Derive the image's version from the .git in the build context (closes #366)

A plain docker build, as upaas runs it, passed no VERSION build arg and
had no .git, so every such image stamped "unknown". .dockerignore now
sends .git and every tracked file (an excluded one would read as
deleted and mark the version -dirty), and the VERSION build arg loses
its "unknown" default, so script/version derives the version inside the
build. A VERSION build arg still takes precedence.

The builder stage installs git and fails when its context carries .git
and the version still comes out "unknown".

Model: opus-5-5

.dockerignore

@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
+# .git is deliberately NOT excluded: the build derives the version it stamps
+# into the binary from it (script/version). Nor is any tracked file: git in
+# the build would see it as deleted and mark the version -dirty. Only
+# untracked files belong here.
+#
 # .ci-fingerprint is deliberately NOT excluded: it is the CI cache barrier
 # that keeps the check stages from replaying a cached pass. See the lint
 # stage of the Dockerfile.
-.git/
 bin/
-# Third-party browser assets are fetched and hash-verified inside the build by
-# script/fetch-assets. Excluding any host copy keeps a developer's working tree
-# from supplying the bytes that get shipped. The script and its
-# static/vendor.sha256 manifest stay in the context.
+# Extracted from 3p/ by `make assets` inside the build; a host copy is not
+# needed. The tarball in 3p/ must stay in the context.
 static/js/alpine.min.js
-*.md
-LICENSE
-.editorconfig
 .env
 .env.*
 *.db

.gitea/workflows/check.yml

@@ -28,12 +28,11 @@ jobs:
         run: script/ci-mark-superseded
 
       - name: Fingerprint the build context
-        # `.dockerignore` keeps docs out of the build context, so a docs-only
-        # commit legitimately replays the whole image from cache and stays
-        # cheap. Every other commit writes a new fingerprint into the context,
-        # which invalidates the `COPY . .` layer of both check stages: a
-        # commit that was never linted, formatted-checked, tested and built
-        # cannot report success from cache.
+        # Every commit that changes more than docs writes a new fingerprint
+        # into the context, which invalidates the `COPY . .` layer of both
+        # check stages: a commit that was never linted, formatted-checked,
+        # tested and built cannot report success from cache. Docs-only
+        # commits rebuild too, since the context also carries `.git`.
         run: |
           set -eu
           fp="$(git log -1 --format=%H -- . ':!*.md' ':!LICENSE' ':!.editorconfig')"

.gitignore

@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ temp/
 # CI cache barrier, written into the build context by the check workflow
 .ci-fingerprint
 
-# Third-party browser assets, fetched and hash-verified by
-# script/fetch-assets against static/vendor.sha256. Not committed:
-# REPO_POLICIES.md forbids minified bundles in version control.
-/static/js/alpine.min.js 
+# Alpine.js, extracted by `make assets` from its tarball in 3p/, which is
+# what is committed.
+/static/js/alpine.min.js

Dockerfile

@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ FROM golang:1.26.1-bookworm@sha256:4465644228bc2857a954b092167e12aa59c006a349228
 COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
 
 # jq is a runtime dependency of script/ci-mark-superseded, which the test
-# suite executes.
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends make curl ca-certificates jq && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+# suite executes. git is what script/version derives the version with.
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends make curl ca-certificates jq git && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 WORKDIR /build
 
@@ -51,25 +51,26 @@ RUN go mod download
 # the lint stage above.
 COPY . .
 
-# Fetch the third-party browser assets the UI serves. They are not committed
-# (REPO_POLICIES.md forbids minified bundles in version control) and
-# .dockerignore keeps any host copy out of the build context, so this step is
-# the only way they enter the image. Each download is checked against a
-# hardcoded sha256 and the build fails on mismatch; make test re-checks the
-# hashes against the bytes go:embed actually put in the binary.
-RUN script/fetch-assets
-
-# Run tests and build
+# Run tests and build. Both first run script/assets, which extracts Alpine.js
+# from its tarball in 3p/.
 RUN make test
 
-# Version stamped into the binary. .dockerignore excludes .git/, so
-# nothing in this stage can derive it: script/docker resolves it on the
-# host and passes it in. The default is what a bare `docker build .`
-# with no --build-arg gets, and it names no tag the tree may not be at.
+# Version stamped into the binary: the VERSION build arg when one is
+# given, otherwise what script/version derives from the .git the build
+# context carries, so any `docker build .` of a clone stamps its commit.
+# With neither, as from a source tarball, it is "unknown".
 #
-# Declared here, below the test and asset steps, so a changed version
-# does not invalidate their cached layers.
-ARG VERSION=unknown
+# Declared here, below the test step, so a changed version does not
+# invalidate its cached layer.
+ARG VERSION
+
+# A context that carries .git must not stamp "unknown": that means git is
+# missing here or refused to read the checkout, and the image could not be
+# traced back to its commit.
+RUN if [ -d .git ] && [ "$(make version VERSION="$VERSION")" = unknown ]; then \
+        echo "version is unknown although the build context carries .git" >&2; \
+        exit 1; \
+    fi
 
 RUN make build VERSION="$VERSION"
 

Makefile

@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
 .DEFAULT_GOAL := check
 
 # Version stamped into the binary. Derived from git by script/version;
-# override it (`make build VERSION=v1.2.3`) where git metadata is
-# unavailable, which is how the Dockerfile passes its build arg in.
+# override it (`make build VERSION=v1.2.3`) to stamp a given value, which is
+# how the Dockerfile passes its build arg in.
 VERSION ?= $(shell script/version)
 
-# An empty override (`make build VERSION=`, or a `--build-arg VERSION=`
-# landing on the Dockerfile's `make build VERSION="$VERSION"`) means unset,
+# An empty override (`make build VERSION=`, or the Dockerfile's `make build
+# VERSION="$VERSION"` when no VERSION build arg was given) means unset,
 # exactly as it does in script/version -- stamping "" would leave the binary
 # reporting no version and the footer back on its "dev" fallback. `override`
 # is required: a plain assignment loses to the command-line definition it
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ setup:
 	@script/setup
 
 assets:
-	@script/fetch-assets
+	@script/assets
 
 test:
 	@script/test
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ fmt-check:
 check:
 	@script/check
 
-build:
+build: assets
 	go build -ldflags '$(strip -X main.version=$(VERSION) $(GO_LDFLAGS))' -o bin/webhooker ./cmd/webhooker
 
 run: build
 	./bin/webhooker
 
-dev:
+dev: assets
 	go run ./cmd/webhooker
 
 deps:

README.md

@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ before deploying one.
 - Go 1.26.1+ (the version in `go.mod`)
 - Docker (for linting, for the test stage of the CI gate, and for
   containerized deployment)
-- `curl`, used by `script/fetch-assets` to download the third-party
-  browser assets, which are not committed (`make bootstrap` installs
-  it if missing)
 
 golangci-lint is not a prerequisite and must not be installed on the
 host: `script/bootstrap` does not install it, and `make lint` runs the
@@ -36,9 +33,7 @@ digest-pinned linter image via `Dockerfile.lint`.
 git clone https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/webhooker.git
 cd webhooker
 
-# Install Go dependencies and the third-party browser assets.
-# `make deps` alone is not enough: it only runs go mod download/tidy,
-# and the checks below need the fetched assets.
+# Install the Go toolchain if missing, and the Go dependencies
 make bootstrap
 
 # Run all checks (test, lint, format check)
@@ -58,7 +53,7 @@ make docker
 ```bash
 make bootstrap  # Install all dependencies (idempotent)
 make setup      # Bootstrap + install git pre-commit hook
-make assets     # Fetch + verify third-party browser assets
+make assets     # Extract Alpine.js from 3p/ (test, check, build, dev run it)
 make fmt        # Format code (gofmt + goimports)
 make fmt-check  # Fail if gofmt would change anything (writes nothing)
 make lint       # Run golangci-lint in Docker (Dockerfile.lint)
@@ -1128,13 +1123,21 @@ build itself.
 | Uncommitted changes | the above with a `-dirty` suffix |
 | No git metadata | `unknown` |
 
-`unknown` is what a source tarball or a `docker build .` with no
-`--build-arg VERSION=...` reports. `.dockerignore` excludes `.git/`, so
-the build context carries no git metadata and the image cannot derive
-the version itself: `script/docker` (and so `make docker`) resolves it
-on the host and passes it in as the `VERSION` build arg. A build that
-reports `unknown` is a build nobody told what it was; it is not a
-failure, but it cannot be traced back to a commit.
+The image derives it the same way, from the `.git` that the build
+context carries, so any `docker build .` of a clone stamps the commit it
+was built from; a shallow clone of one branch has no tags and stamps the
+short SHA. `.dockerignore` must therefore leave out neither `.git` nor
+any tracked file, which git in the build would see as deleted, marking
+the version `-dirty`. A `VERSION` build arg (`--build-arg VERSION=...`)
+takes precedence; `script/docker` (and so `make docker`) passes the one
+`script/version` resolves on the host. The image build fails if its
+context carries `.git` and the version still comes out `unknown`, which
+means git in the build could not read the checkout.
+
+`unknown` is what a source tarball, or a `docker build` with no `.git`
+in its context and no `VERSION` build arg, reports. A build that reports
+`unknown` is a build nobody told what it was; it is not a failure, but
+it cannot be traced back to a commit.
 
 `make version` prints what the current checkout would stamp, and
 `make build VERSION=v1.2.3` overrides it. An empty override — from
@@ -1221,14 +1224,15 @@ This repository adheres to the
 standard: normalized scripts in `script/` are the entrypoints for the
 development workflow. Ten of the Makefile's seventeen targets are thin
 shims that call them; `build`, `run`, `dev`, `deps`, `clean`, `css` and
-`version` are inline commands with no script behind them, though
-`build` and `version` both take their value from `script/version`.
+`version` are inline commands with no script behind them, though `build`,
+`run` and `dev` first run `script/assets`, and `build` and `version` both
+take their value from `script/version`.
 
-`make check` needs the third-party browser assets in `static/`, which
-are not committed, so run `make bootstrap` (or just `make assets`) once
-after cloning. Without them the tests fail with a message naming that
-remedy. `make check` does not fetch them itself because it must not
-change any files in the repo.
+`script/test`, `make build` and `make dev` each run `script/assets`
+first, which writes the ignored `static/js/alpine.min.js` (see
+[Third-party browser assets](#third-party-browser-assets)), so
+`make test`, `make check` and the pre-commit hook work on a fresh clone
+without a separate step.
 
 We provide:
 
@@ -1236,8 +1240,8 @@ We provide:
 - `script/setup` — make a fresh clone ready for development
   (bootstrap, then install-precommit)
 - `script/projectname` — output the project name ("webhooker")
-- `script/fetch-assets` — download the third-party browser assets into
-  `static/`, verifying each against its pinned sha256
+- `script/assets` — extract Alpine.js from its tarball in `3p/` (see
+  [Third-party browser assets](#third-party-browser-assets))
 - `script/test` — run the test suite
 - `script/lint` — run golangci-lint in Docker (see Linting below)
 - `script/fmt` — format all code (writes)
@@ -1259,24 +1263,25 @@ We provide:
 
 ## Third-party browser assets
 
-The web UI serves one third-party script, Alpine.js. It is **not** committed:
-a minified bundle in the tree is unreviewable, and `REPO_POLICIES.md` bars
-both committed build artifacts and unpinned external references.
+The web UI serves one third-party script, Alpine.js. Its npm package tarball
+is committed as `3p/alpinejs-3.14.9.tgz`, byte for byte as the npm registry
+publishes it. It is a dependency, not this repo's build output, so
+`REPO_POLICIES.md`'s rule against committed build artifacts does not apply.
+The directory is `3p/` rather than `vendor/` because Go treats a root
+`vendor/` directory as its module vendor directory.
 
-Instead `script/fetch-assets` downloads it from a pinned URL, checks the
-download against a hardcoded sha256, and installs it under `static/`. The
-sha256 of every installed asset is recorded in `static/vendor.sha256`, and
-`static/vendor_test.go` re-hashes the bytes `go:embed` put in the binary
-against that manifest — so the pin is enforced on what actually ships, not
-merely written down. Any mismatch fails the build.
+`script/assets` (`make assets`) extracts the browser build,
+`package/dist/cdn.min.js`, from the tarball to `static/js/alpine.min.js`,
+where `go:embed` picks it up. `script/test`, `make build` and `make dev` run
+it first, and the Dockerfile builds through `make test` and `make build`, so
+nothing downloads Alpine.js. The extracted file is not committed, and
+`.dockerignore` keeps any host copy out of the build context.
 
-`make bootstrap` runs the fetch for local development, and the Dockerfile
-runs it in the build stage; `.gitignore` and `.dockerignore` keep the
-artifact out of both the repo and the build context.
-
-To move to a new version: update the version, URL, and tarball sha256 in
-`script/fetch-assets` and the asset sha256 in `static/vendor.sha256`, then
-run `make assets && make check`.
+To move to a new version: download
+`https://registry.npmjs.org/alpinejs/-/alpinejs-<version>.tgz`, check it
+against the `dist.integrity` hash listed at
+`https://registry.npmjs.org/alpinejs/<version>`, replace the tarball in `3p/`
+with it, update its file name in `script/assets`, and run `make check`.
 
 ## Rationale
 
@@ -2755,6 +2760,8 @@ imports. The entry point is `cmd/webhooker/main.go`.
 
 ```
 webhooker/
+├── 3p/
+│   └── alpinejs-3.14.9.tgz    # Alpine.js npm package, extracted by make assets
 ├── cmd/webhooker/
 │   └── main.go               # Entry point: subcommand dispatch; no args locks DATA_DIR and wires fx
 ├── internal/
@@ -2848,8 +2855,7 @@ webhooker/
 │   ├── css/tailwind.css       # Generated stylesheet the pages load
 │   ├── css/style.css          # Older hand-written stylesheet, no longer loaded
 │   ├── js/app.js              # Progressive-enhancement copy-to-clipboard
-│   ├── js/alpine.min.js       # Alpine.js, fetched by script/fetch-assets, not committed
-│   └── vendor.sha256          # Pinned hashes the fetched assets are verified against
+│   └── js/alpine.min.js       # Alpine.js, extracted from 3p/ by make assets, not committed
 ├── templates/                 # Go HTML templates (base, login, sources, etc.)
 ├── script/                    # Scripts to Rule Them All entrypoints
 ├── Dockerfile                 # Three stages: lint, test+build, Alpine runtime
@@ -3161,14 +3167,15 @@ version is fixed independently of the compiler's:
    `make fmt-check`, then `golangci-lint config verify` and
    `golangci-lint run`, both with `--network=none`.
 2. **Builder stage** (`golang:1.26.1-bookworm`) — depends on the lint
-   stage passing (it copies a file from it), runs `script/fetch-assets`
-   to download and verify the third-party browser assets, then runs
-   `make test` and `make build`, and finally rebuilds the binary with
-   `CGO_ENABLED=1` and static linking so it runs on musl. Both builds
-   go through `make build`, the relink adding its `-extldflags` via
-   `GO_LDFLAGS`, so neither can drop the `-X` that stamps the version.
-   The version arrives as the `VERSION` build arg, since the context
-   has no `.git` (see [Version stamping](#version-stamping)).
+   stage passing (it copies a file from it), runs `make test` and
+   `make build` (both extract Alpine.js from `3p/` first), and finally
+   rebuilds the binary with `CGO_ENABLED=1` and static linking so it
+   runs on musl. Both builds go through `make build`, the relink adding
+   its `-extldflags` via `GO_LDFLAGS`, so neither can drop the `-X` that
+   stamps the version. The version is the `VERSION` build arg if one is
+   given, otherwise derived from the `.git` in the context, and the
+   stage fails if a context with `.git` would stamp `unknown` (see
+   [Version stamping](#version-stamping)).
 3. **Runtime stage** (`alpine:3.21`) — copies the static binary and
    `deploy/docker-entrypoint.sh`, creates the `/var/lib/webhooker`
    directory for all SQLite databases, exposes port 8080, and includes
@@ -3199,16 +3206,17 @@ A layer cache lets `docker build .` exit 0 in seconds with the lint and
 test stages replayed rather than executed, which would make a green
 check meaningless. The `check` workflow therefore writes
 `.ci-fingerprint` into the build context before building. Its value is
-the hash of the last commit that touched the build context, so:
+the hash of the last commit that touched anything other than `*.md`,
+`LICENSE` and `.editorconfig`, so:
 
 - Any commit that changes code (including a squash merge whose tree
   matches an already-built branch) gets a new fingerprint, invalidates
   the `COPY . .` layer of both check stages, and really runs
   `make fmt-check`, `golangci-lint`, `make test`, and `make build`. A
   run that reports success ran them.
-- A docs-only commit leaves the fingerprint unchanged — `.dockerignore`
-  excludes `*.md`, `LICENSE` and `.editorconfig` from the context
-  anyway — so the image replays from cache and costs seconds.
+- A docs-only commit leaves the fingerprint unchanged, but it still
+  rebuilds in full: the context also carries `.git`, which changes with
+  every commit (see [Version stamping](#version-stamping)).
 
 The module download layer sits above `COPY . .` and stays cached either
 way.

internal/database/export_test.go

@@ -79,9 +79,3 @@ func (d *Database) ExportSetBannerOut(w io.Writer) {
 func DummyPasswordHashForTest() string {
 	return dummyPasswordHash()
 }
-
-// HashPasswordWithDefaultsForTest hashes with the shipped Argon2id
-// parameters, which TestMain has lowered for HashPassword itself.
-func HashPasswordWithDefaultsForTest(password string) (string, error) {
-	return hashPasswordWith(password, DefaultPasswordConfig())
-}

internal/database/main_test.go

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-package database_test
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
-)
-
-// TestMain lowers the password hashing cost before any test runs. See
-// database.LowerPasswordHashCostForTest.
-func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
-	database.LowerPasswordHashCostForTest()
-	m.Run()
-}

internal/database/password.go

@@ -63,24 +63,10 @@ func DefaultPasswordConfig() *PasswordConfig {
 	}
 }
 
-// hashConfig is what HashPassword hashes with: the defaults above.
-// Only a test binary changes it, through LowerPasswordHashCostForTest,
-// before any test runs.
-//
-//nolint:gochecknoglobals // see above
-var hashConfig = DefaultPasswordConfig()
-
 // HashPassword generates an Argon2id hash of the password
 func HashPassword(password string) (string, error) {
-	return hashPasswordWith(password, hashConfig)
-}
+	config := DefaultPasswordConfig()
 
-// hashPasswordWith generates an Argon2id hash of the password with
-// the given parameters.
-func hashPasswordWith(
-	password string,
-	config *PasswordConfig,
-) (string, error) {
 	// Generate a salt
 	salt := make([]byte, config.SaltLen)
 

internal/database/password_test.go

@@ -192,36 +192,6 @@ func TestHashPasswordUniqueness(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestHashPassword_ShippedParameters hashes and verifies at the
-// shipped Argon2id parameters. Every other test hashes at the lowered
-// memory cost TestMain sets, so this is the one that keeps production
-// hashing covered. One hash and one verification: each costs 64 MB.
-func TestHashPassword_ShippedParameters(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	password := "correct horse battery staple"
-
-	hash, err := database.HashPasswordWithDefaultsForTest(password)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("hashing with the shipped parameters: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	const shipped = "$argon2id$v=19$m=65536,t=1,p=4$"
-
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(hash, shipped) {
-		t.Errorf("hash = %q, want prefix %q", hash, shipped)
-	}
-
-	valid, err := database.VerifyPassword(password, hash)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("VerifyPassword() error = %v", err)
-	}
-
-	if !valid {
-		t.Error("VerifyPassword() returned false for correct password")
-	}
-}
-
 // TestVerifyDummyPassword_DoesRealWork covers the anti-enumeration
 // path. Login charges an unknown username a verification against a
 // dummy hash so that a nonexistent account is not answered in

internal/database/testing.go

@@ -45,20 +45,3 @@ func NewTestWebhookDBManagerWithLogger(
 		log:     log,
 	}
 }
-
-// testArgon2Memory is the Argon2id memory cost, in KiB, that test
-// binaries hash with: 1 MB instead of the shipped 64 MB.
-const testArgon2Memory = 1024
-
-// LowerPasswordHashCostForTest makes HashPassword use a 1 MB Argon2id
-// memory cost instead of the shipped 64 MB, for the rest of the
-// process. Call it from TestMain, before any test runs.
-//
-// Every test that starts a database hashes the bootstrap admin
-// password, and a package runs dozens of those tests in parallel.
-// Under the race detector each 64 MB hash holds about 150 MB resident.
-// VerifyPassword reads the cost from the hash it checks, so
-// verification follows. Production code never calls this.
-func LowerPasswordHashCostForTest() {
-	hashConfig.Memory = testArgon2Memory
-}

internal/gormlog/main_test.go

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-package gormlog_test
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
-)
-
-// TestMain lowers the password hashing cost before any test runs. See
-// database.LowerPasswordHashCostForTest.
-func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
-	database.LowerPasswordHashCostForTest()
-	m.Run()
-}

internal/handlers/main_test.go

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-package handlers_test
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
-)
-
-// TestMain lowers the password hashing cost before any test runs. See
-// database.LowerPasswordHashCostForTest.
-func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
-	database.LowerPasswordHashCostForTest()
-	m.Run()
-}

internal/resetpw/main_test.go

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-package resetpw_test
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
-)
-
-// TestMain lowers the password hashing cost before any test runs. See
-// database.LowerPasswordHashCostForTest.
-func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
-	database.LowerPasswordHashCostForTest()
-	m.Run()
-}

internal/resetpw/resetpw_test.go

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ func (n *noopEvictor) EvictWebhook(string) {}
 // and the database, exactly as internal/handlers builds them.
 //
 // One application per test function, not per case: every start that
-// finds no account seeds one with an Argon2id hash, and this package's
+// finds no account seeds one at 64 MB of Argon2id, and this package's
 // budget is not the place to spend that repeatedly.
 func newServerApp(
 	t *testing.T, dir string,

internal/server/main_test.go

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-package server_test
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
-)
-
-// TestMain lowers the password hashing cost before any test runs. See
-// database.LowerPasswordHashCostForTest.
-func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
-	database.LowerPasswordHashCostForTest()
-	m.Run()
-}

internal/server/static_assets_test.go

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ import (
 
 // TestBaseTemplateScriptsAreServed walks every /s/ script the base
 // template loads on each page and fetches it through the real router.
-// Alpine.js is fetched at build time rather than committed, so nothing
-// in the repo guarantees it is present: this is the check that the page
-// still gets the JavaScript it asks for.
+// Alpine.js is extracted from its tarball in 3p/ at build time, so the
+// file is not in the tree: this is the check that the page still gets
+// the JavaScript it asks for.
 func TestBaseTemplateScriptsAreServed(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 

internal/versionscript/version_script_test.go

@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ func TestVersion_EnclosingRepositoryIsNotUsed(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, unknown, runScript(t, inner, nil))
 }
 
-// The Docker build has no git metadata, so the version arrives as an
-// environment override. It wins over anything derivable.
+// An explicit VERSION, such as the Dockerfile's build arg, wins over
+// anything derivable.
 func TestVersion_EnvironmentOverrideWins(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ func TestVersion_EnvironmentOverrideWins(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // An empty VERSION is treated as unset rather than stamping an empty
-// string: the Dockerfile's build arg has a non-empty default, but a
-// caller exporting VERSION= must not produce a binary reporting "".
+// string: a caller exporting VERSION= must not produce a binary
+// reporting "".
 func TestVersion_EmptyOverrideFallsBackToGit(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
@@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ func TestMakefile_BuildComposesVersionAndExtraFlags(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // A caller can define VERSION as the empty string -- `make build
-// VERSION=`, or a `--build-arg VERSION=` reaching the Dockerfile's `make
-// build VERSION="$VERSION"`. script/version's own guard does not cover
+// VERSION=`, or the Dockerfile's `make build VERSION="$VERSION"` when no
+// VERSION build arg was given. script/version's own guard does not cover
 // that: the value never passes through the script. Stamping "" would
 // leave the binary reporting no version and the footer on "dev", which
 // is the defect this package exists for.
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ func TestDockerfile_BuildsThroughTheMakeTarget(t *testing.T) {
 
 	require.NotContains(t, dockerfile, "go build",
 		"a raw go build bypasses the Makefile's -X flag")
-	require.Contains(t, dockerfile, "ARG VERSION=")
+	require.Contains(t, dockerfile, "ARG VERSION")
 	require.Contains(t, dockerfile,
 		`make build VERSION="$VERSION" GO_LDFLAGS='-extldflags "-static"'`)
 }

script/assets

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# script/assets: extract Alpine.js from its npm package tarball, committed
+# in 3p/, to static/js/alpine.min.js, where go:embed reads it. The
+# extracted file is not committed. script/test, make build and make dev run
+# this first.
+set -eu
+
+ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
+
+main() {
+    cd "$ROOT"
+    tar -xzOf 3p/alpinejs-3.14.9.tgz package/dist/cdn.min.js \
+        >static/js/alpine.min.js
+}
+
+main "$@"

script/bootstrap

@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@
 # installed tools are skipped. Base tooling comes from nix, apt, brew,
 # or apk (detected in that order); assumes NOTHING is present (not git,
 # make, or go). golangci-lint is deliberately not installed: linting runs
-# only in docker, via script/lint and Dockerfile.lint. Finishes by running
-# script/fetch-assets, which installs the hash-pinned third-party browser
-# assets the repo does not commit.
+# only in docker, via script/lint and Dockerfile.lint.
 set -eu
 
 ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
@@ -69,11 +67,6 @@ main() {
 
     go mod download
 
-    # Third-party browser assets are not committed; fetch and verify them
-    # so a fresh clone can build and test.
-    if missing curl; then pkg_install curl curl curl curl; fi
-    "$ROOT/script/fetch-assets"
-
     echo "bootstrap complete"
 }
 

script/check

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # script/check: run all checks (test, lint, fmt-check). Our own
-# extension to scripts-to-rule-them-all. Must not modify any files.
+# extension to scripts-to-rule-them-all.
+# Writes only the ignored static/js/alpine.min.js, through script/test.
 # Generic: usually needs no adaptation.
 set -eu
 

script/docker

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # script/docker: build the Docker image tagged with the project name.
 # The tag comes from script/projectname.
 #
-# .dockerignore excludes .git/, so the builder stage cannot derive the
-# version itself. It is resolved here, where the checkout is, and passed
-# in as a build arg; without it the image would stamp itself "unknown".
+# The version script/version resolves here goes in as the VERSION build
+# arg, which takes precedence over what the build would derive from the
+# .git in its context.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"

script/fetch-assets

@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# script/fetch-assets: download the third-party browser assets the web UI
-# ships and install them under static/. Minified bundles are not committed
-# (REPO_POLICIES.md: no build artifacts in version control), so the build
-# fetches them here. Every download is verified against a hardcoded sha256
-# before it is installed, and any mismatch aborts. Idempotent: an asset
-# already present with its pinned hash is left alone.
-set -eu
-
-ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
-
-# The sha256 of each installed asset lives in static/vendor.sha256, in
-# sha256sum(1) format, with paths relative to static/. That file is the
-# single source of truth: this script verifies against it, and
-# static/vendor_test.go asserts the bytes embedded into the binary match
-# it, so the hash cannot rot into a value nothing checks.
-MANIFEST="static/vendor.sha256"
-
-# Alpine.js 3.14.9, 2026-08-17. Fetched from registry.npmjs.org, the
-# publisher of record; the jsDelivr and unpkg copies are mirrors of this
-# same tarball. dist/cdn.min.js is the browser build Alpine publishes for
-# a <script> tag.
-ALPINE_VERSION="3.14.9"
-ALPINE_URL="https://registry.npmjs.org/alpinejs/-/alpinejs-${ALPINE_VERSION}.tgz"
-# sha256 of alpinejs-3.14.9.tgz
-ALPINE_TARBALL_SHA256="97dad7c0c81e659cfc8e7700055da9770f8186187cb9a8a76efb57e00d5ce52a"
-ALPINE_MEMBER="package/dist/cdn.min.js"
-ALPINE_DEST="js/alpine.min.js"
-
-sha256_of() {
-    if command -v sha256sum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-        sha256sum "$1" | cut -d' ' -f1
-    else
-        shasum -a 256 "$1" | cut -d' ' -f1
-    fi
-}
-
-# expected_sha256 <path-relative-to-static>
-expected_sha256() {
-    awk -v want="$1" '$2 == want { print $1; found = 1 }
-        END { if (!found) exit 1 }' "$ROOT/$MANIFEST"
-}
-
-# verify <file> <expected-sha256> <what>
-verify() {
-    actual="$(sha256_of "$1")"
-    if [ "$actual" != "$2" ]; then
-        echo "fetch-assets: sha256 mismatch for $3" >&2
-        echo "  expected: $2" >&2
-        echo "  actual:   $actual" >&2
-        exit 1
-    fi
-}
-
-# up_to_date <path-relative-to-static> <expected-sha256>
-up_to_date() {
-    [ -f "$ROOT/static/$1" ] || return 1
-    [ "$(sha256_of "$ROOT/static/$1")" = "$2" ]
-}
-
-fetch_alpine() {
-    want="$(expected_sha256 "$ALPINE_DEST")"
-
-    if up_to_date "$ALPINE_DEST" "$want"; then
-        echo "fetch-assets: static/$ALPINE_DEST already at $want"
-        return 0
-    fi
-
-    echo "fetch-assets: fetching Alpine.js $ALPINE_VERSION from $ALPINE_URL"
-    tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
-    trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT INT TERM
-    curl -fsSL -o "$tmp/alpine.tgz" "$ALPINE_URL"
-    verify "$tmp/alpine.tgz" "$ALPINE_TARBALL_SHA256" "alpinejs-${ALPINE_VERSION}.tgz"
-    tar -xzOf "$tmp/alpine.tgz" "$ALPINE_MEMBER" >"$tmp/alpine.min.js"
-    verify "$tmp/alpine.min.js" "$want" "$ALPINE_MEMBER from alpinejs-${ALPINE_VERSION}.tgz"
-
-    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$ROOT/static/$ALPINE_DEST")"
-    cp "$tmp/alpine.min.js" "$ROOT/static/$ALPINE_DEST"
-    rm -rf "$tmp"
-    trap - EXIT INT TERM
-    echo "fetch-assets: installed static/$ALPINE_DEST ($want)"
-}
-
-# Re-check every manifest entry against what is now on disk, so an entry
-# no script installs fails loudly instead of passing silently.
-verify_manifest() {
-    while read -r want path; do
-        case "$want" in '' | '#'*) continue ;; esac
-        if [ ! -f "$ROOT/static/$path" ]; then
-            echo "fetch-assets: $MANIFEST lists static/$path, which is missing" >&2
-            exit 1
-        fi
-        verify "$ROOT/static/$path" "$want" "static/$path"
-    done <"$ROOT/$MANIFEST"
-}
-
-main() {
-    cd "$ROOT"
-    fetch_alpine
-    verify_manifest
-    echo "fetch-assets: all assets in $MANIFEST verified"
-}
-
-main "$@"

script/test

@@ -22,18 +22,14 @@
 # The one figure above 90s is GOMAXPROCS 1, a synthetic core floor rather than
 # a condition CI runs under. If a CPU-limited runner ever puts a real run near
 # 67s, that is the datum to revisit the org figure with.
-#
-# -p 4 -parallel 8 keep the run under 2 GB of memory: at most four test
-# binaries build or run at once, each with at most eight parallel tests. Under
-# -race every test binary and every link costs a few hundred MB, so the
-# defaults (one per core) add up to several GB on a many-core host.
 set -eu
 
 ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
 
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
-    go test -v -race -p 4 -parallel 8 -timeout 90s ./...
+    "$ROOT/script/assets"
+    go test -v -race -timeout 90s ./...
 }
 
 main "$@"

script/version

@@ -7,18 +7,16 @@
 #
 # Order of precedence:
 #
-#   1. $VERSION, if set and non-empty. This is how the value reaches a
-#      build that cannot derive it: .dockerignore excludes .git/, so the
-#      builder stage has no git metadata and the Dockerfile takes the
-#      value as a build arg instead.
+#   1. $VERSION, if set and non-empty: an explicit value, such as the
+#      Dockerfile's VERSION build arg.
 #   2. `git describe --tags --always --dirty` against this checkout. At
 #      a clean tagged commit that is exactly the tag; otherwise it
 #      carries the short SHA, the commit distance when a tag is
 #      reachable, and a -dirty suffix for uncommitted changes.
 #   3. "unknown", for a tree with no git metadata and no $VERSION -- a
-#      source tarball, or `docker build .` with no --build-arg. That
-#      case must not fail the build and must not name a tag the tree may
-#      not be at, so it names nothing.
+#      source tarball, or a `docker build` with no .git in its context
+#      and no VERSION build arg. That case must not fail the build and
+#      must not name a tag the tree may not be at, so it names nothing.
 #
 # The git step insists the enclosing repository is this checkout, not
 # merely some repository above it: an unpacked tarball sitting inside an

static/vendor.sha256

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-3ed1eed252488921df65e363d6715deb04d7f92aaedb9e52199fdf73cb1e0ad3  js/alpine.min.js

static/vendor_test.go

@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-package static_test
-
-import (
-	"bufio"
-	"crypto/sha256"
-	"encoding/hex"
-	"os"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-
-	"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/static"
-)
-
-const manifestPath = "vendor.sha256"
-
-// fetchHint is appended to every failure here: the assets the manifest
-// covers are fetched by the build, not committed, so a fresh clone that
-// has not run script/fetch-assets fails this test and should be told why.
-const fetchHint = "run `script/fetch-assets` (or `make assets`) to install " +
-	"the pinned third-party assets"
-
-// TestVendoredAssetsMatchManifest asserts that every asset listed in
-// static/vendor.sha256 is embedded in the binary with exactly the pinned
-// bytes. script/fetch-assets verifies the same hashes at download time;
-// this test verifies them again on what actually ships, so a build that
-// skipped, cached, or subverted the fetch cannot produce a binary serving
-// unpinned third-party JavaScript.
-func TestVendoredAssetsMatchManifest(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	entries := readManifest(t)
-	require.NotEmpty(t, entries, "%s lists no assets", manifestPath)
-
-	for path, want := range entries {
-		t.Run(path, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			data, err := static.Static.ReadFile(path)
-			require.NoErrorf(
-				t, err,
-				"%s is listed in %s but is not embedded; %s",
-				path, manifestPath, fetchHint,
-			)
-
-			sum := sha256.Sum256(data)
-			got := hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])
-			require.Equalf(
-				t, want, got,
-				"embedded %s does not match its pinned sha256 in %s; %s",
-				path, manifestPath, fetchHint,
-			)
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// readManifest parses static/vendor.sha256, which is in sha256sum(1)
-// format with paths relative to static/.
-func readManifest(t *testing.T) map[string]string {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	f, err := os.Open(manifestPath)
-	require.NoError(t, err, "opening %s", manifestPath)
-
-	defer func() { require.NoError(t, f.Close()) }()
-
-	entries := make(map[string]string)
-	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(f)
-
-	for scanner.Scan() {
-		line := strings.TrimSpace(scanner.Text())
-		if line == "" || strings.HasPrefix(line, "#") {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		fields := strings.Fields(line)
-		require.Lenf(
-			t, fields, 2,
-			"%s: malformed entry %q, want \"<sha256>  <path>\"",
-			manifestPath, line,
-		)
-
-		sum, path := fields[0], fields[1]
-		require.Lenf(t, sum, 64, "%s: %q is not a sha256", manifestPath, sum)
-		entries[path] = sum
-	}
-
-	require.NoError(t, scanner.Err(), "reading %s", manifestPath)
-
-	return entries
-}