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Part of #403: the rest of the mirror step after #667.
A pkg:git version can be a tag as well as a full commit ID, as purl-spec allows: pkg:git/github.com/git-pkgs/purl@v0.2.1. Tags are cached with the repository's branches anyway, so gitcache.Cache.Mirror checks the name with git check-ref-format, refreshes, and resolves refs/tags/<tag>^{commit}. A tag the cache doesn't have fails with ErrNotFound, or with the refresh error if the refresh failed.
With a version, Mirror lists the submodules the commit records: its gitlinks that .gitmodules gives a URL for. GitHandler.Mirror then mirrors each at the pinned commit, from the upstream.git host serving it, and their submodules in turn (at most 8 deep, each repository and commit once). Relative URLs are resolved against the superproject's URL as git does; ssh://, git:// and git@host:path URLs are matched by host and path. A submodule no upstream.git host serves is skipped with a warning, so a superproject with a submodule on another forge still mirrors.
pkg:github/pkg:bitbucket are still left out, as in #667.
Tests: internal/gitcache/mirror_test.go (tag resolved, missing tag, invalid names, submodules listed), internal/handler/git_mirror_test.go (submodule URL forms, a submodule cloned through the proxy with the upstream down, one on another host skipped).
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New Features
Git mirroring accepts tags or full commit IDs as versions; branch names and abbreviated commit IDs aren’t accepted. Tags must exist upstream.
Versioned mirrors include recursively pinned submodules. Submodules without a supported upstream are skipped with a warning.
If the upstream is unavailable, a cached tag can be mirrored at its last known commit with a warning.
Without a specified version, mirroring caches branches and tags.
Documentation
Updated the configuration and architecture guides with tag and submodule mirroring details.
A pkg:git version can now be a tag as well as a full commit ID. With a
version, the submodules the commit records are mirrored at the commits it
pins, from the upstream.git hosts serving them; one no host serves is
skipped with a warning.
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Git mirroring now accepts tags as versions and returns the resolved commit and pinned submodules. The handler recursively mirrors submodules that map to configured upstreams. It warns and skips unresolved or unserved submodules.
Changes: Git mirroring
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Summary
Version resolution and submodule records internal/gitcache/mirror.go, internal/gitcache/mirror_test.go, internal/gitcache/helpers_test.go
Cache.Mirror resolves tags to commits and returns the resolved commit with its pinned submodules. Tests cover tag resolution, invalid versions, submodule extraction, and cached-tag behavior when refresh fails.
The handler resolves submodule URLs and recursively mirrors served commits. It warns and skips unresolved or unserved submodules, skips repeated location-and-commit pairs, and errors if nesting exceeds 8. Documentation describes tag versions and submodule behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant GitHandler
participant CacheMirror as Cache.Mirror
participant URLResolver as gitSubmoduleLocation
GitHandler->>CacheMirror: Mirror repository version
CacheMirror-->>GitHandler: Return commit and pinned submodule records
GitHandler->>URLResolver: Resolve submodule URL
URLResolver-->>GitHandler: Return normalized location
GitHandler->>CacheMirror: Mirror submodule commit
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Possibly related issues
git-pkgs/proxy#403 — This change adds tag resolution and pinned-submodule mirroring to the Git mirror path. It does not implement the issue’s clone and fetch serving objectives.
Possibly related PRs
git-pkgs/proxy#667 — This change extends its commit-mirroring path with tag resolution and recursive submodule mirroring.
Suggested labels:enhancement
Suggested reviewers:andrew
Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review a330d
This change adds tag and submodule mirroring. No concrete merge-blocking defect was identified. Extra tests for lightweight and non-commit tags would be a useful follow-up.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to a330d
Recursive mirroring retains the configured upstream and repository restrictions. However, the new submodule parser buffers repository-controlled configuration without an output limit. Mirroring a malicious allowed repository could exhaust memory and interrupt the running proxy.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Versioned mirroring now parses the complete repository-controlled .gitmodules blob through an uncapped stdout buffer before filtering configuration or checking submodule destinations. A large valid blob, potentially compact when stored in Git, can cause large allocations in the proxy process even without usable submodules. Repository disk quotas and recursion-depth checks do not provide a dedicated bound on this expanded output.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The memory-exhaustion path requires a mirror job to select attacker-controlled content in an allowed repository, directly or through a pinned submodule. In API mode, exhaustion can affect unrelated requests handled by that proxy process; in command-line mode, the immediate impact is the mirroring process. This path does not require an off-allowlist destination.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A repository controller can commit a large, valid .gitmodules value. Versioned mirroring emits the entire configuration into a bytes.Buffer and converts it to a string before checking whether entries describe usable submodules. A compact stored blob can therefore induce much larger memory use. The source establishes the unbounded allocation path, but process exhaustion was not reproduced.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Every recursively fetched repository passes configured upstream-prefix selection, repository-path validation and AllowsRepo. Submodule-provided credentials are not used to construct fetch URLs. The shared cache client also refuses redirects, retaining the inspected destination boundary.
inferred — Cached-tag mirroring can report success after upstream refusal, but this is not established as a new Git-content access bypass. The base already allowed cached-commit mirror success after refresh failure. Refresh still records refusal, and ordinary Git serving opens the repository without NoCheck and enforces that refusal separately.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Recursion is sequential within each mirror item and uses the caller context. The surrounding worker pool bounds concurrent items, while depth and deduplication bound nesting and repeated visits. These controls do not cap the configuration output materialized for one repository.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Bound the uncompressed .gitmodules object size before invoking Git's configuration parser, and enforce a command-output limit plus parsed-entry limits. Oversized metadata should produce an explicit, controlled mirror outcome rather than unchecked memory growth.
proposed — Consider an aggregate repository or work budget for each recursive traversal, in addition to its depth limit, so a broad submodule graph cannot consume arbitrarily large serial work within one mirror item.
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- Around line 130-133: Update the `.gitmodules` config read in the versioned
`Cache.Mirror` flow to list all keys, then filter for valid submodule path and
URL entries in the parser; preserve errors for invalid blobs and ignore
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git config --get-regexp exits 1 when nothing matches, which failed the
mirror of a commit with an empty .gitmodules. The submodules are now read
from --list.
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Looking for .gitmodules took any error from git cat-file as the file
not being there, so a mirror whose context was cancelled reported
success with no submodules. Use rev-parse --verify --quiet, whose exit
status 1 means the path is missing, and return other errors.
A .gitmodules git config can't parse failed the mirror of a commit that
is cached all the same. Log a warning and skip its submodules instead,
as an unserved submodule host is skipped.
A version that wasn't a lowercase full-length hex ID was taken for a
tag, so an uppercase commit ID failed as a missing tag. Lowercase a
full-length hex version first. A shorter hex version that names no tag
now fails saying it is neither a full commit ID nor a tag.
A tag found in the cache after the refresh failed was reported as
mirrored with no sign it might be stale, though tags can move. Keep
serving it, as a cached commit is, but log a warning naming the tag,
the commit and the refresh error.
Reading a commit's submodules no longer treats every cat-file failure as "no .gitmodules": a cancelled or timed-out mirror reports the error instead of success with no submodules.
A .gitmodules git can't parse (syntax error, committed as a symlink) skips the submodules with a warning instead of failing a commit that is already cached.
An uppercase full commit ID is accepted; an abbreviated one fails with "not a full commit ID or tag" rather than a tag error.
Mirroring a cached tag after a failed refresh logs a warning, since a tag can have moved.
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123-133: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Add tests for lightweight and non-commit tags.
The annotated-tag case already checks the resolved commit. Add a lightweight-tag case that checks the commit, and a non-commit-tag case that checks for ErrNotFound after a successful refresh.
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Add tests for `Cache.resolveTag` covering a lightweight tag that resolves to the
expected commit and a non-commit tag that returns `ErrNotFound` after a
successful refresh. Preserve the existing annotated-tag test and use the
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Part of #403: the rest of the mirror step after #667.
pkg:gitversion can be a tag as well as a full commit ID, as purl-spec allows:pkg:git/github.com/git-pkgs/purl@v0.2.1. Tags are cached with the repository's branches anyway, sogitcache.Cache.Mirrorchecks the name withgit check-ref-format, refreshes, and resolvesrefs/tags/<tag>^{commit}. A tag the cache doesn't have fails withErrNotFound, or with the refresh error if the refresh failed.Mirrorlists the submodules the commit records: its gitlinks that.gitmodulesgives a URL for.GitHandler.Mirrorthen mirrors each at the pinned commit, from theupstream.githost serving it, and their submodules in turn (at most 8 deep, each repository and commit once). Relative URLs are resolved against the superproject's URL as git does;ssh://,git://andgit@host:pathURLs are matched by host and path. A submodule noupstream.githost serves is skipped with a warning, so a superproject with a submodule on another forge still mirrors.pkg:github/pkg:bitbucketare still left out, as in #667.Tests:
internal/gitcache/mirror_test.go(tag resolved, missing tag, invalid names, submodules listed),internal/handler/git_mirror_test.go(submodule URL forms, a submodule cloned through the proxy with the upstream down, one on another host skipped).Summary by CodeRabbit