sync-webkit-source: check out the commit named by the release, not the tag object

[robobun]

Problem

• bun sync-webkit-source checks vendor/WebKit out at the commit WEBKIT_VERSION resolves to. For a release-name pin it resolved the tag object (git rev-parse <tag>^{commit}, scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts:24 before this change), and the tag object does not point at the commit the release was built from:
  • preview pins (autobuild-preview-pr-<n>-<sha8>, the form robobun's WebKit bump PRs use while the oven-sh/WebKit PR is open): never. autobuild-preview-pr-459-9203122d points at e462c38dd324, main's HEAD when its release job ran; its 42 tarballs were built from 9203122d6ea7. 627 of the 628 preview tags in the repo are like this.
  • autobuild-<sha> pins: whenever something landed on main during the ~35 minute build. autobuild-781d6abb... points at a2f87820207d, which merged 85 seconds after 781d6abb. 76 of the 620 main tags are like this.
• Cause: oven-sh/WebKit's release job creates the release without --target, so GitHub creates the tag at main's HEAD of that moment. Release job: create the autobuild tag at the commit that was built WebKit#461 fixes that for releases made from now on; the existing tags stay where they are.
• Effect: vendor/WebKit is silently a different source tree than the prebuilt JSC bun links against. Stepping through JSC shows the wrong lines, and bun run build:local builds a different engine than the pin says.
• Found on the way: the script's fetch (git fetch --tags origin) only brought a missing pin into a full clone. In a --depth or --single-branch clone (this workspace's vendor/WebKit is both) it either finds nothing outside the clone's refspec or, when it does connect, downloads the history below the clone's boundary, which is all of WebKit's.

Fix

• The commit comes from what the release was built from, never from the tag. Both oven-sh/WebKit workflows name the release after the commit they build and write that commit's full sha into every tarball (BUN_WEBKIT_VERSION in include/cmakeconfig.h; build-reusable.yml for the cross builds, windows-release.ps1 and mac-release.bash for the rest), and the build extracts the tarball into the build cache. So:
  • autobuild-<sha> and bare 40-hex pins: the sha is the name.
  • preview pins: the name has only 8 hex; the full sha is read out of the prebuilt the build downloaded for this pin (<build cache>/webkit-preview-pr-<n>-<sha8>*/include/cmakeconfig.h, any variant, the same lookup packages/bun-inspector-protocol's generate-protocol.ts uses to find the pinned prebuilt) and checked against the 8 hex. A preview whose prebuilt has not been downloaded fails saying to build once with the pin or pin the full sha; before, it silently checked out the tag's commit.
  • anything else fails listing the accepted forms (WEBKIT_VERSION is lint-checked to one of them in test/internal/source-lints/webkit-prebuilt-url.test.ts).
• The commit is then resolved locally or fetched by id, git fetch origin <sha>, which works in every clone shape and brings in one commit rather than every branch. GitHub serves any commit it still has this way, so a preview of a push the PR has since force-pushed away (11 of the 72 open bump PRs with a preview pin, counted during review) is recovered too, which no ref reaches. When the clone is already shallow the fetch passes --depth=1; a full clone is fetched normally and never made shallow.
• Why this is the right level: the downloaded prebuilt is the thing the checkout is supposed to match, and it states its own commit exactly. Earlier revisions of this PR reconstructed it from refs/pull/<n>/head and the tag (see below); that needed prefix matching, a history depth heuristic and two fetches, and still could not reach a force-pushed-away push. Using the tag as a fetch source is not needed either, so the backfill of existing tags proposed on Release job: create the autobuild tag at the commit that was built WebKit#461 is optional as far as this script is concerned.
• Failures say why: a preview with no downloaded prebuilt, a prebuilt recording a different commit than the name, a commit that had to be fetched and did not arrive (the error quotes git: not our ref <sha> when origin does not have it, could not read from remote repository or unable to access when origin could not be reached, which exit the same way, so the script does not guess), and any other git failure (likewise quoted; the entry point prints error.message, which for a bare shell failure would only be the exit code) each have their own message. The current commit is read with the same tolerant rev-parse as the pin, so a repo that was only git inited and pointed at origin works as well.
• pinnedCommit, commitOfDownloadedPrebuilt and syncWebKitSource are exported and the script's own entry point is behind import.meta.main, so the test can drive it against repos and a build cache of its own; bun sync-webkit-source itself is unchanged and looks in $BUN_INSTALL/build-cache (or ~/.bun/build-cache), where resolveConfig() puts a local build's cache.
• Test: test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts, 17 tests against local origins whose release tags point at main the way the real ones do, plus a fake build cache. pinnedCommit on each form and the near misses (abbreviated sha, preview name with no sha or 7 or 9 hex); commitOfDownloadedPrebuilt finds the sha in whichever variant was downloaded and nothing for another push or no cache; autobuild-<sha> checks out <sha> and not the tag's commit; a missing sha is fetched, in a plain clone and behind a depth-1 clone's boundary (the clone stays shallow with just that commit); a sha origin lacks fails quoting git's not our ref; an origin that cannot be reached fails quoting that instead; in both clone shapes a commit the clone already has is checked out with no fetch at all (no FETCH_HEAD afterwards: a --depth=1 fetch of a present commit would re-shallow the clone at it); a repo that was only initialized and given an origin gets the commit; a directory that is not a repo fails with git's "not a git repository"; in both clone shapes a preview checks out the commit its prebuilt records, which only refs/pull/7/head reaches; a preview of a push the PR replaced, reachable from no ref at all (the origin is given uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant, which is how GitHub behaves), is still checked out; a preview with no downloaded prebuilt, and one whose prebuilt records a different commit than the name, fail without touching HEAD; an unrecognized pin fails. scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts is added to source-lints.yml's path filters, as test/internal/source-lints/README.md asks.
• Fail-before: on main the file does not load (no such exports); with the tag-object resolution swapped into the exported structure, the wrong-tag repos end up on the tag's commit. bun bd test and USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test pass the file as pushed; source-lints runs it on CI.
• Against this workspace's depth-1, single-branch vendor/WebKit and its real build cache, as pushed: autobuild-preview-pr-459-9203122d checks out 9203122d6ea7 (its tag: e462c38dd324); autobuild-preview-pr-459-b5fc3025, an earlier push of that PR which the PR has since force-pushed away (compare says diverged; no ref reaches it; it was not in the clone) is read from its prebuilt as b5fc3025552706b1ae5c5222fa27ccef61ad692c, fetched by id from GitHub in under 4 s and checked out; autobuild-preview-pr-462-c05387af is fetched and checked out; autobuild-preview-pr-422-937021ee, never built here, fails immediately with the build-once message; bun sync-webkit-source then restores the current 40-hex pin. The clone stayed shallow throughout.

Background

• WEBKIT_VERSION (scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts) is the one place the engine version lives. The build downloads the prebuilt JSC tarball from the oven-sh/WebKit release named autobuild-<version> (or <version> itself when it already starts with autobuild-) and extracts it under <cache>/webkit-<version stem>[-<variant>]/ (prebuiltDestDir() in the same file); those libraries and headers are what bun links against. bun sync-webkit-source is the developer helper that puts a source checkout of the same engine in vendor/WebKit, for debugging against the prebuilt and for build:local.
• oven-sh/WebKit publishes a release per main commit (autobuild-<sha>) and a prerelease per PR push (autobuild-preview-pr-<n>-<first 8 hex of the PR head>); neither is deleted when the PR merges. The name and the tarball's BUN_WEBKIT_VERSION both come from the commit that was built; the tag object is whatever GitHub created when the release was made.
• A shallow clone (git clone --depth) holds only the most recent commits; git fetch into one without --depth downloads whatever connects the fetched commit to the ones it has, and --depth on the fetch bounds that. On a full clone --depth would make it shallow, hence the check before passing it.

How the shape changed during review

• First revision: preview pins resolved the 8 hex with git rev-parse <8 hex>^{commit} locally and fetched refs/pull/<n>/head on a miss. Review: a local commit or ref matching the 8 hex resolves, skips the fetch and is checked out with a success message.
• Second and third revisions: fetch refs/pull/<n>/head (and then also the tag), match the 8 hex against object ids with git rev-parse --disambiguate, with a depth heuristic for shallow clones. Review: the prebuilt bun already downloaded for the pin records the full sha, which makes all of that unnecessary and additionally recovers force-pushed-away pushes; the sha path, the shallow-aware fetch by id, the export seam and the workflow wiring from those revisions are what this revision keeps.
• Fourth revision riders from review: git failures were reported as bare exit codes (fixed, with a test); nothing pinned that a present commit is not re-fetched, which matters now that a fetch into a shallow clone passes --depth=1 (test added); a freshly initialized repo pointed at origin stopped at reading HEAD (now works, with a test). Declined: accepting autobuild-preview-pr-<n>-<40 hex> (no workflow produces it, and no prebuilt URL would exist for it); changing the clone command in CONTRIBUTING.md to a shallow one (the script copes with shallow clones, it does not recommend them; the test header says so); importing the build cache location from the build config instead of repeating the three-line default (the build config needs a resolved toolchain to load; the comment points at it).

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passes on PR (with fix)

Test-only change.

Debug/ASAN (expected pass):
$ bun bd test 'test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts'
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts
bun test v1.4.0 (8326d1bd3)

test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts:
(pass) sync-webkit-source > pinnedCommit reads the release name [8.74ms]
(pass) sync-webkit-source > commitOfDownloadedPrebuilt reads BUN_WEBKIT_VERSION out of whichever variant was downloaded [49.62ms]
changing from f90102af7b42b7bca80d3aeb9ba76deec9845330 to autobuild-468b8d650eebdd5792342ef8c9d461a42a1c4768 (468b8d650eebdd5792342ef8c9d461a42a1c4768)
HEAD is now at 468b8d6 built
(pass) sync-webkit-source > autobuild-<sha> checks out <sha>, not the commit its tag points at [541.58ms]
(pass) sync-webkit-source > a sha origin does not have fails with git saying so [344.29ms]
changing from 9a62d803fa32228c5492c6ca1dda44aacc686fee to 1fa26bcceb360d3b99fe7968df27b262877c5c1f (1fa26bcceb360d3b99fe7968df27b262877c5c1f)
changing from 851e5477179899e865030b76b8dc5345f4952c50 to autobuild-7e3c4cf7460cd5a704433e6a704b4b9e6d70606d (7e3c4cf7460cd5a704433e6a704b4b9e6d70606d)
(pass) sync-webkit-source > an origin that cannot be reached is reported as that, not as a missing commit [387.81ms]
changing from 545222ec4bd2e8a42d2782d03d183c43c779c693 to autobuild-9a62d803fa32228c5492c6ca1dda44aacc686fee (9a62d803fa32228c5492c6ca1dda44aacc686fee)
HEAD is now at 1fa26bc later
HEAD is now at 7e3c4cf built
(pass) sync-webkit-source > a sha behind a depth-1 clone's boundary is fetched without deepening the clone into the whole history [715.28ms]
HEAD is now at 9a62d80 base
(pass) sync-webkit-source > in a full clone > a commit the clone already has is checked out without fetching [400.42ms]
already at autobuild-1fa26bcceb360d3b99fe7968df27b262877c5c1f (1fa26bcceb360d3b99fe7968df27b262877c5c1f)
already at autobuild-bf07194344b27bc1f4b94a979950825b67c05137 (bf07194344b27bc1f4b94a979950825b67c05137)
changing from 9a62d803fa32228c5492c6ca1dda44aacc686fee to autobuild-pr
... (truncated)
Exit: 0

diff hotspot

.github/workflows/source-lints.yml                 |   2 +
 scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts                      | 182 ++++++++---
 .../source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts        | 357 +++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 503 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 1

evidence per changed file

file                                                   reads  edits  tests
.github/workflows/source-lints.yml                         1      3      0
scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts                             10     19      0
test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts      9     28      0

[robobun]

Status: the workflow side of this is oven-sh/WebKit#461 (pass --target so new release tags land on the commit that was built). This PR is independent of it: it makes bun sync-webkit-source right for the tags that already exist as well.

Reproduced by running the old resolution against the real vendor/WebKit clone: autobuild-preview-pr-459-9203122d^{commit} is e462c38dd324 (main) and autobuild-781d6abb...^{commit} is a2f87820207d, neither of which is the commit the release's tarballs were built from. The new test reproduces both shapes with local repos.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Changes

WebKit source synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pin parsing contract and validation scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts, test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts	Adds support for full SHA values, autobuild- pins, preview release names, and downloaded prebuilt metadata validation.
Commit resolution and checkout scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts, test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts	Resolves and fetches missing commits, supports shallow repositories and pull-request refs, checks out validated SHAs, and preserves repository state on failure.
CLI execution and workflow triggers scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts, .github/workflows/source-lints.yml, test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts	Guards CLI execution with import.meta.main, computes the build-cache path, handles errors, and triggers source lints when the synchronization script changes.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the primary change: checking out the commit used to build WebKit instead of the tag object.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, implementation, validation, tests, and scope in substantial detail, despite using different section headings than the template.

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In `@scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts`:
- Line 23: Update the preview regex in the sync logic to accept exactly eight
hexadecimal commit characters instead of a range, preserving the existing
numeric PR capture and invalid-pin rejection behavior. Extend the relevant
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[robobun]

Pushed b86c4f9 for the one review finding: the preview form now accepts exactly the 8 hex characters build-preview.yml puts in the release name (was 7 to 40), and the pinnedCommit test covers the 7 and 9 character near misses. Nothing else changed; the thread is resolved.

[claude]

LGTM — the one inline finding is a low-probability nit (~0.007% per preview pin) in a developer helper script and doesn't block.

Beyond that, I checked: the test's global $.env(gitEnv) mutation is restored in afterAll and all concurrent tests want the same env, so no cross-file leak; the test repos are fully local (hermetic, no network); Bun.$ interpolation of pin.rev/pin.fetch is safe since both come from anchored regex captures over WEBKIT_VERSION; and the import.meta.main guard preserves the CLI entry point unchanged.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes bun sync-webkit-source, a developer helper script that checks vendor/WebKit out at the commit matching the pinned prebuilt JSC. Before, it resolved the release tag object, which (due to a missing --target in oven-sh/WebKit's release workflow) points at whatever main's HEAD was when the release job ran — never the right commit for preview pins, and wrong for ~1 in 6 main pins. The fix parses the commit sha out of the release name instead (which both workflows derive from the built commit), fetches from refs/pull/<n>/head for previews, and rejects unrecognized pin forms with a clear message. The script is refactored to export pinnedCommit/syncWebKitSource behind an import.meta.main guard so the new test file can drive it against local repos. Three files: the script, a new 168-line test, and two path-filter lines in the source-lints workflow.

Security risks

None. This is a local developer tooling script that shells out to git in a repo the developer already controls; it does not ship in the bun binary. The only interpolated values passed to Bun.$ (pin.rev, pin.fetch, expectedSha) come from anchored regex captures ([0-9a-f]{8|40}, \\d+) or from git rev-parse output, and Bun.$ template interpolation passes them as separate argv entries rather than shell-concatenating.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. This is developer tooling (scripts/), not runtime (src/) — it affects local WebKit source checkouts for debugging/build:local, not what ships. The change is well-scoped, the PR description traces the mechanism precisely (with a survey of 387 preview and 186 main tags showing the tag-object drift), and the test file covers each accepted and rejected pin form with local repos whose tags deliberately point at the wrong commit.

Other factors

• The one CodeRabbit finding (accept exactly 8 hex, not 7–40) was addressed in b86c4f9 and the thread is resolved.
• The bug-hunter's inline nit (8-hex prefix could collide with an unrelated local commit before fetch) is real but has ~0.007% odds per preview pin, only applies to transient preview pins on WebKit bump PRs, and the failure mode is a wrong local checkout in a dev helper — worth noting, not worth blocking.
• Tests are hermetic (local git repos, no network), use tempDir/using, isolate git config via GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM/GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL, and restore the global $.env in afterAll. describe.concurrent is safe since all tests share the same env.
• The PR description confirms the test fails with the old resolution logic swapped back in (4 of 6 tests fail), satisfying the fails-for-the-right-reason bar.

[robobun]

Pushed 133b3b5 for the review finding on the preview path. Preview pins now fetch refs/pull/<n>/head before doing anything else and then match the 8 hex against object ids (git rev-parse --disambiguate, commits only, exactly one required) instead of handing the prefix to rev-parse against whatever the clone happens to contain. Two tests added for it (a preview of an earlier push of the PR, and a clone with a branch named like the 8 hex, which the previous revision checked out); the description is updated to describe the PR as it now stands. Sha pins and the workflow change are unchanged.

[claude]

LGTM — 133b3b5 addresses the 8-hex prefix concern from the earlier review: previews now fetch refs/pull/<n>/head unconditionally and match the prefix against enumerated commit ids (--disambiguate + cat-file -t) rather than resolving it as a rev, with an explicit error on >1 match. The new "matched against commit ids, not resolved as a name" test covers the shadowing case directly, and the earlier-push test shows why enumerating beats taking FETCH_HEAD outright.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR rewrites scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts (a developer helper that checks vendor/WebKit out at the commit matching WEBKIT_VERSION) so it derives the target commit from the release name rather than the tag object, which for oven-sh/WebKit releases created before oven-sh/WebKit#461 points at the wrong commit. It adds test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts (7 tests exercising pin parsing, fetch-from-origin, preview fetch via refs/pull/<n>/head, earlier-push resolution, unfindable-preview rejection, prefix-vs-ref shadowing, and unrecognized-pin rejection) and adds the script to source-lints.yml path filters.

Security risks

None. This is a local developer script that shells out to git in vendor/WebKit; inputs are the repo's own WEBKIT_VERSION constant and are regex-gated before use. No network beyond git fetch origin, no runtime code, no auth/crypto.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. Nothing here ships in the bun binary — it's build/dev tooling plus a hermetic test that constructs local git repos. The failure mode of a bug is a developer's local WebKit checkout landing on the wrong commit, which is exactly what the current script already does and what this PR fixes.

Other factors

• My earlier inline comment (resolving an 8-hex prefix via rev-parse --verify before fetching could match an unrelated collider) has been addressed in 133b3b5: the preview path now fetches first, then uses git rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix> filtered to commit objects, and throws on 0 or >1 matches. The added test creates a branch named after the 8-hex prefix to prove the old rev-parse <prefix>^{commit} path would have resolved wrong while the new path does not. The author's enumeration approach also correctly handles previews built from an earlier (still-reachable) push of the PR, which a plain FETCH_HEAD.startsWith(prefix) check would have rejected — covered by its own test.
• CodeRabbit's earlier finding (accept exactly 8 hex, not 7–40) was addressed in b86c4f9 and is covered by the pinnedCommit near-miss cases.
• Tests are hermetic (local repos under tempDir, isolated git config via GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL/GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM, no network), use describe.concurrent, and restore the global $.env in afterAll.
• The residual "collider present and real commit unreachable after force-push" combo is fail-loud in the common case (>1 match) and vanishingly unlikely otherwise; not worth blocking a dev-tooling fix on.

[robobun]

Pushed 271e1f3, reworking how the script fetches after the second review round and after hitting the problem myself in this workspace's vendor/WebKit, which is a depth-1 single-branch clone:

• sha pins are fetched by id (git fetch origin <sha>) instead of a plain git fetch origin, which only ever covered the clone's refspec; the pre-PR --tags fetch had been masking that by dragging history in behind the tags
• previews fetch refs/pull/<n>/head and the release's tag as two best-effort fetches (a pin whose release is gone still resolves through the PR ref), then match the 8 hex against commit ids as before; the tag is what makes a force-pushed-away push reachable once tags point where their names say
• any fetch into an already shallow clone passes --depth (1 for a sha or tag, 50 for the PR ref); an un-depthed fetch of one PR ref here had pulled 10 GB of history before I killed it. Full clones are fetched normally and are never made shallow

The tests now run the preview cases in both a plain and a depth-1 clone and add the shallow sha, release-gone and force-pushed-away cases (15 total); the description is rewritten for the PR as it stands, and the four real pin shapes were run against the shallow clone here (details in the description).

[claude]

LGTM — the prefix-collision concern from the earlier pass is fully addressed (and improved on: fetching both the PR ref and the tag, then matching object ids via --disambiguate rather than taking FETCH_HEAD, correctly handles previews of an earlier push).

Checked: resolveCommit now only ever receives a full 40-hex sha, so the abbreviated-rev resolution path is gone; commitsWithPrefix filters non-commit objects so a colliding tree/blob doesn't block the match; fetchFromOrigin keeps shallow clones shallow (tested) and .nothrow()s so a missing tag ref doesn't kill the preview path; Bun.$ array interpolation for depthFlag expands correctly. The test's $.env(gitEnv) global is restored in afterAll, and source-lints runs files against a released bun so no cross-file leak. CodeRabbit's {8}-regex tightening is in with 7/9-hex negative cases.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Rewrites scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts (a developer helper that checks vendor/WebKit out at the pinned engine commit) to derive the target commit from the release name rather than the release's tag object, which for existing oven-sh/WebKit releases points at the wrong commit (always for previews, ~1 in 6 for main). Adds a 293-line test at test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts exercising local git repos, and adds the script to the source-lints workflow path filters.

Security risks

None. This is local developer tooling that shells out to git against vendor/WebKit; inputs are the repo's own WEBKIT_VERSION constant (regex-validated before use) and are interpolated via Bun.$ which shell-escapes arguments. Nothing here ships in the binary or runs in CI beyond the new self-contained test.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. Not runtime code, not on any build-critical path — worst case a bug here produces a wrong vendor/WebKit checkout or an error message when a developer runs bun sync-webkit-source manually. The rewrite is non-trivial (~140 lines) but the logic is linear, the PR description demonstrates the mechanism was verified against real oven-sh/WebKit tags, and the test file covers the full variant matrix (full vs depth-1 clones × sha/preview pins × wrong-tag/earlier-push/replaced-push/shadowed/missing/unknown).

Other factors

Both prior review findings were addressed: CodeRabbit's {8}-exact regex (b86c4f9) with negative tests, and my 8-hex prefix-collision finding (133b3b5 + 271e1f3). The author didn't take my FETCH_HEAD suggestion verbatim — they reasoned that a preview of an earlier push of a PR should still resolve, so they fetch first and then match object ids, which is strictly better than what I proposed and is covered by a dedicated test. The PR description records fail-before verification (USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 passes, tag-object resolution swapped back in fails the wrong-tag tests, previous revision fails the branch-shadow test). No outstanding review threads.

[robobun]

Pushed 81c4216, which changes the preview half of this PR to a simpler shape after another review pass: every tarball oven-sh/WebKit publishes records the commit it was built from (BUN_WEBKIT_VERSION in include/cmakeconfig.h), and the build has already extracted the one for the current pin into the build cache, so a preview pin's full sha is read from there and then goes through the same fetch-by-id path as a 40-hex pin. This drops the refs/pull/<n>/head and tag fetching, the --disambiguate prefix matching and the history depth heuristic from the previous revisions, and it also handles a preview of a push the PR has since force-pushed away, which no ref reaches but GitHub still serves by id (checked for real with autobuild-preview-pr-459-b5fc3025 against the shallow clone here). A preview whose prebuilt was never downloaded now fails with a message saying to build once with the pin.

Tests are reworked accordingly (12); the description is rewritten for the PR as it now stands, with the earlier shapes summarized at the bottom.

[robobun]

Pushed eae7720 with three small additions from a further review pass over 81c4216: a git failure is now reported with git's own stderr instead of a bare exit code, the current commit is read tolerantly so a repo that was only initialized and pointed at origin works, and a test pins that a commit the clone already has is never re-fetched (a --depth=1 fetch of a present commit would re-shallow a shallow clone at it). 16 tests; the description is updated.

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Inline comments:
In `@scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts`:
- Around line 89-92: Update fetchFromOrigin to inspect the git fetch exit status
and retain stderr, mapping only the expected missing-commit failure to the
existing stable message while propagating authentication, transport, and
repository-access errors. Add a hermetic regression test covering a failing
origin and preserve coverage for the missing-commit behavior.

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[robobun]

^{Updated 7:27 AM PT - Aug 18th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit 5af99824ef52c2fa883678fbff00947c7c389a77 passed in Build #100596! 🎉

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[robobun]

Pushed 68800cd for the remaining review finding: when the pinned commit has to be fetched and does not arrive, the error now quotes git's reason (not our ref <sha> for a commit origin does not have, could not read from remote repository / unable to access ... for an origin that cannot be reached; both exit the same way, so the script quotes rather than classifies). Two tests cover the two shapes against local origins; 17 tests in total, description updated, thread resolved.

[robobun]

Rebased onto main (4c68990) with no content change: the only failure in the previous CI run was the binary-size check, which compared a build based on the 50-commit-older base against the current canary; this PR changes no build input. The diff against main is still the three files.

[claude]

LGTM — the final shape (read the full sha from the downloaded prebuilt's BUN_WEBKIT_VERSION and fetch that commit by id, shallow-aware) is simpler than the earlier revisions and eliminates the 8-hex prefix resolution I flagged on the first pass entirely.

What was reviewed:

• pinnedCommit / shaBuiltFrom accept exactly the three forms the release workflows produce; near-miss shapes (7/9 hex, abbreviated sha) are rejected.
• commitOfDownloadedPrebuilt's glob webkit-<key>* matches prebuiltDestDir() in scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts (version16 = the full preview-pr-<n>-<8hex> stem) and cannot over-match another pin's directory.
• Fetch-by-id passes --depth=1 only into an already-shallow clone and is skipped when the commit is already present, so a full clone is never re-shallowed; git's own stderr is quoted on failure rather than classified.
• Tests are hermetic (local file:// origins with uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant for the force-pushed-away case, isolated GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL, restored $.env in afterAll) and cover both clone shapes plus every failure message.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Rewrites scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts (a developer helper that checks vendor/WebKit out at the commit the pinned prebuilt JSC was built from) so the commit comes from the release name / the downloaded prebuilt's BUN_WEBKIT_VERSION header rather than the release's tag object, which oven-sh/WebKit historically created at main's HEAD rather than the built commit. Adds test/internal/source-lints/sync-webkit-source.test.ts (17 hermetic tests against local git origins and a fake build cache) and wires scripts/sync-webkit-source.ts into the source-lints workflow's path filter.

Security risks

None. This is a local developer script that shells out to git in vendor/WebKit with values derived from WEBKIT_VERSION (regex-validated to sha/release-name forms) and reads a header out of the local build cache. It does not run in CI, does not touch shipped code, and takes no untrusted network input.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-low. Developer tooling only — if this regresses, bun sync-webkit-source prints an error and the developer's vendor/WebKit stays where it was; nothing ships wrong. The change is not mechanical, but it went through five review iterations (two of mine, two of CodeRabbit's), every thread is resolved, and each design pivot is documented in the PR history block. I re-read the final diff end to end: the glob key lines up with prebuiltDestDir()'s version16 stem for previews; the shallow check gates --depth=1 so full clones are never made shallow; resolveCommit is called before fetching so a present commit is never re-fetched (which the tests pin via absent FETCH_HEAD); import.meta.main gates the CLI so importing from the test does not run it; the module-scope $.env(gitEnv) is restored in afterAll.

Other factors

My earlier concern (8-hex prefix passed to rev-parse could match a colliding local object) is moot in the final shape: previews now read the full 40-hex sha from the prebuilt and never resolve a prefix against the object DB. My second comment (stale description) was a read-before-write race and the description now matches the code. The one ruled-out finder candidate (tmpdirSync at module scope) is a reasonable exception — it holds the shared GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL file that every test's gitEnv points at, which needs file-level lifetime; per-test scratch uses tempDir with using as CLAUDE.md prescribes. No outstanding review comments remain, CI is building the no-content-change rebase, and the bug hunter found nothing.