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One branch worker now writes each repository branch. A GitTarget can share a GitProvider from another namespace instead of copying its credential, and the sibling-worker machinery is gone.

Why

A branch worker was keyed by its GitProvider, so two GitProviders naming one repository gave one branch two workers ("siblings"). Each had its own clone, pending writes and apply windows. #425 had to coordinate them outside the event loop: a cross-worker flush with generation counters, observations copied between inboxes, and source-group claims under a shared lock. The review of #425 found a defect at each place that coordination left the loop:

  • a sibling whose loop never started hung every apply of the others;
  • a late shared observation moved the tip back, and Argo CD then applied an older commit;
  • each sibling's push set off an apply on the other;
  • a sibling's queued edits were unprotected.

And siblings were required, not a misconfiguration: a repository written from two namespaces needed two GitProviders, because a GitTarget could only name one in its own namespace.

What changes

  • The worker is keyed by repository branch (git.BranchKey{Repository, Branch}), the URL normalized as internal/repourl compares it, so ssh and https spellings of one repository are one key.
  • One GitProvider per repository branch.
    • The worker pushes with the credential of the GitProvider of the oldest GitTarget on the branch (internal/git/branch_owner.go).
    • A GitTarget writing the branch through another GitProvider gets Validated=False (TargetConflict), and the message names the GitProvider to share.
    • The reconciler, the worker sweep and EnsureWorker (ErrBranchOwnedElsewhere) decide this with one function, so two GitTargets created too close together for either reconcile to see the other still end with one worker.
  • Sharing across namespaces.
    • GitTarget.spec.gitProviderRef gains namespace. The type is Flux's NamespacedObjectReference.
    • GitProvider gains spec.accessFrom (the ClusterProvider's NamespaceMatcher). Its own namespace is always admitted.
    • authz.GitTargetAdmitted checks it, so the Validated gate, rule compilation, bootstrap and the applier checks all refuse an unadmitted namespace (NamespaceNotAuthorized). It is re-checked on every reconcile, so tightening the policy revokes access.
  • Deleted: apply_siblings.go, apply_sibling_flush.go, the shared observations and cross-worker group claims, and their tests.
  • Lookups that assumed a GitTarget's own namespace now use GitTarget.GitProviderKey(): the mappers, status.branches, the publication fan-out, the applier recheck, the event router and bootstrap.
  • Unchanged:
    • The branch metrics keep provider_namespace/provider_name, which now name the branch's one GitProvider.
    • A GitProvider recreated under its name with another URL still replaces its worker. The old observation moves to the new key, so status.remote is still taken back.
  • Also included: UPGRADING.md gets the quietPeriod/prefetch entry that feat!: recognize the applier's own writes, and flush before applying #425 left out.

Breaking

Every GitTarget that writes one repository branch must name the same GitProvider. UPGRADING.md has the migration and a pre-upgrade inventory command. Two GitProviders for one repository on different branches are unaffected. I checked the e2e suite and shared fixtures: no spec or fixture has two GitProviders writing one branch at the same time.

Decision for you

The oldest GitTarget wins the branch. That lets any namespace that can create a GitProvider and GitTarget squat a repository branch: point a GitProvider at someone else's URL, needing no credentials, and create a GitTarget first. The victim's refusal names the squatting GitTarget, so it is visible, but it is a denial-of-service path that siblings did not have. It is not mitigated here.

Tests

  • Unit:
    • branch ownership: oldest wins, ssh/https unify, deleting and unresolved targets decide nothing;
    • EnsureWorker refuses a second provider;
    • the sweep stops a non-owner's worker;
    • accessFrom admission: own namespace, names, selector, denied, missing provider;
    • the conflict refusal, and path overlap across namespaces on a shared provider;
    • cross-namespace fan-out in the publication and branch-inventory tests.
  • Local results: task lint, task lint-docs and task test pass (coverage 80.1%, baseline 80.2%). e2e is CI's.

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  • New Features

    • GitTargets can reference GitProviders in other namespaces.
    • GitProviders can control cross-namespace access using namespace names or label selectors.
    • Multiple targets can share one provider and repository branch.
  • Behavior Changes

    • Each repository branch is managed by a single GitProvider; conflicting providers are rejected.
    • Same-namespace provider access remains automatic.
  • Documentation

    • Added configuration, security, architecture, and migration guidance.
  • Breaking Changes

    • Removed quietPeriod and source.prefetch; these fields are no longer supported.

…er by repository

A branch worker was keyed by its GitProvider, so two GitProviders naming
one repository gave one branch two workers. Each had its own clone,
pending writes and apply windows, and they coordinated outside the event
loop: a cross-worker flush with generation counters, observations copied
between inboxes, and source-group claims under a shared lock. The review
of #425 found a defect at each place that coordination left the loop.

One worker now writes a repository branch:

- The worker is keyed by the repository's URL, normalized as repourl
  compares it, and the branch (git.BranchKey). It pushes with the
  credential of the one GitProvider that owns the branch: the
  GitProvider of the oldest GitTarget writing it (git/branch_owner.go).
- A GitTarget writing the branch through another GitProvider is refused
  with TargetConflict, and the message names the GitProvider to share.
  The GitTarget reconciler, the worker sweep and EnsureWorker decide
  ownership the same way, so two GitTargets created too close together
  for either reconcile to see the other still end with one worker.
- GitTarget.spec.gitProviderRef gains a namespace, and GitProvider
  gains spec.accessFrom (the ClusterProvider's NamespaceMatcher). A
  GitProvider's own namespace is always admitted. authz.GitTargetAdmitted
  checks it, so the Validated gate, rule compilation, bootstrap and the
  applier checks all refuse a namespace the GitProvider does not admit.
- The sibling machinery is deleted: apply_siblings.go,
  apply_sibling_flush.go, the shared observations and the group claims.
- Lookups that assumed the GitProvider is in the GitTarget's namespace
  (mappers, the branch inventory, the publication fan-out, the applier
  recheck, the event router, bootstrap) use GitTarget.GitProviderKey.

The branch metrics keep their provider_namespace and provider_name
labels: they name the branch's one GitProvider. A GitProvider recreated
under its name with another URL still replaces its worker, and the old
observation moves to the new key so status.remote is taken back.

UPGRADING.md also gains the entry #425 left out, for the removed
FluxTrigger spec.quietPeriod and status.source.prefetch.

BREAKING CHANGE: every GitTarget writing one repository branch must name the same GitProvider; a GitTarget writing it through another GitProvider than the oldest GitTarget there is refused with TargetConflict. Share a GitProvider across namespaces with spec.gitProviderRef.namespace and the GitProvider's spec.accessFrom. See UPGRADING.md.

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GitTargets can reference a GitProvider in another namespace when its access policy admits them. Branch workers are keyed by normalized repository URL and branch, with one GitProvider owning each branch. Controllers and apply handling use these identities and no longer coordinate sibling workers.

Changes: Shared GitProvider and branch writes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider references and namespace admission
api/v1alpha3/*, config/crd/bases/*gitproviders.yaml, config/crd/bases/*gittargets.yaml, internal/authz/*
GitTarget provider references can specify a namespace. GitProvider.spec.accessFrom admits other namespaces by name or selector while allowing its own namespace. Admission checks enforce this policy.
Repository branch identity and ownership
internal/git/types.go, internal/git/branch_owner.go, internal/git/worker_manager.go, internal/git/branch_worker.go
Branch workers use normalized repository URL and branch keys. The oldest eligible target determines branch ownership, and worker reconciliation accounts for that owner.
Cross-namespace reconciliation and routing
internal/controller/*, internal/watch/*, internal/applier/references.go
Controllers resolve provider references by namespaced key, list targets across namespaces, and check branch conflicts between providers. Event routing and branch inventory use the same provider identity.
Branch-wide apply and publication
internal/git/apply_*.go, internal/git/branch_worker.go, internal/git/publication.go, internal/applier/dispatcher.go
Apply requests carry provider identity separately from branch identity. Flush and publication handling no longer requests sibling-worker coordination.
End-to-end and migration coverage
test/e2e/shared_gitprovider_e2e_test.go, docs/UPGRADING.md, test/fixtures/layout-corpus/specific-examples/prerequisites/README.md
End-to-end coverage exercises admitted sharing, denied access, and conflicting providers. Upgrade guidance describes branch ownership and removed fields.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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Update the stale and unclear documentation before merging so operators and maintainers understand branch ownership and migration behavior.

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… one on its branch

A GitTarget in a tenant namespace mirrors through a GitProvider in the
platform namespace that admits it, with no credential of its own. A
namespace the GitProvider does not admit is refused with
NamespaceNotAuthorized, and a GitTarget writing the same repository
branch through a GitProvider of its own is refused with TargetConflict.

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🟡 Minor · Update two statements that still describe per-provider workers. · apply-trigger.md:834

docs/design/apply-trigger.md:834
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update two statements that still describe per-provider workers.

This change makes one worker own each repository branch. The PR updates line 121, line 232, and line 482 to say so. Two unchanged lines still say otherwise:

  • Line 834 says shared-source appliers take turns "across workers too". This PR removes cross-worker source-group coordination, and groupBusy now scans only local appliers. The cited test can no longer prove a cross-worker claim.
  • Line 130 labels the worker "one per GitProvider and branch". Workers are now keyed by git.BranchKey{Repository, Branch}.

The style guide requires docs to "State what the software does, in present tense". An operator who reads these two lines gets the old model.

📝 Proposed fix
-    subgraph WORKER["Branch worker (one per GitProvider and branch)"]
+    subgraph WORKER["Branch worker (one per repository and branch)"]
-| Appliers sharing a source have one operation at a time and take turns, across workers too; a shared source applies only the consumer asked | ...
+| Appliers sharing a source have one operation at a time and take turns; a shared source applies only the consumer asked | ...

As per coding guidelines: "State what the software does, in present tense, active voice."

Also applies to: 130-130

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Review comment at @docs/design/apply-trigger.md at line 834:
Update the documentation statements identified by the worker diagram and
shared-source behavior table: describe branch workers as one per repository and
branch, and remove the obsolete “across workers too” claim from the
shared-source coordination statement while preserving the remaining behavior and
test reference.

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🟡 Minor · Remove the obsolete collision backlog item. · TODO.md:66-68

docs/TODO.md:66-68
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Remove the obsolete collision backlog item.

The worker now enforces one GitProvider per normalized repository branch. Providers for different branches remain supported, so the existing “one GitProvider per repository” guidance is inaccurate.

Suggested TODO update
-- [ ] Prevent same-repository write collisions across multiple `GitProvider` objects.
-  Decide whether the fix should be validation, a shared queue/lock per repo, or both.
-  Until then, keep recommending one `GitProvider` per repository.
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Remove the obsolete collision backlog entry and its recommendation from the TODO
documentation, since the worker now enforces one GitProvider per normalized
repository branch while allowing separate branches.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/architecture.md:
- Around line 412-414: Update the worker description near the GitTarget
ownership rules to say that a branch worker serves one repository branch and
resolves the window per open window, rather than describing it as a
provider-and-branch pair. Keep path-overlap validation scoped to targets sharing
the same provider and branch; do not imply that targets with different providers
participate in that validation.

Review comments at @docs/interpreting-metrics.md:
- Around line 322-325: Update the memory-cost paragraph near the statement about
worker allocation to say that workers are per repository branch, replacing the
stale `(GitProvider, branch)` unit. Preserve the surrounding sizing guidance and
terminology.

Review comments at @docs/UPGRADING.md:
- Around line 42-44: Add a sentence immediately after the inventory command
block stating that it sorts URLs as written and does not group equivalent HTTPS
and SSH spellings, so operators must check those variants manually.

Review comments at @internal/git/apply_trigger.go:
- Around line 175-195: Update appliersOnBranch to call authz.ApplierAdmitted
after resolving a non-deleted trigger and before appending the branchTarget.
Return authorization errors, and skip targets whose decision is not allowed so
denied targets never reach syncAppliers.

Review comments at @internal/git/branch_owner.go:
- Around line 29-62: Update BranchOwners to exclude targets rejected by the
current GitProvider accessFrom admission decision before URL resolution and
ownership selection. Adjust both production callers, including checkForConflicts
and workersNeeded, to evaluate authorization consistently and propagate
GitProvider authorization read errors rather than treating them as denials.

---

Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @docs/design/apply-trigger.md:
- Line 834: Update the documentation statements identified by the worker diagram
and shared-source behavior table: describe branch workers as one per repository
and branch, and remove the obsolete “across workers too” claim from the
shared-source coordination statement while preserving the remaining behavior and
test reference.

Review comments at @docs/TODO.md:
- Around line 66-68: Remove the obsolete collision backlog entry and its
recommendation from the TODO documentation, since the worker now enforces one
GitProvider per normalized repository branch while allowing separate branches.

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…hing for one that may not

Review findings on the shared GitProvider.

- An older GitTarget whose ClusterProvider or GitProvider does not
  admit its namespace still owned its repository branch, so it got the
  GitTarget that may write it refused, and the sweep kept only its
  worker. BranchOwners now skips a GitTarget authz.GitTargetAdmitted
  refuses, in the reconciler and the worker sweep alike. A read that
  fails is an error, never a refusal, so it moves no branch.
- The worker listed a GitTarget the dispatcher would refuse, and so
  flushed, raised its apply epoch and held the applier for an attempt
  that could not go. appliersOnBranch now leaves it out, with the
  dispatcher's own check (authz.ApplierAdmitted).
- Docs: the worker serves a repository branch, the memory sizing unit
  is one worker per repository branch, and the upgrade inventory lists
  https and SSH spellings of one repository apart.

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`GitProvider` of the oldest `GitTarget` that may write there keeps the branch (one its providers do
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

State the ownership eligibility rule clearly.

The parenthetical “one its providers do not admit decides nothing” is ungrammatical and does not identify the ineligible target. State that a cross-namespace GitTarget not admitted by spec.accessFrom cannot own the branch.

Proposed wording
-`GitProvider` of the oldest `GitTarget` that may write there keeps the branch (one its providers do
-not admit decides nothing).
+`GitProvider` of the oldest eligible `GitTarget` keeps the branch. A cross-namespace `GitTarget`
+not admitted by `spec.accessFrom` cannot own the branch.
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Update the ownership rule in the GitTarget documentation to state that the
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…oCDClaim

The resources never declared when to apply (the branch worker decides
that); they exclusively take an applier and hand it back. "Trigger" also
already named watch-plan, API-surface and Argo Events triggers.

Hard cut, with no users yet:

- kinds FluxClaim and ArgoCDClaim (fluxclaims, argocdclaims)
- GitTarget.spec.applierClaimRef replaces spec.applyTriggerRef
- condition ApplierClaimReady, reasons ApplierClaimNotFound and
  HeldByAnotherClaim
- finalizers configbutler.ai/flux-claim and configbutler.ai/argocd-claim
- Go: the ApplierClaim interface, ClaimKind(), and the files with them

Kept: every Applier* name (the applier is unchanged), Held and its
reasons, status.operation, status.previousSuspendState, ApplyReason, the
apply_* metrics and the applier_kind label. A folder an applier claim
coordinates is a "coordinated folder" in comments.

Also: the KubeProvider godoc describes a connection and an identity, not
a source cluster, and a comment no longer mentions a sibling's flush,
gone since #428.

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The guides, the reference pages and the definitions say applier claim,
FluxClaim and ArgoCDClaim; a folder a GitTarget coordinates through one
is a coordinated folder. definitions.md defines the applier claim as a
declaration of control over apply timing only, keeps Bound distinct from
Held, covers ArgoCDClaim in Held since #437, and adds "trigger" to the
words we do not use. Design and review pages keep the names they were
written with; apply-trigger.md says so at the top.

Corrections:

- C1: "the API is the source of truth" says for what, how a Git edit
  reaches the cluster, and that the applier's echoes are not mirrored.
- C2: a KubeProvider is a connection and an identity, not a source
  cluster: an applier claim reaches a management cluster through it.
- C3: the text about other GitProviders' branch workers flushing for an
  apply, and the exposure it described, are gone since #428.
- O1: one applier claim holds an applier per KubeProvider, not per
  cluster; two providers for one cluster are not arbitrated, so name one.

UPGRADING has the hard-cut entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…oCDClaim (#438)

* docs: plan the applier claim rename, and name coordinated folders

The plan of record for renaming FluxTrigger/ArgoCDTrigger to
FluxClaim/ArgoCDClaim (spec.applierClaimRef), with the doc corrections
that ship alongside it. definitions.md and the bi-directional guide gain
"coordinated" / "uncoordinated shared folder" for a folder's setup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(applier)!: rename FluxTrigger/ArgoCDTrigger to FluxClaim/ArgoCDClaim

The resources never declared when to apply (the branch worker decides
that); they exclusively take an applier and hand it back. "Trigger" also
already named watch-plan, API-surface and Argo Events triggers.

Hard cut, with no users yet:

- kinds FluxClaim and ArgoCDClaim (fluxclaims, argocdclaims)
- GitTarget.spec.applierClaimRef replaces spec.applyTriggerRef
- condition ApplierClaimReady, reasons ApplierClaimNotFound and
  HeldByAnotherClaim
- finalizers configbutler.ai/flux-claim and configbutler.ai/argocd-claim
- Go: the ApplierClaim interface, ClaimKind(), and the files with them

Kept: every Applier* name (the applier is unchanged), Held and its
reasons, status.operation, status.previousSuspendState, ApplyReason, the
apply_* metrics and the applier_kind label. A folder an applier claim
coordinates is a "coordinated folder" in comments.

Also: the KubeProvider godoc describes a connection and an identity, not
a source cluster, and a comment no longer mentions a sibling's flush,
gone since #428.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(images): name KubeProvider in the diagrams, and drop an unused one

ClusterProvider became KubeProvider in #430; the overview and
config-basics diagrams still said ClusterProvider, in the drawn text and
the embedded Excalidraw scene alike. config-cluster.excalidraw.svg is
referenced nowhere. The structural redraw of config-basics (GitBranch,
KubeProvider, the optional applier claim row) is left for Excalidraw.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: applier claims, and four corrections to how the docs describe them

The guides, the reference pages and the definitions say applier claim,
FluxClaim and ArgoCDClaim; a folder a GitTarget coordinates through one
is a coordinated folder. definitions.md defines the applier claim as a
declaration of control over apply timing only, keeps Bound distinct from
Held, covers ArgoCDClaim in Held since #437, and adds "trigger" to the
words we do not use. Design and review pages keep the names they were
written with; apply-trigger.md says so at the top.

Corrections:

- C1: "the API is the source of truth" says for what, how a Git edit
  reaches the cluster, and that the applier's echoes are not mirrored.
- C2: a KubeProvider is a connection and an identity, not a source
  cluster: an applier claim reaches a management cluster through it.
- C3: the text about other GitProviders' branch workers flushing for an
  apply, and the exposure it described, are gone since #428.
- O1: one applier claim holds an applier per KubeProvider, not per
  cluster; two providers for one cluster are not arbitrated, so name one.

UPGRADING has the hard-cut entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(applier): adopt an applier anew after a hand-back that kept its value

A hand-back that leaves an applier as it stood can keep the value under
GitOps Reverser's field manager: spec.suspend: true for a Kustomization
suspended before, enabled: false for an Application that was manual and
whose switch was taken while held. Referenced again, the applier claim
took that kept value for a hold in place:

- an ArgoCDClaim recorded nothing, so its next hand-back gave the switch
  up and the Application synced on its own;
- a FluxClaim recorded nothing and stamped no token, and waited forever
  for a suspend Flux could never report handled, since the hand-back
  gave its requestedAt up and Flux still reports the old one.

An applier claim with no previousSuspendState, no Held=True and no
operation in flight is adopting: a held field is then one a hand-back
kept. Once an uncached read finds no other applier claim holding the
applier, it records how the applier stands and holds it anew, a
Kustomization with a fresh token, as it takes over any suspend.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(e2e): restore the playground ConfigMap's trigger key

The rename turned --from-literal=trigger=tilt into two shell words, and
kubectl refused the command ("exactly one NAME is required, got 2"). The
key was never the apply trigger: it says what made the edit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* lets do some graphics!

* docs: show the new configuration diagrams where they explain the model

config-platform-shared shows a platform namespace sharing a GitProvider
and a GitReceiver with team namespaces, beside the text that says so;
config-bi-directional shows a coordinated folder in the bi-directional
model and under who applies this folder. config-basics, redrawn with
GitBranch and KubeProvider, gets alt text that says what it shows.

Also restores a sentence the rename garbled: the applier's own schedule
is off, not its "own applier claims".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(configuration): sharing connections across namespaces, with push routing

"Why both provider types are namespaced" becomes a practical section on
what a platform team shares and how teams reach it: the GitProvider and
KubeProvider admit namespaces with accessFrom, the GitBranch sits beside
its credential, and a GitReceiver needs no wiring at all, since a push
wakes every GitProvider whose spec.url names the repository, for the
branch it names. An example shows a platform namespace and a team's
GitTarget writing its own branch through it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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