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fix(agent): keep incremental builds when CI is set - #15
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A refresh seeded from a base with the same unit inputs is not pruned, on the premise that both builds select the same units. But Cargo hashes each local unit's incremental setting, which CARGO_INCREMENTAL decides, and which Cargo 1.99 (cargo#17220) turns off when CI or TF_BUILD is set. Unit inputs hashed neither. So a base warmed with CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 and refreshed without it kept the seed's units, built from older sources, and an agent building with CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 found them fresh: under mtime freshness it ran the seed's code. Unit inputs now include CARGO_INCREMENTAL's value and whether CI or TF_BUILD is set to a UTF-8 value, which is how Cargo tests it. A refresh across either change is then seeded across inputs and pruned, or built from scratch when its warm build was not observed. Neither is hashed when unset, so bases built without them keep their unit inputs. This predates the CI work for #2 and that work needs it: a base warmed with CI set gets CARGO_INCREMENTAL=1 there, so its release units differ from those of a base warmed without CI.
Cargo 1.99 (cargo#17220) turns incremental compilation off whenever CI
or TF_BUILD is set. It applies that switch after merging profiles, so it
beats [profile.*] incremental = true, and a unit's hash includes the
result. An agent tool that exports CI therefore made an agent rebuild
every workspace member of a base warmed without it, and its first edit
compiled without incremental state, which is most of what Ferry gains on
Linux. A base warmed with CI set had the same problem the other way.
Only CARGO_INCREMENTAL and build.incremental rank above the switch, so
the cargo Ferry runs for an agent (ferry run, the shim, hooks) and for a
base's warm commands now gets CARGO_INCREMENTAL=1 when all hold: the
toolchain is Cargo 1.99 or newer (the base's recorded one for agents,
the one it detected for warming), CI or TF_BUILD is set, and neither
CARGO_INCREMENTAL, CARGO_BUILD_INCREMENTAL nor build.incremental in a
--config value or a .cargo/config{,.toml} the call reads is. CI and
TF_BUILD stay as they are for everything cargo runs. Cargo's arguments
are left alone, so aliases keep working, and an external subcommand
such as cargo nextest hands the variable on to the cargo it runs.
The costs, documented: under CI, release and bench builds become
incremental too, and [profile.*] incremental = false is overridden.
CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 opts out.
Closes #2.
A base warmed with CI set builds its release units incrementally, under Ferry's CARGO_INCREMENTAL=1, and one warmed without it does not. A refresh with CI set, seeded from a base warmed without it, therefore used to keep the seed's release units as if both selected the same units, and a plain agent's cargo run --release found them fresh with the seed's code. Counting CI among the unit inputs fixed that; this test keeps it fixed, and checks that dev units still match across the difference.
Each nested workspace builds into a target dir of its own, under ferry-ws, and is a case of its own (Workspace::Nested) where the shim and ferry run decide to set CARGO_INCREMENTAL=1. Nothing checked that it gets the variable under CI: if the warm commands or an agent left it out, the nested units would differ and every agent build of the nested workspace would rebuild it. The test warms a base with CI set and builds the nested workspace in an agent with and without CI; neither may rebuild anything.
A build.incremental in $CARGO_HOME/config.toml ranks above Cargo's CI switch, so Ferry must leave CARGO_INCREMENTAL unset then, but no test covered Cargo home: cargo_configs read it from the process environment, which a unit test cannot set safely. cargo_configs now takes Cargo home as an argument, keep_incremental passes the real one, and a unit test passes one with build.incremental set.
The CI notes left out three consequences readers can trip over. Release and bench units of a base and an agent match only when both have CI or TF_BUILD set or both lack it, since only CI makes them incremental. A refresh across a change in CARGO_INCREMENTAL or in whether CI or TF_BUILD is set is now seeded across unit inputs, so it is pruned, or built from scratch when its warm build is not observed. And processes cargo starts inherit Ferry's CARGO_INCREMENTAL=1, so a cargo call a build script or test makes on a workspace outside the agent builds incrementally too. The lists of what makes a refresh prune now name the incremental settings as well.
A base warmed by an older Ferry with CARGO_INCREMENTAL or CI set has the unit inputs the new code computes when they are unset. A refresh warmed without them was then seeded as same-input, kept the old base's units unpruned, and an agent selecting them under mtime freshness ran the old code. Salting the hash with a version makes every base recorded under the old definition a cross-input seed once: pruned if its warm build was observed, rebuilt from scratch otherwise. unit_inputs also takes the CI variables from shim::CI_VARS now.
An explicit [profile.*] incremental = false is overridden under CI, so agents with CI set rebuild that profile's crates of a base warmed without it; build.incremental = false keeps both. Whether CI is set is a unit input on every Cargo version. includes, cargo -C and a nested workspace's own toolchain file are not followed.
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Why
Since Cargo 1.99 (rust-lang/cargo#17220), setting
CIorTF_BUILDto any value turns incremental compilation off. That setting beats an explicit[profile.*] incremental = true, and it is part of every unit's hash. So when an agent tool exportsCI, a Ferry agent loses its incremental first edit and recompiles every workspace crate of a base warmed withoutCI. Closes #2.Fixing it exposed an older hole.
unit_inputsignored the settings that change unit hashes, so a seeded refresh across aCARGO_INCREMENTALorCIchange kept the earlier base's units unpruned. An agent that selected them then ran old code under mtime freshness. That is reproduced onmainwithCARGO_INCREMENTAL=0.Scope
base::unit_inputshashesCARGO_INCREMENTALand whetherCIorTF_BUILDis set. A version tag in the hash makes bases recorded by an older Ferry count as different inputs once, which closes the same hole across an upgrade.shim::keep_incrementalsetsCARGO_INCREMENTAL=1for the cargo Ferry runs, both in agents (agent::exec_cargo) and for base warm commands, when all of these hold:CIorTF_BUILDis set.CARGO_INCREMENTALnorbuild.incremental, read from the environment,--config, and the Cargo configs in the cwd's ancestors and in Cargo home.CIandTF_BUILDreach build scripts, tests andcargo rununchanged.tests/ci.rs,tests/base.rsand unit tests insrc/shim.rscover it.troubleshooting.md,architecture.mdandconfiguration.mddocument the rule and its costs.Tradeoffs
The first version removed
CIfrom Cargo's own environment and passed it back to child processes with--config env.CI=.... That kept every profile setting exactly, but rewriting Cargo's argv broke user aliases namedb,c,d,torr, served stale code on Cargo before 1.84, and missed external subcommands such as nextest. Setting an environment variable reaches every subcommand and alias. It costs this, as documented:CI, release and bench builds become incremental too.[profile.*] incremental = falseis overridden.build.incremental = falseis respected.Blast radius
The change only affects builds Ferry runs while
CIorTF_BUILDis set on Cargo 1.99 or newer. Every existing base counts as having different unit inputs once after the upgrade, which costs one prune, or one cold build where the warm build was not observed.Verification
CARGO_INCREMENTALrefresh test printsLEAF_BASEonmain.fzwhen the rule is dropped on either the agent side or the warm side.CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0orCI=true, then refreshed by this branch, now prunes 7 units, and the agent prints the new code. Before the version tag it printed the old code from fresh units.