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• Every deployment told git users their sign-in failed at "Google Identity-Aware Proxy", whatever issuer it actually uses, which sent people looking in the wrong place.
• Refusals that a retry cannot fix should say what to do next, and help text for paths that can never be reached only misleads.
• Brings in Make Git authentication errors provider-neutral and actionable tobi/walgit#102 by alanagoyal, cherry-picked with original authorship.

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PR Summary

Medium Risk
Changes user-visible git authentication error text and when 401 vs 200+ERR is returned; behavior is heavily tested but touches the security-sensitive smart HTTP auth path.

Overview
Git smart HTTP auth failures no longer embed Google Identity-Aware Proxy wording or installer/sign-in recipes in pkt-line ERR text. In-band help is limited to cases a credential refresh cannot fix (Forbidden, Unavailable); Invalid/Unauthorized still return a real 401 so git erases stale cached tokens.

Forbidden messages tell users to contact the administrator; Unavailable asks them to retry shortly. In OIDC mode, an optional server.auth.provider_name (display-only, validated for safe terminal output) appears as “Identity provider: …”, falling back to the issuer URL; token mode names no external provider.

Adds provider_name to config (file, env, example TOML), removes client_setup from error paths, and extends e2e coverage for permission denial, disallowed OIDC email, and verifier outage.

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Walkthrough

The change adds an optional OIDC provider display name and updates Git authentication failures to return guidance for permission denials and verifier outages. Invalid or unauthorized credentials continue to receive HTTP authentication errors.

Changes

Git Authentication Guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
OIDC provider name configuration crates/walgit-config/src/lib.rs, walgit.example.toml	Adds an optional provider_name. OIDC validation rejects blank names, names over 256 bytes, and names with control or bidirectional-formatting characters. The example documents the issuer URL default and display-only use. Tests cover parsing, environment overrides, Unicode values, invalid names, and omission.
Git authentication error responses crates/walgit-server/src/smart.rs, crates/walgit-server/tests/e2e.rs, AGENTS.md	Returns in-band guidance for permission denials and verifier outages, including the configured provider name or issuer. Invalid or unauthorized credentials receive HTTP authentication errors. Tests cover token and OIDC responses, and the security documentation describes the guidance rules and setup-recipe locations.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitClient
  participant info_refs
  participant auth_help_message
  participant OIDCVerifier
  GitClient->>info_refs: Send Git request with credentials
  opt OIDC authentication
    info_refs->>OIDCVerifier: Validate token
    OIDCVerifier-->>info_refs: Return authentication result
  end
  info_refs->>auth_help_message: Provide authentication error
  auth_help_message-->>info_refs: Return guidance or None
  alt Guidance is available
    info_refs-->>GitClient: Return in-band error guidance
  else No guidance is available
    info_refs-->>GitClient: Return HTTP authentication error
  end

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Suggested reviewers: 0bserver07

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to e117e

The provider-name safeguards and documentation corrections are in place. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; the existing POST guidance gap can be handled separately.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: git authentication errors become provider-neutral and actionable. The raw summary shows the work matches this, including the removal of the hardcoded provider label, t…
Description check		The description states the two problems the PR fixes. It says git users were wrongly told that sign-in failed at Google Identity-Aware Proxy, and it says help text for unreachable paths misleads users…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the main change: git authentication errors become provider-neutral and actionable. The raw summary shows the work matches this, including the removal of the hardcoded provider label, the new optional provider_name config, and the change to return help only for actionable errors. The title is concise and specific, and it follows the conventional commit style.

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The description states the two problems the PR fixes. It says git users were wrongly told that sign-in failed at Google Identity-Aware Proxy, and it says help text for unreachable paths misleads users. It also notes the cherry-picked upstream PR. These points match the changeset summary, which covers the provider name handling and the removal of unreachable help text.

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Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 7 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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For denied access, ask the wise;
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Actionable comments posted: 3

Nitpick comments: 1

crates/walgit-server/tests/e2e.rs: 1

2467-2474: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the 401 for invalid and missing receive-pack credentials too.

The new test sends missing and invalid credentials only to git-upload-pack. The git-receive-pack advertisement is checked only with a valid read-only token, which returns 200 with an in-band ERR. A change that returned 200 for invalid receive-pack credentials would pass this test. The server contract requires a real 401 for invalid or expired credentials, so this path needs the same check.

🧪 Suggested fix

         // Missing/invalid credentials still get a real 401 so Git can ask its helpers again.
-        let read_url = format!(
-            "{}/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack",
-            server.repo_url("t", "r")
-        );
-        for password in [None, Some("invalid")] {
-            let mut request = reqwest::Client::new()
-                .get(&read_url)
-                .header("User-Agent", "git/2.54.0");
-            if let Some(password) = password {
-                request = request.basic_auth("git", Some(password));
-            }
-            assert_eq!(request.send().await?.status(), 401);
-        }
+        for service in ["git-upload-pack", "git-receive-pack"] {
+            let url = format!(
+                "{}/info/refs?service={service}",
+                server.repo_url("t", "r")
+            );
+            for password in [None, Some("invalid")] {
+                let mut request = reqwest::Client::new()
+                    .get(&url)
+                    .header("User-Agent", "git/2.54.0");
+                if let Some(password) = password {
+                    request = request.basic_auth("git", Some(password));
+                }
+                assert_eq!(request.send().await?.status(), 401, "{service}");
+            }
+        }

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Review comment at @crates/walgit-server/tests/e2e.rs around lines 2467 - 2474:
Extend the missing/invalid-credentials assertions in the test to cover both
git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack advertisements. For each service, send
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @AGENTS.md:
- Around line 93-94: Update the recipe-consumers list in AGENTS.md to remove git
error help; auth_help_message provides provider and permission or verifier text,
not setup recipes. Keep the Clone menu, API page, and overview listed as recipe
consumers.

Review comments at @crates/walgit-config/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 1178-1181: Update the provider_name validation in the
configuration validation flow to reject names longer than 256 bytes, while
preserving the existing nonempty and no-control-characters checks. Adjust the
validation error message to state the byte limit.
- Line 1179: Update the provider_name validation check to reject bidirectional
formatting characters in addition to control characters, and revise its
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Review comments at @crates/walgit-server/tests/e2e.rs:
- Around line 2467-2474: Extend the missing/invalid-credentials assertions in
the test to cover both git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack advertisements. For
each service, send requests with no password and an invalid password, and assert
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Route the POST auth errors through the provider-aware help message.

156-158: Minor · Functional Correctness · Low value

Route the POST auth errors through the provider-aware help message.

The upload_pack and receive_pack POST handlers map auth failures with map_err(auth_err). That helper returns a plain ApiError and never calls auth_help_message. A forbidden or unavailable-verifier failure on a direct POST therefore gives no provider name and no retry guidance. The info/refs path does include them. Git normally calls info/refs first, so this POST path is reached mainly when a client skips that step or the verifier fails between the two requests. The gap predates this PR. The PR only adds the provider_name label, which only the info/refs path consumes.

I did not include an edit. The info/refs path returns auth_help_message text in a 200 pkt-line ERR response. Using the same pattern on the POST path would change HTTP status codes for these failures. That change needs a deliberate decision.

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Review comment at @crates/walgit-config/src/lib.rs around lines 156 - 158:
Update the auth-error handling in the upload_pack and receive_pack POST handlers
to include auth_help_message’s provider-aware guidance while preserving each
failure’s existing HTTP status; do not copy info/refs’ 200 pkt-line ERR response
behavior. Replace or adapt the auth_err mapping so forbidden and
unavailable-verifier failures carry the help text.

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