fix(installer): clone my working repos with full history

archsetup and dotfiles were cloned with --depth 1. They aren't build trees. They're the two repos I develop in on every machine this installs, and velox came back from its rebuild carrying 7 commits of history in each instead of 851.

A shallow clone degrades quietly. Past the graft point `git log -- <path>` answers "no commits" rather than failing, so a search of history for specific files came back empty and exited clean. The clone couldn't see the history they live in. Blame and bisect break the same way, less dangerously.

Dropping --depth also drops the implicit --single-branch, so both clones now fetch every branch. That's what I want in a repo I work in.

The AUR build clones stay shallow. They exist to run make install and are then discarded. A test asserts they keep --depth 1, so a broad sed can't take them along.

2 files changed, 163 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/archsetup b/archsetup
index 7dcdad2..32a3ad4 100755
--- a/archsetup
+++ b/archsetup
@@ -1458,8 +1458,13 @@ clone_user_repos() {
     # Without this, symlinks could point to /root or a tmpfs that disappears.
     user_archsetup_dir="/home/$username/code/archsetup"
     action="cloning archsetup to user's home directory" && display "task" "$action"
+    # Full history, deliberately. This is a working repo, not a build tree, and
+    # a shallow clone degrades silently: `git log -- <path>` answers "no
+    # commits" past the graft point rather than failing, so history questions
+    # come back confidently wrong. The AUR clones stay shallow; they're
+    # discarded after the build.
     (mkdir -p "$(dirname "$user_archsetup_dir")" && \
-        git clone --depth 1 "$archsetup_repo" "$user_archsetup_dir" && \
+        git clone "$archsetup_repo" "$user_archsetup_dir" && \
         chown -R "$username": "/home/$username/code") \
         >> "$logfile" 2>&1 || error_warn "$action" "$?"
 
@@ -1472,7 +1477,8 @@ clone_user_repos() {
     # leaves /home/$username root-owned — so a clone running as the user fails with
     # "Permission denied" creating ~/.dotfiles. Cloning as root sidesteps that, and
     # chown -R gives the user the working tree. Mirrors the archsetup clone above.
-    (git clone --depth 1 --branch "$dotfiles_branch" "$dotfiles_repo" "$dotfiles_dir" \
+    # Full history for the same reason as the archsetup clone above.
+    (git clone --branch "$dotfiles_branch" "$dotfiles_repo" "$dotfiles_dir" \
         && chown -R "$username": "$dotfiles_dir") >> "$logfile" 2>&1 || error_warn "$action" "$?"
 
     # Q5: the --adopt/restore conflict handling below needs a real git checkout.
diff --git a/tests/installer-steps/test_clone_user_repos.py b/tests/installer-steps/test_clone_user_repos.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..51d8434
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/installer-steps/test_clone_user_repos.py
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+"""Test clone_user_repos: the two user repos are cloned with full history.
+
+archsetup and dotfiles are not build directories. They are the two repos I
+actively develop in on every machine this installer builds, so a shallow clone
+is wrong for both. Velox came back from its 2026-08-13 rebuild with 7 commits
+of history in each instead of 851, and nothing about the tree said so.
+
+The quiet failure is what makes this worth a test rather than a one-line fix.
+`git log -- <path>` against a shallow clone does not error; it answers "no
+commits". So a credential-history check run on that machine reported five
+sensitive files absent from history and exited clean, when the real answer was
+that the clone could not see the history they live in. A security question came
+back falsely reassuring. Everything else it breaks — blame, bisect, any
+archaeology past the graft point — is merely annoying by comparison.
+
+The AUR build clones are a different case and stay shallow: they are throwaway
+build trees, cloned to run `make install` and then discarded, where history has
+no value and the download cost is real. So this suite asserts both halves —
+full history for the two user repos, and depth still pinned on the AUR path —
+because a fix applied with too broad a brush would regress the build clones
+without failing any test that only looked at the user repos.
+
+Method: sed-extract clone_user_repos from the real `archsetup`, fake git /
+mkdir / chown / display / error_warn / error_fatal, and read back the git
+command lines the function issued.
+
+Run from repo root:
+    python3 -m unittest tests.installer-steps.test_clone_user_repos
+"""
+
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+import textwrap
+import unittest
+
+REPO_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", ".."))
+ARCHSETUP = os.path.join(REPO_ROOT, "archsetup")
+
+
+def run(clone_fails=False, make_git_dir=True):
+    """Drive clone_user_repos with every side effect faked.
+
+    dotfiles_dir is pre-created with a .git so the function's "is this a real
+    checkout?" guard passes on the happy path; make_git_dir=False exercises the
+    guard itself.
+    """
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as d:
+        dotfiles_dir = os.path.join(d, "dotfiles")
+        os.makedirs(dotfiles_dir)
+        if make_git_dir:
+            os.makedirs(os.path.join(dotfiles_dir, ".git"))
+        clone_rc = 1 if clone_fails else 0
+        script = textwrap.dedent(f"""\
+            logfile=/dev/null
+            action=""
+            username=testuser
+            archsetup_repo="https://example.invalid/archsetup.git"
+            dotfiles_repo="https://example.invalid/dotfiles.git"
+            dotfiles_branch=main
+            dotfiles_dir="{dotfiles_dir}"
+            display() {{ :; }}
+            mkdir() {{ echo "MKDIR: $*" >> "{d}/calls.log"; return 0; }}
+            chown() {{ echo "CHOWN: $*" >> "{d}/calls.log"; return 0; }}
+            git() {{
+                echo "GIT: $*" >> "{d}/calls.log"
+                case "$1" in
+                    clone) return {clone_rc} ;;
+                    *) return 0 ;;
+                esac
+            }}
+            error_warn() {{ echo "WARN: $1" >> "{d}/calls.log"; return 1; }}
+            error_fatal() {{ echo "FATAL: $1" >> "{d}/calls.log"; exit 1; }}
+            source <(sed -n '/^clone_user_repos() {{/,/^}}/p' "{ARCHSETUP}")
+            clone_user_repos
+            echo "RC=$?" >> "{d}/calls.log"
+            exit 0
+        """)
+        subprocess.run(
+            ["bash", "-c", script], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=10,
+        )
+        with open(os.path.join(d, "calls.log")) as fh:
+            return fh.read()
+
+
+def clone_lines(log):
+    return [ln for ln in log.splitlines() if ln.startswith("GIT: clone")]
+
+
+class CloneUserRepos(unittest.TestCase):
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------ normal ----
+    def test_both_user_repos_are_cloned(self):
+        lines = clone_lines(run())
+        self.assertEqual(len(lines), 2,
+                         f"expected an archsetup clone and a dotfiles clone, got: {lines}")
+        self.assertTrue(any("archsetup.git" in ln for ln in lines))
+        self.assertTrue(any("dotfiles.git" in ln for ln in lines))
+
+    def test_archsetup_clone_carries_full_history(self):
+        """A shallow archsetup clone answers history questions wrongly."""
+        line = next(ln for ln in clone_lines(run()) if "archsetup.git" in ln)
+        self.assertNotIn("--depth", line,
+                         "archsetup is a working repo, not a build tree — a shallow "
+                         "clone makes `git log -- <path>` answer 'no commits' instead "
+                         "of failing, which is how a credential-history check came "
+                         "back falsely clean on velox")
+
+    def test_dotfiles_clone_carries_full_history(self):
+        line = next(ln for ln in clone_lines(run()) if "dotfiles.git" in ln)
+        self.assertNotIn("--depth", line,
+                         "dotfiles is a working repo, not a build tree")
+
+    def test_dotfiles_clone_still_pins_the_branch(self):
+        """Dropping --depth must not disturb the --branch argument beside it."""
+        line = next(ln for ln in clone_lines(run()) if "dotfiles.git" in ln)
+        self.assertIn("--branch main", line)
+
+    # ---------------------------------------------------------- boundary ----
+    def test_no_user_repo_clone_is_shallow_by_any_spelling(self):
+        """--depth, --depth=N and -depth are all shallow; catch the lot."""
+        for line in clone_lines(run()):
+            self.assertNotRegex(line, r"(^|\s)-{1,2}depth(\s|=)",
+                                f"user-repo clone must be full: {line}")
+
+    def test_aur_build_clones_stay_shallow(self):
+        """The fix must not over-apply — build trees are throwaway.
+
+        Read against the real file rather than the extracted function, because
+        these clones live in a different function entirely and the risk being
+        guarded is a careless repo-wide sed.
+        """
+        with open(ARCHSETUP) as fh:
+            source = fh.read()
+        build_clones = re.findall(r"^.*git clone.*build_dir.*$", source, re.M)
+        self.assertTrue(build_clones, "expected AUR build clones to exist")
+        for line in build_clones:
+            self.assertIn("--depth 1", line,
+                          f"AUR build clone should stay shallow: {line.strip()}")
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------- error ----
+    def test_clone_failure_is_reported_not_swallowed(self):
+        log = run(clone_fails=True)
+        self.assertIn("WARN:", log,
+                      "a failed clone must surface through error_warn")
+
+    def test_dotfiles_clone_producing_no_checkout_is_fatal(self):
+        """The stow/restore steps downstream need a real checkout."""
+        log = run(make_git_dir=False)
+        self.assertIn("FATAL:", log)
+        self.assertNotIn("RC=", log, "error_fatal must halt, not fall through")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()