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Fixes #8949. Part of #11220 and #12498: the uncached git remote / for-each-ref / symbolic-ref / config --get calls, 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

Adds 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 returns null so the caller spawns git exactly as before.

It is wired in at the three places the server runs git: GitVcsDriverCore.execute, GitVcsDriver.gitCommand, and RepositoryIdentityResolver. 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 HEAD
  • rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name @{upstream}
  • symbolic-ref --quiet --short HEAD, symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD
  • remote, 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..B and rev-list --left-right --count A...B: 0 when 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.
  • "Not a git repository": exit 128 with the stderr git itself printed for that directory, only for callers that allow a non-zero exit.

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, RepositoryIdentityResolver and GitManager.branchPullRequest run 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.exe launcher, the real git.exe, and a conhost.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:

main this PR
processes spawned by the server 942 148
of which git 811 82
taskkill (timeout cleanup) 78 2
system-wide process starts 24.5/s 1.6/s
FindWindowW calls stalled over 4 ms 25.3% 1.8%

The table was taken before @{upstream} and rev-list were covered, and before the once-per-repository rev-parse verdict 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.

  • Whether a directory is a repository git will open is git's decision, not this module's. Ownership and 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.
  • Declines on: any GIT_* environment variable outside a small allowlist, include/includeIf, url.*.insteadOf, unknown extensions.*, extensions without a format version, a bare repository, core.worktree, reftable, legacy remotes/branches directories, a remote without a url, a remote defined only outside the repository for get-url, symbolic-ref chains, a <remote>/HEAD upstream, ambiguous short names, and config --get or unlisted rev-parse forms outside a repository (git answers those without one).
  • Reads are hardened the way git's are. gitdir:, commondir and --git-dir targets 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's validate_headref, and a .git directory 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.
  • One attempt is capped at 2 s; a stuck disk or share turns into a normal git spawn.
  • Synthesized English error text (no upstream, not a repository) is only returned when the caller's git would print English; the driver already pins LC_ALL=C.
  • extensions.worktreeConfig is supported, because T3 Code's own worktrees turn it on: config.worktree is read in git's precedence order.
  • A failing exit code is returned only to callers that passed allowNonZeroExit; everyone else gets git's own error.
  • System and global config come from one 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 parsed packed-refs, kept under the same fingerprint and not kept at all where the filesystem reports no inode.
  • Known gap: for-each-ref lists a ref whose object is missing, where git would skip it with a warning. That only happens in a corrupt repository.
  • for-each-ref follows 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>.remote and .merge, mapped through the remote's fetch refspecs, shortened only when unambiguous. Formats that need object data are declined.
  • Ahead/behind is a pure function of two commits, so the rev-list memo cannot go stale by time, only by history being reinterpreted. It declines when shallow, info/grafts or refs/replace exist, and drops an answer if either ref moved while git ran. Bounded to 512 entries.
  • T3CODE_GIT_FAST_PATH=0 turns the whole thing off.

Tests

GitMetadataFastPath.test.ts builds 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, UNC gitdir:/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.ts gains a call-site test with a recording spawner: answered commands spawn nothing, and a failing exit code without allowNonZeroExit goes 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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answer !== null && (answer.exitCode === 0 || options?.allowNonZeroExit)
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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)
+      answer !== null &&
+      options?.maxOutputBytes === undefined &&
+      options?.outputMode === undefined &&
+      options?.appendTruncationMarker === undefined &&
+      (answer.exitCode === 0 || options?.allowNonZeroExit)
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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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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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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a large, default-enabled Git metadata execution layer and changes several production VCS paths, including filesystem discovery, caching, metrics, and process scheduling. Its complexity and the unresolved output-contract and UNC/SMB safety concerns require human review.

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Adds a bounded, file-backed fast path for selected Git metadata commands. VCS execution and repository identity resolution try this path before spawning Git. When the fast path cannot provide an acceptable answer, callers use Git.

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Git metadata fast path

Layer / File(s) Summary
Repository discovery and metadata
apps/server/src/vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts
Parses Git configuration, validates repository layouts and environments, and reads refs and remote settings with bounded reads and caches.
Supported command answers
apps/server/src/vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts
Adds file-backed answers for selected Git commands and memoization for eligible revision-count queries. Unsupported or uncertain cases defer to Git.
VCS and repository identity integration
apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts, apps/server/src/project/RepositoryIdentityResolver.ts, apps/server/src/observability/Metrics.ts
Tries the fast path before spawning Git. VCS execution records metrics for metadata answers and memoizes eligible successful, non-truncated Git output. Repository identity commands use a shared fast-path-first runner.
Fast-path parity and fallback tests
apps/server/src/vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.test.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts
Tests answer parity, repository and configuration variants, limits, concurrency, memoization, and fallback behavior.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Refactor · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RepositoryIdentityResolver
  participant GitVcsDriverCore
  participant GitVcsDriver
  participant GitMetadataFastPath
  participant ProcessRunner
  RepositoryIdentityResolver->>GitMetadataFastPath: Try metadata lookup
  GitMetadataFastPath-->>RepositoryIdentityResolver: Return answer or null
  RepositoryIdentityResolver->>ProcessRunner: Run Git if no answer exists
  GitVcsDriverCore->>GitMetadataFastPath: Try eligible command lookup
  GitMetadataFastPath-->>GitVcsDriverCore: Return answer or null
  GitVcsDriver->>GitMetadataFastPath: Try command lookup
  GitMetadataFastPath-->>GitVcsDriver: Return answer or null
  GitVcsDriver->>ProcessRunner: Spawn Git if no acceptable answer exists
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0d71f

Git commands can take up to about two seconds longer than their configured timeout. Ahead and divergence counts can be reported as timed out, then fall back to zero, even when Git succeeded. An unused export can also fail the server's Knip check. Fix these issues before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0d71f

Repository trust decisions can remain usable after ownership or trust-policy changes, allowing newly read metadata to be accepted when Git would now refuse the repository. Repository identities can retain that metadata longer. Initial validation, conservative fallback, bounded reads, and a disable switch limit the risk; arbitrary code execution or broader service compromise is not established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: A successful repository acceptance verdict is reused for five minutes without binding it to current ownership, safe.directory policy, or discovered Git-directory identity. Following a trust-policy revocation or repository replacement at the same worktree path, newly read remote/config metadata can therefore pass the cached check even when a fresh Git invocation would refuse it. Explicit identity refresh does not refresh this verdict, and an accepted identity can subsequently remain in the default fifteen-minute identity cache. The attack requires control of affected local repository metadata and a previously accepted path; downstream execution or credential exposure is not established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is metadata integrity for affected local repositories opened by the server, including shared VCS and identity consumers. Exploitation requires a previously accepted repository path plus control of its subsequent metadata or ownership transition. Cross-tenant access, arbitrary execution, secret disclosure, and cloud authority expansion are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — After Git accepts a repository, safe.directory revocation or an ownership-changing repository replacement can leave the old acceptance verdict usable. Subsequent supported queries read current attacker-controlled metadata and return success without a fresh Git check. Repository identity refresh can consume these answers and cache the resulting identity. This is a source-supported conditional attack path, not a reproduced exploit.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Initial repository validation uses Git and rejects nonzero verdicts or a mismatched worktree. Additional controls reject non-allowlisted Git environment overrides, differing Git/config-location environments, unsupported repository/config cases, oversized or nonregular files, and UNC metadata paths. These controls limit initial exposure but do not repair stale acceptance after trust changes.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Read attempts have a budget capped at two seconds and the caller's timeout. When timed-out work remains outstanding, further fast-path attempts decline until it settles. File handles close in finally blocks, and failed Git validation spawns are removed from the verdict cache.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind cached acceptance to repository identity and relevant trust-policy state, revalidate when either changes, and make explicit identity refresh refresh the acceptance decision as well. Validate the transition from accepted to revoked or replaced repository without resetting caches between steps.
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes satisfy the coding objective in [#8949]. RepositoryIdentityResolver, GitVcsDriver, and GitVcsDriverCore use the file-based fast path and cached metadata answers before Git fallback. … To satisfy [#12498], provide implementation and automated evidence that idle operation meets the stated process-start and stalled-time limits. Otherwise, keep [#12498] scoped as an unresolved system-level objective.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.98% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 51 functions across 7 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: serving Git metadata from repository files instead of spawning Git.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the problem, implementation, scope, correctness constraints, tests, measurements, and observed verification results. It does not use the template headings exactly or include a…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed source implements the Git metadata fast path, repository identity integration, fallback behavior, caching, and process-permit handling for [#8949] and the Git-related portion of [#12498]. …
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The changes satisfy the coding objective in [#8949]. RepositoryIdentityResolver, GitVcsDriver, and GitVcsDriverCore use the file-based fast path and cached metadata answers before Git fallback. Tests cover supported answers, fallback, caching, read limits, and process avoidance. The changes do not satisfy the whole-machine coding bar in [#12498]. The evidence reports process reductions, but it does not establish less than one process start per second and less than 1% stalled time while idle. The PR also states that it does not close [#12498].

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🟠 Major · Limit Git validation processes. · GitVcsDriverCore.ts:1012-1018

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Limit Git validation processes. answerWithoutGit runs before gitProcesses.withPermits(1). tryAnswerGitCommand shares one in-flight git config process, but each distinct repository can start its own uncapped git rev-parse validation process. A scan across many repositories can therefore start more than eight Git processes outside gitProcesses. Add one shared limiter for the fast-path validation spawns, including git config and git rev-parse; a per-repository cache does not provide this limit.

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In `@apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts` around lines 1012 - 1018, Update the
fast-path flow around answerWithoutGit and tryAnswerGitCommand so every
validation spawn, including git config and git rev-parse, uses one shared
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In `@apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts`:
- Around line 841-842: Update GitVcsDriverCore.execute and
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tryAnswerGitCommand so every validation spawn, including git config and git
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// The git processes started here run outside the drivers' process permits. A
// sweep over many repositories asks for one verdict each, all at once.
const withOwnGitProcess = makeTaskLimiter(4);

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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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@SkiTee3000 Thanks. I verified commit eeb32dfe80.

withOwnGitProcess uses makeTaskLimiter(4). Both listOuterConfig() and askGit() use this limiter. askGit() covers the repository rev-parse verdict processes. The limiter test verifies the concurrency bound and slot release after a failed task.

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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.
…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.
…udget

The memo key read the repository files with no limit before git was spawned, so a stuck disk could hold up the timed fallback. It now shares the reader's budget, min(2 s, timeoutMs). The git permit tests drive a virtual clock and opt out of the fast path, whose file reads run on the real one.
… time its answers

A file read cannot be cancelled once started and holds a libuv thread until the disk answers. While an attempt that ran out of budget is still pending, the reader now starts no new reads and leaves every command to git, so a stuck disk or share cannot exhaust the threadpool and stall unrelated file work. Answered commands now record their read time in t3_git_command_duration instead of almost zero.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts:
- Around line 43-45: Remove the unused value export from isGitFastPathEnabled in
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Comment thread apps/server/src/vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts
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The memo step rereads repository files, so inside the timeout a git command that finished close to its deadline could be discarded as timed out. timeoutMs now bounds only the git process. Also drops the unused isGitFastPathEnabled export that knip flags.
Comment thread apps/server/src/vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts
Discovery walked up from a regular file and answered for the parent repository, where spawned git fails because its working directory is not a directory.
Comment thread apps/server/src/vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts
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Effect.promise(() =>
options?.stdin === undefined
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🟠 High vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts:552

A workspace with .git/HEAD symlinked to a UNC path triggers outbound SMB access when gitCommand calls tryAnswerGitCommand, before the UNC guard checks the target. The metadata reader follows symlinks via stat/open; reject symlinks or validate resolved targets before reading repository metadata.

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In file @apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts around line 552:

A workspace with `.git/HEAD` symlinked to a UNC path triggers outbound SMB access when `gitCommand` calls `tryAnswerGitCommand`, before the UNC guard checks the target. The metadata reader follows symlinks via `stat`/`open`; reject symlinks or validate resolved targets before reading repository metadata.

…leaves symlinks to git

The cached verdict on whether git accepts a repository is now bound to the repository found at the path: its directories' identity and owner, its config, and the system and global config that hold safe.directory. A repository replaced at the same path, or changed acceptance settings, gets a fresh verdict instead of up to five minutes of the old one.

Metadata reads no longer follow symlinks. A symlink anywhere below an already checked directory, such as .git/HEAD pointing at a \server\share path, now leaves the command to git instead of making Windows authenticate to that server.

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Comment thread apps/server/src/vcs/GitMetadataFastPath.ts
…y query

Directories found free of symlinks were trusted for five minutes, so one swapped for a symlink to a \server\share path in that time would be followed. They are now remembered only within one query.
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