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+"""Windows parallel to issue #5175 (macOS launchd git-on-PATH miss).
+
+When the source WebUI server is launched from a Python environment whose PATH
+does not include git (e.g. a venv on Windows, mirroring the macOS launchd case),
+``shutil.which('git')`` returns None. Before this fix ``_resolve_git_executable``
+had only a darwin fallback, so on Windows it returned None -> ``git describe``
+never ran -> ``WEBUI_VERSION`` degraded to ``'unknown'`` -> the ``?v=<stamp>``
+static-asset cache key froze, so browsers kept serving stale cached JS/CSS even
+after the server restarted with fixed code.
+
+The fix adds a Windows fallback that resolves git.exe from the Git-for-Windows
+registry ``InstallPath`` (and common install dirs) without relying on PATH.
+"""
+import os
+import sys
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
+
+import api.updates as updates
+
+
+def _fake_winreg():
+    """Minimal winreg stub whose OpenKey/QueryValueEx yield a Git InstallPath."""
+    mod = MagicMock()
+    mod.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = 0
+    mod.HKEY_CURRENT_USER = 1
+    mod.KEY_READ = 0x20019
+    mod.KEY_WOW64_64KEY = 0x0100
+    mod.KEY_WOW64_32KEY = 0x0200
+
+    class _Key:
+        def __enter__(self):
+            return self
+
+        def __exit__(self, *a):
+            return False
+
+    mod.OpenKey.return_value = _Key()
+    mod.QueryValueEx.return_value = (r'C:\Program Files\Git', 1)
+    return mod
+
+
+def test_resolve_git_executable_uses_registry_on_windows():
+    winreg = _fake_winreg()
+    expected = os.path.join(r'C:\Program Files\Git', 'cmd', 'git.exe')
+
+    def fake_exists(p):
+        return p == expected
+
+    with patch.object(updates.shutil, 'which', return_value=None), \
+         patch.object(sys, 'platform', 'win32'), \
+         patch.dict('sys.modules', {'winreg': winreg}), \
+         patch.object(updates.os.path, 'exists', side_effect=fake_exists):
+        resolved = updates._resolve_git_executable()
+
+    assert resolved == expected
+
+
+def test_resolve_git_executable_probes_known_dirs_when_registry_absent():
+    winreg = _fake_winreg()
+    # Registry has no value -> QueryValueEx raises -> fall through to dir probe.
+    winreg.QueryValueEx.side_effect = OSError('no InstallPath')
+    program_files = os.environ.get('ProgramFiles', r'C:\Program Files')
+    expected = os.path.join(program_files, 'Git', 'cmd', 'git.exe')
+
+    def fake_exists(p):
+        return p == expected
+
+    with patch.object(updates.shutil, 'which', return_value=None), \
+         patch.object(sys, 'platform', 'win32'), \
+         patch.dict('sys.modules', {'winreg': winreg}), \
+         patch.object(updates.os.path, 'exists', side_effect=fake_exists):
+        resolved = updates._resolve_git_executable()
+
+    assert resolved == expected
+
+
+def test_resolve_git_executable_returns_none_on_windows_when_git_truly_absent():
+    winreg = _fake_winreg()
+    winreg.QueryValueEx.side_effect = OSError('no InstallPath')
+
+    with patch.object(updates.shutil, 'which', return_value=None), \
+         patch.object(sys, 'platform', 'win32'), \
+         patch.dict('sys.modules', {'winreg': winreg}), \
+         patch.object(updates.os.path, 'exists', return_value=False):
+        resolved = updates._resolve_git_executable()
+
+    assert resolved is None
+
+
+def test_non_windows_never_touches_registry_fallback():
+    """Falsifiable guard: the registry path must be Windows-only."""
+    winreg = _fake_winreg()
+
+    with patch.object(updates.shutil, 'which', return_value=None), \
+         patch.object(sys, 'platform', 'linux'), \
+         patch.dict('sys.modules', {'winreg': winreg}), \
+         patch.object(updates.os.path, 'exists', return_value=True):
+        resolved = updates._resolve_git_executable()
+
+    assert resolved is None
+    winreg.OpenKey.assert_not_called()
+
+
+def test_detect_webui_version_recovers_via_windows_registry_fallback(tmp_path):
+    winreg = _fake_winreg()
+    expected_git = os.path.join(r'C:\Program Files\Git', 'cmd', 'git.exe')
+
+    def fake_exists(p):
+        # git.exe resolves; no api/_version.py fallback file present.
+        return p == expected_git
+
+    def fake_run(cmd, **kwargs):
+        assert cmd[0] == expected_git
+        if cmd[1:] == ['describe', '--tags', '--always']:
+            return MagicMock(returncode=0, stdout='v0.51.999\n', stderr='')
+        if cmd[1:] == ['diff-index', '--quiet', 'HEAD', '--']:
+            return MagicMock(returncode=0, stdout='', stderr='')
+        raise AssertionError(f'unexpected git args: {cmd[1:]!r}')
+
+    with patch.object(updates.shutil, 'which', return_value=None), \
+         patch.object(sys, 'platform', 'win32'), \
+         patch.dict('sys.modules', {'winreg': winreg}), \
+         patch.object(updates.os.path, 'exists', side_effect=fake_exists), \
+         patch.object(updates, 'REPO_ROOT', tmp_path), \
+         patch.object(updates.subprocess, 'run', side_effect=fake_run):
+        version = updates._detect_webui_version()
+
+    assert version == 'v0.51.999'