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Closes #685.

Today the only way to remove one repository from the git cache is to stop the server and delete its directory.

With cache_delete set:

• DELETE /api/git/{upstream}/{repo} removes one repository. {repo} is the path under the upstream, with or without .git. The response names the repository and the bytes freed (freed_bytes).
• /ui/git gets a Delete button per repository, sending to /ui/api/git/... with the same two-click cache-delete.js the version page uses.
• gitcache.Cache.Remove moves the repository aside under the cache's lock, as eviction does, so the next clone fetches it again and the size accounting stays right.

One change from the proposal: a repository that a clone, a fetch or a client is using answers 409, rather than being dropped at once and deleted once the last read ends. A new clone would move its copy into the same directory while the old one is still there, so waiting for the reads to end would need a second directory per repository. Most reads end within seconds, so a retry is enough.

Without cache_delete, neither route is registered and the page shows no button. Swagger docs regenerated with go generate ./internal/server.

Tested with go test ./... and golangci-lint run ./... (0 issues).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an API for deleting cached Git repositories, including the amount of space freed and clear responses for missing or in-use repositories.
  • Added a Delete control to the repository list when cache deletion is enabled.
  • Documented the endpoint, its required permission, and its responses.

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Walkthrough

The change adds deletion of cached Git repositories through the API and the Git repository page. The cache rejects deletion when a repository is in use. On success, the API returns the repository name and freed bytes.

Changes: Git Repository Deletion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache removal and validation internal/gitcache/remove.go, internal/gitcache/remove_test.go	Cache.Remove removes idle repositories and returns their recorded size. It returns errors for missing or in-use repositories. Tests cover successful removal, active use, missing keys, and failed-want tracking.
Delete API and route registration internal/server/git_delete.go, internal/server/server.go, docs/swagger/docs.go, docs/swagger/swagger.json	The server registers DELETE routes for cached Git repositories and returns the repository name and freed bytes. The handler returns 404 for unknown or uncached repositories, 409 for in-use repositories, and an internal error for other removal errors. The Swagger specifications document the endpoint and response.
Git page controls and documentation internal/server/git_ui.go, internal/server/templates/pages/git_repositories.html, internal/server/git_delete_test.go, docs/configuration.md, README.md	When cache deletion is enabled, the Git repository page displays a delete control for each row. Tests cover API routes and page behavior with and without cache deletion enabled. The documentation describes the endpoint, response, and deletion constraints.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant GitDeleteHandler
  participant GitCache
  Client->>GitDeleteHandler: Send DELETE request
  GitDeleteHandler->>GitCache: Remove repository
  GitCache-->>GitDeleteHandler: Return freed bytes or removal error
  GitDeleteHandler-->>Client: Return response or error

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Possibly related issues

• git-pkgs/proxy#403: Covers cached Git clone and fetch behavior, which is relevant to deletion when a repository is in use.

Possibly related PRs

• git-pkgs/proxy#675: Adds the Git repository page and row that this change extends with delete controls.
• git-pkgs/proxy#706: Adds background Git refreshes, which relate to this change’s handling of repositories with active users.

Suggested labels: enhancement

Suggested reviewers: andrew

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 0a480

This change adds opt-in deletion of cached Git repositories. It refuses repositories that are in use and is covered by tests for the main paths. No merge-blocking risk is evident.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 0a480

The existing deletion setting now enables an additional destructive URL. An upgrade that retains the previously documented access rules could expose repository deletion to untrusted callers. Deletion is disabled by default and protects active clones, fetches and client requests, but deployment access rules were not available to verify.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: An existing cache_delete=true deployment gains an unauthenticated /api/git/* deletion route on upgrade. If its ingress protects only /api/cache and /ui as previously documented, a network caller can delete idle cached repositories through the new prefix. The documentation now requires protecting /api/git, but enforcement and upgrade ordering are not established.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — If the deletion route is reachable without the intended ingress restriction, a caller knowing repository identifiers can repeatedly remove idle tracked repositories across configured Git upstreams in that server's cache. Impact is loss of cached availability and repeated upstream clone work, not established deletion of upstream repositories or arbitrary filesystem paths.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The introduced conditional attack path is an upgrade retaining cache_delete=true and old path-specific ingress rules, followed by an untrusted DELETE to /api/git/{upstream}/{repo}. The existing flag enables the new route without a fresh configuration decision. Actual production reachability is unresolved because ingress enforcement was not supplied.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Deletion is disabled by default and routes require both CacheDelete and an initialized Git cache. The application does not authenticate deletion callers; the documented authority boundary is trusted-user ingress access. Cache.Remove additionally requires a tracked, existing repository with no counted users, limiting the filesystem operation to cache-owned entries.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Lease-backed requests and refresh operations count repository users, so removal refuses active clones, fetches and client serving. UI RepositoryState reads are an exception: they release the cache mutex without acquiring a lease. That reader already coexisted with eviction in the base; the UI handles state-read errors by omitting metadata rather than failing repository serving.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make new destructive routes fail closed during upgrades, for example through a separate explicit enablement decision or a stable protected administrative namespace. Require confirmation that /api/git is protected before deploying with the existing deletion setting enabled.
• proposed — Specify whether deletion authority intentionally includes cached repositories excluded by repos. If deletion should match serving scope, enforce AllowsRepo on the normalized path; otherwise document the broader administrative scope rather than treating the UI filter as authorization.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: deleting cached Git repositories through both the UI and API.
Linked Issues check		Issue #685 is active and directly linked. The PR implements the cache_delete-guarded API and /ui/git delete control. gitcache.Cache.Remove moves idle repositories aside under the cache lock, upd…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed cache code, server routes, UI template, tests, documentation, and generated Swagger files support issue #685. The additional 409 handling for client use protects the same deletion operatio…

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #685 is active and directly linked. The PR implements the cache_delete-guarded API and /ui/git delete control. gitcache.Cache.Remove moves idle repositories aside under the cache lock, updates size accounting, removes the directory, and permits a later clone. The API returns the repository name and freed_bytes. The implementation returns 409 for clone, fetch, or client use, and tests cover removal, re-cloning, in-use repositories, failed wants, enabled configuration, and disabled configuration.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changed cache code, server routes, UI template, tests, documentation, and generated Swagger files support issue #685. The additional 409 handling for client use protects the same deletion operation. No unrelated change is established by the supplied whole-PR evidence.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 8 functions across 7 files.

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Review comments at @internal/gitcache/remove.go:
- Line 25: Update the removal check in the path containing `rp.exists()` to
handle a nil `rp` first, then check `rp.users` before checking directory
existence so an active initial clone returns the conflict outcome rather than
`ErrNotCached`. Add a test covering removal while an initial clone is in
progress.
- Line 47: On successful repository removal, clear the size-dependent
failed-want backoff records for that repository so newly available space allows
previously refused objects to be fetched. Update the removal flow near
delete(c.tooLarge, rp.key), preserving unrelated upstream-failure backoffs.

Review comments at @internal/server/git_delete.go:
- Line 31: Update the repository extraction around strings.Cut to derive the
repository from the decoded request path after removing the exact route prefix,
rather than using the raw wildcard value. Avoid unconditionally unescaping the
wildcard so already-decoded paths and literal percent sequences retain their
correct identity; add coverage for encoded separators and literal percent
sequences.

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• internal/server/git_delete.go
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