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Add vcs remote type (#162)
The generic `github` remote only allowlists URL patterns: every repo needs hand-written mutable patterns for branch archives, and a moved branch re-downloads the whole archive under a ref-named key.

- add `vcs` package type for GitHub or Gitea (picked from `base_url`) tag, commit and release-download paths, cached immutable
- redirect `archive/refs/heads/<branch>` to the commit archive, resolving the branch via the branch API with one shared, per-remote bounded lookup cache reused for `mutable_ttl`
- cache missing branches for at least 60s and map API rate limits to `503` with `Retry-After`
- reject any other path shape, escaping segments and denied redirect targets
- add `docs/vcs/remote.md`, a UI type def and a vcs e2e caching case

Reviewed-on: #162
Co-authored-by: unkin-agent <unkin-agent@unkin.net>
Co-committed-by: unkin-agent <unkin-agent@unkin.net>
2026-10-24 17:21:05 +11:00

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# `vcs` remote
Shared classification, TTL and eviction rules: [caching](../common/caching.md).
Caches source archives and release assets from GitHub (`base_url = "https://github.com"`) or Gitea (any other `base_url`). GitHub Enterprise is not supported: a non-github.com host is treated as Gitea. Only the paths below are served; anything else is a 404.
| Path | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| `<owner>/<repo>/archive/refs/tags/<tag>.(tar.gz\|zip)` | immutable |
| `<owner>/<repo>/archive/<40-char sha>.(tar.gz\|zip)` | immutable |
| `<owner>/<repo>/releases/download/<tag>/<asset>` | immutable |
| `<owner>/<repo>/releases/latest/download/<asset>` | mutable |
| `<owner>/<repo>/archive/refs/heads/<branch>.(tar.gz\|zip)` | `302` to the archive of the branch's current commit, resolved via the provider's branch API and reused for `mutable_ttl` |
Branch archives redirect, so `curl` needs `-L`; pip and npm follow redirects. The archive is the host's commit archive (GitHub names its top-level directory `<repo>-<sha>`). `patterns` and `blocklist` match both the branch path and the commit path it redirects to, so allowlist repos by prefix (`^cli/cli/`); a branch whose commit path is denied is a `403`. A missing branch is a `404`, cached for `mutable_ttl` (at least 60s). An API rate limit (`429`, or `403` with rate-limit headers) is a `503` with `Retry-After`, unless `stale_on_error` serves the last known commit. Each remote caches up to 4096 branch lookups. GitHub API calls use the [server GitHub credential](../../README.md#github-authentication); Gitea API calls use the remote's `username`/`password`.
```hcl
resource "artifactapi_remote_vcs" "github" {
name = "github-vcs"
base_url = "https://github.com"
mutable_ttl = 600
patterns = ["^cli/cli/", "^psf/requests/"]
}
```
```bash
curl -fsSLO https://artifactapi.example/api/v1/remote/github-vcs/cli/cli/archive/refs/tags/v2.60.0.tar.gz
pip install https://artifactapi.example/api/v1/remote/github-vcs/psf/requests/archive/refs/tags/v2.32.3.tar.gz
```