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feat(forge): P38 F4c merge with a crash-safe journal and required-check gating - #310
P38 F4c, the last F4 slice (plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f4-pulls-statuses-merge-protection.md, decisions R1-R5 from the Opus and Sol plan review).
POST /pulls/{n}/merge (Do: merge; other styles 422), migration 5 (merge_intents).
Under the repository's write gate: settle any pending intent, then re-read the PR, both tips, the protection rules and the required statuses; refusals with the recorded texts (stale head 409, contained head 405, unmet checks 405, conflicts 409 naming paths, unrelated histories 409, already merged 405).
The journal: an intent row precedes one update-ref --stdin transaction that verifies the head, moves the base compare-and-swap and creates a receipt ref refs/forge/merge/<id>. Recovery asks only whether the receipt exists, so a landed merge stays merged even if the base is force-pushed afterwards. It runs before every merge, at startup, and on a read when the gate is free.
Gate: G, T, U, O and Q now pass completely (22/22 scenarios); added departures for the Q refusal texts and the merged-PR stats of O#20.
Tests: e2e_merge.rs (merge round trip, refusals, check gating, concurrent merges, a writer moving the base, four hand-built crash states), e2e_crash.rs (a real sc-forge serve SIGKILLed during merges at swept delays, restarted, invariants checked), and a protection matrix (push on/off x admin/writer x push, force, delete, contents, branch delete, merge).
cargo test -p scl-forge all green, cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings, cargo fmt.
forge-check.sh: 22/22.
Not covered
Squash, rebase and fast-forward merges; delete_branch_after_merge; review state does not gate a merge.
A base that moves faster than a merge round starves a merge (405, the client retries).
Unreferenced objects from aborted merges wait for F5's gc.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Pull requests can now be merged through the API, with checks for permissions, branch protection, required status checks, stale changes, and merge conflicts.
Merge results and pull-request details are preserved across server interruptions, with recovery when the server restarts or the repository is accessed.
Bug Fixes
Merged pull requests now report merge-time change counts and commit details consistently.
Protected branches reject force pushes and deletion attempts, whether push protection is enabled or disabled.
Pull requests with unrelated histories now report change counts consistently.
Server startup cleans up leftover Git processes and locks before repository recovery.
Documentation
Added details on merge behavior, branch protection, and recovery.
Adds a pull-request merge endpoint with required-status and branch-protection checks. A SQLite journal records merge intents, and recovery uses Git markers, ancestry, and ref-lock state. Startup cleanup, pull-request integration, conformance updates, and merge, crash, and protection tests accompany the implementation.
Changes: Pull-request merging
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Summary
Merge journal and recovery crates/forge/src/db.rs, crates/forge/src/merges.rs
Adds the merge_intents table and operations to record, finalize, abort, and recover merges using landed markers, base history, and ref-lock state.
Merge endpoint and publication crates/forge/src/merges.rs, crates/forge/src/routes.rs, crates/forge/src/lib.rs, crates/forge/src/content_write.rs
Adds the merge route and handler. The handler checks pull and branch state, required statuses, and conflicts, then journals and publishes a merge commit.
Pull-request and startup integration crates/forge/src/cli.rs, crates/forge/src/orphans.rs, crates/forge/src/pulls.rs, crates/forge/src/pulls_api.rs, crates/forge/src/cgi.rs
Connects recovery to pull-request operations, synchronization, and startup. Startup cleanup kills matching orphaned Git processes and removes stale ref locks when no matching process remains alive.
sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant MergeRoute as POST merge route
participant MergeHandler as merges::merge_pull
participant SQLite as merge_intents
participant Git as Git refs
Client->>MergeRoute: Submit pull-request merge
MergeRoute->>MergeHandler: Dispatch merge request
MergeHandler->>SQLite: Record merge intent
MergeHandler->>Git: Verify head and update base
Git-->>MergeHandler: Return publication result
MergeHandler->>SQLite: Finalize pull and intent
MergeHandler->>Git: Remove landed marker
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Possibly related issues
git-agentic/src-control#297 — Adds conformance expectations for merge refusal response text. The issue’s other response-text follow-ups are not addressed.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 4e67e
Mergeable with awareness that the restart test does not yet prove startup terminates a live HTTP writer.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 4e67e
The merge operation preserves repository write permissions and checks required statuses against the head being merged. The principal residual risk is narrowly scoped: an interrupted merge can lose its historical merged outcome if an authorized writer rewrites the base before recovery and no landing marker exists.
Retained concerns
Low · reliability · inferred: A published merge can be classified as aborted if execution is interrupted before its landing marker is durable and an authorized writer rewrites the unprotected base before recovery. HTTP pushes do not share the API write gate. Recovery then lacks both marker and ancestry evidence, leaving the PR open rather than preserving its historical merge outcome. This is a bounded rollback-accounting and terminal-state limitation, not an authorization bypass: an existing marker survives later rewrites, and protected branches reject destructive pushes.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The merge caller's effective write scope is the authorized repository and selected PR's base branch, not arbitrary repositories or filesystem targets. Startup cleanup has broader instance-local authority over Git processes and locks associated with the owned data directory.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Publication crosses from an authenticated API request into service-owned Git execution only after write authorization and required-check evaluation. The publication transaction binds the checked head and expected base to the ref update. PR-title control characters are replaced before constructing the merger-attributed commit message.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Transport registration is released before post-push synchronization acquires lifecycle locking, avoiding a delete/sync lock cycle. Startup orphan matching uses canonical data-directory identity, including the transport environment marker, and leaves locks intact when a matching writer survives cleanup.
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Make base publication and its receipt crash-atomic
With the default files ref backend used by Lifecycle::build, this transaction does not make the two ref updates crash-atomic. I reproduced this on Git 2.43 with the pinned fsync settings by injecting SIGKILL immediately after the refs/heads/main rename: main pointed to the merge commit, but no receipt existed. recover_locked consequently aborts the intent and leaves the PR open even though its changes landed; retrying then returns 405 because the head is already contained in the base. Use a crash-atomic storage mechanism or a recovery protocol that can distinguish this partially published state instead of treating receipt absence as proof that nothing landed.
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Persist all recomputed merge facts when retargeting an intent
If the base moves and publication succeeds on a later attempt, this update persists only the new base and merge OIDs, leaving the first attempt's merge base, diff statistics, and merge time in the journal. For example, a concurrent push that incorporates part of the head changes both the merge base and remaining diff statistics. If the process crashes after publishing the retried merge but before finalization, recovery freezes the original attempt's facts into the merged PR, unlike the normal path, which uses the freshly computed in-memory intent. Retarget the complete intent before publishing each retry.
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Settle pending merges before allowing PR state changes
When publication lands but finish exhausts its SQLite retries, the handler deliberately leaves a pending intent and receipt for later recovery. However, patch_pull and pulls::sync_locked do not recover pending merges before modifying the PR: a subsequent PATCH closing the PR, or a push deleting its head followed by sync, can change its state to closed. Recovery then matches no row here, yet marks the intent done and deletes its receipt, permanently recording a landed merge as an unmerged closed PR. Recover pending intents before those mutations, or ensure finalization cannot silently discard a landed merge merely because the PR is no longer open.
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Review comments at @crates/forge/src/merges.rs:
- Line 665: In
`one_pending_intent_per_pull_and_retarget_changes_only_the_commit`, assert that
the temporary directory no longer exists after `remove_dir_all` succeeds.
- Around line 128-135: Update retarget to persist every mutable retry value from
the refreshed Intent, including head_oid, base_oid, merge_oid, merge_base,
changed_files, additions, deletions, and merged_unix. Update its retry call site
to pass the refreshed Intent with its journal id set, so crash recovery
finalizes from the same values used for the retry.
- Line 226: Update Git child-process handling in Git::run_program so child
processes cannot continue after sc-forge exits, using a parent-death signal or
equivalent process-group cleanup before reconcile_repo handles pending intents.
Preserve the abort behavior at the None => abort(conn, i.id)? recovery branch,
ensuring an in-flight publish cannot update refs or create a receipt after its
intent is aborted.
Review comments at @crates/forge/tests/e2e_crash.rs:
- Around line 139-144: Update the crash test cleanup around Tmp so it explicitly
removes the data directory after the server has stopped, then asserts that the
path no longer exists; do not rely on Tmp::drop silently ignoring cleanup
failures.
Review comments at @docs/THREAT-MODEL.md:
- Around line 1061-1062: Update the threat-model text to distinguish the merge
from the shared policy path: state that Receive-pack, the contents API, and the
branch API use the shared policy functions, while the merge reads the same rules
and checks only required statuses.
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Fence orphan writers before aborting a merge intent
After a server crash, a surviving update-ref can commit between is_landed reading the old base and base_is_locked checking the lock file. The commit removes the lock, so recovery aborts an intent whose merge has actually landed. I reproduced this ordering on Git 2.43 using the same update-ref --stdin transaction: ancestry returned false before commit, then the lock was absent after commit while the base pointed to the merge. The PR consequently remains open permanently, and retrying returns 405 because its head is already contained in the base. Fence surviving writers before deciding to abort and recheck landing evidence once they have finished.
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Recover stale head locks as well as base locks
If the publication helper is killed after preparing its transaction, Git leaves locks for both the updated base and the verified head, but recovery only cleans up the base lock. I reproduced this on Git 2.43: after SIGKILL and removal of main.lock, the next identical transaction failed with cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/f' because f.lock remained. A repo-wide search found no other stale-lock cleanup in the forge. Thus a timed-out or killed merge helper can indefinitely prevent merges and pushes involving that head branch, even after the pending intent is aborted. Include the verified head lock in recovery, with appropriate fencing against live writers.
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Match orphan writers against the configured Git executable
When SC_FORGE_GIT points to a Git binary named something other than git or git-* (for example, /opt/git2), this predicate excludes every writer launched through it. gitproc::resolve_git explicitly supports arbitrary executable names, and I verified that a renamed Git binary retains that name in /proc/<pid>/cmdline. After a server crash, startup therefore leaves these writers alive but still removes their ref locks and runs merge recovery, allowing an orphan to publish after its intent has been aborted or to race a new writer without its original lock. Identify the configured executable rather than relying on its basename.
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Identify orphaned HTTP writers by their repository working directory
After a crash during an HTTP push, this filter misses the actual ref writer. I reproduced the cgi.rs HTTP-backend launch on Git 2.43: its child has command line /usr/lib/git-core/git receive-pack --stateless-rpc . and the repository as its working directory, so neither it nor its git http-backend parent contains needle. Startup consequently reports no survivors and removes ref locks that the surviving receive-pack may still own, allowing it to race recovery or new writers without its locks. Inspect process working directories or otherwise identify and fence the transport process group before removing stale locks.
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Invalidate cached statistics when changing the comparison base
When upgrading a forge that has already rendered a PR between unrelated histories, mergeability_cache contains statistics computed against the empty tree under the previous implementation. The early return at lines 323–324 continues serving those rows, and migration 5 does not invalidate them, so this corrected comparison never runs for unchanged tips. For example, two unrelated commits with identical trees still report added files even though the PR's newly corrected diff is empty. Clear the affected cache rows during migration or version the cache so existing PRs receive statistics consistent with their diffs.
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Review comments at @crates/forge/src/merges.rs:
- Around line 452-470: Update clear_own_locks to stop removing ref locks based
on modification time, since that cannot distinguish the timed-out helper’s locks
from live receive-pack locks. Leave uncertain locks in place so recover_locked
can keep the intent pending while base_is_locked is true, and rely on startup
cleanup to remove locks only after confirming no writer remains.
Review comments at @crates/forge/src/orphans.rs:
- Around line 115-131: Update kill_orphan_git to identify HTTP ref-pack children
such as git-receive-pack and git-upload-pack through a repository-bound process
attribute, such as their process group, when their argv omits the repository
path. Preserve the existing repository-path matching for other Git processes,
and avoid matching HTTP children without a reliable association to the target
repository.
Review comments at @crates/forge/tests/e2e_crash.rs:
- Around line 472-500: In the test using `orphan`, add an RAII guard that kills
and waits for the child on every exit, including panic unwinding. On the normal
path, explicitly clean up `data` and assert it no longer exists so
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
🔎 Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
#!/bin/bash# How Lifecycle stores data_dir, and how repo_dir builds the --git-dir path
ast-grep outline crates/forge/src/lifecycle.rs --match 'new|repo_dir|data_dir' --view expanded
rg -nP -C8 'pub fn new\s*\(' crates/forge/src/lifecycle.rs
# How the transport spawns receive-pack / upload-pack (argv vs env vs cwd)
rg -nP -C6 'receive-pack|upload-pack|http-backend|GIT_PROJECT_ROOT|PATH_INFO|current_dir' crates/forge/src/cgi.rs
official Git source git-http-backend invokes git-receive-pack repository path argv
Result:
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<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 4 weeks ago; To determine the location of the repository on disk, git http-backend concatenates the environment variables PATH_INFO, which is set automatically by the web server, and GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, which must be set manually in the web server configuration. ... $HTTP["querystring"] =~ "service=git-receive-pack" {
If the client is authenticated, the `receive-pack` service is enabled, which serves git send-pack clients, which is invoked from git push.
## SERVICES
These services can be enabled/disabled using the per-repository configuration file:
http.getanyfile
This serves Git clients older than version 1.6.6 that are unable to use the upload pack service. When enabled, clients are able to read any file within the repository, including objects that are no longer reachable from a branch but are still present. It is enabled by default, but a repository can disable it by setting this configuration value to `false`.
http.uploadpack
This serves git fetch-pack and git ls-remote clients. It is enabled by default, but a repository can disable it by setting this configuration value to `false`.
http.receivepack
This serves git send-pack clients, allowing push. It is disabled by default for anonymous users, and enabled by default for users authenticated by the web server. It can be disabled by setting this item to `false`, or enabled for all users, including anonymous users, by setting it to `true`.
http.uploadarchive
This serves git archive clients for remote archive over HTTP/HTTPS protocols. It is disabled by default. It only works in protocol v2.
## URL TRANSLATION
To determine the location of the repository on disk, git http-backend concatenates the environment variables PATH_INFO, which is set automatically by the web server, and GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, which must be set manually in the web server configuration. If GIT_PROJECT_ROOT is not set, git http-backend reads PATH_TRANSLATED, which is also set automatically by the web server.
SetEnvIf Git-Protocol ".*" GIT_PROTOCOL=$0
To enable anonymous read access but authenticated write access, require authorization for both the initial ref advertisement (which we detect as a push via the service parameter in the query string), and the receive-pack invocation itself:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} service=git-receive-pack [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /git-receive-pack$
RewriteRule ^/git/ - [E=AUTHREQUIRED:yes]
<LocationMatch "^/git/">
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=AUTHREQUIRED
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Git Access"
Require group committers
Satisfy Any
...
</LocationMatch>
If you do not have `mod_rewrite` available to match against the query string, it is sufficient to just protect `git-receive-pack` itself, like:
<LocationMatch "^/git/.*/git-receive-pack$">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Git Access"
Require group committers
...
</LocationMatch>
In this mode, the server will not request authentication until the client actually starts the object negotiation phase of the push, rather than during the initial contact. For this reason, you must also enable the `http.receivepack` config option in any repositories that should accept a push. The default behavior, if `http.receivepack` is not set, is to reject any pushes by unauthenticated users; the initial request will therefore report `403 Forbidden` to the client, without even giving an opportunity for authentication.
To require authentication for both reads and writes, use a Location directive around the repository, or one of its parent directories:
<Location /git/private>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Private Git Access"
Require group committers
...
</Location>
To serve gitweb at the same url, use a ScriptAliasM…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<title>Git - git-http-backend Documentation</title>
<location>https://git-scm.com/docs/git-http-backend</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 days ago; $HTTP["querystring"] =~ "service=git-receive-pack" { ... The `GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL` environment variable may be passed to git-http-backend to bypass the check for the "git-daemon-export-ok" file in each repository before allowing export of that repository.
SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/www/git
AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/[0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38})$ /var/www/git/$1
AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.(pack|idx))$ /var/www/git/$1
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
This can be combined with the gitweb configuration:
SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/www/git
AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/[0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38})$ /var/www/git/$1
AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.(pack|idx))$ /var/www/git/$1
ScriptAliasMatch \
"(?x)^/git/(.*/(HEAD | \
info/refs | \
objects/info/[^/]+ | \
git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/$1
ScriptAlias /git/ /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/
Lighttpd
Ensure that `mod_cgi`, `mod_alias`, `mod_auth`, `mod_setenv` are loaded, then set `GIT_PROJECT_ROOT` appropriately and redirect all requests to the CGI:
alias.url += ( "/git" => "/usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend" )
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/git" {
cgi.assign = ("" => "")
setenv.add-environment = (
"GIT_PROJECT_ROOT" => "/var/www/git",
"GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL" => ""
)
}
To enable anonymous read access but authenticated write access:
$HTTP["querystring"] =~ "service=git-receive-pack" {
include "git-auth.conf"
}
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/git/.*/git-receive-pack$" {
include "git-auth.conf"
}
where `git-auth.conf` looks something like:
auth.require = (
"/" => (
"method" => "basic",
"realm" => "Git Access",
"require" => "valid-user"
)
)
# ...and set up auth.backend here
To require authentication for both reads and writes:
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/git/private" {
include "git-auth.conf"
}
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<excerpt>citeturn0search3 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 weeks ago; | git-http-backend - Server side implementation of Git over HTTP ... | the `receive-pack` service is enabled, which serves 'git-send-pack'
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<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 4 weeks ago; # http-backend.c ... char *p = repo_git_path(the_repository, "%s", name); ... strvec_pushv(&cld.args, argv); ... {"POST", "/git-receive-pack$", service_rpc}
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#define USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE
#define DISABLE_SIGN_COMPARE_WARNINGS
#include "git-compat-util.h"
#include "config.h"
#include "environment.h"
#include "git-zlib.h"
#include "hex.h"
#include "path.h"
#include "repository.h"
#include "refs.h"
#include "pkt-line.h"
#include "object.h"
#include "tag.h"
#include "exec-cmd.h"
#include "run-command.h"
#include "string-list.h"
#include "url.h"
#include "setup.h"
#include "strvec.h"
#include "packfile.h"
#include "odb.h"
#include "protocol.h"
#include "date.h"
#include "write-or-die.h"
static const char content_type[] = "Content-Type";
static const char content_length[] = "Content-Length";
static const char last_modified[] = "Last-Modified";
static int getanyfile = 1;
static unsigned long max_request_buffer = 10 * 1024 * 1024;
static struct string_list *query_params;
struct rpc_service {
const char *name;
const char *config_name;
unsigned buffer_input : 1;
signed enabled : 2;
};
static struct rpc_service rpc_service[] = {
{ "upload-pack", "uploadpack", 1, 1 },
{ "receive-pack", "receivepack", 0, -1 },
{ "upload-archive", "uploadarchive", 0, -1 },
};
static struct string_list *get_parameters(void)
{
if (!query_params) {
const char *query = getenv("QUERY_STRING");
CALLOC_ARRAY(query_params, 1);
while (query && *query) {
char *name = url_decode_parameter_name(&query);
char *value = url_decode_parameter_value(&query);
struct string_list_item *i;
i = string_list_lookup(query_params, name);
if (!i)
i = string_list_insert(query_params, name);
else
free(i->util);
i->util = value;
ssize_t n = xread(0, buf, chunk_length);
if (n < 0)
die_errno("Reading request failed");
write_to_child(out, buf, n, prog_name);
remaining_len -= n;
}
close(out);
}
static void run_service(const char **argv, int buffer_input)
{
const char *encoding = getenv("HTTP_CONTENT_ENCODING");
const char *user = getenv("REMOTE_USER");
const char *host = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
int gzipped_request = 0;
struct child_process cld = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
ssize_t req_len = get_content_length();
if (encoding && (!strcmp(encoding, "gzip") || !strcmp(encoding, "x-gzip")))
gzipped_request = 1;
if (!user || !*user)
user = "anonymous";
if (!host || !*host)
host = "(none)";
if (!getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_NAME"))
strvec_pushf(&cld.env, "GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=%s", user);
if (!getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL"))
strvec_pushf(&cld.env,
"GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=%s@http.%s", user, host);
strvec_pushv(&cld.args, argv);
if (buffer_input || gzipped_request || req_len >= 0)
cld.in = -1;
cld.git_cmd = 1;
cld.clean_on_exit = 1;
cld.wait_after_clean = 1;
if (start_command(&cld))
exit(1);
close(1);
if (gzipped_request)
inflate_request(argv[0], cld.in, buffer_input, req_len);
else if (buffer_input)
copy_request(argv[0], cld.in, req_len);
else if (req_len >= 0)
pipe_fixed_length(argv[0], cld.in, …[truncated]</excerpt>
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<title>git/Documentation/git-http-backend.adoc at master · git/git · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-http-backend.adoc</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 4 weeks ago; To determine the location of the repository on disk, git http-backend concatenates the environment variables PATH_INFO, which is set automatically by the web server, and GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, which must be set manually in the web server configuration. ... $HTTP["querystring"] =~ "service=git-receive-pack" {
If the client is authenticated, the `receive-pack` service is enabled, which serves git send-pack clients, which is invoked from git push.
## SERVICES
These services can be enabled/disabled using the per-repository configuration file:
http.getanyfile
This serves Git clients older than version 1.6.6 that are unable to use the upload pack service. When enabled, clients are able to read any file within the repository, including objects that are no longer reachable from a branch but are still present. It is enabled by default, but a repository can disable it by setting this configuration value to `false`.
http.uploadpack
This serves git fetch-pack and git ls-remote clients. It is enabled by default, but a repository can disable it by setting this configuration value to `false`.
http.receivepack
This serves git send-pack clients, allowing push. It is disabled by default for anonymous users, and enabled by default for users authenticated by the web server. It can be disabled by setting this item to `false`, or enabled for all users, including anonymous users, by setting it to `true`.
http.uploadarchive
This serves git archive clients for remote archive over HTTP/HTTPS protocols. It is disabled by default. It only works in protocol v2.
## URL TRANSLATION
To determine the location of the repository on disk, git http-backend concatenates the environment variables PATH_INFO, which is set automatically by the web server, and GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, which must be set manually in the web server configuration. If GIT_PROJECT_ROOT is not set, git http-backend reads PATH_TRANSLATED, which is also set automatically by the web server.
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<title>git/builtin/receive-pack.c at master · git/git · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/receive-pack.c</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search2 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 months ago; master ... # receive-pack.c#define USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE ... N_("git receive-pack <git-dir>"), ... static int stateless_rpc;static const char *service_dir; ... if (git_config_pathname(&path, var, value)) ... strvec_pushl(&opt.args,
</excerpt>
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<title>Git - git-http-backend Documentation</title>
<location>https://man.github.com/git/git-http-backend.html</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search3 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last month; git-http-backend - Server side implementation of Git over HTTP ... If the client is authenticated, the `receive-pack` service is enabled, which serves git send-pack clients, which is invoked from git push.
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<title>git/Documentation/githooks.adoc at master · git/git · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/githooks.adoc</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search4 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 4 days ago; This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-receive-pack[1].If the server has set the multi-valued config variable `receive.procReceiveRefs`, and the commands sent to receive-pack have matching reference names, these commands will be executed by this hook, instead of by the internal `execute_commands()` function.
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Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/http-backend.c?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/http-backend.c?utm_source=openai
Match HTTP ref-pack children that do not include the repository path in argv.
git http-backend starts git-receive-pack and git-upload-pack with service arguments such as --stateless-rpc; the repository comes from the HTTP backend's resolved repository context, not the child argv. kill_orphan_git scans only command lines for /repos/, so it can miss a live ref-moving child. sweep can then remove that child's lock and allow a ref update after recovery aborts the intent.
Match the HTTP child through its process group or another repository-bound process attribute. Do not rely only on the repository path in argv.
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Review comment at @crates/forge/src/orphans.rs around lines 115 - 131:
Update kill_orphan_git to identify HTTP ref-pack children such as
git-receive-pack and git-upload-pack through a repository-bound process
attribute, such as their process group, when their argv omits the repository
path. Preserve the existing repository-path matching for other Git processes,
and avoid matching HTTP children without a reliable association to the target
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Match the complete data-directory environment value
When two forge instances use data directories with a shared prefix, such as /srv/forge and /srv/forge-secondary, starting the first instance also matches the second instance's FORGE_DATA_DIR=/srv/forge-secondary and SIGKILLs its live Git transports. Their separate data-directory locks do not prevent this. I reproduced the cross-directory kill using the extracted cleanup implementation and a process carrying the second directory's environment. Preserve environment-entry boundaries and compare the complete value rather than using a substring match, so startup cleanup cannot terminate another instance's pushes or fetches.
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Recover pending merges when serving the merge-status probe
If publication succeeds but SQLite finalization and the request's subsequent recovery both exhaust their retries, the landed merge remains pending until another operation triggers recovery. The new read-side recovery runs through converge, but is_merged never calls it: GET /pulls/{n}/merge only reads the PR row and returns 404 while its state remains open. Consequently, a client polling this dedicated endpoint after an uncertain merge response can receive 404 indefinitely even after the database becomes writable again, unless another request or server restart settles the intent. Invoke convergence from the merge-status handler before checking the stored state.
Assert that the HTTP writer survives until restart.
The test checks that orphan is running before restart, but not http_orphan. If http_orphan exits normally before Server::start, the post-restart loop passes without testing startup cleanup or requiring a killed exit.
Suggested fix
assert!(lock.exists(), "the orphan holds its lock");
assert!(orphan.try_wait().unwrap().is_none(), "and is still running");
+ assert!(+ http_orphan.try_wait().unwrap().is_none(),+ "the HTTP writer is still running"+ );
// the restart's startup cleanup kills it and clears the lock, before recovery looks at anything
let srv = Server::start(&data, free_port());
let t0 = Instant::now();
- while http_orphan.try_wait().unwrap().is_none() {+ let http_status = loop {+ if let Some(status) = http_orphan.try_wait().unwrap() {+ break status;+ }
assert!(
t0.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(10),
"the HTTP writer was not killed"
);
std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20));
- }+ };+ assert!(!http_status.success(), "the HTTP writer was killed");
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Review comment at @crates/forge/tests/e2e_crash.rs around lines 503 - 505:
In the crash test around `http_orphan`, assert it is still running immediately
before `Server::start`, then capture the status when the post-restart polling
loop observes its exit and assert that the exit was unsuccessful. Preserve the
existing timeout while ensuring the test detects an HTTP writer that exited
normally before startup cleanup.
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Review comments at @crates/forge/tests/e2e_crash.rs:
- Around line 503-505: In the crash test around `http_orphan`, assert it is
still running immediately before `Server::start`, then capture the status when
the post-restart polling loop observes its exit and assert that the exit was
unsuccessful. Preserve the existing timeout while ensuring the test detects an
HTTP writer that exited normally before startup cleanup.
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Review comments at @crates/forge/src/orphans.rs:
- Around line 40-57: Update processes() to distinguish discovery errors from a
successful empty scan, and propagate that result through kill_orphan_git(). In
sweep(), leave locks untouched and return when process discovery fails; call
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processes() returns an empty vector when /proc enumeration or ps execution fails. kill_orphan_git() then reports zero survivors, so sweep() removes ref locks before recovery. An active receive-pack or update-ref can remain alive after its lock is removed, allowing another writer to create the same lock and update the ref concurrently.
Propagate discovery failure separately from a successful empty scan, and leave locks untouched when discovery fails.
Make /proc and ps read or execution failures return Err instead of Vec::new(). Propagate that result through kill_orphan_git(). In sweep(), return without calling remove_stale_locks() when discovery returns an error.
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Review comment at @crates/forge/src/orphans.rs around lines 40 - 57:
Update processes() to distinguish discovery errors from a successful empty scan,
and propagate that result through kill_orphan_git(). In sweep(), leave locks
untouched and return when process discovery fails; call remove_stale_locks()
only after successful discovery.
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P38 F4c, the last F4 slice (plan:
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f4-pulls-statuses-merge-protection.md, decisions R1-R5 from the Opus and Sol plan review).POST /pulls/{n}/merge(Do: merge; other styles 422), migration 5 (merge_intents).update-ref --stdintransaction that verifies the head, moves the base compare-and-swap and creates a receipt refrefs/forge/merge/<id>. Recovery asks only whether the receipt exists, so a landed merge stays merged even if the base is force-pushed afterwards. It runs before every merge, at startup, and on a read when the gate is free.e2e_merge.rs(merge round trip, refusals, check gating, concurrent merges, a writer moving the base, four hand-built crash states),e2e_crash.rs(a realsc-forge serveSIGKILLed during merges at swept delays, restarted, invariants checked), and a protection matrix (push on/off x admin/writer x push, force, delete, contents, branch delete, merge).Verification
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