feat(git-cli-proxy): serve distinct commit authors per repository

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Problem

A commit records an author as a name and an e-mail and carries no vendor account — git has no concept of one. A consumer that needs the account (to attribute commits to a person) must ask the vendor, and the only handle it has is a commit sha. Asking once per commit is exactly what this service exists to avoid.

Fix

GET /v1/authors?repo=&since=&page_size=&page_token= returns one row per distinct commit author reachable from any branch:

{ author_email, author_name, sample_sha, last_committed_date, commit_count }

sample_sha is the author's most recent commit, so a consumer resolves the account with one vendor call per author instead of one per commit. No outbound HTTP is added here — the endpoint is pure git, and which vendor to ask stays the connector's business.

Two details worth review attention:

• The walk reuses the commit reader's NUL-separated record framing, not the branch reader's 0x1f fields. An ident is attacker-written and 0x1f survives inside one, so a crafted name could otherwise shift the remaining fields and forge another author's row. There is a test for that case.
• since is applied to the enumerated result, not passed to git log --since, for the reason commits::enumerate documents: --since is a traversal cutoff, so an author whose only qualifying commit sits behind an older parent would never be reached.

An e-mail is reported exactly as git records it, so two casings of one address are two rows — consistent with the sibling readers, and consumers already normalise.

Verification

• Unit tests for the fold: one row per e-mail, newest commit supplies the sample and name, ordering by instant rather than text, since bounding both membership and the count, separator injection, malformed records.
• An integration test over a real blobless clone alongside the existing reader coverage.
• Ran the gear locally against a public repository and compared with git log: identical author set and per-author counts, both unfiltered and with since; paging returns a working cursor.
• OpenAPI document regenerated with scripts/ci/openapi_spec.py update; the drift check passes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an authenticated API endpoint for listing distinct commit authors.
  • Results include author names and email addresses, commit counts, latest commit dates, and sample commit identifiers.
  • Added repository and date filtering, configurable page sizes, and cursor-based pagination.
  • Author records are consolidated across branches and ordered consistently.
• Documentation
  • Added API schemas, parameters, responses, and supported error definitions for the authors endpoint.

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Adds Git author aggregation by email and exposes it through an authenticated, cursor-paginated GET /v1/authors endpoint. The change includes date filtering, response schemas, route registration, validation, and tests.

Changes

Authors API

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Author aggregation and validation src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/engine/read/authors.rs, src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/engine/read/commits.rs, src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/engine/read/mod.rs	The Git reader groups valid branch-reachable commits by email, retains the newest author metadata, counts commits, applies date filtering, sorts results, and adds unit and integration coverage.
Authors endpoint and API contract src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/api/data.rs, src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/api/mod.rs, docs/components/backend/git-cli-proxy/openapi.json	The authenticated GET /v1/authors route accepts repository, date, page-size, and page-token parameters. It returns cursor-paginated AuthorsPage data and documents the request and response schemas.
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate)	~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to b2c36

The new authors endpoint can misattribute commits and return incorrect author counts when crafted identities are present, while large repositories may consume excessive memory because pagination does not bound the history scan. These correctness and availability risks should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant AuthorsRoute
  participant list_authors
  participant AuthorsReader
  participant GitRunner
  Client->>AuthorsRoute: GET /v1/authors
  AuthorsRoute->>list_authors: dispatch query
  list_authors->>AuthorsReader: read authors with since filter
  AuthorsReader->>GitRunner: run git log across branches
  GitRunner-->>AuthorsReader: commit records
  AuthorsReader-->>list_authors: grouped AuthorRow values
  list_authors-->>Client: AuthorsPage JSON

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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/engine/read/authors.rs (1)

92-109: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Hoist the stored ordinal instead of re-deriving it for every commit.

ordinal_of(&row.last_committed_date) re-parses an RFC 3339 timestamp and formats a new String for each commit of an author. On a repository with a long history this runs once per commit in the walk. Keep the ordinal next to the row in a private fold type and map to AuthorRow at the end.

As per coding guidelines: "Avoid allocations in per-row or per-item loops when values can be borrowed or hoisted".

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In `@src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/engine/read/authors.rs` around lines
92 - 109, The author aggregation fold currently re-derives and allocates an
ordinal from last_committed_date for every commit. Introduce a private fold type
that stores the ordinal alongside each accumulated row, compare against that
stored value in the by_email update path, update it when the newest commit is
selected, and convert the fold entries to AuthorRow only after processing
completes.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/engine/read/authors.rs`:
- Line 45: Update the Git pretty-format construction in the authors parsing flow
to emit the e-mail field before the author-name field, making the trailing
absorbing field the name rather than the identity key. Adjust the related
parsing/test coverage, especially
an_ident_carrying_the_separator_cannot_shift_another_authors_row, to include an
empty-e-mail author case and preserve correct row attribution.
- Around line 39-55: Update the authors read flow in read and its GitRunner
invocation so git log history is streamed or otherwise bounded before stdout is
fully materialized, preserving the --branches reachability contract and since
filtering. Ensure CPU-heavy fold parsing runs via spawn_blocking when
appropriate; do not address the issue by merely moving fold after the existing
unbounded run.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/engine/read/authors.rs`:
- Around line 92-109: The author aggregation fold currently re-derives and
allocates an ordinal from last_committed_date for every commit. Introduce a
private fold type that stores the ordinal alongside each accumulated row,
compare against that stored value in the by_email update path, update it when
the newest commit is selected, and convert the fold entries to AuthorRow only
after processing completes.

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• docs/components/backend/git-cli-proxy/openapi.json
• src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/api/data.rs
• src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/api/mod.rs
• src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/engine/read/authors.rs
• src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/engine/read/commits.rs
• src/backend/services/git-cli-proxy/src/engine/read/mod.rs