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F5a of the sc-forge ops slice: maintenance. Unreferenced objects (refused contents writes, aborted merge commits, force-pushed history) are now collected, and leftovers of killed git writers are cleaned at run time.
Two-stage gc (maintenance.rs). Stage 1, no gate, deletes nothing: git gc --prune=never. Stage 2, under the repository's write gate: reconcile and verify every retention ref (any failure skips the prune), then git prune --expire=<window> (--gc-prune-expire, default 14 days, refused below twice --git-timeout and an hour).
Triggers.--maintenance-interval (default 24 h, 0 = off) and POST /api/v1/admin/cron/git_gc_repos (Gitea's route, site admin).
Merge commits stay reachable.refs/forge/pull/<n>/merge, written when a merge finishes and recreated by the reconciler. Found in review: rewriting the base used to orphan the merge commit that merge_commit_sha still names.
Runtime cleanup of stale ref locks and objects/incoming-*, only with the write gate held, the exclusive lifecycle lock free, no other registered git run on the repository, and an age over 10 minutes. Startup still removes them unconditionally.
Delete safety.Spec::cancel in the git runner; a run registers like a transport so a repository delete cancels it before the rename.
Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f5a-maintenance.md. Threat model, spec and ROADMAP updated.
Decisions worth a look
The spec said gc runs "under the repo lock". Holding the gate through a repack would 503 every merge and contents write for minutes, and a first draft with no gate at all could prune an old object a writer was about to reference (Sol found the interleaving). So only the prune holds the gate.
One accepted exposure, in the threat model: a push built on an object older than the window while a concurrent force-push unreferences it, during stage 2.
cargo test -p scl-forge: green, including 13 new tests in e2e_maintenance.rs (packed and loose pruning, merge commit survives a base rewrite, unrepairable root stops the prune, gate excludes writers, delete cancels either stage, cleanup deferral, cron authz, flag minimum, writers beside passes).
forge-check.sh: 22/22 scenarios.
Reviewed by Sol (plan and diff); Opus review of the diff follows.
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New Features
Repositories now receive scheduled Git maintenance, with controls for its interval, disk-space threshold, pruning window, and operation timeout.
Site administrators can request maintenance through an admin-only cron endpoint. Duplicate requests are ignored while a pass is queued or running.
Maintenance preserves pull request references, including merged commits, and cleans up eligible stale locks and incoming-object directories.
Bug Fixes
Maintenance coordinates with repository activity and deletion, and skips pruning when retention checks fail or available disk space is insufficient.
The pull request adds scheduled and admin-triggered repository maintenance. It implements two-stage garbage collection, pull-request retention-ref repair, and age-aware cleanup of stale locks and quarantine directories. It also adds cancellation and coordination with repository writes and deletion.
Adds maintenance settings, a serialized pass runner, CLI configuration, and an admin-only cron route. Tests cover authorization, duplicate requests, and startup validation.
Repository coordination and cancellation crates/forge/src/gitproc.rs, crates/forge/src/lifecycle.rs, crates/forge/src/registry.rs, crates/forge/src/cgi.rs
Adds cancellable Git execution, lifecycle lock helpers, and registry tracking of write-capable runs. Fetches can proceed without a live repository while other CGI services require one.
Retains merge commits in pull-request refs and reconciles and verifies retention roots. Adds age-aware cleanup for locks and quarantine directories. Tests cover ref repair, cleanup eligibility, and missing roots.
Two-stage collection and validation crates/forge/src/maintenance.rs, crates/forge/tests/e2e_maintenance.rs, docs/THREAT-MODEL.md, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f5a-maintenance.md
Maintenance checks disk space, runs non-pruning GC, then prunes eligible objects after retention checks under the write gate. Tests cover cancellation, concurrent writes, deletion, and disk limits.
A failed pull-request synchronization can leave its stored head vulnerable to pruning. Maintenance can also delay repository deletion and activity across repositories. Resolve these risks before merging unless their impact is explicitly accepted.
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Review comments at @crates/forge/src/maintenance.rs:
- Around line 163-164: In the maintenance pass completion path, update the
ordering of `m.state().running` and `m.passes.fetch_add`: clear `running` before
publishing the incremented pass count so any request made after observing the
new count is accepted.
- Around line 338-339: Update the prune cutoff calculation to avoid the
unchecked u64-to-i64 cast: saturate the prune window conversion and use
saturating subtraction from now. Skip pruning when the resulting cutoff is
invalid, including when it reaches or passes before the epoch, rather than
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Retain fallback PR base commits before pruning
For an open or closed PR whose base branch has been deleted, pulls_api::live falls back to the stored p.base_sha and passes it to pulls::compute. That commit need not be reachable from the retained head—for example, when the base advanced independently before the PR was opened. The new retention checks protect only heads and merge commits, so maintenance can permanently prune this still-needed base commit once it exceeds the age window. Subsequent PR reads fail when the computation cache misses, such as after the open PR's head changes or the bounded cache evicts its entry. Retain and verify the fallback base commits of non-merged PRs before allowing the prune.
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Fixed in the later commits: refs/forge/pull/<n>/base keeps the stored base of unmerged PRs (reconcile_repo recreates it while the commit exists) and verify_roots checks it before any prune (test: a_base_branch_deleted_under_an_open_pull_keeps_its_last_commit).
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Review comments at @crates/forge/src/maintenance.rs:
- Around line 337-340: Update the maintenance flow around `life.try_shared` and
`pulls::reconcile_repo`/`pulls::verify_roots` so repository deletion can cancel
their Git work before waiting for the shared lifecycle lock; propagate the
maintenance cancellation token into those Git calls, or avoid holding the lock
across uncancellable Git work.
Review comments at @crates/forge/src/registry.rs:
- Around line 166-171: Update Registry::with_only to preserve writer exclusion
using per-repository cleanup state or a guard, then release the global
Registry::slots mutex before running the filesystem closure so cleanup does not
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printf'%s\n''--- reconcile and verify definitions ---'
sed -n '540,710p' crates/forge/src/pulls.rs
printf'%s\n''--- git run timeout selection and polling ---'
sed -n '270,390p' crates/forge/src/gitproc.rs
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Make maintenance reconciliation cancellable by repository deletion.
Lifecycle::delete takes the exclusive lifecycle lock before it calls registry.close. Therefore, deletion cannot cancel maintenance while try_shared holds the shared lock. Reconciliation and verification pass no cancellation token to their Git calls.
Each Git call has the runner's default 30-second timeout, so the delay is bounded per call but is not negligible. Reconciliation also performs repeated Git work for each pull request, so the total delay can grow with repository size. prune_timeout applies only to the later git prune call.
Coordinate reconciliation with deletion without holding the shared lock across uncancellable Git work, or propagate the maintenance cancellation token into the reconciliation and verification Git calls before deletion waits for the lock.
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Review comment at @crates/forge/src/maintenance.rs around lines 337 - 340:
Update the maintenance flow around `life.try_shared` and
`pulls::reconcile_repo`/`pulls::verify_roots` so repository deletion can cancel
their Git work before waiting for the shared lifecycle lock; propagate the
maintenance cancellation token into those Git calls, or avoid holding the lock
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Acknowledged, kept as is. Each git call in the reconcile has the runner's 30 s limit and a delete that outwaits it answers 503 and reopens the repository; it never renames under a running run (the registration is held). The reconcile takes the shared lock with try_read only, so it cannot deadlock a queued delete. Threading the cancel flag through reconcile_repo touches the merge-recovery code paths; recorded in THREAT-MODEL (F5a, Delete) as a known limit.
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@tonibergholm-codento Understood. I accept your decision to keep this as a documented availability limit, not a deadlock or unsafe-rename issue. The 30-second limit applies to each Git call, not the full reconciliation, so the deletion-delay concern remains accepted rather than fixed.
Would you like a follow-up issue for cancellable reconciliation and verification?
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Do not hold the global registry lock during filesystem cleanup.
If maintenance scans a large ref tree or removes a slow quarantine directory, with_only holds Registry::slots throughout that work. Registrations for every repository, Registry::close, and shutdown cancellation then wait for cleanup of this one repository. Keep writer exclusion with a per-repository cleanup state or guard, and release the global mutex before running the filesystem closure.
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Review comment at @crates/forge/src/registry.rs around lines 166 - 171:
Update Registry::with_only to preserve writer exclusion using per-repository
cleanup state or a guard, then release the global Registry::slots mutex before
running the filesystem closure so cleanup does not block other repositories,
Registry::close, or shutdown cancellation.
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Partly addressed in 7154340: quarantine directories (the slow part) are now only renamed under the registry lock and deleted after it is released. What remains under the lock is a readdir of refs/ and a few unlinks. A per-repository cleanup state would make register() wait or refuse during cleanup, which is more machinery than that scan justifies; revisit if a repository with very many refs shows up.
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@tonibergholm-codento Understood. Moving quarantine deletion outside the registry lock addresses the main latency concern. I accept keeping the remaining ref scan and unlinks under the lock for now. A per-repository cleanup state is not necessary for this PR.
The remaining scan can still delay registry operations across repositories, but its practical impact is unmeasured. This is a deferred scalability concern, not evidence of a current outage.
Would you like a follow-up issue to measure registry-lock duration with a large ref tree?
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F5a of the sc-forge ops slice: maintenance. Unreferenced objects (refused contents writes, aborted merge commits, force-pushed history) are now collected, and leftovers of killed git writers are cleaned at run time.
maintenance.rs). Stage 1, no gate, deletes nothing:git gc --prune=never. Stage 2, under the repository's write gate: reconcile and verify every retention ref (any failure skips the prune), thengit prune --expire=<window>(--gc-prune-expire, default 14 days, refused below twice--git-timeoutand an hour).--maintenance-interval(default 24 h, 0 = off) andPOST /api/v1/admin/cron/git_gc_repos(Gitea's route, site admin).refs/forge/pull/<n>/merge, written when a merge finishes and recreated by the reconciler. Found in review: rewriting the base used to orphan the merge commit thatmerge_commit_shastill names.objects/incoming-*, only with the write gate held, the exclusive lifecycle lock free, no other registered git run on the repository, and an age over 10 minutes. Startup still removes them unconditionally.Spec::cancelin the git runner; a run registers like a transport so a repository delete cancels it before the rename.Plan:
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-24-p38-f5a-maintenance.md. Threat model, spec and ROADMAP updated.Decisions worth a look
Verification
cargo test -p scl-forge: green, including 13 new tests ine2e_maintenance.rs(packed and loose pruning, merge commit survives a base rewrite, unrepairable root stops the prune, gate excludes writers, delete cancels either stage, cleanup deferral, cron authz, flag minimum, writers beside passes).forge-check.sh: 22/22 scenarios.Summary by CodeRabbit