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Every macOS job checks out the tested commit with --depth=1 into an empty repository, so it downloads the whole tree every time. In admission job 107695138963 (run 36017663612) that was 129 MB in 29 s for the main repository, then 17 s for the submodules. Most of the submodule time is ghostty, whose depth-1 clone fetches its default branch before the pinned commit. Across the 80 ci.yml PR runs since 11:00Z on 2026-09-24, the checkout step alone had these medians:

Job Checkout median, total
admission (42 jobs) 48 s, 35 min
app-host shards (33) 34 s, 21 min
swift-package-tests (23) 44 s, 17 min
cli-pipe-regressions (26) 35 s, 15 min

Measured. A fetch into a repository that already holds a recent main sends only what changed since. Against a depth-1 main at d161d0c held as a ref, fetching PR merge commits took 0.6 to 1.0 s and moved 92 KB to 1.2 MB, against 16 to 21 s and 129 MB cold. A submodule whose pinned commit is already present is not fetched at all.

Change. scripts/ci/git-seed.sh:

  • save runs at the end of seed-derived-data.yml on main (R2 writer environment). It publishes git-seed-v1-<commit>: the object packs, the shallow list and commit ids for the repository and each submodule. No config, hooks, index or credentials travel.
  • restore runs before actions/checkout in admission, the app-host shards, swift-package-tests, tests-build-and-lag and cli-pipe-regressions. It only acts on a runner with no .git. It builds a repository with HEAD detached at the seed commit and the exact origin URL checkout compares, so checkout keeps it, resets to HEAD and fetches the delta. Module git dirs go under .git/modules/<name> with their URL taken from the seed commit's own .gitmodules, and git submodule update reuses them. The script is read at $GITHUB_SHA from raw.githubusercontent.com, because nothing is checked out yet.
  • The repository is assembled in scratch space and renamed into place last. Any miss or failure leaves the workspace empty, and checkout clones exactly as before.

Why it is safe.

  • Checkout still fetches and checks out the exact commit it was asked for.
  • Seeds are written only by main-branch jobs holding the R2 credentials, the same trust as the spm- and DerivedData seeds these jobs already restore.
  • Self-hosted runners that reuse a workspace keep their own .git, and restore leaves it alone.

Also:

  • r2_cache_prune.py ages git-seed- archives out after 1 day. One seed of about 167 MB is written per main build push.
  • scripts/ci/git-seed.sh is a global input for package-test selection, as that test requires.

Tests. tests/test_ci_git_seed.py is wired into ci-guards. It builds a superproject with a submodule, seeds from a depth-1 main, then runs the git commands actions/checkout runs against a newer commit that also bumps the submodule. It asserts the final tree, the HEAD and the submodule commit match. It also checks:

  • an unchanged submodule checks out with its upstream deleted, so the seed alone supplied it;
  • restore leaves an existing repository alone;
  • a missing or corrupt seed leaves the workspace empty;
  • the seed carries only objects, shallow lists and commit ids;
  • the restore step comes before checkout in each wired job.

I also ran the same flow locally against manaflow-ai/cmux with all three submodules: main fetch 0.6 s, no submodule network fetch.

Proof on real runs. This PR's own macOS jobs exercise the miss path, because only main can write the seed. After merge, the first seed-derived-data.yml main run publishes it, and I will post before/after checkout timings from the next PR runs here.

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Summary by cubic

Cuts macOS CI checkout time from about 45 s to under a second by seeding main's git objects into R2 so each job fetches only the delta since the seed instead of the whole tree and submodules.

How it works

  • scripts/ci/git-seed.sh save runs on main-branch seed-derived-data.yml jobs and publishes object packs and shallow lists only; no config, hooks, index, or credentials.
  • macOS jobs run restore before actions/checkout, which keeps the seeded repository, resets it, and fetches only the delta. Any miss or failure leaves the workspace empty and checkout clones cold.
  • Checkout still fetches and verifies the exact tested commit, so correctness never depends on the seed. Seeds are written only by R2-credentialed main-branch jobs and age out of R2 after one day.

Failure handling

  • A seeded checkout that fails, for example when a submodule's URL moved, discards the seed and retries cold; cli-pipe's manual submodule steps drop seeded modules and clone cold when the first update fails.
  • The seed is held as refs/git-seed/main, never as a remote-tracking ref that later scripts could mistake for today's main.
  • git-seed.sh changes are routed to the CI lanes that run it, and the seed packing, restore, and failure paths are covered by tests/test_ci_git_seed.py, wired into ci-guards and the test execution registry.

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    • Updated macOS and CLI build workflows to reuse repository data, reducing repeated checkout work.
    • Added fallback behavior to retry checkout or submodule updates without cached data when needed.
    • Updated cached repository data retention.
  • Tests
    • Added automated checks for repository checkout, fallback behavior, and workflow configuration.

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The change adds a script and CI workflow steps to save main-branch Git objects to R2 and restore them before checkout. It adds submodule fallback handling, cache retention rules, and tests for seed behavior and workflow wiring.

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Git object seeding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Seed storage and restoration implementation
scripts/ci/git-seed.sh, tests/test_ci_git_seed.py
The script stages and saves Git objects and submodule data, restores seeds into workspaces, and retries submodule updates without seeded data when needed. Tests cover seed contents, checkout behavior, and fallback cases.
CI checkout integration
.github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, .github/workflows/cli-pipe-regressions.yml, tests/test_ci_git_seed.py
The macOS and CLI pipe regression workflows restore seeds before checkout. Some macOS jobs discard the seed after checkout failure and retry. CLI pipe regression submodule updates use the seed script. Workflow tests check restore order, retry behavior, and submodule update wiring.
Main-branch seed publishing and retention
.github/workflows/seed-derived-data.yml, scripts/ci/r2_cache_prune.py, tests/test_r2_cache_prune.py
The seed job saves objects on main. Cache pruning assigns git-seed- archives one-day retention, and the pruning test covers that rule.
Seed test execution and change routing
.github/workflows/ci-guards.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, scripts/ci/select_package_tests.py, tests/test-execution.toml
The CI guard runs the seed test, which is registered on the linux-guard lane. Changes to the seed script select the CLI lane and all package tests.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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  participant SeedJob
  participant GitSeedScript
  participant R2Cache
  participant CIWorkflow
  participant ActionsCheckout
  SeedJob->>GitSeedScript: Save workspace Git objects
  GitSeedScript->>R2Cache: Publish seed archive
  CIWorkflow->>GitSeedScript: Restore workspace seed
  GitSeedScript->>R2Cache: Fetch newest seed
  R2Cache-->>GitSeedScript: Return seed archive
  GitSeedScript-->>CIWorkflow: Install seeded repository
  CIWorkflow->>ActionsCheckout: Fetch requested commit
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macOS checkouts may miss the intended submodule seed benefit. The existing concern should be addressed or accepted before relying on the checkout speedup.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: using main's Git objects to speed up macOS CI checkouts.
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Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes no Swift or Swift runtime files. The changed files are CI workflows, shell/Python scripts, TOML, and Python tests. The patch also introduces no Swift blocking or timing …
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Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds linear Git-seed processing and bounded iteration over repository submodules and two archive formats. The only nested loop handles the repository's fixed submodule list against explic…
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teamleaderleo added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 24, 2026
Review of #14255 found a pull request that moves a submodule to another URL
would fetch its new pin from the seed's URL, fail checkout, and fail the
retry the same way. Jobs with a checkout retry now discard the seeded
repository first; swift-package-tests gets the same retry, and cli-pipe's
manual submodule steps go through `git-seed.sh update-submodules`, which
drops seeded modules and clones cold when the first update fails.

The download drains the tar pipe to EOF as r2-cache.sh does, so bsdtar
stopping at the end-of-archive marker cannot turn a valid seed into a miss;
it also accepts the .tar.gz r2-cache.sh writes without zstd. The seed commit
is kept as refs/git-seed/main instead of refs/remotes/origin/main, which a
later script could mistake for today's main. cli-product-tests restores the
seed too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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submodules() {
git config --file - --get-regexp '^submodule\..*\.path$' 2>/dev/null \
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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<excerpt>Sed Regular Expressions The regular expressions used in sed, by default, are basic regular expressions (BREs, see re_format(7) for more information), but extended (modern) regular expressions can be used instead if the -E flag is given. In addition, sed has the following two additions to regular expressions: 1. In a context address, any character other than a backslash (``\&`#39`;&`#39`;) or newline character may be used to delimit the regular expression. Also, putting a backslash character before the delimiting character causes the character to be treated literally. For example, in the context address \xabc\xdefx, the RE delimiter is an ``x&`#39`;&`#39`; and the second ``x&`#39`;&`#39`; stands for itself, so that the reg-ular regular ular expression is ``abcxdef&`#39`;&`#39`;. 2. The escape sequence \n matches a newline character embedded in the pattern space. You cannot, however, use a literal newline character in an address or in the substitute command. One special feature of sed regular expressions is that they can default to the last regular expression used. If a regular expression is empty, i.e., just the delimiter characters are specified, the last regular expression encountered is used instead. The last regular expression is defined as the last regular expression used as part of an address or substitute command, and at run-time, not compile-time. For example, the command ``/abc/s//XXX/&`#39`;&`#39`; will substitute ``XXX&`#39`;&`#39`; for the pattern ``abc&`#39`;&`#39`;. ... [2addr]s/regular expression/replacement/flags Substitute the replacement string for the first instance of the regular expression in the pat-tern pattern tern space. Any character other than backslash or newline can be used instead of a slash to delimit the RE and the replacement. Within the RE and the replacement, the RE delimiter itself can be used as a literal character if it is preceded by a backslash. An ampersand (``&amp;&`#39`;&`#39`;) appearing in the replacement is replaced by the string matching the RE. The special meaning of ``&amp;&`#39`;&`#39`; in this context can be suppressed by preceding it by a backslash. The string ``\#&`#39`;&`#39`;, where ``#&`#39`;&`#39`; is a digit, is replaced by the text matched by the corresponding backreference expression (see re_format(7)). A line can be split by substituting a newline character into it. To specify a newline charac-ter character ter in the replacement string, precede it with a backslash. The value of flags in the substitute function is zero or more of the following: N Make the substitution only for the N&`#39`;th occurrence of the regular expression in the pattern space. g Make the substitution for all non-overlapping matches of the regular expression, not just the first one. p Write the pattern space to standard output if a replacement was made. If the replacement string is identical to that which it replaces, it is still considered to have been a replacement. w file Append the pattern space to file if a replacement was made. If the replacement string is identical to that which it replaces, it is still considered to have been a replacement. ... [2 ... 2addr]y/string1/string2/ Replace all occurrences of ... 1 in the pattern space with the corresponding characters from string2. Any character other than a backslash or newline can be used instead of a slash to delimit the strings. Within string1 and string2, a backslash followed by an ``n&`#39`;&`#39`; is replaced by a newline character. A pair of backslashes is replaced by a literal back-slash. backslash. slash. Finally, a backslash followed by any other character (except a newline) is that literal character.</excerpt>
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<title>sed not giving me correct substitute operation for newline with Mac - differences between GNU sed and BSD / OSX sed</title>
<location>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24275070/sed-not-giving-me-correct-substitute-operation-for-newline-with-mac-difference</location>
<excerpt>**With BSD/macOS `sed`, to use a newline in the _replacement string_ of an `s` function call, you must use an `\`\-escaped _actual_ newline** - escape sequence `\n` is _not_ supported there (unlike in the _regex_ part of the call). ... - _Either_: simply insert an _actual_ newline: ... ``` sed -i &`#39`;&`#39`; &`#39`; ... g&`#39`; test ... Or_: use ... -quoted string (`$&`#39`;...&`#39`;`) ... $&`#39`;\n ... &`#39`;&`#39`; &`#39`;s/ ... _ `sed`, by contrast, ... recognize `\n` in replacement strings; ... the differences between these two implementations. ... * (both versions): use _only_ the `-n` and `-e` options (notably, do _not_ use `-E` or `-r` to turn on support for _extended_ regular expressions) * GNU `sed`: add option `--posix` to ensure POSIX-only functionality (you don&`#39`;t strictly need this, but without it you could end up inadvertently using non-POSIX features without noticing; _caveat_: `--posix` _itself_ is _not_ POSIX-compliant) * Using POSIX-only features means stricter formatting requirements (forgoing many conveniences available in GNU `sed`): * Control-character sequences such as `\n` and `\t` are generally NOT supported. * Labels and branching commands (e.g., `b`) _must_ be followed by an _actual_ newline or continuation via a separate `-e` option. * See below for details. ... * Use of the **`-i` option _without_ an argument** (in-place updating without backup) is incompatible: * BSD `sed`: MUST use `-i &`#39`;&`#39`;` * GNU `sed`: MUST use just `-i` (equivalent: `-i&`#39`;&`#39`;`) - using `-i &`#39`;&`#39`;` does NOT work. * **`-i` sensibly turns on _per-input-file_ line numbering** in _GNU_ `sed` and _recent_ versions of _BSD_ `sed` (e.g., on FreeBSD 10), but does **NOT on macOS as of 10.15**. Note that in the absence of `-i` _all_ versions number lines _cumulatively_ across input files. * If the **_last_ input line does _not_ have a trailing newline** (and is printed): * BSD `sed`: _always appends a newline_ on output, even if the input line doesn&`#39`;t end in one. * GNU `sed`: _preserves the trailing-newline status_, i.e., it appends a newline only if the input line ended in one. ... - **Control-character escape sequences such as `\n` and `\t`:** ... * In **regexes** (both in patterns for selection and the first argument to the `s` function), assume that only `\n` is recognized as an escape sequence (rarely used, since the pattern space is usually a _single_ line (without terminating `\n`), but not inside a _character class_, so that, e.g., `[^\n]` doesn&`#39`;t work; (if your input contains no control chars. other than `\t`, you can emulate `[^\n]` with `[[:print:][:blank:]]`; otherwise, splice control chars. in as _literals_\[2\]) - **generally, include control characters as _literals_, either via spliced-in _ANSI C-quoted strings_ (e.g., `$&`#39`;\t&`#39`;`) in shells that support it (`bash,`ksh, `zsh`), or via _command substitutions using `printf`_ (e.g., `&quot;$(printf &`#39`;\t&`#39`;)&quot;`)**. * Linux only: `sed &`#39`;s/\t/-/&`#39`; &lt;&lt;&lt;$&`#39`;a\tb&`#39`; # -&gt; &`#39`;a-b&`#39`;` * macOS _and_ Linux: `sed &`#39`;s/&`#39`;$&`#39`;\t&`#39`;&`#39`;/-/&`#39`; &lt;&lt;&lt;$&`#39`;a\tb&`#39`; # ANSI C-quoted string` `sed &`#39`;s/&`#39`;&quot;$(printf &`#39`;\t&`#39`;)&quot;&`#39`;/-/&`#39`; &lt;&lt;&lt;$&`#39`;a\tb&`#39`; # command subst. with printf` * In **replacement strings** used with the `s` command, **assume that NO control-character escape sequences are supported**, so, again, include control chars. as _literals_, as above. ... * Linux only: `sed &`#39`;s/-/\t/&`#39`; &lt;&lt;&lt;$&`#39`;a-b&`#39`; # -&gt; &`#39`;a b&`#39`;` `sed &`#39`;s/-/\n/&`#39`; &lt;&lt;&lt;$&`#39`;a-b&`#39`; # -&gt; &`#39`;a b&`#39`;` * macOS _and_ Linux: `sed &`#39`;s/-/&`#39`;$&`#39`;\t&`#39`;&`#39`;/&`#39`; &lt;&lt;&lt;&`#39`;a-b&`#39`;` `sed &`#39`;s/-/&`#39`;&quot;$(printf &`#39`;\t&`#39`;)&quot;&`#39`;/&`#39`; &lt;&lt;&lt;&`#39`;a-b&`#39`;` `sed &`#39`;s/-/\&`#39`;$&`#39`;\n&`#39`;&`#39`;/&`#39`; &lt;&lt;&lt;&`#39`;a-b&`#39`;` Note that newlines need to be backslash-escaped so that they are properly interpreted as part of the replacement …[truncated]</excerpt>
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<title>How can I insert a tab character with sed on OS X?</title>
<location>https://stackguides.com/questions/5398395/how-can-i-insert-a-tab-character-with-sed-on-os-x</location>
<excerpt>How can I insert a tab character with sed on OS X? # How can I insert a tab character with sed on OS X? I have tried: ``` echo -e &quot;egg\t \t\t salad&quot; | sed -E &`#39`;s/[[:blank:]]+/\t/g&`#39`; ``` Which results in: ``` eggtsalad ``` And... ``` echo -e &quot;egg\t \t\t salad&quot; | sed -E &`#39`;s/[[:blank:]]+/\\t/g&`#39`; ``` Which results in: ``` egg\tsalad ``` What I would like: ``` egg salad ``` ### 6 Answers Try: Ctrl+ V and then press Tab. Use ANSI-C style quoting: `$&`#39`;string&`#39`;` ``` sed $&`#39`;s/foo/\t/&`#39`; ``` So in your example, simply add a `$`: ``` echo -e &quot;egg\t \t\t salad&quot; | sed -E $&`#39`;s/[[:blank:]]+/\t/g&`#39`; ``` OSX&`#39`;s `sed` only understands `\t` in the pattern, not in the replacement doesn&`#39`;t understand `\t` at all, since it&`#39`;s essentially the ancient 4.2BSD `sed` left over from 1982 or thenabouts. Use a literal tab (which in `bash` and `vim` is `Ctrl`+`V`, `Tab`), or install GNU `coreutils` to get a more reasonable `sed`. Another option is to use `$(printf &`#39`;\t&`#39`;)` to insert a tab, e.g.: ``` echo -e &quot;egg\t \t\t salad&quot; | sed -E &quot;s/[[:blank:]]+/$(printf &`#39`;\t&`#39`;)/g&quot; ``` try awk ``` echo -e &quot;egg\t \t\t salad&quot; | awk &`#39`;{gsub(/[[:blank:]]+/,&quot;\t&quot;);print}&`#39`; ``` A workaround for tab on osx is to use `&quot;\ &quot;`, an escape char followed by four spaces. If you are trying to find the last instance of a pattern, say a `&quot; })};&quot;` and insert a file on a newline after that pattern, your `sed` command on osx would look like this: ``` sed -i &`#39`;&`#39`; -e $&`#39`;/^\ \})};.*$/ r fileWithTextIWantToInsert&`#39`; FileIWantToChange ``` The markup makes it unclear: the escape char must be followed by four spaces in order for `sed` to register a tab character on osx. The same trick works if the pattern you want to find is preceded by two spaces, and I imagine it will work for finding a pattern preceded by any number of spaces as well.</excerpt>
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- 1: https://leopard-adc.pepas.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/sed.1.html
- 2: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/sed.1.html
- 3: https://www.manpagez.com/info/sed/sed-4.10/Escapes.php

Use a portable tab separator in submodules().

BSD sed does not expand \t in replacement text. On macOS, this can corrupt the name and path fields. The seed then omits submodule objects, so checkout must fetch them from scratch.

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 submodules() {
-  git config --file - --get-regexp '^submodule\..*\.path$' 2>/dev/null \
-    | sed -E 's/^submodule\.(.*)\.path (.*)$/\1\t\2/' || true
+  local key path name
+  git config --file - --get-regexp '^submodule\..*\.path$' 2>/dev/null \
+    | while read -r key path; do
+        name="${key#submodule.}"
+        printf '%s\t%s\n' "${name%.path}" "$path"
+      done || true
 }
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}
submodules() {
local key path name
git config --file - --get-regexp '^submodule\..*\.path$' 2>/dev/null \
| while read -r key path; do
name="${key#submodule.}"
printf '%s\t%s\n' "${name%.path}" "$path"
done || true
}
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In `@scripts/ci/git-seed.sh` around lines 50 - 53, Update submodules() to avoid
relying on BSD sed expanding \t in replacement text. Parse each git config key
and path, derive the submodule name from the key, and emit the name and path
separated by a literal tab so macOS preserves both fields.

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teamleaderleo added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 24, 2026
Review of #14255 found a pull request that moves a submodule to another URL
would fetch its new pin from the seed's URL, fail checkout, and fail the
retry the same way. Jobs with a checkout retry now discard the seeded
repository first; swift-package-tests gets the same retry, and cli-pipe's
manual submodule steps go through `git-seed.sh update-submodules`, which
drops seeded modules and clones cold when the first update fails.

The download drains the tar pipe to EOF as r2-cache.sh does, so bsdtar
stopping at the end-of-archive marker cannot turn a valid seed into a miss;
it also accepts the .tar.gz r2-cache.sh writes without zstd. The seed commit
is kept as refs/git-seed/main instead of refs/remotes/origin/main, which a
later script could mistake for today's main. cli-product-tests restores the
seed too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
teamleaderleo and others added 4 commits September 24, 2026 14:16
Every macOS job checks out the tested commit with --depth=1 into an empty
repository, so it downloads the whole tree: 129 MB in 29 s for the main
repository and 17 s for its submodules in admission job 107695138963.
Checkout alone was about 88 job-minutes across 124 admission, cli-pipe,
package and app-host jobs on 2026-09-24.

A fetch into a repository that already holds a recent main sends only what
changed since: 92 KB to 1.2 MB in under a second for pull request merge
commits. scripts/ci/git-seed.sh makes that repository. seed-derived-data.yml
saves the objects of main's checkout to R2 (objects, the shallow list and
commit ids; no config, hooks, index or credentials). Before actions/checkout,
the macOS jobs restore it into an empty workspace with HEAD at the seed
commit and the origin URL checkout compares, so checkout keeps it, resets,
and fetches the delta. Submodule git directories go where `git submodule
update` reuses them, so an unchanged pin fetches nothing.

The repository is assembled aside and renamed into place last; any miss
leaves the workspace empty and checkout clones as before. Checkout still
fetches and checks out the exact commit, so correctness does not depend on
the seed. Seeds age out after a day like other per-commit R2 caches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review of #14255 found a pull request that moves a submodule to another URL
would fetch its new pin from the seed's URL, fail checkout, and fail the
retry the same way. Jobs with a checkout retry now discard the seeded
repository first; swift-package-tests gets the same retry, and cli-pipe's
manual submodule steps go through `git-seed.sh update-submodules`, which
drops seeded modules and clones cold when the first update fails.

The download drains the tar pipe to EOF as r2-cache.sh does, so bsdtar
stopping at the end-of-archive marker cannot turn a valid seed into a miss;
it also accepts the .tar.gz r2-cache.sh writes without zstd. The seed commit
is kept as refs/git-seed/main instead of refs/remotes/origin/main, which a
later script could mistake for today's main. cli-product-tests restores the
seed too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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teamleaderleo merged commit eb8c210 into main Sep 24, 2026
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7f58f60 ci: seed the SwiftPM manifest cache for the macOS 15 pool (manaflow-ai#14272)
eb8c210 ci: start macOS checkouts from main's git objects (manaflow-ai#14255)
63f485d ci: count the unseeded macOS 15 pool's cold compile when picking a PR pool (manaflow-ai#14268)
5ecf3dd fix(ios): keep alternate-screen apps within the visible viewport (manaflow-ai#12844)
87946bb fix(ios): accept the Mac's push key-exchange reply so pushes decrypt (manaflow-ai#14267)
925c73f ci: fix owned pool review items before the fleet is switched on (manaflow-ai#14252)
1d2a786 test(focus-recovery): start the hidden/tiny reveal from a hidden panel (manaflow-ai#14060)
863f636 Fix BETA signing and prepare iOS migration candidates (manaflow-ai#14265)

# Conflicts:
#	.github/workflows/ci-guards.yml
#	.github/workflows/ci-macos.yml
#	.github/workflows/ci-owned-pool-rescue.yml
#	.github/workflows/ci-queue-janitor.yml
#	.github/workflows/ci.yml
#	.github/workflows/cli-pipe-regressions.yml
#	.github/workflows/ios-testflight.yml
#	.github/workflows/remote-daemon.yml
#	.github/workflows/seed-derived-data.yml
#	.github/workflows/seed-swiftpm-manifests.yml
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After-merge timings. Main published the first seed at 19:09Z, git-seed-v1-7f58f608…, from seed-derived-data run 36044415246. These are the first macOS jobs on pull-request runs created after that. All five passed.

job runner restore seed checkout before (09-24 median)
compile admission, 107802311019 12vcpu-macos-26 8 s 4 s 48 s
cli-pipe-regressions, 107801701964 12vcpu-macos-26 2 s 3 s 35 s
cli-pipe-regressions, 107806908619 12vcpu-macos-26 6 s 4 s 35 s
swift-package-tests, 107807378777 6vcpu-macos-15 4 s 9 s 44 s
CLI product tests, 107807452449 12vcpu-macos-26 4 s 3 s n/a

Step times come from the jobs API, so they are whole seconds. The "before" medians are from 80 ci.yml PR runs earlier on 09-24.

With the restore step included, admission checkout falls from about 48 s to 12 s, and cli-pipe and the package tests save about 25 to 30 s each. The admission log shows the seed installed and all three submodules checked out from it, with no clone or fetch:

git-seed: unpacked git-seed-v1-7f58f608654893d191398bf96103814a11fad2a5.tar.zst
git-seed: module ghostty at c5c31ce8…
git-seed: repository at 7f58f608…
Submodule path 'ghostty': checked out 'c5c31ce8…'

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teamleaderleo added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
…jobs (#14669)

* ci: restore the git object seed before checkout in E2E and iOS macOS jobs

test-e2e.yml (build, test) and test-ios.yml (mobile-core-package,
ios-simulator-build) did a plain checkout with recursive submodules: 55 s on
a Blacksmith E2E build, against 3-9 s for ci-macos.yml jobs that restore the
R2 git seed first (#14255). They now restore it the same way, and a checkout
the seed breaks is retried without it. The E2E failure guard allows the two
new optional steps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: clear stale git locks before the seeded checkout in iOS macOS jobs

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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