feat(tools/git): explain tea's misleading user does not exist error (stale token, not a missing account) (#1086)

2026-08-07 05:07:40 +00:00
parent 8ff7aac0ca
commit f744f32214
6 changed files with 83 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -246,6 +246,21 @@ PY
    } >&2
 }

+# Explain tea's most misleading failure. `user does not exist [uid: 0, name: ]` reads
+# as a missing account; it almost always means a REVOKED OR STALE TOKEN. `tea login`
+# keeps its OWN COPY of the token, so rotating the credential store does not update it.
+# Diagnostic only -- stderr, no control flow, no exit.
+explain_tea_user_does_not_exist() {
+    cat >&2 <<'MSG'
+NOTE: `user does not exist [uid: 0, name: ]` from tea usually means a REVOKED OR STALE TOKEN,
+      not a missing account. A `tea login` stores its OWN COPY of the token; rotating the
+      credential store does NOT update it.
+      CHECK: the login's cached copy (`tea login list` -- read the FULL table, never `| head`),
+             then re-register that login against the current token.
+      DO NOT probe capability with a mutating request; a POST is the action, not a check.
+MSG
+}
+
 get_gitea_login_for_host() {
    local host="${1:-}"
    local login