': terminal prompts disabled
```

Buzz injects an absolute path into `credential.helper` via
`Path::display()`. On Windows that yields backslashes. Git for Windows
runs credential helpers through MinGW bash, which treats `\` as escapes
and destroys the path, so NIP-98 auth never runs and the blobless temp
clone behind Remote view fails.

macOS/Linux are unaffected (paths already use `/`).

This is unrelated to shipping a stub helper - the bundled
`git-credential-nostr.exe` is a real binary. User `~/.gitconfig`
workarounds also cannot help here because Projects git sets
`GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null` and injects its own helper.

Closes #3025

## Fix

Normalize the helper path to forward slashes before writing
`GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_*`:

- `desktop/src-tauri/src/commands/project_git_exec.rs` (Projects Remote
/ Sync)
- `desktop/src-tauri/src/managed_agents/runtime.rs` (agent spawn git
auth)

Forward slashes are accepted by Git on every platform; on macOS/Linux
the replace is a no-op. No `cfg(windows)`, packaging, or libgit2
changes.

## How to reproduce (before)

1. Install Buzz on Windows with Git for Windows
2. Connect to a relay that has a repository with at least one pushed
branch
3. Open **Projects** -> select the repo -> **Remote**
4. Observe empty tree; Sync/Clone shows the mangled-path / `command not
found` error above

## Test plan

- [x] Unit: `cargo test --manifest-path desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
credential_helper_config_value` (formatter covered on all platforms;
no-op for Unix-style paths)
- [x] Local Windows NSIS build + install of this branch
- [x] Projects -> Remote / Sync against a Buzz relay repo succeeds on
Windows after the fix

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Signed-off-by: Bjorn de Jong <bcrdejong@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Bjorn de Jong <bcrdejong@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com>
2026-07-27 13:56:34 -04:00
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