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Juan Garibay c6195edb2f fix(hooks): stop probing the pytest override, and stop failing on exit 5
Three defects, found by reviewing this branch against a running pytest rather
than by reading it.

Exit 5 is not a failure. pytest reserves it for NO_TESTS_COLLECTED, and
`|| fail "pytest failed"` collapsed it into a blocked push. The `|| fail`
predates this branch, but this branch is what makes it reachable: a repository
whose pyproject.toml only configures ruff or black, with pytest in its venv and
no test files, used to hit the "pytest is not installed" skip and now gets
gated. $VIRTUAL_ENV is the first candidate, so merely having a venv activated in
the pushing shell drags any requirements.txt repository into this path, and the
hook is installed globally. Reproduced with pytest 9.1.1. Exit 5 is now
non-blocking but loud -- a bad rootdir, testpaths or an unimportable conftest
also collects nothing, and swallowing that silently would reopen the hole this
resolver exists to close. Other non-zero codes now carry the code, because 1
(tests failed) and 4 (usage error) call for different responses.

The ECC_PYTEST_CMD probe ran the operator's command. Validating the override
with `--version` assumed it would answer like pytest. A wrapper that sets an
environment variable and execs pytest ignores the flag and runs the whole suite,
so the probe executed the tests, then rejected the command for not printing a
version, then blocked the push -- with the suite green. That is worse than the
silent gate the probe was added to close, so the override is taken as given
again: it is a deliberate setting, the hook cannot inspect it without running
it, and pointing it at something that is not pytest is the operator's call.
`is_pytest` still guards the PATH candidate, which this script composes itself,
where `pytest --version` is harmless. An empty override still fails closed.

The tests inherited the ambient environment. `runHermeticPythonPrePush` passed
process.env through, so an exported ECC_PYTEST_CMD or an activated virtualenv
resolved a pytest the fixture never created and the venv test failed for anyone
who runs the suite that way. Both variables are now neutralised in the base env.

Coverage: the gate had no test proving it blocks. Changing the run line to
`|| true` left all three previous tests green. Seven now cover a spaced venv
path, a red suite, exit 5, an override invoked exactly once with no probe, an
empty override, and the PATH candidate in both directions.
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