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Measured on CI, and on a 2,125-pipeline org-wide sweep (compose apply --push=false). Pipeline results unchanged.

Before After
PR Build job 32m33s 17m25s, 17m54s
e2e step 16m22s 6m58s, 8m00s, 7m07s
Sweep 284.5 min 93.2 min
Sweep GraphQL calls 9,749 458
Commit Cause Measured
e2e traces spans went to venom's captured stdout
clean once per PR CleanAction ran for every pipeline sharing a PR clean stage ~2h40 → 3.5 min
pull once per branch Checkout pulled before every resource, default branch only pipeline stage 162 → 78 min
githubsearch once each manifest reran the same search and branch listings loading 16.6 min → 42s
clone heads and tags post-clone fetch of refs/* included refs/pull/* e2e -24%
action refs via ls-remote tag and branch checks cloned each action repo (718 MB for codeql-action) e2e -46%
single-target PR build make build compiled 8 platforms; e2e runs 1 Build step 1,076s → 102s

Fixed along the way:

Not changed:

  • resource spans start before p.mu.Lock();
  • p.mu runs a pipeline's resources one at a time;
  • the Go cache stays off (disable go mod caching #1451; zizmor flags cache-poisoning).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added remote Git branch discovery without cloning, including branch listing and selection of the latest branch by name.
    • Added trace summaries and downloadable trace artifacts for end-to-end test runs.
    • Added single-target builds for pull requests and manual runs.
  • Improvements
    • Reduced duplicate cleanup actions, repository searches, and branch checkouts.
    • Limited repository mirroring to branches and tags, and improved commit resolution for annotated tags.
    • Improved generated Git branch and tag sources to use remote discovery where applicable.

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This pull request adds remote Git branch and tag handling, deduplicates action cleanup and Git checkout pulls, caches GitHub search results, and adds end-to-end trace collection and reporting. It also forwards configurable build flags to GoReleaser.

Changes: End-to-end trace reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Collect and report end-to-end traces
.github/workflows/go.yaml, e2e/scripts/trace_summary.py, Makefile
The workflow selects --single-target for pull requests and manual dispatches. It exports end-to-end traces to a verified local collector, generates a Markdown summary, and uploads trace files. The script aggregates process, pipeline, stage, resource, and HTTP data. The build target forwards BUILD_FLAGS to GoReleaser.

Action cleanup deduplication

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build and apply cleanup keys
pkg/core/pipeline/action/main.go, pkg/core/engine/actions.go, pkg/core/pipeline/actions.go, pkg/core/pipeline/actions_test.go
Actions derive cleanup keys from action and SCM details. The engine passes keys for published actions to cleanup, which skips keys already handled. Tests cover shared and distinct branches and pre-handled keys.

Remote Git ref handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
List remote branches and resolve tag hashes
pkg/plugins/resources/gitbranch/*, pkg/plugins/resources/gittag/*
The gitbranch resource validates lsremote configuration and can list remote branches without cloning. Remote tag listing uses peeled hashes for annotated tags. Tests cover configuration, branch lookup, and tag hashes.
Enable remote refs in generated workflows
pkg/plugins/autodiscovery/githubaction/templateGHAGitHub.go, pkg/plugins/autodiscovery/githubaction/templateGHAGitea.go, pkg/plugins/autodiscovery/githubaction/main_test.go
GitHub and Gitea templates set lsremote on tag and branch sources and conditions according to template rules. Expected manifests cover multiple workflow scenarios.

GitHub search result caching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cache repository searches and branch listings
pkg/plugins/scms/githubsearch/specGenerator.go, pkg/plugins/scms/githubsearch/specGenerator_test.go
Repository searches and branch listings use a mutex-protected cache keyed by credentials, app configuration, and query. Successful results are cached; errors are not. Tests check repeated and distinct searches.

Git checkout and clone behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track pulls during checkout
pkg/plugins/utils/gitgeneric/main.go, pkg/plugins/utils/gitgeneric/checkout_test.go
Checkout records successful pulls by repository path and branch. A test checks that a later checkout skips another pull for the same key.
Limit clone reconciliation to branches and tags
pkg/plugins/utils/gitgeneric/main.go, pkg/plugins/utils/gitgeneric/clone_test.go
Clone reconciliation fetches branch and tag refs, excluding pull-request refs. A test checks the resulting refs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GoWorkflow as Go workflow
  participant Collector as OpenTelemetry Collector
  participant TraceSummary as trace_summary.py
  participant Artifact as Trace artifact
  GoWorkflow->>Collector: Export traces over OTLP/HTTP
  Collector-->>GoWorkflow: Write spans to JSONL
  GoWorkflow->>TraceSummary: Read spans and generate Markdown summary
  GoWorkflow->>Artifact: Upload trace files
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Suggested reviewers: olblak

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ce8b1

Resolve the trace-reporting gap and checkout pull-state risks before merging, unless their operational impact is explicitly accepted.

### Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 51b0b

The change affects 3 systems.

Changed systems: pkg, e2e, Makefile

Architecture concerns
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Systems and components

  • observed — pkg (service) was modified; 19 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — e2e (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
  • observed — Makefile (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in e2e/scripts/trace_summary.py: Adds a command-line script description and imports, plus STAGES, the list of Updatecli stage span names included in stage aggregates.
  • observed — Modified behavior in e2e/scripts/trace_summary.py: Adds load, which reads each JSONL export, traverses resource and scope spans, converts attributes to a key/value map, calculates duration in seconds from nanosecond timestamps, and returns the spans.
  • observed — Modified behavior in e2e/scripts/trace_summary.py: Adds aggregate, which summarizes root-process and pipeline counts and durations, pipeline results, named stages, resource category/kind groups, and HTTP request groups. It sorts groups by total duration and records up to ten slowest pipelines. HTTP grouping uses method and host, adding /graphql when the parsed URL path ends with /graphql.
  • observed — Modified behavior in e2e/scripts/trace_summary.py: Adds table, which formats grouped counts and duration statistics as Markdown rows, limited by the default 15 entries.
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Description check Warning The description provides detailed performance results and change rationale, but it does not follow the repository template. It omits the issue reference, Test section with commands, Additional Informa… Add the missing template sections. Include the related issue or state that none applies, list the commands used to test the changes, complete the checklist, and document tradeoffs and potential improvements.
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 15.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 20 functions across 20 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary performance improvements to organization-wide sweeps and the end-to-end suite.
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loispostula marked this pull request as draft October 1, 2026 18:12
The e2e step already ran with OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=console, but venom
captures stdout into e2e/venom.log and nothing uploads it, so every
run's trace was lost. The pipeline suite alone takes about 16 minutes,
half of it waiting on the network, with no record of where.

A local collector now writes the spans to a file. The job summary shows
time by stage and resource kind, HTTP requests by host, and the slowest
pipelines, and the spans are uploaded so runs can be compared.

Signed-off-by: Loïs Postula <lois@postu.la>
The clean stage ran CleanAction for every pipeline, although the
pipelines an autodiscovery generates for one repository share a working
branch, hence one pull request. On a 2,125-pipeline sweep that meant
about 2,100 cleanups of some 45 pull requests, an extrapolated 13,000
GraphQL queries, none of them logged.

Actions now expose a cleanup key, and the engine cleans each key once,
skipping keys published to during this execution.

Signed-off-by: Loïs Postula <lois@postu.la>
Checkout ran before every source, condition and target, and pulled each
time: 0.3-0.9s per checkout on public repositories, and most of the
162-minute pipeline stage of a 2,125-pipeline sweep, which went down to
78 minutes.

The pull sets no reference, so go-git only fast-forwards the branch to
the remote default branch. The working branch only changes during an
execution through Updatecli's own pushes, which start from the local
branch, and API commits, which pull the branch themselves.

Signed-off-by: Loïs Postula <lois@postu.la>
Every manifest using a githubsearch scm runs one search query, then one
query per repository found to list its branches. Manifests of a compose
file or a policy usually share the same search, so the same queries ran
once per manifest: config loading of a 45-repository sweep went from
16.6 minutes to 42 seconds once they ran once.

Query results are now kept for the execution, per credentials and query.

Signed-off-by: Loïs Postula <lois@postu.la>
After cloning, every ref of the remote was fetched with refs/*:refs/*.
On GitHub that includes the refs/pull/* kept for every pull request
ever opened, with their objects, although nothing in Updatecli reads
them. githubsearch has no singleBranch setting, so every repository it
discovers goes through this fetch.

Fetching refs/heads/* and refs/tags/* keeps the local branches and tags
the fetch was meant for. Cloning with go-git, two runs each:

  updatecli/updatecli (10,081 pull refs): 11.4-11.7s, 133M -> 3.8-4.0s, 14M
  updatecli/website (3,791 pull refs): 20.2-20.6s, 55M -> 11.9-12.2s, 19M
  updatecli/policies (247 pull refs): 1.7-2.2s, 3.5M -> 1.1-1.2s, 1.1M

Signed-off-by: Loïs Postula <lois@postu.la>
Every action an autodiscovery finds gets conditions checking whether its
reference is a tag, a branch or a release. The tag and branch checks
cloned the action's repository: 718 MB for github/codeql-action, 262s to
learn that "v3" isn't a branch. The 43 action pipelines of the e2e suite
were 65% of its pipeline stage; with ls-remote the suite takes 46% less.

Generated manifests now use ls-remote for the conditions and the digest
sources, and for the version sources unless they use "latest", which
depends on dates, or an age filter. gitbranch gains the "lsremote"
option gittag has.

gittag's ls-remote listing now returns the commit an annotated tag points
to, like its local listing, instead of the tag object, which would have
pinned actions to the wrong hash.

Signed-off-by: Loïs Postula <lois@postu.la>

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The Build step compiled eight platforms for every pull request, 18 of the
job's 32 minutes, although the e2e tests only run the runner's binary.
Pushes to main and the nightly run still build every platform.

Signed-off-by: Loïs Postula <lois@postu.la>
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@olblak olblak added the enhancement New feature or request label Oct 13, 2026
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