Initialize Git repositories on crewai create ...

[vinibrsl]

Initialize a Git repo when crewai create crew, crewai create flow, and JSON crew creation finish successfully.

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Low Risk
Scoped CLI scaffolding change that no-ops when Git is missing; only runs git init on new project directories.

Overview
Newly scaffolded crew, flow, and JSON crew projects now run git init at the end of creation when Git is on the PATH, via a shared initialize_if_git_available helper in crewai_cli.git.

Python crew creation only does this for top-level projects (not parent_folder), so crews added inside an existing flow folder are unchanged. Flow and JSON crew paths always init Git on the new project root after templates and env setup.

Tests add an integration check that crewai create crew and crewai create flow leave a .git directory when Git is installed, and mocked crew tests now create the mock folder on disk so scaffolding matches real behavior.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Newly created crew, flow, and JSON crew projects now initialize Git automatically when Git is available, so generated projects are ready for versioning.
• Tests
  • Added CLI coverage to verify Git initialization for crew and flow generation when Git is available.
  • Updated existing creation tests to ensure the target project directories exist before scaffolding assertions.

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• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_crew.py
• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_flow.py
• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_json_crew.py
• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/git.py
• lib/cli/tests/test_create_crew.py

🚧 Files skipped from review as they are similar to previous changes (4)

• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_flow.py
• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_json_crew.py
• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_crew.py
• lib/cli/tests/test_create_crew.py

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Crew, flow, and JSON crew scaffolding now initialize a Git repository in the generated project root when Git is available. A new helper centralizes the Git check and initialization path, and tests cover the updated CLI behavior.

Changes

CLI Git initialization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Git init helper lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/git.py	Adds initialize_if_git_available, which checks Repository.is_git_installed() and runs git init in the target path when Git is available.
Scaffold commands lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_crew.py, lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_flow.py, lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_json_crew.py	Imports initialize_if_git_available in the crew, flow, and JSON crew generators and invokes it after project files are created.
CLI tests lib/cli/tests/test_create_crew.py	Adds the CLI entrypoint import, creates mocked project directories before direct create_crew calls, and adds a git-guarded CLI test that checks for a .git directory.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: automatically initializing Git for scaffolding commands.
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Summary: This PR initializes a Git repository after successful project generation for crews, flows, and JSON crews. No exploitable security vulnerabilities were identified in the added code.

Risk: Low risk. The new subprocess invocation uses a fixed argument list without shell execution and does not introduce public endpoints, authentication changes, or new data-access boundaries.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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Inline comments:
In `@lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/git.py`:
- Around line 206-212: The initialize_if_git_available helper currently lets
subprocess.run(["git", "init"], check=True) raise and crash the CLI even after
scaffolding is complete. Update initialize_if_git_available to treat git init as
best-effort: catch the failure from subprocess.run in this function, optionally
emit a warning, and return False instead of propagating the exception. Keep the
existing Repository.is_git_installed guard and preserve the True return only
when git init succeeds.

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• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_crew.py
• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_flow.py
• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/create_json_crew.py
• lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/git.py
• lib/cli/tests/test_create_crew.py

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