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silverwind 4158e05dae refactor: drop logrus and other direct dependencies (#1319)
After https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1304, logrus stayed only to forward logs from docker/cli and moby/go-archive. The runner used a small part of those: volume parsing, the build context tar, the `ssh://` connection and registry credentials. Own code that matches them replaces them, so logrus leaves the module graph. docker/cli stays for its logrus-free `opts` and `connhelper/ssh` packages.

Other dependencies that the standard library or existing ones cover go too: mergo, httprouter (replaced by `http.ServeMux`), retry-go, go-isatty, go-selinux, container-device-interface, gotest.tools and go-cmp (replaced by testify). The binary shrinks by 5%.

Behaviour differences:

1. An unreadable file in a build context is skipped with a warning, where go-archive left a truncated tar.
2. Build contexts no longer carry `security.capability` xattrs.
3. The cache and artifact servers answer HEAD on GET routes, and no longer redirect trailing slashes or answer OPTIONS.

*Written by Claude.*

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Co-authored-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1319
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
2026-10-18 18:57:08 +00:00

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Job log line format

Gitea stores one log row per line and its web UI decodes the payload, so getting the encoding wrong never fails a test here, it only shows up in the browser.

A row cannot contain a real newline. FormatLog rewrites \n to a literal backslash-n and truncates at 64 KiB on a byte boundary.

The payload of a line starting with a recognised prefix is decoded, with the escape set depending on the prefix:

prefix decodes
##[error] ##[warning] ##[notice] ##[debug] ##[group] ##[endgroup] ##[add-matcher] %25 %0D %0A %3B %5D
::error:: ::warning:: ::notice:: ::debug:: (with or without key=value properties), ::group:: ::endgroup:: ::add-matcher:: %25 %0D %0A
##[command] [command], or no recognised prefix nothing

Rules

  • Emitting a command line? Escape the payload with runner.EscapeCommandData. One escaper covers both forms: it escapes % first, so a literal %3B becomes %253B that the extra ##[…] rules cannot match, and a raw ; or ] is never decoded. It is also what makes multi-line work, \n becomes %0A and the UI turns it back into a line break.
  • Forwarding a command from step output? Leave the payload alone, it arrived escaped and is decoded once. Decoding here double-decodes and destroys multi-line.
  • No prefix? Do not escape, and split multi-line values into one row each.
  • Interpolating a secret? Masking runs after escaping, so AppendSecretMasker registers the encoded forms too.
  • Command properties also escape %3A and %2C, which the UI never decodes, so the reporter decodes exactly those two when folding a location into an annotation.

Logging

Log through act/common/logging; the linter rejects importing log/slog elsewhere. A job's logger comes from common.Logger(ctx); code with no job uses the package functions (logging.Infof, logging.With). Both take printf-style messages, and With("key", value) adds fields.

  • The process-wide logger masks the secrets of every live task, the job logger masks its own. Going around either leaks them.
  • The job logger's output can reach the job log workflow authors see, the process-wide logger's stays on the runner host, so keep operator-only detail (host paths, internal addresses) off the job logger.
  • Libraries that log through slog's global logger are forwarded to the process-wide one, so they follow its level and masking too. Avoid dependencies that log through logrus, nothing forwards it.
  • Tests read what was logged with logtest.NewLogger(), or logtest.SetDefault(t) for the package functions.

Built-in actions

Each lives in internal/pkg/action/<name> and is registered in builtinActions in act/runner/step_action_builtin.go.

End-to-end compatibility tests

make test-e2e runs the runner against E2E_GITEA_IMAGE. It defaults to the nightly image. It requires Docker and is excluded from make test. CI runs stable and nightly variants in parallel.

The suite shares one Gitea and regular runner. Cache and ephemeral scenarios use isolated repository runners. A run path is <workflow>@<ref> and a log row is <timestamp>Z <payload>.