The runner now uses the `git` command line instead of go-git to download actions and reusable workflows. go-git had recurring bugs and does not support SHA-256 repositories, and full clones of actions are several times faster.
`builtin:checkout` now runs `git` where the job runs and behaves like `actions/checkout`:
1. A branch is checked out as a local branch tracking `origin`, tag and pull request runs keep their ref, and a triggering tag that moved fails the step.
1. Later steps can fetch and push with the persisted token or SSH key.
1. It supports the `ssh-*`, `lfs`, `submodules`, `sparse-checkout`, `filter`, `fetch-tags`, `clean`, `persist-credentials`, `show-progress` and `set-safe-directory` inputs and the `ref` and `commit` outputs.
1. SHA-256 repositories work for actions, reusable workflows and `builtin:checkout`.
Git keeps the token off its command line, ignores `GIT_DIR` and similar variables inherited by the runner, and keeps action files LF regardless of `core.autocrlf`. A cancelled job lets git remove its lock files.
This is a breaking change: the runner needs Git 2.34.1 or newer on its `PATH`, and so do job images that use `builtin:checkout`. The official runner images include it.
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1077
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1267
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1279
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1284
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1285
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1277
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Adds a real-Gitea compatibility suite against stable and nightly to catch runner and API drift before release.
The suite shares one Gitea and regular runner, using repository runners only for cache v1/v2 and ephemeral behavior. It covers registration, payload and log encoding, secrets, variables, services, artifacts, outputs, matrices, cache, dispatch, live logs, cancellation, and ephemeral teardown.
CI runs both images in parallel. Warm local timings:
| Image | Before | After |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| `gitea/gitea:latest` | ~70s | 26.54s |
| `gitea/gitea:main-nightly` | ~54s | 22.53s |
The former serial matrix took about 2 minutes. Parallel suite execution is now bounded by the slower ~26.5-second variant.
Shared Renovate matcher: https://gitea.com/gitea/renovate-config/pulls/552
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1180
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
