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P38 F4b, the second of three F4 slices (plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f4-pulls-statuses-merge-protection.md, decisions R6-R8 and the contract notes).
Pull requests: create, list (state/sort/paging), get, PATCH (201, recorded), .diff, .patch, /commits, /files, the is-merged probe. Mergeability and stats come from merge-tree/diff-tree and are cached by the two object ids.
Retention refs refs/forge/pull/<n>/head, kept by the server under the write gate; deleting a PR's head branch closes the PR (the fixtures show this on both Gitea versions; the spec and findings said otherwise and are corrected). The pre-receive hook records the tip of a head a push deletes. Startup reconcile repairs refs and rows.
Side fixes the P gate exposed: paged lists echo the request query in their Link headers with the page clamped, branches list newest commit first, combined status pages from the newest end.
Gate: F, O, P, and D#13 now pass; the merge-dependent exchanges of O and Q stay deferred until F4c.
Verification
cargo test -p scl-forge (9 new end-to-end tests in e2e_pulls.rs incl. a real-git push that deletes a PR head and a reader/exclusive-operation stress test), cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings, cargo fmt.
forge-check.sh: 19/19 scenarios.
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Merge, merge intents, recovery and required-status gating are F4c.
Forks, labels, assignees, inline review comments (refused, not dropped).
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New Features
Added pull requests with listing, creation, editing, state changes, mergeability details, commits, and changed-file views.
Added pull-request reviews and issue comments, with permission checks and pagination.
Pull-request heads are preserved when their branch is deleted; the pull request closes and can be reopened without the branch.
Improvements
Branch lists are ordered by most recent commit.
Pagination links better reflect request parameters and respect page limits.
Bug Fixes
Repository search pagination links no longer retain the search query or sort parameters.
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crates/forge/src/api.rs
crates/forge/src/cgi.rs
crates/forge/src/content_api.rs
crates/forge/src/gitread.rs
crates/forge/src/hook.rs
crates/forge/src/pulls.rs
crates/forge/src/pulls_api.rs
crates/forge/src/reviews.rs
crates/forge/tests/e2e_pulls.rs
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docs/THREAT-MODEL.md
crates/forge/src/content_api.rs
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The change adds pull-request storage and API routes, Git-based merge and change calculations, retained-head synchronization, review and issue-comment endpoints, and updates to pagination, conformance checks, tests, and design documentation.
Changes: Forge pull-request functionality
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Pull storage and Git calculations crates/forge/src/db.rs, crates/forge/src/pulls.rs, crates/forge/src/gitobj.rs
The database adds pull, mergeability-cache, review, and issue-comment tables. Pull storage supports lookup, insertion, and listing. Git helpers provide commit-range history, file statistics, patches, and cached mergeability calculations.
Branch deletion retains open pull heads. Synchronization updates pull records after branch changes and closes requests whose head branch disappears. Startup reconciliation repairs retention refs and removes orphan refs. Tests and documentation describe these behaviors.
Pull-request API and routes crates/forge/src/pulls_api.rs, crates/forge/src/routes.rs, crates/forge/src/lib.rs, crates/forge/src/content_api.rs, crates/forge/tests/common/mod.rs, crates/forge/tests/e2e_pulls.rs
Reviews and issue comments crates/forge/src/reviews.rs, crates/forge/tests/e2e_pulls.rs, docs/THREAT-MODEL.md, docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-22-p38-forge-design.md
Review endpoints apply event, visibility, decision, and count rules. Issue-comment endpoints list and create comments with body and count limits. Tests and documentation describe these rules.
Pagination and response consistency crates/forge/src/api.rs, crates/forge/src/statuses.rs, crates/forge/src/gitread.rs, crates/forge/src/repo_api.rs, docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-22-p38-forge-design.md
Pagination links use request query parameters and paths. Status creator serialization uses nested_user_json, combined-status pages select from the newest entries, and branch listings sort by committer date.
This change adds pull requests, reviews, comments and retained-head handling to the forge. No unresolved concrete defect remains in the supplied evidence, and the findings from earlier review rounds are reported as addressed. Normal checks should be enough before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 7f93c
A concurrency gap can defeat the new promise to preserve a pull request’s deleted head. Repository access checks limit the identified failure path to an authorized writer’s repository; no cross-repository access or credential-disclosure path was established.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: The missing-head close transition can overwrite a newer deletion-hook retention value. After synchronization snapshots an absent branch and rereads retained SHA A, concurrent pushes can recreate the branch at B and begin deleting it while the pull remains open. The hook records B, but synchronization can subsequently retain A unconditionally and persist final_head=A. Receive-pack does not share the server-write gate. Subsequent synchronization ignores closed pulls, and startup repair restores their stored final head, so the newer deleted tip can lose its sole retention anchor. This breaks historical-head preservation and recovery ownership rather than repository authorization.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The identified retention failure requires authorized receive-pack writes to the affected repository and a deletable head branch. Its demonstrated design scope is that repository’s pull history and retained objects, not arbitrary repositories, server credentials, or protected-branch deletion.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A writer able to overlap branch recreation/deletion with missing-head synchronization can undermine server-owned head preservation without directly writing the protected retention namespace. The source supports the lost-update path; no runtime exploit or unauthorized-access path was verified.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Production pull listing authenticates the token, checks its scope, resolves repository access, and queries rows by the authorized repository ID. Pagination strictly encodes echoed query components before constructing Link delimiters. Authorization credentials are header-derived rather than automatically copied from the query.
observed — Transport configuration hides the server-owned refs/forge namespace, and push policy refuses direct client updates outside branch and tag namespaces. These controls prevent direct client ownership of retention refs but do not serialize hook writes against synchronization.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Ref-before-row creation and orphan cleanup provide useful crash recovery. However, recovery treats a closed row’s final head as authoritative, so it cannot reconstruct a newer deletion tip after the lost-update path has overwritten that identity in both retention and persistent state.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Use a coordinated serialization or ref-version conflict protocol across deletion hooks, synchronization, and terminal row persistence. A conflicting retained identity should trigger reread/recovery rather than unconditional overwrite; validate the branch recreation/deletion interleaving explicitly.
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Read the frozen head when rendering a closed pull request
After a PR is closed, pushing another commit to its head branch makes live() return the new branch tip instead of the recorded final_head or retention ref. Consequently, the closed PR's head.sha, diff, commits, files and statistics change even though its retained head remains frozen. Recreating a deleted head branch produces the same problem. Resolve closed PRs from their frozen head before consulting the live branch.
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Preserve case-sensitive branch identity in retention matching
On Linux, the hook permits distinct branches such as feature and Feature, but this lookup treats them as interchangeable and selects whichever appears first in the HashMap. Sync can therefore overwrite a PR's retention ref with the other branch's commit. After deleting feature, the remaining Feature also makes sync believe the original head still exists, so the PR stays open and its retained history is replaced. Use exact ref identity for retention and vanished-head detection, including the corresponding matches in retain_for_branch and the deletion hook; case-insensitive protection matching should not conflate distinct Git refs.
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Percent-encode changed-file paths in generated URLs
For valid repository filenames containing #, ? or %, interpolating f.name directly produces URLs that identify a different path or interpret part of the filename as a fragment or query. For example, contents_url for a#b.txt sends a request for a without the intended commit selector. Encode each filename path segment before constructing these URLs, as the contents API already does in content_api::entry_json, while keeping filename unchanged.
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Verify the live head atomically before refreshing retention
When pushes overlap a sync, the write gate does not exclude receive-pack or its deletion hook. For example, sync can snapshot head B and retention A, then a concurrent push advances the branch to C and deletes it, retaining C in the hook. Resuming this call overwrites C with stale B; the deletion's subsequent sync closes the PR permanently on B instead of its final head C. retain() supplies no expected old value (git update-ref -h documents <refname> <new-val> [<old-val>]), and checking only the retention ref would not validate the separately captured branch tip. Verify the head and update retention in one ref transaction, retrying when the snapshot is stale.
The adjacent test passes with the old name-only sort: feat/x precedes main alphabetically. Add a test with distinct commit dates and names whose alphabetical order conflicts with date order. Assert that the newer branch appears first. As per coding guidelines, “Every new behavior ships with a test.”
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Review comment at @crates/forge/src/gitread.rs at line 44:
Add a test beside the existing branch-order test for the `--sort=-committerdate`
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Review comments at @crates/forge/src/cgi.rs:
- Line 824: Reorder the successful receive handling around pulls::sync so the
transport registration is released before sync can wait on the lifecycle lock:
determine whether the push was accepted, remove the marker, wake the request
pump with done.cancel(), and drop(reg) before calling pulls::sync. Preserve the
accepted-push condition for the touch and sync operations.
Review comments at @crates/forge/src/pulls_api.rs:
- Around line 676-691: Update pull_commits to track a running changed-file
budget across all commits on the page using the shared MAX_PAGE_FILES limit;
when a commit’s changes exceed the remaining budget, return HTTP 413, otherwise
decrement the budget before building the commit response. Make MAX_PAGE_FILES
accessible to pull_commits if needed.
Review comments at @crates/forge/src/pulls.rs:
- Around line 614-634: Update the cleanup at the end of
`numbers_are_sequential_and_one_open_pull_per_target_pair` to check that
removing the temporary directory succeeds, then assert that the directory path
no longer exists.
- Around line 424-431: Update head_tip to look up the exact refs/heads/{name}
entry first, returning its object ID when present; only then use the
case-insensitive branch-name fallback. Make fallback selection deterministic
when multiple aliases match so separate syncs cannot choose different branches.
Review comments at @crates/forge/tests/e2e_pulls.rs:
- Line 344: Replace the ignored removal of c with checked cleanup and assert
that c no longer exists; ensure cleanup still runs if an earlier in_work
assertion fails.
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Review comments at @crates/forge/src/gitread.rs:
- Line 44: Add a test beside the existing branch-order test for the
`--sort=-committerdate` behavior, using branches whose alphabetical order
conflicts with their distinct commit-date order; assert that the newer branch
appears first.
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P38 F4b, the second of three F4 slices (plan:
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f4-pulls-statuses-merge-protection.md, decisions R6-R8 and the contract notes).pulls,mergeability_cache,reviews,issue_comments..diff,.patch,/commits,/files, the is-merged probe. Mergeability and stats come frommerge-tree/diff-treeand are cached by the two object ids.refs/forge/pull/<n>/head, kept by the server under the write gate; deleting a PR's head branch closes the PR (the fixtures show this on both Gitea versions; the spec and findings said otherwise and are corrected). Thepre-receivehook records the tip of a head a push deletes. Startup reconcile repairs refs and rows.official/dismissed, hidden pending reviews) and issue comments (issue scope).Linkheaders with the page clamped, branches list newest commit first, combined status pages from the newest end.Verification
cargo test -p scl-forge(9 new end-to-end tests ine2e_pulls.rsincl. a real-git push that deletes a PR head and a reader/exclusive-operation stress test),cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings,cargo fmt.forge-check.sh: 19/19 scenarios.Not covered
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