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braney
  Tue Mar 10 12:37:04 2026 -0700
Detect tracks that list themselves as their own parent, preventing infinite loop refs #35986

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

diff --git src/hg/utils/hubCheck/tests/expected/selfParent.output.txt src/hg/utils/hubCheck/tests/expected/selfParent.output.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7074fcb3af8
--- /dev/null
+++ src/hg/utils/hubCheck/tests/expected/selfParent.output.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Found 2 problems:
+Track selfRef lists itself as its own parent in hub input/selfParent.txt genome hg19
+warning: missing hub overview description page. Add a 'descriptionUrl hubDescription.html' line to hub.txt.