perf(server): answer cheap git metadata from repository files instead of spawning git - #12602
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… of spawning git Background loops ask git the same read-only questions (toplevel, remotes, HEAD, upstream, a config value, branch refs, ahead/behind) many times a minute per project. GitMetadataFastPath answers a fixed set of them byte-for-byte from the files under .git, or declines so the caller spawns git as before. git itself decides once per repository whether it opens it; reads are bounded and refuse UNC pointers. T3CODE_GIT_FAST_PATH=0 turns it off.
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🟠 High vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts:114
readBoundedFile can read indefinitely and bypass maxBytes, allowing a repository to exhaust Node's filesystem worker threads. It validates the path with stat but then reopens it with readFile, so replacing the file with a FIFO leaves the read live after the two-second timeout, while replacing it with a large file makes readFile consume the entire file; open the file once and enforce the limit on that handle.
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`readBoundedFile` can read indefinitely and bypass `maxBytes`, allowing a repository to exhaust Node's filesystem worker threads. It validates the path with `stat` but then reopens it with `readFile`, so replacing the file with a FIFO leaves the read live after the two-second timeout, while replacing it with a large file makes `readFile` consume the entire file; open the file once and enforce the limit on that handle.
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Fixed in ac8c66e. readBoundedFile now opens one handle (O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK), runs fstat on that handle and reads at most size + 1 bytes from it. The path can no longer be swapped between the check and the read, opening a FIFO does not wait, and a file that grows while it is read is left to git.
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🟡 Medium vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts:302
An initially empty file loaded through a global include.path is omitted from files, so adding a later remote.* or branch.* entry does not change the cache fingerprint. getOuterConfig can therefore return stale metadata for up to five minutes instead of spawning git; track included config files independently of emitted entries when building the fingerprint.
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An initially empty file loaded through a global `include.path` is omitted from `files`, so adding a later `remote.*` or `branch.*` entry does not change the cache fingerprint. `getOuterConfig` can therefore return stale metadata for up to five minutes instead of spawning git; track included config files independently of emitted entries when building the fingerprint.
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Fixed in ac8c66e. Every include.path target in the system/global listing is now fingerprinted by name, so an include that was missing or empty invalidates the cached listing as soon as it gains content. ~user/ and %(prefix)/ locations are left to git. Test: "notices a global include that appears after the config was listed".
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🟡 Medium vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts:1010
timeoutMs does not bound answerWithoutGit, so a call with timeoutMs: 100 can block for the fast path's two-second filesystem timeout before spawning Git or returning a timeout error. Apply the requested timeout to the fast-path attempt as well, while preserving the existing timeout error and permit-wait semantics.
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The fast-path attempt is performed before
spawnGitCommand, so it is not covered byoptions.timeoutMs.tryAnswerGitCommandmay wait for its own two-second filesystem timeout; a caller passing (for example)timeoutMs: 100can now wait those two seconds and then still receive a normal process run with the full 100 ms timeout. The previous path applied the requested timeout to the whole command attempt.
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`timeoutMs` does not bound `answerWithoutGit`, so a call with `timeoutMs: 100` can block for the fast path's two-second filesystem timeout before spawning Git or returning a timeout error. Apply the requested timeout to the fast-path attempt as well, while preserving the existing timeout error and permit-wait semantics.
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- apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts:508 -- The fast-path attempt is performed before `spawnGitCommand`, so it is not covered by `options.timeoutMs`. `tryAnswerGitCommand` may wait for its own two-second filesystem timeout; a caller passing (for example) `timeoutMs: 100` can now wait those two seconds and then still receive a normal process run with the full 100 ms timeout. The previous path applied the requested timeout to the whole command attempt.
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🟡 Medium vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts:515
When a fast-path answer is available, gitCommand returns the full stdout even when callers set maxOutputBytes, so output can exceed the cap and stdoutTruncated remains false. The fast path also bypasses outputMode and appendTruncationMarker; fall back to spawnGitCommand whenever these output controls are provided.
- answer !== null && (answer.exitCode === 0 || options?.allowNonZeroExit)
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answerWithoutGitreturns fast-pathstdoutunchanged and always setsstdoutTruncated: false, ignoringinput.maxOutputBytesandappendTruncationMarker. For example, afor-each-ref --format=%(refname) refs/remotescall with a small output cap returns every ref instead of the byte-truncated result produced bycollectOutput; callers can receive unexpectedly large output and cannot detect it via the truncation flag.
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When a fast-path answer is available, `gitCommand` returns the full `stdout` even when callers set `maxOutputBytes`, so output can exceed the cap and `stdoutTruncated` remains `false`. The fast path also bypasses `outputMode` and `appendTruncationMarker`; fall back to `spawnGitCommand` whenever these output controls are provided.
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- apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts:845 -- `answerWithoutGit` returns fast-path `stdout` unchanged and always sets `stdoutTruncated: false`, ignoring `input.maxOutputBytes` and `appendTruncationMarker`. For example, a `for-each-ref --format=%(refname) refs/remotes` call with a small output cap returns every ref instead of the byte-truncated result produced by `collectOutput`; callers can receive unexpectedly large output and cannot detect it via the truncation flag.
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Fixed in ac8c66e, a little differently from the suggestion. Both call sites pass maxOutputBytes, and an answer whose stdout or stderr is larger than the cap (default 1 MB, same as the process runners) is declined, so git truncates or fails the way the caller asked. Declining whenever the option is set would switch the reader off for isInsideWorkTree, which passes 4096 bytes for a one-line answer. When the answer fits, all output modes give the same result. Tests: "stays inside the caller's time and output budget" and the driver test, which now expects a spawn for a capped remote get-url.
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🟡 Medium vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts:286
When input.env overrides HOME or XDG_CONFIG_HOME, the fast path answers from the server process's global config, so remotes, URL rewrites, and branch settings differ from the Git command that would be spawned. listOuterConfig and gitVerdict use process.env rather than the effective command environment; decline the fast path for these overrides or load and cache outer config per effective environment.
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gitCommandpasses a caller-providedenvinto the fast path, butGitMetadataFastPathloads global configuration using its own process environment. A call such asexecute({ args: ["remote", "-v"], env: { HOME: alternateHome } })can therefore be answered using the server user's global config while the spawnedgitwould readalternateHome/.gitconfig; e.g. anurl.*.insteadOfrule or globally defined remote produces different remote URLs. Decline the fast path when config-location environment variables are overridden, or load the outer config using the effective command environment.
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The fast path is still enabled when
input.envoverridesHOMEorXDG_CONFIG_HOME, but its outer-config lookup and Git-verdict subprocess useprocess.envinstead. Since Git reads global config from$HOME/.gitconfigand$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config, a call such asexecute({ args: ["remote"], env: { HOME: isolatedHome } })can be answered using the server process's remotes/config rather than the effective configuration of the Git command that would have been spawned.
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When `input.env` overrides `HOME` or `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, the fast path answers from the server process's global config, so remotes, URL rewrites, and branch settings differ from the Git command that would be spawned. `listOuterConfig` and `gitVerdict` use `process.env` rather than the effective command environment; decline the fast path for these overrides or load and cache outer config per effective environment.
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- apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts:510 -- `gitCommand` passes a caller-provided `env` into the fast path, but `GitMetadataFastPath` loads global configuration using its own process environment. A call such as `execute({ args: ["remote", "-v"], env: { HOME: alternateHome } })` can therefore be answered using the server user's global config while the spawned `git` would read `alternateHome/.gitconfig`; e.g. an `url.*.insteadOf` rule or globally defined remote produces different remote URLs. Decline the fast path when config-location environment variables are overridden, or load the outer config using the effective command environment.
- apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts:836 -- The fast path is still enabled when `input.env` overrides `HOME` or `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, but its outer-config lookup and Git-verdict subprocess use `process.env` instead. Since Git reads global config from `$HOME/.gitconfig` and `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config`, a call such as `execute({ args: ["remote"], env: { HOME: isolatedHome } })` can be answered using the server process's remotes/config rather than the effective configuration of the Git command that would have been spawned.
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Fixed in ac8c66e. The command is left to git when its env sets HOME, USERPROFILE, HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, XDG_CONFIG_HOME or PATH to a value other than the server's own, because the cached listing and the repository verdicts come from git run with the server's environment. Restating the same value changes nothing. Test: "leaves the command to git when its environment moves git or its config".
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a large default-on Git metadata fast path that changes shared production execution, timeout, output, environment, and caching behavior across several server components. Its complexity, diagnostic suppressions, and unresolved risks around filesystem reads and command semantics require human review. Not approved because:
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…ts and environment Read repository files through one handle, watch global include targets, honour the caller's timeout and output cap, and leave commands whose environment moves git or its config to git.
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- Around line 317-328: Update the outerConfig cache flow around loadOuterConfig
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🟠 Major · Limit Git validation processes. · GitVcsDriverCore.ts:1012-1018
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftLimit Git validation processes.
answerWithoutGitruns beforegitProcesses.withPermits(1).tryAnswerGitCommandshares one in-flightgit configprocess, but each distinct repository can start its own uncappedgit rev-parsevalidation process. A scan across many repositories can therefore start more than eight Git processes outsidegitProcesses. Add one shared limiter for the fast-path validation spawns, includinggit configandgit rev-parse; a per-repository cache does not provide this limit.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Re CodeRabbit's "Limit Git validation processes" (posted outside the diff range, so it has no thread): fixed in eeb32df by this limiter. The git processes the reader starts itself, the per-repository rev-parse verdict and the config --list listing, run 4 at a time and the rest wait in arrival order, so a sweep over many repositories cannot start one git per repository at once. If the queue makes an answer miss its 2 s budget, the command takes the normal path under gitProcesses. The limiter has its own test.
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Fixes #8949. Part of #11220 and #12498: the uncached
git remote/for-each-ref/symbolic-ref/config --getcalls, the 2 second VCS detection cache and the non-repository re-probe listed in the triage on #12498. This does not close #12498 on its own; the bar there is the whole idle machine.What Changed
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apps/server/src/vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts: a reader that answers a fixed set of read-only git commands from the files under.git, byte-for-byte as git prints them, or returnsnullso the caller spawns git exactly as before.It is wired in at the three places the server runs git:
GitVcsDriverCore.execute,GitVcsDriver.gitCommand, andRepositoryIdentityResolver. No call site changes its arguments or its handling of the result. In the driver core the file read happens before a git process permit is taken, so answered commands do not queue behind real git work.Commands answered:
rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree | --show-toplevel | --git-common-dir | --abbrev-ref HEADrev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name @{upstream}symbolic-ref --quiet --short HEAD,symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<remote>/HEADremote,remote -v,remote get-url <name>config --get branch.*|remote.*show-ref --verify --quiet <ref>for-each-ref [--count=1] --format=%(refname) <patterns under refs/heads or refs/remotes>for-each-ref --format=%(refname)%00%(upstream:short)%00%(upstream:remotename)%00%(upstream:remoteref) <pattern>rev-list --count A..Bandrev-list --left-right --count A...B:0when both sides are the same commit; otherwise git runs once and its answer is remembered under the pair of commit ids until either ref moves.Why
This is one class of problem: the idle server asks git questions whose answers sit in a few small files, and asks them continuously.
VcsStatusBroadcaster,VcsDriverRegistry.detect,RepositoryIdentityResolverandGitManager.branchPullRequestrun these commands per project and per thread branch on every tick, with or without a client.On Windows each of those calls is three processes (the
cmd\git.exelauncher, the realgit.exe, and aconhost.exe). Short-lived console processes contend for the win32k lock, which shows up as desktop-wide input stalls. On every platform it is fork/exec and a few hundred milliseconds per question.Measured on Windows 11, 5 projects, app idle, 4.5 minutes, same database snapshot for both arms:
taskkill(timeout cleanup)FindWindowWcalls stalled over 4 msThe table was taken before
@{upstream}andrev-listwere covered, and before the once-per-repositoryrev-parseverdict described below was added (one extra git process per repository per five minutes). Those were 355 of the 873 spawns in a later 20-minute idle trace, and are 0 with this PR installed. The fast path costs about 1 ms per answer.How it stays correct
The rule is: answer only what can be fully accounted for, decline everything else.
safe.directory(including the Windows SID rules), the format version and the filesystem boundary rules have too much security history to mirror. So git is asked once per repository (rev-parse --show-toplevel), its verdict is reused for five minutes, and nothing is answered unless git opened the same repository. The same spawn supplies the exact stderr for a non-repository, and doubles as the check that git is installed.GIT_*environment variable outside a small allowlist,include/includeIf,url.*.insteadOf, unknownextensions.*, extensions without a format version, a bare repository,core.worktree, reftable, legacyremotes/branchesdirectories, a remote without a url, a remote defined only outside the repository forget-url, symbolic-ref chains, a<remote>/HEADupstream, ambiguous short names, andconfig --getor unlistedrev-parseforms outside a repository (git answers those without one).gitdir:,commondirand--git-dirtargets that are UNC paths are refused before any filesystem call, because touching one makes Windows authenticate to that server. Every file is a bounded read of a regular file (4 KB for HEAD, refs and pointers, 1 MB for config, 32 MB for packed-refs); NUL bytes and invalid UTF-8 decline. HEAD is validated like git'svalidate_headref, and a.gitdirectory that fails it is walked past, as git does. Ref names, including every name in packed-refs, must be safe to join onto the git directory: no.., no.lock, no trailing dot, no Windows device name.LC_ALL=C.extensions.worktreeConfigis supported, because T3 Code's own worktrees turn it on:config.worktreeis read in git's precedence order.allowNonZeroExit; everyone else gets git's own error.git config --list --show-scope --show-origin -z, cached by the fingerprint (mtime, size, inode) of the files it named, for at most five minutes. Repository files are re-read on every call. The one exception is the parsedpacked-refs, kept under the same fingerprint and not kept at all where the filesystem reports no inode.for-each-reflists a ref whose object is missing, where git would skip it with a warning. That only happens in a corrupt repository.for-each-reffollows git's pattern rules (exact, directory prefix, glob where*does not cross/) and byte-order sorting. Upstream fields are derived the way git derives them:branch.<name>.remoteand.merge, mapped through the remote's fetch refspecs, shortened only when unambiguous. Formats that need object data are declined.shallow,info/graftsorrefs/replaceexist, and drops an answer if either ref moved while git ran. Bounded to 512 entries.T3CODE_GIT_FAST_PATH=0turns the whole thing off.Tests
GitMetadataFastPath.test.tsbuilds real repositories with git (plain, nested cwd, linked worktree, detached HEAD, no remotes, per-worktree config, not a repository) and asserts that every answered command equals git's exit code and stdout. It also covers the declines above, the environment and kill-switch behavior, that a change on disk is visible on the next call, and the rev-list memo (unseen pair declines, remembered pair answers, a moved ref declines again, a raced answer is not stored, shallow declines).A second group covers repositories git treats specially: non-repository stderr, translated locales, url-less and global-only remotes, a changed global config, git missing from
PATH, broken/empty/oversized HEAD, UNCgitdir:/commondir/--git-dir,core.bare = 2, extensions without a format version, oversized and non-UTF-8 config, unsafe/NUL/device names in packed-refs, an oversized packed-refs, Windows device and trailing-dot ref names, symbolic-ref chains, a remote-HEAD upstream, and rival short names in both git directories of a linked worktree. Where answering is acceptable the assertion is "declined, or equal to git including stderr".GitVcsDriverCore.test.tsgains a call-site test with a recording spawner: answered commands spawn nothing, and a failing exit code withoutallowNonZeroExitgoes to git.The server test setup pins config through
GIT_CONFIG_*, which the fast path treats as an override and declines, so the rest of the server suite keeps running against real git. The fast-path tests unpin those variables for themselves.An out-of-tree differential run over synthetic fixtures and seven real checkouts: 1532 answers, 0 mismatches against git.
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PATHscan done before every spawnChecklist
Model: Claude Fable 5.1. Harness: Claude Code, running inside T3 Code.
Summary by CodeRabbit
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