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Lint in a container as a build step, via Dockerfile.lint (closes #113)
Every lint run now happens inside its own container, invoked through
script/lint, and linting is a build step rather than a container
command: a successful build of the new root Dockerfile.lint IS a clean
lint. That shape also works where the docker daemon is remote and bind
mounts are impossible.

Its FROM line -- golangci/golangci-lint:v2.12.2, pinned by digest -- is
now the only pin of the linter version in this repo.

A container per run has its own lint cache and its own golangci-lint
lock, both discarded with it, so neither cross-worktree contamination
nor lock contention exists any more. The machinery that defended
against them is therefore gone: the per-worktree cache directories, the
lock-retry loop, and script/lint-audit, which existed to catch findings
replayed from a cache that no longer exists. So is the host lint path
in its entirety -- the native escape hatch, its version detection, and
VAULTIK_LINT_IN_CONTAINER in both script/lint and the Dockerfile.
Nothing lints on the host, at any version.

A cached build lints nothing, so the CHECK_EPOCH mechanism the product
Dockerfile already used is what makes a green mean something:
ARG CHECK_EPOCH with no default, placed below the module layers so
dependency caching survives, a `RUN [ -n "$CHECK_EPOCH" ] || exit 1`
guard so a build that withholds the arg fails instead of replaying, and
the value expanded into the lint command itself. script/lint computes
`epoch="$(date +%s%N)$$"` as a bare assignment on its own line, because
inline in the argument a failing substitution does not abort under
`set -eu` and yields a constant empty epoch -- which is exactly the
false green being prevented.

The product Dockerfile loses its lint stage rather than gaining a
second linter pin. That stage ran `make lint`, which is now
`docker build`: docker-in-docker inside a BuildKit step with no daemon.
Calling golangci-lint directly there instead would have meant two
independently bumpable digests for one tool. `make fmt-check` moves
beside `make test` in the builder stage, and script/cibuild now builds
Dockerfile.lint and then Dockerfile, each with its own fresh epoch,
failing on either. Consequence, stated in comments rather than left to
be discovered: script/docker builds the product image only and no
longer lints; script/check and script/cibuild are the gates.

`golangci-lint config verify` runs as its own epoch-keyed layer, above
the lint. It is not belt-and-braces: `golangci-lint run` rejects a
config it cannot PARSE but silently IGNORES an unknown top-level KEY.
Renaming .golangci.yml's `linters:` to `linterz:` -- one character --
discards `default: all`, the disable list and every threshold, leaves
only the small default linter set running, and exits 0 reporting
`0 issues.` on a tree the real config fails with an lll finding, in a
run whose lint layer demonstrably executed. That is a set-but-
ineffective config falling back to defaults instead of failing loudly,
sitting in the gate's own configuration. `config verify` catches it and
does so with the network genuinely off at this pin: under
`docker run --network none` against the pinned digest it exits 0 on
this repo's config and exits 3 on the `linterz:` variant. It is keyed
on CHECK_EPOCH like the lint itself, because a cached validation
validates nothing.

script/lint-fix is kept, reimplemented as a bind-mounted
docker run against the image parsed out of Dockerfile.lint -- a build
step cannot write fixes back to the worktree -- and its header states
outright that it is a developer convenience, never a gate, and needs a
local daemon.

cmd/vaultik/lintdocker_test.go parses both Dockerfiles and both scripts
and fails if any part of the mechanism is dropped: the digest pin, the
defaultless ARG below `go mod download`, the emptiness guard, the
expansion of the epoch into each check command, the bare per-invocation
epoch assignment in both scripts, cibuild building both files, the
config verification running before the lint, and -- structurally, not
by searching for one retired variable name -- that no script invokes
golangci-lint except through docker. Every one of those losses is
silent: the build still exits 0 and nothing is checked, which is why
they are asserted rather than trusted. The scanner behind the last of
those has its own test, because a structural check that goes blind
passes on every tree, including a broken one.

script/lint takes no arguments now, and says so instead of dropping
them: a build step has no command line to pass linter flags to.
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# Workflow
* branch (from `main`)
* do the work in Next Step
* move Next Step to the top of Completed Steps
* move the top item of Future Steps into Next Step
* commit (`TODO.md` changes in the same commit as the work)
* merge to `main` if the branch is not protected, otherwise open a PR
* push
# Status
pre-1.0
# Next Step
Define the remaining scope for the first tagged release under the 1.0.0
milestone, then cut that tag. The mechanism to cut it now exists and is
exercised; what is left is the scope decision, which is the owner's.
This step deliberately names one version number: it previously said
"cut v0.1.0" while the `Makefile` baked in `1.0.0-rc.1` and the issue
milestone said 1.0.0, and three different answers to "what is the next
release" is exactly the contradiction
[issue #65](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/65) was filed over.
# Completed Steps
- 2026-08-10: Moved every lint run into its own container, as a build
step ([issue #113](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/113)).
New root `Dockerfile.lint`, built by `script/lint`, runs
`golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...` as a `RUN`
instruction in the digest-pinned `golangci/golangci-lint` image: a
successful build of that file *is* a clean lint, and it works even
where the daemon is remote and bind mounts are impossible. That
`FROM` line is now the only pin of the linter version in the repo.
This supersedes the per-worktree cache isolation landed for
[issue #99](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/99). Isolation
fixed cross-worktree contamination but not lock contention — two
concurrent runs with entirely separate cache directories still
collided. A container per run has its own cache and its own lock, so
the whole class is gone, and with it the per-worktree cache
machinery, the lock-retry loop, and `script/lint-audit`, which
existed to catch replayed findings from a cache that no longer
exists. The host lint path went too: no escape hatch, no
`VAULTIK_LINT_IN_CONTAINER`, no version detection. Nothing lints on
the host at any version.
A cached build lints nothing, so the same `CHECK_EPOCH` mechanism the
product `Dockerfile` already used is what makes the green mean
something: `ARG CHECK_EPOCH` with no default below the module layers,
a `RUN [ -n "$CHECK_EPOCH" ] || exit 1` guard, the value expanded
into each check command, and a fresh `$(date +%s%N)$$` per invocation
computed as a bare assignment. `cmd/vaultik/lintdocker_test.go`
parses both Dockerfiles and both scripts and fails if any part of
that is dropped, because every way of losing it is silent. Its
host-lint assertion is structural — no script runs `golangci-lint`
except through `docker` — rather than a search for the one retired
variable name, which nothing could ever reintroduce.
The product `Dockerfile` lost its lint stage rather than gaining a
second linter pin: `make lint` is now `docker build`, so the stage
would have been docker-in-docker with no daemon, and calling
`golangci-lint` directly there would have restored the two-pins drift
of [issue #78](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/78).
`make fmt-check` moved beside `make test` in the builder stage, and
`script/cibuild` now builds `Dockerfile.lint` and then `Dockerfile`,
each with its own fresh epoch. Consequence, stated rather than left
to be found: `script/docker` builds the product image only and no
longer lints; the gates are `script/check` and `script/cibuild`.
`golangci-lint config verify` runs as its own epoch-keyed layer,
above the lint. `golangci-lint run` rejects a config it cannot parse
but silently ignores an unknown top-level *key*: renaming `linters:`
to `linterz:` discarded `default: all` and every threshold and still
exited 0 on a tree the real config fails. `config verify` catches
that, and it does so with the network off at this pin — checked under
`docker run --network none`, not assumed. An earlier revision omitted
it on the claim that it fetches its schema over live HTTPS; that
claim was false at v2.12.2.
`script/lint-fix` is kept, reimplemented as a
bind-mounted `docker run` against the image parsed out of
`Dockerfile.lint` — it cannot be a build step, because fixes have to
land in the worktree — and marked in its header as a developer
convenience that no gate reads.
- 2026-08-09: Finished the `--json` stdout contract and gave `make build`
a rule ([issue #108](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/108),
[issue #110](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/110)). Two
unrelated defects of the same shape — a command reporting something it
did not do — landed together because both are small.
`CleanupLocalSnapshots` wrote three prose lines to stdout with no
`--json` awareness, covering every branch of the function, so no input
avoided them and `vaultik prune --json | jq` failed even after
[issue #106](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/106) removed the
banner. `-q` never helped either: `printlnStdout` and `stdoutf` write
straight to `Vaultik.Stdout` and never consult `Vaultik.UI`, which is
what `SetQuiet` affects. The issue offered three fixes and asked for a
decision. Taken: thread `*PruneOptions` into the function and gate each
write on `!opts.JSON`, matching `PruneBlobs` (its sibling phase, which
already takes the same struct), `RemoveSnapshot` and `remote info`, so
the package has one pattern rather than two. Rejected: moving the lines
to `log.Info`, because the logger's default level is `slog.LevelWarn`,
so that would not relocate them to stderr — it would delete them from a
plain `vaultik prune`, and the removal of rows from the local index is
not something to narrate only under `--verbose`. Also rejected: putting
the stale-record count into `PruneBlobsResult`, whose every field is
blob-scoped and which is produced by the later phase; a prune document
covering both phases is a reasonable thing to want, but it is a schema
design question and not a stream-hygiene fix. The narration is
duplicated as `log.Info` records, which `PruneBlobs` already does
alongside its own prints, so the events survive on stderr for anyone
running `--verbose`.
`make build` printed "Nothing to be done for 'build'" and exited 0
without producing a binary: `build` was listed in `.PHONY` with no
`build:` rule anywhere, and declaring a name phony is exactly what
converts make's "No rule to make target" error into a silent success.
Fixed with `build: vaultik`, keeping `vaultik:` as the file rule. The
audit the issue asked for covers all 19 `.PHONY` names; `build` was the
only one without a rule, and `vaultik` is correctly absent from
`.PHONY`, being a real file target.
Tests, each verified to fail with the fix reverted rather than assumed
to: `CleanupLocalSnapshots` leaves stdout untouched under `--json` in
all three branches (stale records, none, empty index) and still emits
every line without it, so the guard cannot be satisfied by deleting the
output; `prune --json` run end to end through `Entry`, cobra and fx
over the process's real stdout descriptor against a `file://` store,
asserting exactly one JSON document, in both the stale and non-stale
branches; and a parse of the `Makefile` asserting every `.PHONY` name
has a rule and that `build` reaches the rule that produces the binary,
which keeps the audit true for names added later. That last one is a
parse rather than an invocation of `make`, since `make test` is what
runs it and shelling back into `make build` would nest a build inside
the test run. The property a parse cannot establish — that the recipe
still fails when the build fails — was verified by hand against a
deliberately broken tree: `make build` exits 2 and produces nothing.
`cmd/vaultik` gains its first test file, so `make test` now reports 16
packages `ok` where it reported 15.
- 2026-08-09: Stopped the startup banner from contaminating `--json`
documents ([issue #106](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/106)).
`Entry` writes the banner to stdout before cobra parses anything, and
the flag scan that suppresses it knew `--quiet`, `-q` and `--cron` but
not `--json`, so every `--json` document arrived behind two lines of
prose and a blank line, and `vaultik snapshot list --json | jq` failed.
With the logger already on stderr from
[issue #82](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/82), this was the
last writer that could put something on stdout that the caller did not
ask for. The design question the issue raised — extend the raw-argv
scan, or move the banner after parsing — is answered in favour of the
scan: the banner is printed first deliberately, so that it still
appears when cobra rejects the arguments and on `--help`, and after
parsing there is no single place that covers those paths. The stated
cost of the scan, that `--json` is a subcommand flag matched anywhere
in the vector, is a cost `--cron` already carries — it exists only on
`snapshot create` — so this adds an instance of an accepted
imprecision rather than a new kind, and the two error directions are
not symmetric: a false positive loses a decorative banner, a false
negative corrupts a document. Regression tests at the CLI layer, where
`internal/vaultik`'s existing guard cannot reach: one runs `Entry`
itself over the process's real stdout descriptor, through cobra and fx
to the document, made hermetic by `file://` storage; a second covers
the argument vectors of all five `--json` commands; a third asserts the
banner is still printed without a suppressing flag, so the first
cannot be satisfied by deleting the banner. Also corrected `AGENTS.md`
policy 9, which still keyed the structured-log format on stdout's
TTY-ness after #82 moved that decision to stderr — a rules file that
misdescribes the code misleads exactly the readers who trust it most.
Two smaller findings from the same review: `bytesAttrKey`'s
human-readable byte formatting silently stopped applying under an open
group, because the key reaching the comparison is group-qualified
(`transfer.bytes`), now matched on its final segment and tested both
ways; and `listEnv.stderr` in `snapshot_list_test.go`, assigned but
never read since those tests began capturing the process's stderr, is
removed. `Vaultik.Stderr` is kept — nothing writes to it today, which
its comment now says outright.
- 2026-08-09: Moved the logger to stderr and fixed `TTYHandler`'s
discarded attributes
([issue #82](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/82),
[issue #97](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/97)). Two defects
in `internal/log`, fixed together because both live in the handler
construction path. The first: both handlers were built over
`os.Stdout`, and `WARN`/`ERROR` are never suppressed, so a config file
with group- or world-readable permissions was enough to put a log
record inside a `--json` document and break `jq`. Diagnostics now go
to stderr, and the TTY/JSON format choice follows stderr rather than
stdout — testing the wrong stream would colorize records on a
redirected stderr whenever stdout happened to be a terminal. This is
user-visible: `--verbose` and `--debug` output moves to stderr too,
which is documented in `README.md` under "stdout and stderr". It also
let the local workaround in `internal/vaultik/snapshot_list.go` go:
`warnWhileListing` had been hand-rolling structured-log formatting to
reach a non-stdout writer, and the `jsonOutput` parameter threaded
through the remote-listing helpers existed only to choose between the
two writers. The collect-then-emit machinery around `listingWarning`
stays, but on its remaining merit — warnings emitted in key order
after `group.Wait()` are deterministic run to run, where emitting from
the fetch workers would order them by network timing. The second
defect: `TTYHandler.WithAttrs` and `WithGroup` discarded their
arguments and returned the receiver while their doc comments claimed
otherwise, so `log.With` attributes vanished on a terminal and
appeared correctly in CI — failing precisely when someone is debugging
interactively. Both now return a new handler (the receiver is never
written to, since `slog` permits concurrent derivation), attributes
persist across records, and grouping is implemented as dotted key
prefixes, which is the only honest rendering for a format with nowhere
to nest. New tests cover both, including one that feeds the same
derivation chain to the TTY and JSON handlers and compares the
attribute sets, so the two paths cannot drift apart again. Found and
filed while verifying: the startup banner is written to stdout and
`--json` does not suppress it
([issue #106](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/106)), which is
a separate writer on a separate path and the remaining source of
stdout contamination.
- 2026-08-09: Made the tagged-release path actually work on Gitea
([issue #65](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/65)). Three
independent blockers, one of which was the whole
release: `.goreleaser.yaml` had no `gitea_urls:` block, so goreleaser
defaulted to the GitHub API and a `goreleaser release` from this repo
would have failed or published where nobody is looking. It now points
at `https://git.eeqj.de/api/v1`. The version is the second: it was a
hardcoded `VERSION := 1.0.0-rc.1` in the `Makefile`, so every local
build claimed to be a release candidate that had never been tagged and
did not exist, while `git tag -l` was empty and `internal/globals`
defaulted to `dev`. Version now comes from git via the new
`script/version` — the exact tag with a leading `v` stripped (so a
`make` build and a goreleaser build of one commit report the same
string, and it matches the archive names), otherwise `dev-<12-char
sha>`, with `-dirty` appended in either case when tracked files are
modified. Untracked files are deliberately not counted, matching
`git describe --dirty`. The same honesty was owed by the snapshot
path: `snapshot.version_template` was `{{ incpatch .Version }}-next`,
which manufactures a release number from the last tag and, with no
tags at all, from goreleaser's fabricated `v0.0.0`; it now emits the
same `dev-<sha>`. The one non-obvious consequence is that
`internal/cli/version.go` gated its "this is a development build"
notice on the version being exactly `dev`, so the moment untagged
builds began carrying a commit sha that notice would have gone silent
and an unreleased binary would have read as a release — the gate is
now `globals.IsDevVersion`, which is a predicate over a string rather
than a comparison against a global precisely so it can be tested, and
it is tested at the boundary (`1.0.0-dev` is a release, `dev-<sha>`
is not). Release automation is the third blocker: a tag-triggered
`.gitea/workflows/release.yml` runs the build in CI rather than from
a laptop, with `fetch-depth: 0` because a shallow checkout has no
tags and would silently mislabel the release, and with the
`RELEASE_TOKEN` repository secret passed as `GITEA_TOKEN` (documented
in `README.md`; the runner's automatic token is not used because it
is not guaranteed to carry release write scope). `script/release`
unsets any `GITHUB_TOKEN`/`GITLAB_TOKEN` it finds, since goreleaser
chooses its forge from whichever token variable is set and refuses to
run when it sees more than one — a runner-provided token must not get
to decide where these artifacts are published. `make release` and
`make release-snapshot`, the last two Makefile targets that were not
shims, now call `script/release` and `script/release-snapshot`, which
resolve goreleaser exactly the way `script/lint` resolves the linter:
a `PATH` binary is used only at the pinned version, never as a silent
fallback. `script/bootstrap` installs it, from a sha256-verified
GitHub release archive per `REPO_POLICIES.md`, via a separate
`script/install-goreleaser` — separate because `script/bootstrap`
hard-fails without a usable Docker daemon by design, and the release
runner needs goreleaser without needing Docker. Verified by running
the thing rather than reading it: `make release-snapshot` produced
four archives and `checksums.txt`, and the linux/amd64 binary from
`dist/` reports `dev-<sha>` with the development-build notice. Tag
handling was exercised in a throwaway repository rather than by
tagging this one; no tag was created here, since that is the owner's
call. Signing, SBOM, reproducible builds, completions and a man page
are out of scope by the issue.
- 2026-08-09: Isolated the lint cache per worktree and context-gated the
native lint path (issues #99, #80). One defect seen twice:
`script/lint` decided whether it could skip the pinned image by asking
what version was on `PATH` rather than where it was running, and cache
isolation is part of that same question. The cache was one directory
per repo, shared by every worktree on the host, so two checkouts with
identical Go file contents collided and golangci-lint replayed the
stored analysis — paths and all. The loud direction of that failure
(a clean tree failed by a dirty sibling) is the harmless one; the
silent direction, a dirty tree **passed** by a clean sibling, is a
sixth way for a gate here to report a green it did not earn. The cache
is now keyed on a digest of the worktree path, and every run is
audited by the new `script/lint-audit`, which rejects output citing any
file that is not in the tree being linted — a backstop that runs on
clean output too, because that is the case nobody investigates. Caches
record the worktree they belong to and are collected when it
disappears, so throwaway worktrees do not accumulate them; the whole
tree lives under `XDG_CACHE_HOME` and is disposable. The
`parallel golangci-lint is running` refusal is now a bounded retry
rather than a verdict: it is not a lint result, and exiting non-zero
on it is indistinguishable to a caller from real findings (#88 showed
a private cache does not remove that contention). The native path now
requires `VAULTIK_LINT_IN_CONTAINER=1`, set only by the `Dockerfile`
lint stage, in addition to matching the pin, so a developer's locally
installed 2.12.2 no longer bypasses the digest pin; `/.dockerenv` was
rejected as the signal because `dockerd` creates it for `docker run`
and it is not reliably present during a BuildKit `docker build`, which
is the case the exception exists for. Version detection uses
`golangci-lint version --short` with the old banner scrape kept only
as a fallback. `script/bootstrap` no longer prints `bootstrap
complete` on a machine that cannot run the gate: a missing docker, or
one whose daemon is unreachable, is a hard failure naming exactly what
breaks. Verification was by reproduction rather than inspection — two
concurrent lints from two worktrees of differing cleanliness, a real
run made to report an outside path, a matching linter shimmed onto
`PATH`, and a `PATH` with docker removed — and is recorded on the pull
request.
- 2026-08-09: Closed the fifth false-green mechanism (issues #93, #69).
`script/test` omitted `-count=1`, so Go's test result cache could
satisfy the gate outright: a second back-to-back `make test` printed
the full set of 14 `ok` lines, every one marked `(cached)`, having
executed no test at all. Since `ok <pkg> (cached)` is an `ok` line,
the "14 `ok` lines means the suite ran" signal this repo leans on was
forgeable, one level below the Docker layer cache that #85 addressed.
Fixed with `-count=1` unconditionally rather than only in the
container, because the pre-commit hook runs the same script and a
gate honest only in CI is dishonest where people rely on it most;
`test-coverage` got the same flag, and `script/check` inherits it by
calling `script/test`. In the same area, `make test-integration` was
deleted rather than made real: no file in the repo carried a build
tag, so `-tags=integration` selected nothing and the target was an
exact duplicate of `make test`. Tagging a subset was rejected because
the entire suite runs in well under a minute, and a scheme whose
failure mode is "some tests silently stopped running" is a poor trade
for those seconds in a repo with this particular history. The
`-timeout` was raised from 30s after measuring rather than after
assuming: the standing claim that cold-cache compilation is charged
against `-timeout` is **false**, disproved by a containerised run
that spent 46s compiling and still reported per-package durations
within noise of a warm host run. `-timeout` reaches the test binary
as `-test.timeout` and its clock starts inside `testing.M.Run`, after
the build. The real exposure was margin, not compilation. The 120s
landed on is a **deliberate, documented divergence** from
`REPO_POLICIES.md:192`, which mandates 30s, and from that file's
canonical recipe at `:212-214`; the divergence is recorded in
`script/test`'s comment because `REPO_POLICIES.md` is org-canonical
and not editable here, and issue #101 proposes amending the policy
text upstream. Numbers and the full verification are recorded once,
on the pull request, and are deliberately not restated here.
- 2026-08-09: Triaged all fifteen stale remote branches (issue #71) and
deleted fourteen of them; the full per-branch disposition with
evidence is recorded on that issue. Method mattered more than the
outcome here: a three-dot `git diff main...branch` diffs from the
merge base, so it replays everything that landed on `main` after the
branch diverged and makes any old branch look like it holds unlanded
work. That artifact is what made `golangci-v2.12.2` appear to carry
126 files of unpushed changes when its tree was byte-identical to
`main`'s. Every containment claim here therefore rests on two-dot tip
diffs, tree-hash equality, `git cherry`, and `git branch -r --merged`.
Nine branches were plain ancestors of `main` with zero `git cherry`
`+` commits. `golangci-v2.12.2` had landed squashed as `cc58583`,
whose tree hash equals the branch tip's exactly; note the hash
recorded in the issue had gone stale because `main` advanced, so the
check had to be redone rather than repeated.
`fix/sync-snapshot-cleanup` was redundant, its one line already on
`main` in `syncWithRemote`. `feature/restore-progress-bar` was
superseded by `printRestoreProgress` and the disk-backed blob cache,
and had become actively regressive — it would have deleted
`internal/blobgen/compress_test.go`, the #28 regression test that
landed separately. The two branches this issue was filed for both
turned out to be closed questions that `main` had already moved past
by a recorded decision, so neither was landed and no regression test
was owed: `ctime` no longer exists anywhere in the codebase after
`1c72a37` removed the column, the `File.CTime` field and every use
(#54/#55), and change detection compares size, mtime, mode, uid and
gid only, exactly as `ARCHITECTURE.md` documents — so the
silently-skipped-file data-loss risk that made this a 1.0 item does
not exist. The SQL allow-list branch would have reverted `bfd7334`,
which replaced that very allow-list with regex sanitisation on review
feedback, and would have broken `getTableCount("snapshots")` because
its allow-list omits that table. `feature/daemon-mode` is untouched
and deferred to #94 pending an owner decision, so it is the one
branch besides `main` still on the remote. The stale `TODO.md` entry
named in the issue needed no fix: `e496aa3` had already removed it.
No product code changed.
- 2026-08-09: Adopted the remaining upstream `CHECK_EPOCH` hardening
(issue #91), closing the gap #85 knowingly left open. Four changes,
all four decided as adopt upstream in `sneak/prompts` #26. (1) Each
check stage now asserts `[ -n "$CHECK_EPOCH" ] || exit 1` before
running anything, so a build that supplies no `--build-arg` fails
instead of lying. This is the item that mattered: an unset `ARG` is
an empty string and an empty string is a stable cache key, so the
second and every later bare `docker build .` on an unchanged tree
replayed all three check layers and still exited 0 — and `docker
build .` is the command `REPO_POLICIES.md` names verbatim as a thing
that must be green, so the documented command was precisely the one
that lied. Failed steps are never cached, which is what makes the
guard fire on every invocation rather than once. (2) The epoch is now
expanded into each check command rather than left as a bare
declaration, so the cache miss no longer depends on BuildKit's
unreferenced-`ARG` handling staying as it is, and the value appears
in the build log. (3) `script/cibuild` uses
`epoch="$(date +%s%N)$$"`, unique per invocation rather than per
second; `%N` alone is insufficient because busybox drops it silently
and exits 0, and `$$` is what makes the guarantee hold regardless.
The bare-assignment form is kept deliberately — inlined in an
argument, a failing substitution does not abort under `set -eu` and
would yield an empty constant epoch, restoring the exact false green
being fixed. (4) `script/docker` passes the same fresh arg, so the
two entrypoints cannot disagree about whether the tree is green;
local builds are almost always warm, which made it the likelier
fooling in practice. The `ARG` placement from #85 is unchanged, below
`apk add`, `COPY go.mod go.sum` and `go mod download`, so dependency
layers still cache and the build is not cold. Verified by negative
control rather than inspection — a bare `docker build .` run twice
back to back, plus back-to-back pairs of both scripts and a host-side
`make check`; the measurements are recorded once, in the PR
verification comment, rather than restated here. `.golangci.yml`, the
lint-stage `FROM` line and its digest, `script/lint`,
`REPO_POLICIES.md` and `.gitea/workflows/check.yml` are all
untouched.
- 2026-08-09: Stopped `script/cibuild` from reporting a green it did
not earn (issue #85). A bare `docker build .` let Docker serve the
check layers from the layer cache whenever the tree had not changed:
the checks never executed and the build still exited 0. The fix is an
`ARG CHECK_EPOCH` declared immediately above the check `RUN`s in both
the lint stage and the builder stage (`ARG` scope is per-stage, so
each declares its own), with `script/cibuild` assigning
`epoch="$(date +%s)"` and passing `--build-arg CHECK_EPOCH="$epoch"`.
The assignment is separate on purpose: under `set -eu` a command
substitution that fails inside an argument does not abort the script,
which would leave an empty constant `CHECK_EPOCH` and restore the
very false green being fixed. Placement is the rest of the point —
the `ARG` sits below the `apk add`, `COPY go.mod go.sum`, and `go mod
download` layers, so only the checks are invalidated and the
dependency layers still cache. The guarantee is conditional on a
fresh value rather than absolute: a bare `docker build .` gets an
empty `CHECK_EPOCH` and can still serve the check layers from cache,
which `README.md` and the `Dockerfile` now say plainly, with issue
#91 tracking the upstream hardening (expanded `ARG` form, unset
guard, per-invocation epoch, `script/docker`) that would close it.
Verified by re-running the reproduction plus the withheld-`--build-arg`
counterfactual; the measurements are recorded once, in the PR #89
verification comment, rather than restated here. `.golangci.yml`, the
lint-stage `FROM` line and its digest, `script/lint`, and
`.gitea/workflows/check.yml` are all untouched.
- 2026-08-09: Corrected the `Vaultik.UI` doc comment (issue #84). It
claimed the cli layer replaces the writer with a discarding one in
`--cron` mode; the actual mechanism is `UI.SetQuiet(true)` in
`setupGlobals`, which drops Begin/Complete/Info/Notice/Detail/
Progress/Banner but still emits Warning and Error. The `--cron` line
in `README.md` said "Silent unless error", which understated what
survives, and now names warnings too. The other `--cron` comments
(`internal/log/log.go`, `internal/cli/snapshot.go`,
`internal/vaultik/snapshot.go`) were audited and already accurate.
Comments and docs only, no behavior change.
- 2026-08-09: Made `snapshot list` list the destination store without
the private key (issue #64). The listing is now the union of the
local index and a single streamed listing of the `metadata/` prefix,
with no `age_secret_key` gate — the manifest is unencrypted, so a
host holding only the public key can enumerate its own backups and a
host that lost its local index can still see them. A remote-only
snapshot's hostname and name are deliberately not recovered (they are
not recoverable without the private key, and making them so would
undo the privacy property tracked in issue #81); such rows are
labelled by an abbreviation of their remote key and carry the real
timestamp and compressed size from the manifest, with `<remote only>`
in the two columns that require the local index. Local-only snapshots
are reported as drift, and the hint now names `vaultik prune`, which
exists, instead of `vaultik snapshot cleanup`, which does not.
`reportRemoteDrift` collapsed into the merged view. Every remote
manifest read in the codebase now goes through
`downloadManifestByKey`, so issue #81 has one call site to change.
Review rework: snapshot timestamps now normalize to UTC in
`scanSnapshotRows`, the one place they enter the domain, so the merged
TIMESTAMP column cannot show local time for a locally tracked row and
UTC for a remote-only row on a non-UTC host; `GetIncompleteByHostname`
was folded onto that same scanner. `--json` now reports the
unreadable-manifest count and the 1000-row truncation on stderr
instead of returning a silently short document (the document's shape
is unchanged). The two per-snapshot `log.Warn` calls on the listing
path now route through the same JSON-aware writer as the existing
workaround, so one corrupt manifest can no longer put a log line on
stdout ahead of the document and break `| jq` — still a local
workaround pending issue #82. Verified with `script/cibuild` and with
an uncached `make check` (`0 issues.`, no cached test packages), plus
end to end against a `file://` destination with no secret key present.
- 2026-08-09: Closed the gap between `make lint` and CI (issue #78).
`script/lint` now runs the digest-pinned `golangci-lint` image taken
from the `Dockerfile` lint stage, which is the single source of truth
for the linter version; the duplicate pin in the `Makefile` `deps`
target and the unpinned `golangci-lint` install in `script/bootstrap`
are gone. A `golangci-lint` on `PATH` is used only when its version is
exactly the pinned one (which is how the lint stage runs it inside the
container); anything else goes through Docker, and a missing or
unreachable Docker daemon is a hard error rather than a silent
fallback. Only the **lint** leg of `make check` became equivalent to
`script/cibuild`; its tests and `gofmt` still run on the host against
the host toolchain, as `README.md` states. An earlier version of this
entry claimed `make check` was "as trustworthy as `script/cibuild`"
outright, which overstated it; corrected under issue #80.
- 2026-08-09: Finished the lint remediation under the canonical
`.golangci.yml` (issue #61, which also unblocks issue #59). The
remaining findings were fixed behavior-preservingly: `wsl_v5`
whitespace, `sqlclosecheck`, and `prealloc`. The `sqlclosecheck` sites
now close `sql.Rows` in a deferred closure instead of via the
`CloseRows` helper, which the linter could not see through. Only the
`revive` package-name findings remain suppressed, with per-site
`//nolint` directives; the package-rename question behind them is
tracked in issue #76. Verified with `script/cibuild`, which exits 0 —
that is the only trustworthy gate, because `script/lint` runs whatever
`golangci-lint` happens to be on `PATH` rather than the pinned
v2.12.2 that CI and the `Dockerfile` use, so `make check` can report
green on findings CI still fails. That tooling gap is tracked in issue
#78.
- 2026-08-09: The earlier next step "reconcile the uncommitted
`ARCHITECTURE.md` edits on `main`" needed no work: the working tree is
clean and `ARCHITECTURE.md` is committed on `main`.
- 2026-08-07: Updated golangci-lint to v2.12.2 everywhere it is pinned
(`Dockerfile` lint stage, `Makefile` deps target), replaced
`.golangci.yml` with the canonical config (v2 schema, `default: all`),
and remediated the bulk of the lint findings it surfaced (issue #61):
behavior-preserving fixes across every package, 2,990 findings down to
80. `make test` and `make fmt-check` were green at that point but
`make lint` was still red; the commit message claiming `make check`
was green was wrong.
- 2026-08-07: Added the standard `.golangci.yml` and `.editorconfig`
(issue #59); lint findings under the new config are tracked in issue
#61. `script/bootstrap` now installs sqlite3 (needed by tests).
- 2026-07-07 Adopted scripts-to-rule-them-all: `script/` entrypoints,
Makefile shims, README Entrypoints section
- 2026-07-02: Consolidated CLI verbs, retired overlapping commands; bound
the local index to its backup destination URL.
- 2026-06-28: snapshot rm now removes metadata only and prints the prune
command; restore skips chown when running as non-root.
- 2026-06-26: Snapshot IDs hashed at the storage boundary; snapshot list
made resilient to bad remote entries.
- 2026-06-24: Collapsed snapshot prune into vaultik prune; restore streams
blobs to disk and restores files in blob-locality order; cron output
fixes.
- 2026-06-17: Restore overhaul: ReadAt chunk reads from cached blobs,
reference-counted blob sweeper, integration tests; new internal/ui
output layer, banner, and progress lines.
- 2025-12-18: Added ARCHITECTURE.md and godoc coverage for exported API.
- 2025-07-26: End-to-end integration tests; manifest format refactor;
renamed backup to snapshot; afero filesystem abstraction.
- 2025-07-20: Initial design and implementation: cobra + fx CLI skeleton,
SQLite index database, UUID blob storage with streaming chunking.
# Future Steps
None queued; the release-scoping item is now the Next Step.