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

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

KanbanTests/BoardSettingsSheetTests.swift

@@ -45,6 +45,19 @@ struct BoardSettingsSectionTests {
         #expect(BoardSettingsSection.resolve(tier: .pro, mode: .unverifiable) == [])
     }
 
+    @Test("Pro, git mode with an unreadable repository: nothing setup-shaped applies either")
+    func anUnreadableRepositoryHoldsNothing() {
+        // **The corrupt-`.git` loud failure** (06 ▸ Rules, ruled 2026-07-31): both sections here are
+        // *writes* to a repository — a branch created in it, an identity written into its config —
+        // and there is no repository the app can open to write either into. Repo-nested's emptiness,
+        // reached one step further along.
+        #expect(BoardSettingsSection.resolve(tier: .pro, mode: .git, isRepositoryUnreadable: true) == [])
+
+        // …and the mode is still `git` throughout: this is emptiness *within* git mode, never the
+        // fall to mode none that would let add-git be offered against an existing `.git`.
+        #expect(BoardSettingsSection.resolve(tier: .pro, mode: .git) == [.branch, .commitIdentity])
+    }
+
     @Test("The sections carry the headers VoiceOver navigates by")
     func headersAreNamed() {
         // 10-accessibility.md ▸ Board settings sheet: "titled and sectioned with headers VoiceOver
@@ -77,6 +90,11 @@ struct BoardSettingsAvailabilityTests {
         // denied ancestor check is never distinguishable from a repository actually being there.
         #expect(!BoardSettingsAvailability.resolve(tier: .pro, mode: .unverifiable))
 
+        // **Pro, git mode over a repository that will not open**: no door either, so neither the
+        // popover's Board Settings… row nor the menu command offers a surface with nothing on it
+        // (06 ▸ Rules, the corrupt-`.git` loud failure).
+        #expect(!BoardSettingsAvailability.resolve(tier: .pro, mode: .git, isRepositoryUnreadable: true))
+
         // **The free tier**: no setup exists there at all (12-editions.md ▸ The free tier and
         // `.git`), whatever mode a stray value claims — detection never runs off Pro, so the mode is
         // swept for completeness rather than because it can vary.