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Expand Up @@ -135,6 +135,27 @@ Their argument for each is in [gitops-api-open-asks.md](future/gitops-api-open-a
`GitTarget`, plus the durable queue, plus whether a replica warms its fact index before starting a
watch it took over. Redis becomes required in this mode.
[ha-gittarget-distribution-plan.md](future/ha-gittarget-distribution-plan.md).
- [ ] **Learn an empty repository's default branch, and simplify around it.** The pinned go-git
(`v6.0.0-beta.1`) now keeps what protocol v2 `ls-refs` reports about an unborn `HEAD`
(`transport.RemoteRefs.Unborn`); at alpha.5 it was discarded, which is why status reports
`unknown` and the code carries `ParentUnborn`, `ErrDefaultBranchUnresolved` and the
`branch_worker_empty_repo_test.go` pins. Check whether `Remote.List` exposes it or only the
transport session does, read it in `refresh.go` and `git_smart_fetch.go`, and remove what it makes
unnecessary. Which branch a first commit may create stays a separate policy decision
([gittarget-parent-empty-repository.md](design/gittarget-parent-empty-repository.md); its §4 and
the go-git entry in [misconceptions.md](misconceptions.md) need updating with it).
- [ ] **The branch claim is first-proven-wins** (`internal/git/branch_owner.go`). Anyone who can
create a `GitProvider` and a `GitBranch` with a credential that passes the push-session proof can
claim a branch no older `GitBranch` holds; on Gitea and Forgejo a read-only credential passes it
(AGit). An older `GitBranch` takes the branch from a live holder once it proves itself, and the
claim is not persisted. Only a per-repository authority closes this (an object per repository URL,
or a cluster rule naming the one provider a repository's branches may be claimed through).
- [ ] **Alias detection.** `repourl.Normalize` cannot unify Gitea's SSH on `:2222` beside HTTPS, a
separate SSH hostname, a vanity domain or a renamed repository, so two spellings get two claims
and two workers on one branch, undetected. Design: warn when a commit pushed under one key shows up
under the other. Also the HA plan's HA-0 question.
- [ ] Accepted for now: no rate bound on push deliveries. Folding bounds the queue, not the rate, so
a `GitReceiver` token holder can keep a worker reading; a per-worker cooldown would bound it.
- [ ] Re-assess unifying the pending-write kinds
(grouped window, resync and request record, since #450 removed the atomic kind). Deferred.
- [ ] Improve queue and worker observability, with more high-load tests.
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[git-write-preflight.md](design/git-write-preflight.md) (superseded by the red-status plan),
[gittarget-red-status-plan.md](design/gittarget-red-status-plan.md) (steps 5 and 6
built), [target-watch-plan.md](design/target-watch-plan.md) (queue depth is 1000, not 100),
and the go-git version in [azure-devops-multi-ack.md](design/azure-devops-multi-ack.md) and
[gittarget-parent-empty-repository.md](design/gittarget-parent-empty-repository.md).
- [ ] **Wrong claims in design bodies**: [support-contract.md](design/support-boundary/support-contract.md)
calls overlays, values files and ImageUpdateAutomation paths refused;
and the go-git version in [azure-devops-multi-ack.md](design/azure-devops-multi-ack.md).
- [ ] **Wrong claims in design bodies**:
[acceptance-precision.md](design/support-boundary/acceptance-precision.md) says everything is
open; [admission-consent.md](design/support-boundary/admission-consent.md) says the preflight
"fails closed" (it was decided fail-open, and is not built);
[multi-source-audit-ingress-hardening.md](design/multi-source-audit-ingress-hardening.md) says the
server checks the named provider exists; [event-pipeline-overview.md](design/event-pipeline-overview.md)
has no applier-claim stage.
server checks the named provider exists.
- [ ] **`(GVR, scope)` is still in [architecture.md](architecture.md)** (nine times);
[definitions.md](definitions.md) says "resource collection" and retires the old spelling. A
mechanical reword, as its own docs PR.
- [ ] **Write down API Priority and Fairness for the operator's load**: the inflight ceiling, which
built-in priority level our watches and audit webhook land in, whether a dedicated
`FlowSchema`/`PriorityLevelConfiguration` helps, and what to observe. An earlier facts page was
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Separate audit webhook delivery from APF classification.

The API server sends audit webhook requests outward; APF classifies requests received by the API server. An audit webhook delivery therefore has no built-in API-server priority level. Document its delivery limits separately from the priority level of watch requests. (kubernetes.io)

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Review comment at @docs/TODO.md around lines 251 - 253:
Update the API Priority and Fairness TODO to distinguish inbound watch-request
classification from outbound audit webhook delivery: document the applicable
built-in priority level for watches, and describe audit webhook delivery limits
separately without assigning it an API-server priority level.

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removed because it recommended `distinguisherMethod: ByResource`, which does not exist
(`ByUser` and `ByNamespace` only). Measure before writing it.
- [ ] Settle two words: "replay" in [applier-echoes.md](design/applier-echoes.md) departure 11
(definitions.md says "initial events"), and "sweep" against "prune" for the act of removing.

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Every change here is a name, and the controllers decide nothing differently; the exceptions are the
moved throttle above and the two removed flags at the end. The rules the names now follow are in
[`definitions.md`](definitions.md), and the plan is
[`design/vocabulary-cleanup.md`](design/vocabulary-cleanup.md).
[`definitions.md`](definitions.md).

### Before you upgrade

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held save says the same in its `WaitingForPush` message, and the `git_retained_*`,
`git_intake_paused` and `git_next_retry_timestamp_seconds` metrics describe the backlog. What this
recovers, and what watch history and a restart cannot, is the
[recovery contract](design/gittarget-branch-worker-pending-writes.md#recovery-contract); the
[event pipeline overview](design/event-pipeline-overview.md) draws it.
[recovery contract](design/gittarget-branch-worker-pending-writes.md#recovery-contract).

### Durability of the write queue (planned)

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Expand Up @@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ This page completes a set of four rulebooks, and each owns one surface:
| [`spec/status-conditions-guide.md`](spec/status-conditions-guide.md) | conditions and reasons: the kstatus trio, polarity, the generic reason vocabulary |
| this page | concepts, and the API names that carry them: kinds, fields, blocks, timestamps, enum values, printer columns |

It binds. A name in the code that contradicts a rule here is a defect, not a variation, and the
cleanup that produced this page is tracked in
[`design/vocabulary-cleanup.md`](design/vocabulary-cleanup.md).
It binds. A name in the code that contradicts a rule here is a defect, not a variation.

## Who we borrow from, and for what

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`upload-pack` will actually emit multi-ACK streams on a fetch with `have` lines, which is the thing
v5 cannot parse.

The e2e lab already runs Gitea (see [`e2e-git-server-choice.md`](e2e-git-server-choice.md)), whose
The e2e lab already runs Gitea, whose
backend is canonical git, so no new server is needed — only the proxy and a `GitProvider` pointed at
it. This is cheap, it is deterministic, it runs in CI, and it would let us:

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