# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Parked-branch verification issues in partial clones

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern correctness and safety problems with the parked-branch guard check during updates, specifically around spurious skips and unintended large fetch behavior in partial (tree:0) clone environments.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #132378. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #132378 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #124767: hermes update: parked-branch guard verification can skip spuriously on partial (tree:0) clones

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#132378: hermes update: the parked-branch check no longer lazy-fetches a partial clone into a 180 GiB pack runaway (#131444, salvage #124777)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/update_cmd_git.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_parked_branch_guard.py`
- **#124777: fix(update): verify a parked branch from the commit graph before git cherry**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `cefe1db95c4`, `85aa4b32d24`, `#132378`, `#131444`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #132378 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-06`.