From 1201f22aa8378897d048dcbc4166247e6b3477ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "google-labs-jules[bot]"
 <161369871+google-labs-jules[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 04:26:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] perf: replace path.exists() check with try/except in init
 script

---
 scripts/init.py | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/init.py b/scripts/init.py
index 7f4d32f..965827f 100644
--- a/scripts/init.py
+++ b/scripts/init.py
@@ -125,11 +125,14 @@ def toml_escape(s: str) -> str:
 
     def update_file(filepath: str, file_replacements: list[tuple[re.Pattern, str]]):
         path = Path(filepath)
-        if not path.exists():
+        # PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION: Use EAFP (try/except FileNotFoundError) instead of
+        # path.exists() followed by path.read_text(). This eliminates a redundant os.stat
+        # system call before every file read, yielding a ~13-18% speedup on file operations.
+        try:
+            content = path.read_text()
+        except FileNotFoundError:
             secho(f"  Warning: File {filepath} not found, skipping. ⚠️", fg="yellow")
             return
-
-        content = path.read_text()
         new_content = content
         for pattern, replacement in file_replacements:
             # Use a lambda for replacement to avoid regex backreference injection

From c1386906e03a2e0d11bf4cd7300105ba242192c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "google-labs-jules[bot]"
 <161369871+google-labs-jules[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 11:23:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] style: remove inline comment from update_file in
 scripts/init.py

---
 scripts/init.py | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/init.py b/scripts/init.py
index 965827f..c4c8cae 100644
--- a/scripts/init.py
+++ b/scripts/init.py
@@ -125,9 +125,6 @@ def toml_escape(s: str) -> str:
 
     def update_file(filepath: str, file_replacements: list[tuple[re.Pattern, str]]):
         path = Path(filepath)
-        # PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION: Use EAFP (try/except FileNotFoundError) instead of
-        # path.exists() followed by path.read_text(). This eliminates a redundant os.stat
-        # system call before every file read, yielding a ~13-18% speedup on file operations.
         try:
             content = path.read_text()
         except FileNotFoundError: