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…ting The bi-directional timing spec found a race: an applier's write back through the watch is mirrored as a pending write, and when a Git-side push lands before it is published, replay re-plans it onto the push and reverts it, in Git and then on the cluster. docs/design/applier-echoes.md finds the root cause (a stale decision is ordered after the push, while an API edit is a later decision and wins) and proposes small changes to what is built: - F1: the applier's own write in the apply window is not mirrored; - F2: a write that changes nothing is dropped, never replayed; - F3: a resync waits while Git is ahead of the cluster; - S1: flush, then apply, instead of waiting for a quiet branch; - S2: CatchUp only to adopt API-created objects and to converge, the same for Flux and Argo CD, decided in the branch worker; quietPeriod goes. It records the decisions, the collisions left open with their interval and recovery, a review's seven points, and a code plan of what is removed, changed and kept. The regression spec bi_directional_push_race_e2e_test.go is committed as Pending: Argo CD fails it today in round 0. The change that builds F1 and F2 removes Pending. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… e2e scenarios The plan now closes each way a stale picture of an object can reach a commit: - F1 bounds the applier's write by the earliest send of every window still open or carried, so a delayed echo of an earlier attempt is still an echo. It keeps today's comparison with a recorded edit (late apply, tie, undo). - F2 works per object: an unchanged object is dropped from its write, so one inside a changed batch is never replayed either. A save keeps its record apart from its objects. - F3 never parks a snapshot. A resync taken while Git is ahead of the cluster, or whose own fetch finds a foreign commit, is discarded and re-requested after the apply; the parked heals go with it. - S1 records edits from the flush mark, so an edit between the flush and the send is withheld over and repaired. - S2 adopts on an observed API create (a delete and recreate under the same name included), never skipped because the applier is already at the tip. The startup converge waits for every initial snapshot to be published. Another applier's object in a triggered folder is warned about, not adopted. It also restores the prune-after-re-add collision, narrows P1 to the apply window, adds P4 to P6, and lists eleven end-to-end scenarios (adopt then prune, recreate then prune, restart with edits made while down, and more) for both appliers. The document describes the plan only, with no history. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…plier-echo gaps - F2: a pending write carries the actions decided once on its tree. An unchanged object is no action. A resync decides its upserts and its sweep's deletes once, so a replay never sweeps again and a Git-side addition survives it. A save is never trimmed: it keeps its objects and its push-decided outcome, as the CommitRequest contract says. - F3: an apply epoch, raised at every send and completion, and a "Git is ahead" flag, both read when a snapshot's collection starts. A snapshot collected while Git was ahead, or across an apply, is discarded and re-requested. - F4: an object another applier owns is not mirrored into a triggered folder, on the live path and in resyncs, and its document is not swept. - S1: the open commit window closes before the flush mark is taken, so its edits are published before the send. - S2: no apply of any reason before every initial snapshot of the covered GitTargets is published. The promises name their exceptions; C7 (same-second tie) and C8 (sweep against a Git-side edit) join the collisions; the e2e scenarios grow to thirteen, including a Git-side addition surviving a resync, a restart with work made while down across every reason, and a save across a Git-side change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…gain A pending write is planned once, on the tree it is first committed on, and from then on carries what that plan decided (docs/design/applier-echoes.md, F2): - A window or atomic write keeps only the events whose plan changed the tree. An unchanged object is no action, and a write with no action left settles at once: it is neither retained nor pushed, so a replay onto a newer tip can never plan it again and revert what that tip changed. - A resync uses its snapshot's membership once, to decide the upserts that changed the tree and the documents its sweep removed. A replay applies exactly those, each delete only while the prune mode still sweeps, and never runs the sweep again, so a Git-side addition survives it. - A save (a write carrying a CommitRequest) keeps every object it captured, and its outcome stays push-decided. Tests that used a no-op live write to reach the remote now use a no-op save, which still does. New real-server tests pin the replay of a window and of a resync under prune.mode: Always. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
In an applier's apply window, a write by the applier's managers alone to an
object nobody edited is the apply itself landing: its content is the commit's,
which Git holds. It is no longer mirrored (docs/design/applier-echoes.md, F1).
Mirrored, it became a pending write planned from the live object, and a
replay onto a newer tip reverted that tip's change.
- The lower bound is the earliest send of every window still open or
carried, so a delayed echo of the attempt before, inside its grace, is
still that apply. An applier entry older than that bound is an earlier
apply's, left newest by an undo, and is an edit.
- With an edit recorded, the comparison is unchanged: newer is withheld with
a Repair, the same second is ambiguous, older is the undo.
- With no window open, the applier's managers alone are mirrored as an edit
and counted late (C3).
New counter apply_echoes_total{outcome=not_mirrored|late}, and one line per
window: "Observed the applier's apply".
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A resync mirrors a snapshot of live state, and while Git is ahead of the
cluster that snapshot holds the old state of every object the unapplied
commit changes (docs/design/applier-echoes.md, F3).
- The branch worker keeps an apply epoch, raised at every send and every end
of an attempt, and a Git-is-ahead flag: a ForeignCommit, Repair or Refusal
pending, or an attempt out. The watch side reads both when a snapshot's
collection starts, and the ResyncRequest carries them.
- A snapshot collected while Git was ahead, across an epoch change, or
arriving while Git is ahead is discarded (ErrResyncDiscarded, not a
failure), and a fresh one of its GitTarget is asked for once Git is no
longer ahead. So is one whose own fetch finds a commit the worker did not
push.
- No snapshot is parked any more: a heal that would close a commit window is
discarded and asked for again once the window is idle. The deferred heals
are gone.
- A branch with no trigger never waits. A GitTarget's snapshots are exempt
until its initial snapshots are published (latched per incarnation): they
are the startup baseline, and S2 holds every apply until they are in Git,
so holding them would deadlock. A GitTarget held for five minutes uses the
next snapshot anyway.
New counter stale_snapshots_total{outcome=discarded|used}.
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A folder a trigger applies belongs to that trigger's applier (docs/design/applier-echoes.md, F4). An object another Kustomization or Application applies, mirrored into it, would be applied by this applier too, and two appliers applying one object fight each other. - The watch side reads the owner from the raw object, before sanitize strips it: Flux's owner labels, or Argo CD's tracking annotation (with the <namespace>_<name> form of an Application outside Argo CD's namespace). It stamps it on the live event and on each snapshot entry. - The worker compares it with the applier of the event's GitTarget's trigger. Another applier's object is excluded: a live event is not mirrored, and a snapshot entry is neither upserted nor swept, even under prune.mode: Always. - A folder with no trigger excludes nothing, and an object owned by nobody, or by the folder's own applier, is mirrored as before. New counter apply_ownership_conflicts_total, and one log line per object. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An attempt went out only on a quiet branch: no open window and no pending
writes, here or on any sibling worker. A user who kept editing held a
Git-side change back for as long as they typed. It is replaced by a flush
(docs/design/applier-echoes.md, S1):
1. When an apply comes due, the open commit window is closed, so its edits
become a decided write.
2. The worker takes the flush mark: the last write decided so far.
3. From the mark, the due applier's next apply window records edits, before
the attempt is sent: an apply that overwrites one is withheld over, and a
Repair puts it back.
4. The writes up to the mark are published at once, push cooldown or not.
Writes decided after it do not hold the send.
5. The attempt is sent for the tip that publication produced, and is stale
only when the tip moved.
A registered CommitRequest, a parent recovery and a dirty checkout still hold
an apply. The quiet branch, the busy and sibling-quietness gates
(branchQuiet, workWaiting, the busy half of decisionHolds, othersBusy,
siblingBusy, publishWriteBusy, busyWriting) and the worker's source prefetch,
which only overlapped the wait, are gone; the source-group claims stay. A
window an apply closes is counted as commit_windows_closed{reason=apply_due}.
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The prefetch fetched a push somebody else made into a shared GitRepository while the branch was busy, so its artifact was ready once the branch went quiet. With flush-then-apply (S1) there is no such wait: with pending writes the apply asks for the replayed tip, not the push, and with none it is sent at once and fetches for itself. Prefetching never shortens the flush, so it goes: the worker's prefetch, ApplyRequester.PrefetchSource, the dispatcher's prefetch checks, Flux.Prefetch, ApplyTrigger.Prefetches, and FluxTrigger status.source.prefetch. status.source.otherConsumers stays, information only. BREAKING CHANGE: FluxTrigger status.source.prefetch is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Argo CD With the flush guarding the cluster, an apply after every push of the worker's own protects nothing. What is left is ownership: an applier prunes only what it applied (docs/design/applier-echoes.md, S2). - Adopt: a CatchUp is pending for an applier when the worker observes an API create in a folder it applies (an ADDED event whose newest managers are not an applier's, and that no other applier owns), and when a resync adds an object to Git. It is never skipped as already applied: re-applying the same commit is what stamps the owner labels or the tracking annotation. - Converge: a CatchUp is pending once when the worker starts, and once when a GitTarget first names the trigger. The worker keeps, per applier, the revision the last succeeded operation applied (status.operation, recovered on restart), and a converge of it asks nothing. - Both appliers alike: an Argo CD Application now converges and adopts too. - No applier is asked for anything, for any reason, before every initial snapshot of every GitTarget it covers is published. - A push of the worker's own leaves nothing pending, and an empty tip asks nothing: the reason waits for a commit to apply. The clients' OutcomeCurrent paths (and ApplyCurrent) go: the worker decides what needs no apply. ApplierRef.CatchesUp, the quiet period and quietSince go. BREAKING CHANGE: FluxTrigger spec.quietPeriod is removed; a manifest that sets it is refused by the API server. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A suspended target's resync returned before deciding its actions, so retained() read it as undecided and kept it: retained, charged, pushed, and logged as committed. It now records an empty decision, so it settles at once. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The scenarios of docs/design/applier-echoes.md, each for both appliers, on a folder GitOps Reverser mirrors and the applier applies: - E1: the push race runs (Pending removed). - E2, E3: an object the API created, or deleted and created again, is adopted, so a Git-side delete prunes it and no resync writes it back. - E5: an edit made during an apply is in Git and back on the cluster. - E6: a Git-side push is applied while edits keep arriving, and every edit ends in Git and on the cluster. - E7: a Git-side push survives a resync forced before its apply finishes. - E8: a Git-side addition survives a resync under prune.mode: Always. - E9: work made while the operator was down is mirrored before anything is applied, a Git-side change it does not watch is applied, and the new object is adopted (Serial: it scales the controller). - E10: an API edit asks for no apply; it replaces the Flux spec that asked only on a quiet branch. - E11: another applier's object is neither mirrored nor adopted. - E12: a save made across a Git-side change resolves from the push. - E13: the timing specs time "API create -> adopted" for both appliers. The Argo CD spec now expects the converge naming the Application leaves. The corner runs on four procs with a 35m timeout. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every document the applier-echoes plan lists now describes the built system: - definitions.md: the quiet branch goes; flush (and its mark), echo, adopt, converge and the apply epoch come in. - design/apply-trigger.md: the apply window gains F1 and the flush mark, the quiet-branch rule becomes flush-then-apply, F3 and F4 join, CatchUp is adopt and converge for both appliers (the two reversed decisions stated), and prefetch and quietPeriod are gone. - design/applier-echoes.md: built; the open decisions are recorded as the decisions taken, with the F3 exemption for initial snapshots, the five-minute bound, and the prefetch removal. - The pending-writes design and the mark-and-sweep spec: a write carries actions decided once, and a replay never sweeps again. - interpreting-metrics.md: apply_echoes_total, apply_ownership_conflicts_total and stale_snapshots_total; the apply_due close reason; apply_requests_total without the quiet-branch and Argo CD caveats. - The bi-directional guides, architecture, api-first publication, configuration and UPGRADING, and the support-boundary page. Stale code comments and the TestApplyDebt names (a banned word) are fixed with them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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An edit carried from the previous apply window withheld the next attempt's own write of the same object, so a legitimate apply of a commit that already held the edit was judged a revert and drew a spurious Repair. One attempt is out at a time, so the earlier apply wrote before the next one was sent; a write since is the new attempt's apply of a commit holding every edit published before it (S1). A carried edit now guards only an applier write timestamped before the current window's send. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d limit The worker latched a GitTarget's initial snapshots once every stream it knew of was Streaming. A GitTarget declared before its WatchRule's collection was planned counted as done with nothing to deliver, so the real initial snapshot was judged by F3 and discarded, and with Git still ahead (a converge sync of a path that did not exist yet never completed) it was never asked for again: the GitTarget waited for its first revision for good. The watch side now records, per GitTarget, the collections the worker applied a snapshot of (marked when the resync drains successfully, forgotten on teardown). A snapshot of a collection with none applied is Initial: the worker uses it whatever its appliers are doing. The barrier S2 waits for is every planned collection applied and no resync of the GitTarget queued or unpublished; the worker-side latch is gone. A GitTarget whose snapshots are held for snapshotHoldLimit is now asked for a fresh one then, on the applier timer, rather than only when the next stale snapshot happens to arrive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pushing the other applier's folder to the same repository is itself a foreign commit for the trigger's applier, so its token moved and the spec read that as an adoption. Capture the operation once that push is applied, and only then hold that nothing follows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The plan counts a refused or failed initial snapshot as settled, so it holds no applier back. The per-collection tracking only marked a snapshot the worker applied, so a GitTarget whose path was refused, or whose initial resync failed or timed out, held every apply of its applier for good. A snapshot now settles its collection unless it was discarded or superseded: those are replaced by another one that settles. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Decided while building, 3, now says the exemption is tracked per collection on the watch side and why the per-GitTarget latch failed; 5 and 6 record that a carried edit guards only writes made before the next send, and that a held GitTarget is asked again at the 5-minute limit. definitions.md and apply-trigger.md follow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An applier write by its own managers alone, in the same second as an edit recorded in the apply window, was mirrored as ambiguous. Events arrive in resourceVersion order, so the edit, recorded first, was written first, and the write after it is the apply over the edit: mirrored, it reverted the edit in Git and on the cluster (E6, Flux applying within the second of an API edit). It is now withheld, and a Repair follows. The cost is an undo in that second whose newest entry is the applier's from that second: it is withheld too, and the Repair puts the edit back (C4). A tie with another manager is still mirrored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Minor · Update the OnRefusal field comment to describe the flush. · gittarget_types.go:112-114
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Reapplyso the request goes out after a flush. TheOnRefusalcomment still says the request waits until "the branch holds no open window and no pending writes". That is the old quiet-branch rule.The updated
ApplyTriggerRefcomment,docs/configuration.mdanddocs/UPGRADING.mdnow say "after a flush". The generated CRD description (config/crd/bases/configbutler.ai_gittargets.yaml, around lines 348-350) copies this comment. As a result,kubectl explainshows users the old behavior.Reword the comment. Then regenerate the CRD.
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- // "Reapply" asks this target's applier (through spec.applyTriggerRef, which it requires) to - // apply the current tip once the branch holds no open window and no pending writes, which - // reverts the refused edit and nothing that is still waiting to be published. Only this + // "Reapply" asks this target's applier (through spec.applyTriggerRef, which it requires) to + // apply the current tip after a flush: the open window is closed and the pending writes are + // published first, so the apply reverts the refused edit and nothing else. Only this🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 277: Update the withholding rule in the bi-directional documentation to
state that an applier-only entry as new as or newer than the edit is withheld,
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Review comments at @docs/definitions.md:
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Review comments at @internal/git/apply_ownership.go:
- Around line 181-188: Bound the deduplication map in recordOwnershipConflict by
introducing a fixed maximum size and resetting ownershipLogged when it is nil or
reaches that limit before adding a new key. Preserve recent-entry deduplication
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Review comments at @internal/git/apply_trigger.go:
- Around line 490-494: Update the due-applier handling around the flush-mark
transition: when !l.flushing and a new mark is taken, assign every state in due
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Naming a trigger converges its applier once the GitTarget's initial snapshots are in Git. A GitTarget nothing had been mirrored into yet has no folder at the tip, so Argo CD was asked to sync a missing path: it retried "failed to get repo objects" for minutes, in Running, which held every later apply of that Application. Flux fails such a path. A resync of a GitTarget that names a trigger, into a folder HEAD's tree does not hold, now commits the folder's bootstrap files (README.md, .gittargetignore, .sops.yaml with encryption) even with no object to write. The bootstrap files are never deleted, so the folder outlives its last resource. Whether the folder exists is read from HEAD's tree, not from the disk a reset can leave an empty directory on, and nothing parses its content. A GitTarget no applier applies keeps the old rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A GitTarget declared with no planned collection counted as having settled its initial snapshots, with nothing to deliver. A converge then went out before its WatchRule's collection was planned (a CRD not discovered yet), ahead of the snapshot S2 waits for. It now holds its applier, as a Blocked watch does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
With no receiver, a worker learns of a Git-side push only through its own rejected push or the refresher. A converge decided before such a push kept asking for a commit the GitRepository no longer served, and Flux kept answering "fetched <newer>, not commit <older>" (RequestFailed), backing off up to 32s each time. The Flux client now returns a typed error, the dispatcher carries the revision the source holds on the report (ApplyResult.SourceRevision), and the worker, when that is not the tip it knows, looks at the remote as it does at a push notice: a hint, never a fact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The spec before leaves the second order at Cup in Git and on the cluster, so patching it to Cup changed nothing: F2 rightly made it no write, nothing was pushed, and nothing found the Git-side push the spec is about. It patches to Cone now. The docs record the folder bootstrap, the barrier for a GitTarget with no planned collection, and the Flux source hint (decided while building, 8 to 10), and correct the barrier's wording to the per-collection rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review findings. An applier can stay due without being sent (a sibling holds its group), and the next flush takes a newer mark, which publishes the edits recorded before it. They were kept and carried into the next apply window, where they withheld the apply's own write of a commit that holds them: a false collision and an extra Repair. A new mark now starts each due applier's record over. The set that logs an ownership conflict once per object only grew; an Argo CD hook Job per sync grew it for good. It starts over at 1024 objects; the counter still records every exclusion. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
bi-directional.md still said a tie with the edit is mirrored; the applier's write alone in the edit's second is withheld now. "Withheld over" is reworded, and the Serial registry counts four singleton specs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nothing produces a heal resync: the watch plane's one caller passes heal=false, on main too. The Heal flag, the discard of a heal that would close an open window, its window-idle re-request, and the tests that drove a heal by hand are removed; a re-request now carries only its GitTarget. Four wrappers only tests call since F2 split the planners (flushEventsToWorktree, applyPendingWriteEvents, applyResyncToWorktree, groupEventsByBase) move to planning_wrappers_test.go; the planners carry their docs. deadcode now reports nothing this branch made unreachable. Stale comments and doc lines that named the removed heal parking and the quiet period are corrected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two manager specs still described the behaviour before this PR, and had failed on every CI run of the branch: - Manager Flux Applier: naming the trigger converges it once (S2), as soon as the branch has a tip, so the first ask refused at the patch is that CatchUp. ApplyRequestFailed is recorded only for a run's first failure, so the ForeignCommit that joins the run never shows. - New write branch, standby: a live event the parent already holds is no write (F2). Its window closes and nothing is committed or pushed, where the spec waited for the no-diff window's push. It waits for the window to close, then holds that nothing is pushed and no branch is created. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review finding. takeReasons armed the applier timer for a retry when listing the branch's appliers failed, and returned false; its caller then armed the timer for the windows closing, usually zero, which stopped it. The pending reasons waited for unrelated activity to wake the loop. On main the failure returned straight after arming. The retry is now a deadline (listRetryAt) every arming in serviceAppliers folds in, cleared once a listing succeeds or nothing is pending. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review finding. Two GitProviders naming one repository give its branch two workers, whose GitTargets can name one trigger. main held an apply while any sibling was busy writing; S1 removed that gate and flushed only the sending worker. A sibling's edit not yet published was then reverted on the cluster by the apply, and the sibling, which sent nothing and holds no apply window, mirrored the revert. The flush now covers the siblings. When an apply comes due, the worker asks each sibling to flush: it closes its open window, takes a mark of its own and publishes up to it at once. The worker sends once every sibling it asked is done. Like S1, a sibling's writes decided after its mark do not hold the send, so continuous editing cannot starve an apply. Every worker now shares what it observes of the branch with its siblings' inboxes, so the tip the attempt is sent for holds their publications: a sibling's push moves the tip and asks nothing, as a worker's own does, and what a sibling fetched is foreign to all of them. An edit a sibling makes while the apply runs is not protected, as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The API comments, which kubectl explain and the CRDs carry, still said an apply goes only on a branch with nothing live missing from the commit, that CatchUp follows GitOps Reverser's own pushes, that a Repair follows an edit made after the apply was asked for, and that onRefusal: Reapply waits for a branch with no open window. Each apply now publishes the pending edits first, CatchUp adopts and converges for both appliers, and a Repair follows an edit made after its flush. The --author-attribution-grace help and the chart's attribution.grace said an unmatched event ships as the committer; with attribution on it is authored "unknown (attribution unresolved)". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…sections StrongerApplyReason still described the removed Current outcome (a CatchUp asking nothing of a suspended Kustomization at the commit); noteBusyPushNotice named closeWindowForForeignCommit, now closeWindowForPushHint. Comments and the round-trip ledger's header cited sections 1.5 to 1.7 of push-notification-and-reconcile-trigger.md, which has only 1.1 to 1.3; they cite its Part 1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- GitCommitWindowsTotal listed no foreign_commit or apply_due reason. - CommitModePerEvent named "quiet-window boundaries"; a window closes on its idle timeout or maximum duration. - The reason-alias comment named NoAdmittedSourceNamespaces, which is gone; SourceNamespaceAuthorized's Unknown named a retained-scope state that does not exist. - GitTargetRemoteStatus said it is written whenever the commit changes; it is sampled on reconcile and written at most once a minute, the first observation and a repository change at once. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A review of every current-behavior doc against the code at c12f797, architecture.md and configuration.md in full included. Besides the applier-echoes behavior (the flush covering sibling workers, the per-collection initial snapshots, the folder bootstrap, the Flux source hint, no heal resync), it corrects what had drifted earlier: - architecture.md: cursor keys, the startup order, the resync scope (ResyncScope, not ScopeGVR), the /scale path (a parent watch event, no field patch), the condition metric's kinds, controller watches. - configuration.md: status.branches scope, what closes a window, the unresolved author with attribution on. - specs: commit-window-refactor's gone types and flag name, the status-conditions guide's condition lists and write-conflict rule, type-followability as built, e2e-test-design's stamps and suite setup, and history headers on pages whose code is gone. - design docs: push-cooldown's flush bypass and timer count, the event model without heals or the quiet branch, superseded headers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… retries Review findings on the sibling flush and the listing retry. - A sibling's push was shared as a push of the worker's own, so it asked nothing. Its appliers may apply another cluster than this worker's, so nothing says its content is live where this worker's appliers apply. It is foreign now, as it was when a fetch found it; an echo of content already live is not mirrored (F1). The tip is still shared, so the attempt is sent for the commit that holds it. - A shared observation did not wake the sibling, so a ForeignCommit waited for its next unrelated wake. - The recorded-operation listing that fails retried on the applier timer, which the same pass disarmed when nothing was pending. Both listings of the branch's appliers now keep one retry deadline, cleared only by a listing that succeeds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…er by repository (#428) * feat!: share a GitProvider across namespaces, and key the branch worker by repository A branch worker was keyed by its GitProvider, so two GitProviders naming one repository gave one branch two workers. Each had its own clone, pending writes and apply windows, and they coordinated outside the event loop: a cross-worker flush with generation counters, observations copied between inboxes, and source-group claims under a shared lock. The review of #425 found a defect at each place that coordination left the loop. One worker now writes a repository branch: - The worker is keyed by the repository's URL, normalized as repourl compares it, and the branch (git.BranchKey). It pushes with the credential of the one GitProvider that owns the branch: the GitProvider of the oldest GitTarget writing it (git/branch_owner.go). - A GitTarget writing the branch through another GitProvider is refused with TargetConflict, and the message names the GitProvider to share. The GitTarget reconciler, the worker sweep and EnsureWorker decide ownership the same way, so two GitTargets created too close together for either reconcile to see the other still end with one worker. - GitTarget.spec.gitProviderRef gains a namespace, and GitProvider gains spec.accessFrom (the ClusterProvider's NamespaceMatcher). A GitProvider's own namespace is always admitted. authz.GitTargetAdmitted checks it, so the Validated gate, rule compilation, bootstrap and the applier checks all refuse a namespace the GitProvider does not admit. - The sibling machinery is deleted: apply_siblings.go, apply_sibling_flush.go, the shared observations and the group claims. - Lookups that assumed the GitProvider is in the GitTarget's namespace (mappers, the branch inventory, the publication fan-out, the applier recheck, the event router, bootstrap) use GitTarget.GitProviderKey. The branch metrics keep their provider_namespace and provider_name labels: they name the branch's one GitProvider. A GitProvider recreated under its name with another URL still replaces its worker, and the old observation moves to the new key so status.remote is taken back. UPGRADING.md also gains the entry #425 left out, for the removed FluxTrigger spec.quietPeriod and status.source.prefetch. BREAKING CHANGE: every GitTarget writing one repository branch must name the same GitProvider; a GitTarget writing it through another GitProvider than the oldest GitTarget there is refused with TargetConflict. Share a GitProvider across namespaces with spec.gitProviderRef.namespace and the GitProvider's spec.accessFrom. See UPGRADING.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(e2e): share a GitProvider across namespaces, and refuse a second one on its branch A GitTarget in a tenant namespace mirrors through a GitProvider in the platform namespace that admits it, with no credential of its own. A namespace the GitProvider does not admit is refused with NamespaceNotAuthorized, and a GitTarget writing the same repository branch through a GitProvider of its own is refused with TargetConflict. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: let only a GitTarget that may write decide a branch, and ask nothing for one that may not Review findings on the shared GitProvider. - An older GitTarget whose ClusterProvider or GitProvider does not admit its namespace still owned its repository branch, so it got the GitTarget that may write it refused, and the sweep kept only its worker. BranchOwners now skips a GitTarget authz.GitTargetAdmitted refuses, in the reconciler and the worker sweep alike. A read that fails is an error, never a refusal, so it moves no branch. - The worker listed a GitTarget the dispatcher would refuse, and so flushed, raised its apply epoch and held the applier for an attempt that could not go. appliersOnBranch now leaves it out, with the dispatcher's own check (authz.ApplierAdmitted). - Docs: the worker serves a repository branch, the memory sizing unit is one worker per repository branch, and the upgrade inventory lists https and SSH spellings of one repository apart. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Stacked on #424, which found the race; merge #424 first. Builds
docs/design/applier-echoes.mdas one change.The race
GitOps Reverser asked an applier to apply commit A. The applier's own write came back through the watch and was mirrored as a pending write that changed nothing. A Git-side push B then landed, the worker's push was rejected, and the replay planned that write from the live object (still A) onto B. The resulting commit reverted B, in Git and then on the cluster. Argo CD failed the push-race spec every time; Flux passed only when its echo landed after the push cooldown.
Root cause: ordering. A pending write carried a picture of the cluster, and every replay re-planned that picture onto whatever tip the remote had.
What changes
Repairfollows; an older applier entry is the API's undo, mirrored. With no window open, the applier's write is mirrored and countedlate.prune.mode: Always). A save (CommitRequest) keeps every object and its push-decided outcome.CatchUponly adopts (an API create in an applier's folder, or a resync adding an object to Git) and converges (once at start, once when a GitTarget first names the trigger; a converge of the commit the applier last applied asks nothing). The same for Flux and Argo CD, decided in the worker. No apply goes out before every collection of every covered GitTarget has a settled initial snapshot (tracked per collection), and a GitTarget with no planned collection holds its applier. A push of the worker's own asks nothing; an empty tip asks nothing.A GitTarget that names a trigger gets its folder created by its resync, bootstrap files and all, even with no object to write: Argo CD retries a sync of a missing path for minutes, and Flux fails it. A Flux
GitRepositorythat fetched another commit than the one asked for is a hint to look at the remote, as a receiver delivery is.Breaking (both fields shipped in 0.53.0)
FluxTrigger.spec.quietPeriodis removed. Server-side apply and strict field validation reject a manifest that sets it; a client with validation off drops it silently.FluxTrigger.status.source.prefetch, and the whole source prefetch, are removed.Currentoutcome (andApplyCurrent) is gone: the worker decides what needs no apply.New metrics
apply_echoes_total{outcome=not_mirrored|late}apply_ownership_conflicts_totalstale_snapshots_total{outcome=discarded|used}git_commit_windows_total{close_reason="apply_due"}Decided while building (twelve departures from the plan)
All twelve are recorded in the design doc's "Decided while building". In short:
used.E9 pushes its Git-side change to an object the GitTarget does not watch: an initial snapshot is the startup baseline, so a Git-side change to a watched object made while the operator was down is the C2 case.
Also in this PR
docs/architecture.mdanddocs/configuration.mdin full, plus the specs and the design docs of the areas this rewrote; stale API and code comments were corrected with them.Tests
late, the same-second tie, carried edits), F2 (unchanged objects, resync replay underAlways, a tightened prune mode), F3 (collected across an apply, while ahead, arriving while ahead, the per-collection exemption, the bound and its timer), F4, S1 (publish before send; record and withhold after the mark; a new mark starts the edits over; a sibling's unpublished edit is in the commit applied), S2 (startup converge at the tip, adopt at the tip for both appliers, the barrier, an empty tip, first naming, a resync that adds an object adopts it), the folder bootstrap, the Flux source hint, and the listing retry.bi_directional_echoes_e2e_test.go), E9 (bi_directional_restart_e2e_test.go, Serial), E13 (timing: "API create → adopted"). The corner runs on 4 procs with a 35m timeout. Manager specs that described the old behavior (the converge on naming, no push for a no-op write) are updated.Validation
task lintandtask testpass; unit coverage is 80.1% against a baseline of 80.2%, inside the tolerance. Every CI leg passed on c12f797 (full-manager, full-core, bi-directional, image-refresh, quickstart-install, source-cluster); the later commits change only comments, flag help text, CRD descriptions and docs. Locally, the bi-directional corner passed 42/42 and the manager leg 86/86.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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feat!: recognize the applier's own writes, and flush before applying (#425)
BREAKING CHANGE: FluxTrigger spec.quietPeriod and status.source.prefetch are removed. An apply no longer waits for a quiet branch: the branch worker publishes what is pending, then applies. Server-side apply and kubectl's strict field validation reject a manifest that still sets spec.quietPeriod; a client with field validation off drops the field without an error. Remove spec.quietPeriod from FluxTrigger manifests before upgrading.
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