ADR 0009 and step 22 plan: one Werkator instance serves a set of repositories
# Conflicts:
# docs/plan/22-multi-repo.md
# docs/prs/2026-09-01-PR#6-werkdock-bootstrap.md
The wrapper's config writing is gone: --env-file FILE selects the
target instance (default .env; named like docker's flag — --env means a
single variable there), the init fragment named by WERKATOR_INIT_CONFIG
is uploaded and installed remotely via 'werkator init --apply', and
instance-start places the .htaccess that init now generates. The
heredoc/sed machine-config writing is deleted; control-token delegates
to the werkator CLI; check-prerequisites uploads werkdock and runs its
doctor — tools/werkator-build-prerequisites.sh retires. The idle-check
and port-forward port lookups read the effective config via
config:print, so a port living in the applied fragment is found too.
Verified live against mih34 with the .env.mih34 + .env.mih34.yml pair
(gitignored via the new /.env.* rule): update, doctor PASS 6/6,
repo-init applying the fragment as the new layer, instance-start
placing the generated proxy and restarting the unit, control-token.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Records the tenet revision and its shape: instance registry and
instance keys in ~/.werkator.yml (one instance per OS user), optional
repo defaults in an explicit defaults: block merged below every repo's
own layers, repo config unchanged in each repository, registry-wins
precedence, basename repo names. Rejected: a federation dashboard over
single-repo instances (keeps N services), and the status quo.
Konzept/AGENTS architecture wording changes only when the
implementation lands; the decision list carries 0009 now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- PR-docs get their real numbers: bwrap-build-runtime -> PR#4,
build-current-head-from-the-branches-view -> PR#3 (files and scenario IDs)
- tools/remote: header note marking install's clone step and build as the
self-build prototype, superseded by session D of step 21 (usage range grown)
- ADR 0008: bubblewrap user-namespace sandbox as the third build runtime;
step 17 and the plan README now point at 0008 (0007 was taken by build
definitions before the step landed)
- AGENTS.md: decisions list catches up with ADR 0007 and ADR 0008
- architecture skill: BwrapBuildRunner paragraph (rootfs unpack, uid mapping,
mount ordering, pinned keys) and the dispatcher's three-way routing
- plan README: step 21 entry now describes the werkdock/ subdirectory path
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* renaming from gitTally to Werkator
* Rename GitTally to Werkator
`gitTally` is the name of another product in the git space, so the
rename is a precaution; nothing about what the build system does changes.
The name follows one rule: `Werkator` where it is prose, capitalized
where it is a Kotlin type and its file, lowercase everywhere a machine
reads it — the command, packages, paths, configuration keys and values,
the Gitea check context. Environment variables keep their convention and
are uppercase throughout.
Every configuration file is still found under its pre-rename name
(`ConfigFiles`): `.gittally.yml` at the repository root, in a build
worktree and as committed on a branch, `.git/gittally/.gittally.yml` for
the machine layer. The current name wins where both exist, and the old
file is then ignored rather than merged — two files side by side are a
half-done rename, not a layering. Without the fallback an installation
that updated without renaming would not fail: a configuration that is
not found leaves every setting at its default, so it would come up
looking healthy while having forgotten its credentials and its builds.
`docs/werkator-migrationsplan.md` lists what the fallback does not
cover and has to be moved by hand — above all the state directory
`.git/werkator/`, which holds the build history, the control token and
the worktrees, and has no fallback of its own.
`docs/migration-from-legacy.md` is deleted with this: it mapped the
legacy script's environment variables, and every host it addressed has
long since moved to the YAML configuration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Move the pre-rename state directory at the first start
The configuration is found under either name, the state is not: build
history, control token, auto-build slots and worktrees live at one fixed
path. An installation that updates without moving `.git/gittally` would
not fail — it would come up with an empty history and a fresh control
token, quietly. So the first start moves it instead of the release notes
asking for it.
Only when the old directory exists and the new one does not. Where both
exist nothing is touched and a warning names the leftover: which of the
two is the live state is not something to guess. A failed move is an
error in the log, never an abort — a CI must not hang on it.
The worktrees are dropped rather than moved, since they point at their
old path in both directions; `GitWorktreeWorkspaces` prunes the stale
admin entry and recreates each on its branch's next build. A generated
systemd unit moves with the directory and leaves its symlink dangling,
which is warned about — the running service is unaffected, the next
start is not.
Runs from `CliRunner`, before any command resolves a path under the
directory, and so before the second context of `server` exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Document PR#1: the rename to Werkator
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Drop the legacy env-to-YAML conversion from the setup tool
The old bash script configured itself through `GITTALLY_*` environment
variables. The blanket rename rewrote those literals, so the converter
was looking for `WERKATOR_*` — a spelling no host has ever written. Fed
a real legacy file it would have found nothing and written an almost
empty configuration, without an error, which is the same silent failure
this rename is otherwise careful to avoid.
The conversion has served its purpose with the vm2176 to vm4006
migration, so it goes instead of being repaired. What remains is the
setup of a new instance: the preconditions, the credential prompt, and
the machine configuration written mode 600 — now carrying the host's
public URL as well, since that is host-specific too. Everything the
repository builds comes from `init` and its templates.
It also stops emitting a legacy `branches:` section, which step 18 is
about to reject outright.
`docs/plan/00-legacy-analysis.md` and `13-nginx-tls.md` get the real
`GITTALLY_*` spelling back: they record what the old script read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Describe this repository's build with a build definition
Its own `.werkator.yml` still used the deprecated `branches` section
with an `autoBuild` schedule that was switched off. That section is read
only while nothing defines a build at all, and step 18 rejects it by
name — so this repository would have blocked the precondition of that
step, which asks that no configuration still in play carries it.
Nothing about the build changes: `builds.default` with `trigger.onPush`
is a build of every new commit on every branch, which is what the branch
section said. `config:print --full` resolves the definition completely
and logs no deprecation warning any more.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Stop documenting the pre-rename fallback for users
Exactly one repository is configured with the old names, and it is
migrated by hand in the same move as this release. The fallback is
therefore a transition of days, not a feature anyone reading the release
notes or the configuration reference has to plan around.
Removed from `releases.html` and `docs/configuration.md`. The mechanism
itself is unchanged and stays described where it is worked on: in
`ConfigFiles`, in `StateDirMigration`, and in the migration plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Bring the PR-doc to its final state
The `statusContext` question is answered and marked as decided rather
than left standing: it is the one value a human reads as a label, and it
stays lowercase because Gitea matches it and the client reads it back,
which makes it a value.
Also records that the pre-rename fallback is deliberately absent from
the release notes and the configuration reference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Release v1.0.0: Werkator
The release after 0.9.21 is 1.0.0, because a product that changes its
name is better off counting from one under it. The release note says as
much, so the jump is not read as a claim about maturity — plan steps 14,
17 and 18 are still open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Correct the PR-doc about the version
It claimed the PR carries no version bump, which the release commit made
untrue, and records why the number is 1.0.0 instead of 0.9.22.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Point the legacy references at the history
`legacy/gitTally` was removed from the tree with the rename, but the
README still described it as a reference kept in the repository, and the
plan told an executing session to read parts of it — including step 14,
which is open.
The README section is gone; `docs/plan/README.md`, step 14 and the
legacy analysis now say where the script actually is
(`git show 7f55068^:legacy/gitTally`). Executed steps and ADR 0004 keep
their wording: they record what was true when they ran.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Retarget the links in the historic PR-docs
The package rename moved every file the older PR-docs link to, leaving
60 dead links. Only the link targets are rewritten, never the visible
text and never a statement: those documents record what was true when
they were written, GitTally in the prose included. A snapshot may be
outdated; it should still be navigable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Add the v1.0.0 deployment procedure for vm4006
Measured, not estimated: the state directory is 878 MB, of which 878 MB
are the nine build worktrees. What cannot be recreated is 84 KB, so the
snapshot before an in-place switch is instant and the rollback is one
sequence of moves.
Records the three expected non-failures — a cold Gradle volume, one
image rebuild, containers left under the old label — and that
`gitea.statusContext` needs no attention because it comes from the
watched repository's committed configuration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Rename the machine configuration along with its directory
Found by the deployment to vm4006: the move renames the directory and
leaves the file inside it alone, so the machine configuration ended up at
`.git/werkator/.gittally.yml` — a pair of names the lookup did not
expect, because it pairs directory and file name. The instance resolved
empty credentials, no public URL and none of the host's build
definitions, and said nothing about it. That is the exact failure this
change exists to prevent, produced by the change itself.
`StateDirMigration` now renames the configuration with the directory,
unless one under the current name is already there. `ConfigFiles` carries
`.git/werkator/.gittally.yml` as a third candidate as well, for a
directory somebody moved by hand, where the migration never runs and so
can rename nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Let init see a configuration under its previous name
`init --systemd` runs `init`, and its "already exists" check knew only
the current name. On the one repository still carrying `.gittally.yml`
it therefore wrote a fresh template `.werkator.yml` beside it — and
since the current name wins, that repository would have built the
template's `./gradlew test` instead of what its own configuration says.
Found on vm4006, where the file was created in the watched working tree
and removed again by hand.
Both checks now ask `ConfigFiles`, so init decides existence by the same
rule the loader uses to read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Record the v1.0.0 deployment to vm4006
Deployed from the branch as the final test of PR#1, and it did what a
final test is for: it found two silent-failure defects before the
service was started, both fixed and redeployed in the same window.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Drop the control token left under the old localStorage key
The key is named after the product, so the rename left every browser
with a token under `gittally.controlToken`, which nothing reads any more
and which "forget token" can no longer reach. It is a write-scope token
in a browser store, not a password, but a secret nobody owns is worth
one line to remove.
Removed on load. The token on the server is unchanged, so re-entering it
once per browser is all the rename costs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A branch's committed .gittally.yml describes that branch's CI, so it wins
over the project and repo-install config — the `builds` section included.
Pinning it was wrong: a new build definition can only be tried out by
committing it on a branch, and pinned it neither took effect at build time
nor existed for the watcher, so the job silently never ran.
The watcher now decides per branch from that branch's own definitions,
reading its committed config via `git show` and caching it by head commit,
so the read happens only when the branch moved; an unreadable config falls
back to the primary definitions instead of failing the poll cycle. A
branch's definitions are evaluated for that branch alone, so a definition
committed on one branch can never trigger builds of another.
The pinned set is reduced to what does not describe this branch's build:
secrets (`git`), the host and repository sections (`server`, `gitea`,
`executor`, `watcher`), the sandbox policy (`docker.enabled`/`network`),
and the trust gate (`requirePullRequest`). Letting a branch set its own
build command through a definition grants no new power — `branches.*.
buildCommand` always allowed exactly that — while the sandbox and the gate
decide whether untrusted branch code runs on the host at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
builds.maxConcurrent mixed an execution setting into the build
definitions as a reserved key. The limit now lives in the new executor
section (pinned like the builds section, enforced for all builds
regardless of trigger), default 1, without a compatibility alias — a
leftover builds.maxConcurrent key is rejected as an invalid build
definition. Recorded as a follow-up in ADR 0007.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ADR 0007: the YAML builds section (next to the reserved maxConcurrent
key) defines named builds (jobs) with onPush/atTimes triggers, branch
selectors (name globs, activeWithin age filter), and build-setting
overrides applied last over the merged branch config. The implicit
default build (onPush over all branches) preserves the previous
behavior; the section is pinned against the worktree layer.
Results record the job name; restart, retry, and startup recovery
re-run by it, resolving settings from the current config. A non-default
build records under the <branch>@<build> pool with its own row,
retention count, and permanent latest-green link.
branches.*.autoBuild stays as a deprecated alias (plain times only);
the unreleased-in-practice v0.9.13 per-slot buildCommand/name syntax is
removed again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ADR 0006 assumed the bundle inherits the build machine's glibc, which would
have blocked the Hostsharing Managed Webspace (glibc 2.36, dev machine 2.39).
Measuring all 33 ELF files of the produced bundle shows GLIBC_2.15 as the
highest required symbol version: jlink copies Temurin's prebuilt binaries
instead of compiling, so the floor is the JDK vendor's build environment and
the build machine's glibc is irrelevant unless the toolchain resolves to a
distribution-packaged JDK.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
./gradlew runtimeBundle packs a jlink-trimmed JRE, gittally.jar, and a
launcher script into one tarball, unpacked to ~/opt/gittally on the target
host; init --systemd works from the bundle unchanged because java.home and
the running-jar path resolve into it. Chosen over a GraalVM native image
(Spring AOT evaluates bean conditions at build time, which cannot represent
the dual-context CLI/server wiring) and over a containerized runtime — see
ADR 0006 and docs/plan/15-runtime-bundle-distribution.md, which also records
the full vm2176-to-vm4006 migration walkthrough.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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