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F3b of P38 (sc-forge): POST, PUT and DELETE on /repos/{o}/{r}/contents/{path..} as server-made commits. Plan (with the decisions from its Opus and Sol review): docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f3b-contents-writes.md; as-built notes: spec "F3b decisions (as built)" and THREAT-MODEL "Content API writes".
What
Raw-byte tree rewrite with ls-tree -z and mktree -z along the path (no index file), hash-object -w, commit-tree, then update-ref by compare-and-swap; the ref moves last. Untouched entries keep their exact names and ids.
Path rules stricter than reads: .git and .gitmodules aliases (NTFS 8.3 and HFS forms), backslash, depth 64; .gitattributes lines of 2048 bytes or more refused, because server-made commits skip receive.fsckObjects.
One writer per repository (timed write gate, then the shared lifecycle lock; the order is documented in lifecycle.rs for F4). A failed update-ref is judged by re-reading the ref: landed (also when a push already built on it), lost round, held lock, branch gone, exists, or fatal; three lost rounds is 409.
An unborn default branch takes a POST as its first commit. author/committer/dates/signoff are accepted and ignored; from_path is 422.
Protection seam policy::check_contents_write evaluated early and again just before the ref moves; permits everything until F4.
Review
Plan reviewed by Opus and Sol (accepted: byte-preserving trees, the full ref-outcome table, depth/size/time limits, lock order, response built before the ref moves, .gitmodules refused). The diff was reviewed by both again. Fixed: the fsck-parity gaps (2048-byte boundary, .gitattributes and .gitmodules short-name aliases), a landed write reported as refused when a push built on it, the deadline not bounding an attempt, a blob stored before the preconditions passed, new_branch equal to the default, email blanks differing between commit and response, a stale ref lock now logs a hint and answers 503 instead of a misleading 409.
Not done
The 409 exhaustion path has a unit-tested classifier but no end-to-end test (needs a deterministic interfering writer).
Windows device names, : in names and case-fold collisions are not prevented; refused or lost writes leave unreferenced objects (gc is F5); the F4 PR-ref refresh for a write to a PR branch.
Verified locally on 1.99; CI runs 1.96.1.
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New Features
Added API support for creating, updating, and deleting repository files. Successful writes create server-made commits; updates and deletions require the current file SHA.
Added validation for paths, content, branches, and write conflicts, with distinct responses for common errors.
Bug Fixes
Requests interrupted by server shutdown now receive a service-unavailable response with a retry hint instead of a generic server error.
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Updated the contents-write design and threat model with details on supported operations, validation, and concurrent-write behavior.
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The PR implements repository content creation, update, and deletion through server-made commits. It adds Git tree and commit operations, per-repository write coordination, bounded ref publication, and end-to-end coverage.
Changes: Repository Contents Writes
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Contents request contract and routing ROADMAP.md, crates/forge/conformance/slice-pending.json, crates/forge/src/content_api.rs, crates/forge/src/routes.rs, docs/superpowers/...
The handler parses POST, PUT, and DELETE requests and builds contents responses. The routes invoke the handler. The F3b plan and design describe the write contract.
Git tree and commit primitives crates/forge/src/gitproc.rs, crates/forge/src/gitwrite.rs
The Git-writing helpers validate paths, rebuild raw trees, create blobs and commits, and classify conditional ref updates. Tests cover path rules, tree rewrites, and ref outcomes.
The write flow uses repository gates, disk reservations, policy checks, and compare-and-swap retries. Cancelled blocking tasks use a shared 503 response helper.
Integration validation and operational documentation crates/forge/tests/e2e_write.rs, docs/THREAT-MODEL.md
End-to-end tests cover validation, permissions, concurrency, repository deletion, and Git integrity. The threat model records limits and failure behavior.
Contents writes are mergeable with awareness that a failed ref update could keep a request running longer than the documented deadline. The previously reported incorrect response for refused writes is fixed.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to fc565
The new write flow preserves repository permissions and protects concurrent updates, but its intended whole-operation timeout does not cover publication and recovery consistently. Slow or contested writes can retain repository locks and shared execution capacity longer than intended.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · observed: The whole-write deadline does not bound ref publication and recovery. read_ref, update_ref, and is_ancestor receive independent default command timeouts, while branch enumeration starts a fresh 60-second budget. Publication can begin shortly before the operation deadline and then perform further reconciliation calls while retaining the repository write gate and shared lifecycle lock. This weakens failure containment by delaying queued writes and repository deletion and extending use of the shared Git runner.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — Direct mutation authority is limited to repositories for which the caller has write permission and sufficient token scope. The timeout concern primarily affects that repository's writers and lifecycle operations; contention can also extend to other repositories through the shared Git runner. No cross-repository mutation path was established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — An authenticated repository writer can reach the new resource-holding path. Under slow Git execution or publication contention, independently timed ref operations can continue beyond the intended write budget and delay deletion or subsequent writes. This is a resource-containment concern, not an established authentication bypass or data-exfiltration path; command timeouts and serialization limit its reach.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Central dispatch authenticates the caller, checks token scope, and resolves repository permission before supplying identity and access to the handler. These route requirements are unchanged from the PR base and align with existing push authorization. The new allow-all contents policy is a future branch-protection seam, not a replacement for repository authorization; current source does not establish an existing branch-protection guarantee that this PR bypasses.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Raw-byte tree reconstruction preserves untouched names and object IDs. Compare-and-swap prevents replacing a concurrently changed tip, and reconciliation recognizes a commit that landed and was subsequently built upon. Git command timeout and output-limit handling kill and reap the process group, providing cleanup controls despite the incomplete operation-wide deadline.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Propagate one absolute operation deadline through branch enumeration, ref reads, publication, ancestry checks, and runner admission. Give necessary ambiguous-publication reconciliation an explicit bounded recovery policy that preserves landed-write detection rather than treating timeout as proof that no write occurred.
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Remove the test directories reliably and assert they are gone.
a_rewrite_keeps_every_untouched_entry_byte_for_byte and refs_move_only_from_the_expected_tip create a directory under temp_dir(). Each test ends with let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(d);. That line ignores the result and does not assert that the path is gone. If an assertion fails, the line never runs and the directory stays behind. A guard type that removes the directory in Drop and asserts !path.exists() fixes both cases. crates/forge/tests/common/mod.rs already uses this pattern for Srv.
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Major · Apply the remaining write deadline to ref and ancestry commands. · gitwrite.rs:396-399
crates/forge/src/gitwrite.rs:396-399 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Apply the remaining write deadline to ref and ancestry commands.
Git::run has a 30-second default timeout, but this is not the remaining write deadline. is_ancestor, read_ref, and update_ref use that default Spec. If less than 30 seconds remain, any of these commands can continue after the write deadline, before content_write::run can check it again.
Pass the write deadline into these helpers and set Spec::timeout to the remaining bounded duration. Preserve update_ref's timeout handling and ref re-read.
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Review comment at @crates/forge/src/gitwrite.rs around lines 396 - 399:
Update is_ancestor, read_ref, and update_ref to receive the write deadline and
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cgi.rs JoinError (cancelled vs panicked): fixed in the next push. Only is_cancelled() answers 503; a panic stays 500.
gitwrite.rs remaining deadline on read_ref/update_ref/is_ancestor: declined. They run under the runner's own 30 s limit, so a write can overrun its 60 s deadline by one ref command, which the spec already says ("one git command may still run up to its own limit"). Shortening update-ref's timeout would make a killed git leaving a stale ref lock more likely, which is the worse failure.
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Reject .gitattributes aliases in parent path components
A POST to .gitattributes/file.txt passes this validation and content_ok, allowing rebuild to publish a tree containing a directory named .gitattributes. Git requires that entry to be a blob: reproducing the generated tree with Git 2.43 yields gitattributesBlob: non-blob found at .gitattributes from git fsck --strict. The same issue occurs with aliases such as gitatt~1/file.txt. Because these server-made commits bypass receive-time fsck, the API successfully publishes invalid history that object-validating receivers reject. Reject .gitattributes aliases in non-leaf components while continuing to allow regular .gitattributes files.
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Reserve enough disk space for the rebuilt trees
For repositories with large, poorly compressible directories, the fixed 8 MiB reservation substantially undercounts the objects a write creates. A reproduced two-level tree stayed within the listing limits (about 29 MiB cumulatively), yet adding a one-byte file generated about 18 MiB of new loose tree objects. The reservation is never grown during rebuilding or retries, so a request admitted with only 9 MiB above the configured free-space floor can consume that floor; with a small floor it can instead fail partway through with a full disk rather than returning the intended 507 before writing. Reserve a conservative bound derived from the tree budget, including retries, or grow the reservation before storing each rebuilt tree.
Triage of Codex on a299ade, both fixed in the next push: a .gitattributes alias (.gitattributes, gitatt~1, gi7d29~N) is refused as a directory component, since fsck requires it to be a blob (new test); each attempt now reserves the tree bytes its walk read on top of the up-front reservation, so a large-directory write is refused with 507 before it writes rather than running the disk down.
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- Around line 329-331: Move gw::check ahead of both disk reservations so
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CodeRabbit on fc565e6 (reserve after the preconditions): fixed in the next push. Both disk reservations now follow gw::check, so a duplicate POST or stale-sha PUT is 422 even on a nearly full disk; they still precede hash_blob and rebuild.
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F3b of P38 (sc-forge):
POST,PUTandDELETEon/repos/{o}/{r}/contents/{path..}as server-made commits. Plan (with the decisions from its Opus and Sol review):docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f3b-contents-writes.md; as-built notes: spec "F3b decisions (as built)" and THREAT-MODEL "Content API writes".What
ls-tree -zandmktree -zalong the path (no index file),hash-object -w,commit-tree, thenupdate-refby compare-and-swap; the ref moves last. Untouched entries keep their exact names and ids.new_branch, duplicate branch).DELETEis unrecorded and follows the Gitea 1.22 API..gitand.gitmodulesaliases (NTFS 8.3 and HFS forms), backslash, depth 64;.gitattributeslines of 2048 bytes or more refused, because server-made commits skipreceive.fsckObjects.lifecycle.rsfor F4). A failedupdate-refis judged by re-reading the ref: landed (also when a push already built on it), lost round, held lock, branch gone, exists, or fatal; three lost rounds is 409.author/committer/dates/signoffare accepted and ignored;from_pathis 422.policy::check_contents_writeevaluated early and again just before the ref moves; permits everything until F4.Review
Plan reviewed by Opus and Sol (accepted: byte-preserving trees, the full ref-outcome table, depth/size/time limits, lock order, response built before the ref moves,
.gitmodulesrefused). The diff was reviewed by both again. Fixed: the fsck-parity gaps (2048-byte boundary,.gitattributesand.gitmodulesshort-name aliases), a landed write reported as refused when a push built on it, the deadline not bounding an attempt, a blob stored before the preconditions passed,new_branchequal to the default, email blanks differing between commit and response, a stale ref lock now logs a hint and answers 503 instead of a misleading 409.Not done
:in names and case-fold collisions are not prevented; refused or lost writes leave unreferenced objects (gc is F5); the F4 PR-ref refresh for a write to a PR branch.Summary by CodeRabbit