Each step refreshed its own clone of an action, so a composite using one action repository ten times fetched it ten times per job, and a single network error failed the job.
Like actions/runner, a job now downloads each action repository and ref once, as an archive extracted into a directory per commit. Each action still gets its own copy in the job container. This restores the per-job dedupe of https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1178, which only reached a since-deleted branch.
How a download works:
1. The action URL is taken after `insteadOf` rewriting, as git would use it.
2. The archive comes from `<url>/archive/<ref>.tar.gz`, or from codeload.github.com for github.com, as for actions/runner.
3. A cached tag or branch is revalidated with its ETag, which GitHub and Gitea 28+ answer with a 304. A cached commit pin needs no request.
4. Transient failures (5xx, 408, 429 honouring `Retry-After`, dropped transfers) are retried three times with a 10 to 30 second backoff.
5. Git takes over, cloning and exporting the commit into the same directory layout, when the URL is not HTTP(S), the ref is a short commit, the host serves no usable archive, the host cannot be connected to, or the retries run out.
Median of 3 runs, git (shallow clone, then fetch) against archives, on a cold and a warm cache:
| Action | git cold | git warm | archive cold | archive warm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| github.com actions/checkout@v4 | 937ms | 726ms | 286ms | 171ms |
| github.com actions/cache@v4 | 1006ms | 801ms | 516ms | 161ms |
| github.com actions/setup-node@v4 | 1046ms | 786ms | 463ms | 156ms |
| gitea.com actions/checkout@v4 | 2007ms | 1165ms | 667ms | 222ms |
The action cache layout changes, so existing caches download once more.
*Written by Claude.*
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1220
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1316
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
- Keep `GITHUB_ENV`, `GITHUB_OUTPUT`, `GITHUB_STATE` and `GITHUB_PATH` when a job times out or is cancelled, so post steps still get their state
- Retry the startup Declare while Gitea is unreachable instead of exiting, still failing fast on rejected registrations, auth and misconfiguration
- Reuse a local image when a platform variant such as `linux/arm/v7` is requested instead of pulling again
- Read `PATH` from the created job container so cross-architecture jobs get tool paths for the right architecture
- Extract action copies relative to the act volume so they never cross an image's `/var/run` symlink, which rootless Podman rejects
- Keep the job container's entrypoint when container options set `--entrypoint`, warning instead of appending it to the keep-alive command
- Lock action cache entries across runner processes that share a cache directory
- `exec`: omit `GITHUB_SERVER_URL` and `GITHUB_API_URL` without `--gitea-instance` instead of exporting a bare `https://`, and read owner and repository from any origin remote
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1294
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Add `runner.client_cert_file` and `runner.client_key_file` for Gitea instances that require mutual TLS. The runner presents the certificate on its RPCs, job summary uploads, and the action, reusable workflow and `builtin:checkout` clones from the instance. The files are read on use, so renewed certificates apply without a restart. Job steps do not get them. An incomplete or mismatched pair fails startup.
Clones now decide the token, client certificate and `runner.insecure` with one host check, which also gives reusable workflow clones the TLS settings they lacked. `runner.insecure` still only covers the registered address.
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/321
Co-authored-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1273
Reviewed-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Gitea needs the workflow model and the expression evaluator to parse workflows and to build the task payload this runner consumes, so today it depends on `gitea.com/gitea/runner` just for `act/model` and `act/exprparser`. Both packages now live in `gitea.dev/actionslib` (`pkg/model`, `pkg/exprparser`), the module both sides already share, and this repository consumes them from there.
### Changes
- `act/model` and `act/exprparser` are deleted, all imports point at `gitea.dev/actionslib/pkg/...`.
- New `act/ghcontext` package: the `GithubContext` helpers that need a git checkout on disk (`SetRef`, `SetSha`, `SetRepositoryAndOwner`) are runner only and would drag a git client plus the act context logger into the shared module, so they stay here as functions, with their tests. Only caller is `RunContext.getGithubContext`.
- `act/common.CartesianProduct` moved to the shared model package, `act/model` was its only user.
- `act/model/testdata/container-volumes` moved to `act/runner/testdata/container-volumes`, its only user is `runner_test.go`.
- `internal/pkg/client.UUIDHeader` / `TokenHeader` now alias `pkg/protocol`, so the header names cannot drift apart from Gitea.
### Notes
- No behaviour change intended: the moved files are unchanged apart from the import paths and the split described above.
- `go.mod` depends on the released `gitea.dev/actionslib v0.7.0`, which carries both https://gitea.com/gitea/actionslib/pulls/11 and the `model.UsesHash` port in https://gitea.com/gitea/actionslib/pulls/14 that `main` needs after https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1150.
- Verified with `go build ./...`, `go vet ./...` and `go test ./act/... ./internal/...`; the docker based `act/runner` integration tests (`TestRunEvent`, `TestRunMatrixWithUserDefinedInclusions`) fail identically with and without this change in my environment.
Assisted-by: Codet:GPT-5.1-Codex
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1143
Reviewed-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
Revert #1136 and use actionslib instead.
revert chore: bump the module path to `/v3`, take the version from the VCS stamp (#1136)
gitea can not consume the runner's api by version while it's version mismatches the module version:
```
go: gitea.com/gitea/runner@v3.0.1: invalid version: module contains a go.mod file,
so module path must match major version ("gitea.com/gitea/runner/v3")
```
Fix that by bumping the module version now. The existing `v3.0.0` and `v3.0.1` tags stay unusable, so a new tag is needed after this lands.
Also drop the version `-X` linker flags, which would otherwise have to repeat the new path in both `Makefile` and `.goreleaser.yaml`, where a stale path makes injection silently no-op. Go has recorded the module version in the build info since 1.24, so `Version()` reads it from there, keeping the variable as an override for builds without a VCS stamp.
That part started as https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1137 but belongs here: the stamp resolves against the tags that are legal for the module path, so without the `/v3` bump it would report `v1.0.9-0.<ts>-<sha>`. Since `release-nightly.yml` triggers on every push to `main`, splitting them would publish a nightly with a `v1` version.
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Co-authored-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1136
Reviewed-by: techknowlogick <9+techknowlogick@noreply.gitea.com>
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1148
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <39446+zettat123@noreply.gitea.com>
gitea can not consume the runner's api by version while it's version mismatches the module version:
```
go: gitea.com/gitea/runner@v3.0.1: invalid version: module contains a go.mod file,
so module path must match major version ("gitea.com/gitea/runner/v3")
```
Fix that by bumping the module version now. The existing `v3.0.0` and `v3.0.1` tags stay unusable, so a new tag is needed after this lands.
Also drop the version `-X` linker flags, which would otherwise have to repeat the new path in both `Makefile` and `.goreleaser.yaml`, where a stale path makes injection silently no-op. Go has recorded the module version in the build info since 1.24, so `Version()` reads it from there, keeping the variable as an override for builds without a VCS stamp.
That part started as https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1137 but belongs here: the stamp resolves against the tags that are legal for the module path, so without the `/v3` bump it would report `v1.0.9-0.<ts>-<sha>`. Since `release-nightly.yml` triggers on every push to `main`, splitting them would publish a nightly with a `v1` version.
---------
Co-authored-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1136
Reviewed-by: techknowlogick <9+techknowlogick@noreply.gitea.com>
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
When `DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL=self`, action clone URLs (`uses: owner/repo@ref`) are
built from the Gitea **AppURL** (`gitea_default_actions_url`), but
`shouldCloneURLUseToken` compared the clone URL host only against the runner's
**registered address** (`GitHubInstance`).
When the runner registers with a different hostname than AppURL — same instance,
different DNS (e.g. `gitea.local` vs `gitea.my-nas.lan`, internal vs external) —
the strict `u1.Host == u2.Host` check returns false, so the task token is **not**
attached and the action clone goes out anonymously. Against an instance with
`REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW=true` this fails with:
```
Unable to clone https://gitea.example/owner/action refs/heads/v1: authentication required
```
The current workaround is to make the runner's registered host exactly match
`AppURL`. This PR removes the need for that.
Refs: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/27933
## Change
- `shouldCloneURLUseToken` now trusts the clone URL when its host matches **either**
the registered instance (`GitHubInstance`) **or** the self-hosted default-actions
instance (`DefaultActionInstance`). Embedded basic auth is still rejected, and the
empty-host cases are unchanged.
- A new `Config.DefaultActionInstanceIsSelfHosted` flag gates the second candidate.
It is set in the daemon layer (`run/runner.go`, `exec.go`), where `github.com` and
a configured `GithubMirror` are distinguishable, so the token is **never** attached
for off-instance hosts.Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1056
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <39446+zettat123@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
`NewGitCloneExecutor` holds a per-directory mutex while it `git checkout --force`s a remote action into the shared `<ActionCacheDir>/<UsesHash>`, but four read sites ran unlocked:
- `maybeCopyToActionDir`'s tar walk via `JobContainer.CopyDir`
- `prepareActionExecutor`'s `readAction` parse of `action.yml`
- `newReusableWorkflowExecutor`'s `model.NewWorkflowPlanner` after `cloneRemoteReusableWorkflow` released its lock
- `execAsDocker` when `ActionCache == nil`: `docker build` walks `contextDir` for the daemon-side build context
When two matrix jobs share a `uses:`, a read interleaved with a peer's checkout produces partial state — observed as `Cannot find module .../dist/index.js` and `setup-uv` failing on a half-written `action.yml`.
Exports `acquireCloneLock` as `AcquireCloneLock` and takes it at all four sites. `container.ImageExistsLocally` / `NewDockerBuildExecutor` and `model.NewWorkflowPlanner` are indirected through package-level vars so the docker-action build path and the reusable-workflow read site are testable without a real daemon, mirroring `ContainerNewContainer`. Three regression tests cover the higher-risk sites (`maybeCopyToActionDir`, `execAsDocker`, `newReusableWorkflowExecutor`); each fails if its `AcquireCloneLock` is removed.
Subsumed by https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/814 once that lands. Related: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/930
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This PR was written with the help of Claude Opus 4.7
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Co-authored-by: Nicolas <bircni@icloud.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/938
Reviewed-by: Nicolas <bircni@icloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <39446+zettat123@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-committed-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
`cloneIfRequired` only ran the underlying clone executor when the target directory was missing, so a reusable workflow referenced by a moving ref (`uses: org/repo/.gitea/workflows/wf.yml@master`) was cached forever after the first invocation — edits to the source file never propagated.
Always invoke `git.NewGitCloneExecutor`. It handles existing repositories via fetch + pull + hard-reset, so branch and tag refs are brought up to date on each run, matching GitHub Actions semantics.
Drops the global `executorLock` too: `NewGitCloneExecutor` already takes a per-directory lock via `acquireCloneLock`, so the outer mutex only added unnecessary serialization across unrelated reusable-workflow clones — worse now that every invocation runs the full fetch.
Includes a regression test that drives the wrapper against a local bare repo, pushes a new commit on `master` between two invocations, and asserts the cached workflow file reflects the new tip.
Fixes: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/37483
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/726
Related: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/30543
Would be subsumed by https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/814 ("WIP: Introduce new action cache") once that lands.
---
This PR was written with the help of Claude Opus 4.7
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/930
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <39446+zettat123@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-committed-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
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