Re-vendor the canonical files from sneak/prompts at 0653579 (closes #221)
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REPO_POLICIES.md, script/cibuild, script/docker, script/lint and
script/test are their copies at that commit. In every Dockerfile stage
the system package install and the Go module download now come before
ARG CACHEBUST, so check builds keep those layers until the base image,
the install line, go.mod or go.sum change. golangci-lint run also
mounts golangci-lint's cache. The test phase and the build stage
install their packages with apt-get and apk directly, as
REPO_POLICIES.md now has them do, instead of through
script/bootstrap --cgo. The test phase keeps Debian's recommended
packages, which bring libheif's AVIF encoder that the tests use.

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---
title: Repository Policies
last_modified: 2026-10-15
last_modified: 2026-10-18
---
This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -159,8 +159,11 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
one's findings, and a host-global lock in `$TMPDIR` makes concurrent runs
exit non-zero with `parallel golangci-lint is running` — a status a caller
cannot tell from real findings. Both have produced wrong verdicts in this
org, in both directions. A container has its own golangci-lint cache, its
own `TMPDIR` and a digest-pinned binary, so neither is reachable.
org, in both directions. A container has its own `TMPDIR`, so the lock is
out of reach. The lint phase does keep golangci-lint's cache between check
builds (below), but it lints every checkout at `/src`, and a finding is
taken from that cache only for the same files, settings and golangci-lint
version.
- **Any build that runs checks is given a new `CACHEBUST` value.** Docker
invalidates a `COPY` layer only when the copied content changes, so on an
@@ -170,15 +173,21 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
id, so no two builds share a value, not even the three in one
`script/cibuild`. `script/lint`, `script/test`, `script/cibuild` and
`script/docker` are the four, and there is no fifth — `script/check` runs the
two gate phases and `script/fmt-check`, and builds no image of its own. Every
stage of the `Dockerfile` declares `ARG CACHEBUST` as its first line after
`FROM`, and a new value reruns every `RUN` step after that line; `COPY` steps
are compared by content and need nothing. A stage without the `ARG` line is
served from cache on an unchanged tree, so a repository re-vendors the scripts
and adds the `ARG` lines in one commit. The scripts do not pass `--no-cache`:
it reruns every step too, but it also empties every cache mount, and Go's
build cache, which the canonical Go `Dockerfile` below mounts so that compiled
packages survive between check builds, would start empty every time. A bare
two gate phases and `script/fmt-check`, and builds no image of its own. In
every stage of the `Dockerfile`, `ARG CACHEBUST` comes right after the steps
that install system packages and download Go's modules, or right after `FROM`
in a stage with neither, and every step that lints, tests or compiles comes
after it. A step that installs anything else as well, such as a
`script/bootstrap` that also installs node packages, comes after it too. A new
value reruns every `RUN` step after that line; `COPY` steps are compared by
content and need nothing. Docker keeps the layers above the line until the
base image, their own lines or the files they copy change. A stage without the
`ARG` line is served from cache on an unchanged tree, so a repository
re-vendors the scripts and adds the `ARG` lines in one commit. The scripts do
not pass `--no-cache`: it reruns every step too, but it also builds the layers
above the line again and empties every cache mount, so Go's build cache and
golangci-lint's, which the canonical Go `Dockerfile` below mounts so that they
survive between check builds, would start empty every time. A bare
`docker build .` is not evidence that anything ran: a sub-second build
reporting success is a cache hit, not a result. Never invalidate by pruning —
`docker builder prune` and friends destroy a build cache shared with every
@@ -194,19 +203,25 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
`Dockerfile`:
```dockerfile
# Every stage declares ARG CACHEBUST first: script/ passes a new value
# on every build, which reruns every RUN step after it. The steps that
# compile mount Go's build cache, which survives from build to build.
# In every stage ARG CACHEBUST comes right after the steps that install
# system packages and download Go's modules, or right after FROM in a
# stage with neither, and every step that lints, tests or compiles
# comes after it. script/ passes a new value on every build, which
# reruns every RUN step after it. Docker keeps the layers above it
# until the base image, their own lines or go.mod and go.sum change.
# The steps that compile mount Go's build cache, and golangci-lint run
# also mounts golangci-lint's; both survive from build to build.
# Lint phase
# golangci/golangci-lint:v2.x.x, YYYY-MM-DD
FROM golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:... AS lint
ARG CACHEBUST
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
ARG CACHEBUST
COPY . .
RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
--mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/golangci-lint \
golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
# Test phase. -race needs cgo and so a C compiler, which the Debian Go
@@ -214,10 +229,10 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
# cache also holds test results, which go test would otherwise replay.
# golang:1.x, YYYY-MM-DD
FROM golang@sha256:... AS test
ARG CACHEBUST
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
ARG CACHEBUST
COPY . .
RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
@@ -225,19 +240,19 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
# Build stage. Nothing is wanted from either phase above; the copies
# are what make BuildKit build them first, so this stage cannot run
# unless lint and test passed.
# are what make BuildKit build them first, so nothing after them can
# run unless lint and test passed.
# golang:1.x-alpine, YYYY-MM-DD
FROM golang@sha256:... AS builder
ARG CACHEBUST
COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
RUN apk add --no-cache git
# A tar-stream context keeps the sender's file owners, which git refuses.
RUN git config --system --add safe.directory /src
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
ARG CACHEBUST
COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
# A tar-stream context keeps the sender's file owners, which git refuses.
RUN git config --system --add safe.directory /src
COPY . .
# The VERSION build arg when one is given, otherwise
@@ -274,16 +289,26 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
- Keep the runtime stage last, and if you add a stage after it, give it the
same two copies. A plain `docker build .` builds the last stage's chain
and nothing else.
- Only Go's build cache is mounted (`/root/.cache/go-build`, where Go keeps
it for root), and only on the steps that compile: `golangci-lint run`,
both `go test` runs and `go build`. It keeps compiled packages between
check builds, and Go reuses one only when all its inputs are unchanged, so
it saves the compile without skipping a check. Nothing else is kept:
golangci-lint's own cache would replay stored findings in place of a lint
run, and Go builds from whatever files a kept module cache holds without
checking them again (only `go mod verify` does), so a file changed there
would go unnoticed. Go's build cache also holds test results, which is why
both `go test` runs carry `-count=1`.
- Check builds keep these, and none of them can hand back a stale result:
- The layers above `ARG CACHEBUST`: the system packages and Go's
modules. Docker installs the packages again when the base image or the
install line changes, and downloads the modules again when `go.mod` or
`go.sum` changes. Go checks every module against `go.sum` as it
downloads it, and no later build can change a kept layer. The modules
are kept in a layer rather than a cache mount because a cache mount is
shared by every build on the host, and Go builds from whatever files
it holds without checking them again (only `go mod verify` does), so a
file changed there would go unnoticed.
- Go's build cache (`/root/.cache/go-build`, where Go keeps it for
root), mounted on the steps that compile: `golangci-lint run`, both
`go test` runs and `go build`. Go reuses a compiled package only when
all its inputs are unchanged. The cache also holds test results, which
is why both `go test` runs carry `-count=1`.
- golangci-lint's cache (`/root/.cache/golangci-lint`, where the pinned
image keeps it), mounted on `golangci-lint run`. golangci-lint reuses
a package's findings only when the package's files and those of every
package it imports, `go.mod`, the linters and their settings in
`.golangci.yml`, and the golangci-lint version are all unchanged.
- If the project uses `//go:embed` directives that reference build artifacts
(e.g. a web frontend compiled in a separate stage), the lint phase must
create placeholder files so the embed directives resolve. Example:
@@ -292,12 +317,20 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
in the lint phase. The `golangci/golangci-lint` image is Debian-based and
has no `apk`, so install with `apt-get` under the Debian package name
(`libvips-dev`, where alpine says `vips-dev`), and delete the package
lists in the same `RUN`, so the layer does not keep them:
lists in the same `RUN`, so the layer does not keep them. The test phase,
on the Debian Go image, installs the libraries its tests need the same
way. Either install goes right after `FROM`, above `ARG CACHEBUST`, so
Docker keeps it until the base image or the install line changes:
```dockerfile
FROM golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:... AS lint
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libvips-dev \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
ARG CACHEBUST
```
- `.dockerignore` lets `.git` into the build context. It keeps out every git