~/.extra ran five `git config --global` writes on every shell startup, to
re-assert identity and signing after bootstrap.sh copies gitconfig over
~/.gitconfig. The dark-mode-notify agent fires on wake/unlock and runs
`pkill -usr1 zsh`, so every shell re-sources .zshrc — and therefore .extra —
simultaneously. `git config` locks with O_EXCL and has no retry or timeout for
config files, so the concurrent writes raced and printed:
error: could not lock config file /Users/jonny/.gitconfig: File exists
Identity and signing now live in an untracked ~/.gitconfig.local, included
last from gitconfig so it wins over anything above. bootstrap.sh seeds it from
gitconfig.local.template only when absent, so re-runs never clobber the real
signing key. No git writes happen on shell startup at all now.
Verified: fully-resolved config is unchanged apart from the new include.path;
author and committer both resolve from config with no GIT_* env vars set;
existing commits still verify. 12 concurrent sources of .extra are silent,
where the old version produced 27 lock errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
