An unopenable repository fails loudly — the standing row, the paused surface, the honest heal

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy

KanbanTests/BoardInfoPopoverTests.swift

@@ -78,6 +78,22 @@ struct BoardGitSectionTests {
         #expect(section != .noRepository)
     }
 
+    /// **A board whose repository will not open keeps the git section it has** (06 ▸ Rules, the
+    /// corrupt-`.git` loud failure, ruled 2026-07-31) — the *branch* section, held and explaining
+    /// itself, never the mode-none posture that would imply a board with no history to have.
+    ///
+    /// The section case is deliberately blind to readability: what changes on such a board is what
+    /// the branch surface inside it says (`BoardGitBranchSurface.resolve`, whose broken presentation
+    /// and own sentence `BoardGitBranchSurfaceTests` pins), not which section the popover shows. The
+    /// posture matrix stays a function of the tier and the mode alone.
+    @Test("An unreadable repository is still the branch section — never the no-repository posture")
+    func anUnreadableRepositoryKeepsTheBranchSection() {
+        let section = BoardGitSection.resolve(tier: .pro, mode: .git, hasGitDirectory: true)
+
+        #expect(section == .branch)
+        #expect(section != .noRepository, "the board has a repository; it is unreadable, not absent")
+    }
+
     @Test("Every posture is reachable, and none of them is two postures")
     func theMatrixIsTotal() {
         let resolved = Set(