The partial-tree guard parsed omarchy.db with bsdtar, which is not installed on
the repository host. Every sync there aborted with "the remote database exists
but could not be read" -- a guard meant to catch a partial tree instead blocked
a complete one, stopping a publish after sign, promote and update had already
succeeded.
GNU tar reads the database fine when it is a seekable file; the pipe was what
defeated it originally, and that is already downloaded to a temp file. tar now
leads, with bsdtar as a fallback for a tar too old to detect zstd.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
