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Improves GitTarget path-refusal reporting and recovery when the remote Git tree changes underneath the controller. The branch now also gates credentialed http:// GitProvider URLs by default, with an explicit Flux-style opt-in for trusted development or in-cluster Git servers: --allow-insecure-git-http / controllerManager.allowInsecureGitHTTP=true.

The e2e install harness opts into that flag only for its known in-cluster HTTP Gitea fixtures, keeping the public chart and installer defaults secure.

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  • task clean-cluster && docker info >/dev/null && task test-e2e — 85 passed, 0 failed, 23 skipped
  • task test-e2e-quickstart-helm — 1 passed, 0 failed, 107 skipped
  • task test-e2e-quickstart-manifest — 1 passed, 0 failed, 107 skipped

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CodeRabbit's first-round feedback has been addressed: the design doc now calls the preflight guarantee snapshot-relative, scoped GitPathAccepted status updates are atomic, and credentialed plain HTTP Git remotes require an explicit insecure opt-in while authenticated HTTP redirects stay pinned to go-git's initial-only redirect policy. The latest CodeRabbit check was rate-limited and did not publish a second review.

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The proposal wanted two things that do not compose: no Git round-trip in the
admission path, and failurePolicy: Fail with deny-on-cannot-assess. A snapshot
you refuse to refresh is stale by construction, so a hard gate built on it
promises a guarantee its own inputs cannot support.

Pick the coherent half. Preflight answers from the working copy the branch
worker already has, fast, and folds "cannot assess" toward allow:

- The promise shrinks to "no involved target is KNOWN to be unable to publish
  this change". A denial is a finding; an allow is only the absence of one.
- allowed=false carries a refusal; allowed=true plus AdmissionResponse.warnings
  carries "could not verify". There is no third verdict in the API, and warnings
  are the honest place to put the third state.
- failurePolicy: Ignore with timeoutSeconds: 1, matching what /validate-all
  already ships. Fail was never available anyway: the handler is served by the
  operator's own pod, so Fail on core resources deadlocks the cluster at
  bootstrap.
- A new no-Git-operations rule: no fetch, pull, push, commit, checkout or index
  write on the preflight path, enforced by handing it a read-only filesystem
  rather than by intending it.
- A missing local copy is "cannot assess", allowed by default, with an
  install-level setting for operators who would rather fence the resource.

Two tables now state what preflight can and cannot answer. The split is not
arbitrary: repository shape does not change between one kubectl apply and the
next, so shape-derived refusals do not decay, while everything lost to staleness
was never knowable at admission time.

Also records what the code already provides. writeBatch.flush runs its four
preconditions on in-memory buffers before the byte-writing loop, so the
read-only extraction is a split of one function, not a re-architecture; the
earlier caution about calling the planner from admission was over-cautious.
HA is dropped from scope, since the chart refuses replicaCount > 1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change updates Git preflight design guidance, adds remote-refresh handling for forced GitTarget rechecks, records scoped refusal state, improves bounded refusal messages, and expands operator documentation and refusal-recovery tests.

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GitTarget status and resync behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preflight and red-status design contracts
docs/design/git-write-preflight.md, docs/design/gittarget-red-status-plan.md
The designs define advisory preflight outcomes, existing GitTarget conditions, bounded refusal messages, and refusal-recovery steps.
Remote refresh and refusal attribution
internal/git/*, internal/watch/event_router.go, internal/watch/target_watch.go
Forced rechecks can refresh the remote tip before replaying writes. Resync coalescing preserves this request, and refusal callbacks carry the source cell.
Scoped status, messages, and recovery validation
internal/watch/git_path_acceptance.go, internal/watch/manager.go, internal/manifestanalyzer/*, test/e2e/unsupported_folder_e2e_test.go, docs/configuration.md, docs/INDEX.md, docs/TODO.md
GitTarget status records refused cells and clears them only on matching acceptance. Refusal messages include bounded diagnostic details. Documentation and end-to-end tests cover diagnosis and recovery.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitTarget
  participant TargetWatch
  participant EventRouter
  participant BranchWorker
  participant RemoteRepository
  GitTarget->>TargetWatch: request forced recheck
  TargetWatch->>EventRouter: enqueue replay with refreshRemote
  EventRouter->>BranchWorker: submit ResyncRequest
  BranchWorker->>RemoteRepository: refresh remote tip
  BranchWorker->>BranchWorker: replay retained writes
  BranchWorker-->>EventRouter: apply scoped acceptance or refusal
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 66cfa

Admission can reject changes that a fresh publisher would accept, and GitTarget status can incorrectly recover while another source cell remains refused. These behavior and status-correctness issues should be resolved before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: scoped GitTarget path-refusal reporting.
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/design/git-write-preflight.md`:
- Around line 146-148: Update the preflight staleness guarantee in the design
text to be snapshot-relative: explicitly state that a stale published snapshot
may contain blockers removed by current inputs, causing false rejections even
when fresh writer evaluation would publish. Preserve the existing one-way
guarantee only relative to the snapshot being evaluated.

In `@internal/git/branch_worker.go`:
- Line 1485: Update the authenticated provider refresh flow around
syncToRemoteFn and getAuthFromSecret to reject credentialed http://
GitProviderSpec.URL values, allowing only HTTPS or SSH schemes. Configure the
Git client so credentials are not forwarded across redirects to a different
origin, while preserving authentication for same-origin requests.

In `@internal/watch/git_path_acceptance.go`:
- Line 87: Update the acceptance flow around MarkTargetGitPathAccepted so the
target-cell match predicate and Accepted=true write execute within a single
mutateWatchPlane mutation. Avoid reading a separate acceptance snapshot before
writing, and ensure concurrent refusals for other cells are preserved.

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  • docs/INDEX.md
  • docs/TODO.md
  • docs/configuration.md
  • docs/design/git-write-preflight.md
  • docs/design/gittarget-red-status-plan.md
  • internal/git/branch_worker.go
  • internal/git/branch_worker_split_test.go
  • internal/git/git_path_refusal.go
  • internal/git/git_path_refusal_test.go
  • internal/git/resync_flush.go
  • internal/git/resync_push_test.go
  • internal/git/source_cell.go
  • internal/git/types.go
  • internal/git/write_boundary_precondition_test.go
  • internal/manifestanalyzer/acceptance_refusal.go
  • internal/manifestanalyzer/acceptance_refusal_test.go
  • internal/watch/event_router.go
  • internal/watch/event_router_test.go
  • internal/watch/git_path_acceptance.go
  • internal/watch/git_path_acceptance_test.go
  • internal/watch/manager.go
  • internal/watch/owner_test.go
  • internal/watch/target_watch.go
  • test/e2e/unsupported_folder_e2e_test.go

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