Without a docker daemon six `act/runner` tests failed instead of passing. A dry run still created and removed job networks, the job teardown dropped the dry-run flag along with every other context value, and the container mocks asked the daemon for the runner arch.
This also speeds up the tests and CI without dropping assertions. Most of the time went to git and docker round trips, which are now pinned, batched or coalesced, and the dind and e2e steps cache or overlap more of their setup. On CI, `act/runner` went from 77s to 55s and `test-dind` from 108s to 55s. Locally, `act/runner` without docker went from 53s to 7s.
Split out of https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1348, which adds Windows CI on top. The go cache changes moved to https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1350.
Written by Claude Code.
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Co-authored-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1349
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
The toolkit patch rewrote bundles in place in the shared action cache. Since https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1316 trees are never refreshed, so a bundle left truncated failed every later job using it.
Patched bundles now only overwrite the job container's copy, so the runner no longer writes to an extracted tree.
Extraction records each file's size beside the tree, and a tree that no longer matches is fetched again, offline mode included, as a missing one always was. This also catches damage from outside the runner, such as storage losing a write, for a stat per file, a fraction of the copy each stage already makes. Trees from older runners have no record and download once more, except in offline mode, which keeps using them as before.
Generated with Claude Code.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1352
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: Zettat123 <zettat123@gmail.com>
Patch the scripts beside each node action entrypoint too, so code-split bundles like rust-cache v2.9.2, setup-java v6 and setup-deno v2 reach the v2 cache API. Entrypoints may point anywhere in the action's repository, as `gradle/actions/setup-gradle` does with `../dist`.
The `.LOCALHOST` match is now anchored on the `.GHE.COM` test before it, so another library's uppercase localhost check is never rewritten.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1328
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
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>
Cache v2 makes the cache server the `ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL` origin, so artifact calls arrived there and were proxied on to Gitea, failing whenever it could not reach the instance.
- Artifact calls are answered with a redirect, so the cache server opens no connection to Gitea. A scheme change or an untrusted instance is still proxied, but there the cache server is the runner itself, which already reaches Gitea.
- Failures answer in twirp, not an empty `502` that clients report as `Unexpected end of JSON input`.
- `cache.v2: false` really points artifacts at Gitea now.
- Cache reservations are bound to the job that made them, so two jobs saving one key cannot commit against each other's upload, and a retry after a lost answer no longer fails a saved entry.
- The toolkit patch, which edits the GitHub-host check out of an action's bundle, was left in the shared checkout where a job running with `runner.patch_actions: false` could inherit it. It is put back after the job's copy.
- `exec` names an origin for the cache v2 it advertises, and masks its runtime token.
Behaviour changes: `no_proxy` no longer exempts `cache.external_server`, and `cache.enabled: false` also stops external registration.
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1208
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1211
Assisted by Claude (Opus 5).
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1216
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
An action pinned to a full commit hash cloned the whole repository, and a cached one hit the network on every run. Now only the pinned commit is fetched at depth 1, a cached commit is reused with no network at all, and the action's `.git` directory no longer ships into the job container, matching GitHub.
```
repo cold ms warm ms cache KiB
actions/checkout 5807 → 787 1064 → 12 11492 → 2349
actions/setup-node 15257 → 1013 1365 → 21 64303 → 9924
actions/cache 18782 → 760 1589 → 16 60890 → 12507
actions/setup-go 5513 → 764 589 → 20 16600 → 9104
docker/login-action 25809 → 1225 1288 → 10 81709 → 12503
```
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1209
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
A step that failed, for any reason, made the runner restore the action's stock bundle and mark it never to be patched again. Every later `actions/upload-artifact` run then failed with `GHESNotSupportedError`, and nothing in the log said why.
The edit is now made as the action is copied into the job container, under the lock that guards the copy, and nothing reverts it. That also closes the race where another job's checkout reset the bundle mid-job.
`cache.v2` no longer decides whether the edit is made, it only withdraws the v2 advertisement, so artifacts work whatever the cache is set to.
Also added a new `runner.patch_actions` option to turn the edit off if it ever breaks an action.
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1176
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1177
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
