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Closes #669

Speed up the pre-commit hooks: warm commits drop from ~6.9s (code change) and ~78.5s (dependency change) to ~6s.

Why

Two independent causes, found by measuring each hook step:

  • osv-scanner (~71s). The hook runs make scan on any go.mod/go.sum change, which resolves all 1444 go.sum entries against the osv.dev API. Measured 64.6s with default flags vs 0.10s with --offline-vulnerabilities, so it is network latency, not local work. .github/workflows/osv-scanner.yml already scans on push and on every pull request, so this was duplicate coverage paid for by blocking commits.
  • golangci-lint ran twice. Once as run --fix from make fmt, then again as run -v from make lint.

A popular theory was that web/node_modules (375M, 26203 files) was slowing the scans. It is not: osv-scanner honors .gitignore and scans that tree in 0.09s, and make fmt/make lint operate on git ls-files, so nothing in the hook chain walks the untracked tree.

Testing

  • Verified an unfixable violation still blocks the commit: staging a forbidigo + unused violation fails the lint hook at Makefile: lint-fix, exit 1.
  • Verified autofix survives the split: importas rewrote meta to metav1 (declaration and usage) and misspell fixed recieve; the first attempt aborts with "files were modified by this hook" and the second passes after git add.
  • Verified coverage parity with CI: every check in make lint still runs in the commit path, 19 of the 56 enabled linters can autofix and still do.
  • make fmt, make lint-fix, make lint, make shellcheck and pre-commit run --all-files all exit 0. make codegen produces no diff.

Notes for reviewers

No API, CRD, or RBAC changes. Three behavioral changes worth a look:

  • Local vulnerability scanning is gone. Contributors now find CVE issues at CI rather than before push. This matches the team decision to keep CVE scans in CI.
  • make fmt no longer gates. It formats only; make lint-fix is what fails the commit. make lint is untouched, so CI reports rather than rewrites.
  • dev-kit is now pinned to the v2.0.0 tag. The input previously carried no ref, so nix flake update landed on whatever main was; the lock had reached d7e7744, an untagged mid-stream commit that skipped v1.0.14 and v1.0.15. DEV_KIT_VERSION (which pins the downloaded common.mk) moves from v1.0.13 to v2.0.0 so both dev-kit references travel together; the only functional delta in that range is a one-line make clean fix. Nothing will now notify you of new dev-kit releases, since Renovate has no nix manager configured and DEV_KIT_VERSION is not covered by the custom managers in renovate.json.

Not addressed: on a genuinely cold cache (fresh clone, or after a toolchain or dependency bump) the hooks still take ~205s. Measured, ~142s of that is compiling the Go dependency closure into ~/.cache/go-build, which is shared with make test and go build and would be paid on the next build regardless. That is build-cache cost, not hook cost, and no hook change can remove it.

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  • Tests added/updated n/a
  • No breaking changes (or upgrade path documented above)
  • Readable commit history (squashed and cleaned up as desired)
  • AI code review considered and comments resolved

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an automated lint-fix command to format code and apply supported lint corrections.
    • Added pre-commit linting with automatic fixes.
  • Documentation

    • Updated contribution guidance for the revised formatting workflow and lint-fix command.
  • Chores

    • Updated the Dev Kit to version 2.0.0.
    • Updated development tooling to use the latest linting and formatting workflow.

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The Dev Kit is pinned to v2.0.0. The Makefile uses golangci-lint for formatting and adds lint-fix. The pre-commit hook runs make lint-fix, and the contributing guide documents the updated commands.

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Dev Kit and lint workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pin Dev Kit v2.0.0
Makefile, flake.nix
The Dev Kit version references now use the v2.0.0 tag.
Add lint auto-fix workflow
Makefile, flake.nix, docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
The Makefile uses golangci-lint fmt and adds lint-fix. The pre-commit lint hook runs make lint-fix. The contributing guide documents the updated formatting and lint commands.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to eabe3

The PR removes duplicate local vulnerability scanning and separates formatting from lint enforcement, reducing commit latency while retaining CI scanning and lint coverage; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The dev-kit version and flake pin updates are not clearly required to improve pre-commit performance [#669]. Remove the unrelated dev-kit pin changes or explain why they are required for the hook-performance fix.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes investigate the slow hooks and reduce commit time by removing network scanning and duplicate lint execution [#669].
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)
Description check ✅ Passed The description follows the required template and clearly documents the motivation, testing, behavioral changes, and checklist status.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: removing vulnerability scanning from the commit path to improve hook performance.
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- Line 53: Update the pre-commit configuration around lint.entry so formatting
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without running gci and gofmt twice.

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- Line 75: Update the make fmt tool-list documentation in docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
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Coverage Report for CI Build 32703087801

Coverage remained the same at 80.347%

Details

  • Coverage remained the same as the base build.
  • Patch coverage: No coverable lines changed in this PR.
  • 6 coverage regressions across 2 files.

Uncovered Changes

No uncovered changes found.

Coverage Regressions

6 previously-covered lines in 2 files lost coverage.

File Lines Losing Coverage Coverage
pkg/controller/target_controller.go 4 78.26%
pkg/controller/registrybinding_controller.go 2 73.13%

Coverage Stats

Coverage Status
Relevant Lines: 6864
Covered Lines: 5515
Line Coverage: 80.35%
Coverage Strength: 29.0 hits per line

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dermorz force-pushed the chore/improve-commit-hook-performance branch from e38e926 to eabe370 Compare August 24, 2026 07:21
Commits were taking up to 80s warm. Two causes:

- The osv-scanner hook runs `make scan` on any go.mod/go.sum change,
  resolving all 1444 go.sum entries against the osv.dev API. Warm, that
  is ~71s of the ~78s a dependency commit took. The osv-scanner workflow
  already scans on push and on every pull request, so this was duplicate
  coverage bought at the cost of blocking commits.
- golangci-lint ran twice per commit: once as `run --fix` from `make
  fmt` and again as `run -v` from `make lint`.

Split formatting from linting: `make fmt` now runs `golangci-lint fmt`
(formatters only, ~0.8s), and a new `make lint-fix` target carries the
single `golangci-lint run --fix` pass that the pre-commit `lint` hook
uses. Linting still gates the commit, and the linters that can repair
their own findings still do so. `make lint` is unchanged, so CI keeps
reporting rather than rewriting.

Drop `go fmt ./...` from `make fmt`; the gofmt formatter in
`golangci-lint fmt` supersedes it, and unlike `go fmt` it honors the
third_party, builtin and examples exclusions in .golangci.yaml.

Vulnerability scanning leaves the commit path via dev-kit v2.0.0, which
disables the osv-scanner hook by default, so no per-project override is
needed.

Pin the dev-kit flake input to the v2.0.0 tag. It carried no ref, so
`nix flake update` resolved it to whatever `main` happened to be; that
is how the lock reached d7e7744, an untagged mid-stream commit that
skipped the v1.0.14 and v1.0.15 releases. Align DEV_KIT_VERSION, which
pins the downloaded common.mk, to v2.0.0 as well -- it was on v1.0.13,
so the two dev-kit references had drifted apart and now move together.

Document the split in docs/CONTRIBUTING.md: the target table gains `make
lint-fix`, and the contributor fix workflow now points at it instead of
the report-only `make lint`.

Warm commits go from ~6.9s (code) and ~78.5s (dependency) to ~5.5s.

Closes #669
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LGTM

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