From cc35a0c8847b7f2ce90f15ab443dbc1e6097f58f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Bookholt <bookholt@openai.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 20:10:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(git): accept empty config count

---
 .../git-utils/src/git_config_environment.rs   | 13 +++++--
 .../src/git_config_environment_tests.rs       | 38 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codex-rs/git-utils/src/git_config_environment.rs b/codex-rs/git-utils/src/git_config_environment.rs
index f386cfda39..1cd718c13e 100644
--- a/codex-rs/git-utils/src/git_config_environment.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/git-utils/src/git_config_environment.rs
@@ -61,11 +61,16 @@ impl GitConfigEnvironmentSnapshot {
             .collect::<Vec<_>>();
 
         if let Some(raw_count) = value_for(OsStr::new("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT")) {
-            let count = raw_count
+            let raw_count = raw_count
                 .to_str()
-                .ok_or_else(|| invalid_environment("non-UTF-8 GIT_CONFIG_COUNT"))?
-                .parse::<usize>()
-                .map_err(|_| invalid_environment("invalid GIT_CONFIG_COUNT"))?;
+                .ok_or_else(|| invalid_environment("non-UTF-8 GIT_CONFIG_COUNT"))?;
+            let count = if raw_count.is_empty() {
+                0
+            } else {
+                raw_count
+                    .parse::<usize>()
+                    .map_err(|_| invalid_environment("invalid GIT_CONFIG_COUNT"))?
+            };
             if count > MAX_CONFIG_ENVIRONMENT_ENTRIES {
                 return Err(invalid_environment(
                     "GIT_CONFIG_COUNT exceeds the supported safety bound",
diff --git a/codex-rs/git-utils/src/git_config_environment_tests.rs b/codex-rs/git-utils/src/git_config_environment_tests.rs
index 3cdec9a790..54e4cd5766 100644
--- a/codex-rs/git-utils/src/git_config_environment_tests.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/git-utils/src/git_config_environment_tests.rs
@@ -40,10 +40,15 @@ fn snapshot_binds_present_empty_and_absent_fixed_and_indexed_values() {
         snapshot.value("GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS"),
         Some(OsStr::new("'safe.parameter'='present'"))
     );
+    assert_eq!(snapshot.value("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT"), Some(OsStr::new("2")));
     assert_eq!(
         snapshot.value("GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0"),
         Some(OsStr::new("safe.one"))
     );
+    assert_eq!(
+        snapshot.value("GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0"),
+        Some(OsStr::new("present"))
+    );
     assert_eq!(snapshot.value("GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_1"), None);
 
     let mut command = Command::new("git");
@@ -80,6 +85,39 @@ fn snapshot_rejects_malformed_or_unbounded_command_config_count() {
     }
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn snapshot_treats_empty_command_config_count_as_zero() {
+    let values = BTreeMap::from([
+        (OsString::from("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT"), OsString::from("")),
+        (
+            OsString::from("GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0"),
+            OsString::from("untrusted.key"),
+        ),
+        (
+            OsString::from("GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0"),
+            OsString::from("untrusted-value"),
+        ),
+    ]);
+    let snapshot = GitConfigEnvironmentSnapshot::capture_from(|name| values.get(name).cloned())
+        .expect("capture empty count");
+
+    assert_eq!(snapshot.value("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT"), Some(OsStr::new("")));
+    assert_eq!(snapshot.value("GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0"), None);
+    assert_eq!(snapshot.value("GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0"), None);
+
+    let mut command = Command::new("git");
+    command.env("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT", "1");
+    snapshot.apply_to(&mut command);
+    let child_environment = command
+        .get_envs()
+        .map(|(name, value)| (name.to_owned(), value.map(OsStr::to_owned)))
+        .collect::<BTreeMap<_, _>>();
+    assert_eq!(
+        child_environment.get(OsStr::new("GIT_CONFIG_COUNT")),
+        Some(&Some(OsString::from("")))
+    );
+}
+
 #[cfg(unix)]
 #[test]
 fn snapshot_preserves_non_utf8_config_path_bytes() {