The /git smart-HTTP host 404'd EVERY fetch and push: PATH_INFO was built as
`/<spaceId>.git/<subpath>`, so `git http-backend` resolved the repo at
`<GIT_PROJECT_ROOT>/<spaceId>.git` — which does not exist. The vault is a NON-bare
working repo (the engine needs a working tree) at `<dataDir>/<spaceId>`, so the
CGI repo path must be `<spaceId>` (git http-backend serves the `.git` inside).
The URL's conventional `.git` suffix is already stripped to `spaceId` by
parseGitPath; re-appending it for PATH_INFO was the bug.
Found by standing up a full e2e stand (real Postgres/Redis + server + a real git
clone/push over the /git remote): clone and push both 404'd until this fix, after
which a clone → edit → push round-trips the change all the way into the Docmost
page.
Also extracts the CGI-env construction into a pure, exported `buildGitBackendCgiEnv`
and adds unit tests (the env build was previously untested — the gap this bug hid
in): a regression guard pinning PATH_INFO to `/<spaceId>/<subpath>` (no `.git`),
plus method/query/content-type/remote-user forwarding and the conditional
GIT_PROTOCOL.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Expose each git-sync-enabled space as a clonable/pushable git repo over HTTP,
so `git clone https://<user>:<pass>@<host>/git/<spaceId>.git` works and external
pushes flow back into Docmost pages — gitmost itself acts as the git host (no
external GitHub/Gitea, no SSH).
Transport: shell out to `git http-backend` (CGI; git is already in the runtime
image) which implements the full smart-HTTP protocol (info/refs, upload-pack,
receive-pack, protocol v2). A raw Fastify route `/git/*` (mounted at the root,
outside the `/api` prefix) bridges the request/response to the CGI; passthrough
content-type parsers for the git media types stream the raw body to stdin.
Reuse the existing engine: clients push the vault's `main` branch, whose commits
beyond `refs/docmost/last-pushed` the engine already reconciles into Docmost.
- http/git-http.service.ts — auth (HTTP Basic -> AuthService.verifyUserCredentials),
self-resolved workspace (DomainMiddleware does not run for this raw route),
per-space gating (global + per-space gitSync flags, 404 hides existence),
CASL authz (Read=fetch, Manage=push), dispatch.
- http/git-http-backend.service.ts — spawn `git http-backend`, binary-safe CGI
response parsing (Status/headers/body), stream to the socket.
- http/git-http.helpers.ts — pure path parse, service->kind mapping, gate decision
(unit-tested); rejects literal and percent-encoded path traversal.
- orchestrator: extract reusable withSpaceLock (CAS-guarded lock heartbeat so a
long push cannot let the lock expire mid-cycle) and add ingestExternalPush
(receive-pack + Docmost cycle under one lock; 503 on contention).
- vault-registry: ensureServable() — ensureRepo + idempotent receive.denyCurrentBranch
=updateInstead / denyNonFastForwards / http.receivepack / http.uploadpack.
- env: GIT_SYNC_HTTP_ENABLED (defaults to GIT_SYNC_ENABLED) + validation.
- main.ts: register the /git/* route and the git content-type parsers.
Tests: pure helpers, CGI parsing, and the GitHttpService handler (auth/gate/authz
+ workspace resolution). Server tsc + git-sync/env suites green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
