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Summary

Salvages #363 (@andreolf, commits carried verbatim). Documents the two-tier post-push pinning model: the hot tier (local Kubo via GITLAWB_IPFS_API), the warm tier (Pinata via GITLAWB_PINATA_JWT), the shared admission semaphore, best-effort de-duplication through pinned_cids/pinata_cid, and the parked-list memory profile of each side.

Motivation & context

Operators ask where pushed objects end up and what the optional pin sinks cost. The behavior lives in ipfs_pin.rs and pinata.rs with no operator-facing write-up; every concrete claim in this page was re-verified against the implementation on current main.

Kind of change

• Bug fix
• Feature
• Security fix
• Docs
• Tests / CI
• Refactor (no behavior change)
• Breaking or protocol change (issue required first)

What changed

Contributor work (unchanged): docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md covering the tier table, config rows, how pinning runs post-push (hot inline, warm in a spawned tail), the admission semaphore's defer-not-shed behavior and PIN_BATCH_BUDGET, the dedup asymmetry (warm-first pins suppress a later hot copy until re-pinned), and durability notes. Plus a README link.

Maintainer commit 49a9ade2 (the outstanding review asks):

• The opening now names the page's charter: optional post-push pinning tiers, with a one-line pointer to bare-repo storage under GITLAWB_REPOS_DIR/GITLAWB_TIGRIS_BUCKET so it does not read as a full storage map.
• The "Running both" Durability bullet now carries the warm-first caveat the dedup paragraph already documents.
• The README link moved to the GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_PIN_TASKS configuration row, where pin operators look.

How a reviewer can verify

Read the page against crates/gitlawb-node/src/ipfs_pin.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/pinata.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/config.rs, and the pinned_cids definitions in crates/gitlawb-node/src/db/mod.rs.

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• Docs / .env.example updated if behavior or config changed (or N/A): this change is the doc
• Checked existing PRs so this isn't a duplicate

Protocol & signing impact

• Touches DID / did:key, Ed25519 / RFC 9421 signatures, UCAN, ref certs, or P2P wire formats
• Discussed in an issue before implementation
• Backward-compatible with existing nodes and previously signed history

None: documentation only, no wire format or signing surface touched.

Notes for reviewers

Deliberately out of scope, per review direction on the original: bare-repo/Tigris storage depth, announce_at_root visibility gating, the encrypt-then-pin write path, and batch-truncation recovery. The page stays a pinning supplement; pointers go to README rather than duplicating it. Supersedes #363.

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• Documentation
  • Added a guide to optional hot and warm post-push pinning, covering configuration, eligibility, concurrency limits, deduplication, and durability.
  • Clarified how pinning and reads behave when optional service credentials or configuration are not set, as well as related memory and timing considerations.
  • Updated the README’s concurrency-setting reference to explain that pushes may run pinning loops for both configured services, and added the guide to the optional node-staking reading list.

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Walkthrough

Added documentation for the optional Kubo hot tier and Pinata warm tier, including configuration and pinning behavior. The README links to the document from the concurrency setting and the optional node staking reading list.

Changes: Pinning documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pinning tiers and configuration docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md	The document describes the hot and warm tiers, their admission conditions, configuration, and behavior when settings are unset.
Execution, deduplication, and durability docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md, README.md	The document describes post-push execution, concurrency limits, per-sink deduplication, and durability. The README links to the document from the concurrency setting and optional staking reading list.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related PRs

• Twigpine/node#90: Changes how pin candidates are computed, which the new documentation describes.
• Twigpine/node#111: Changes Pinata’s pin path and admission behavior, which the new documentation describes.

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 17e87

This is a documentation-only change that adds a pinning guide and links it from the README. It does not change node behavior, and no unresolved issues remain, so it is ready to merge.

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Merge readiness

• Reviews: REVIEW_REQUIRED / mergeStateStatus: BLOCKED until a maintainer approves (not a branch-staleness issue).
• Base / target: Head merge-base equals live origin/main (d15f194f7f69f80a7451a157df1a3d18a435c09e); no rebase needed for drift.
• CI: Changed-surfaces workflow passed; Rust fmt + clippy, test, and build --release jobs were skipped (docs-only delta). Acceptable for this diff; pin semantics were checked by static read against head 49a9ade2, not a full workspace test run.
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Drift audit (post-review challenge)

Both code findings below are PR-introduced, docs-only fixes, and not asks to change Rust on main:

Finding	Pre-existing on main?	Scope drift?
README table break	No — merge-base has one pin row and an unbroken table; damage is commit 49a9ade2.	No — matches the PR’s stated README link placement.
Hot dedup / durability text	The wrong operator copy is new in this PR. The implementation is unchanged and already uses has_ipfs_cid; this review documents it, it does not request a code fix.	No — confined to docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md. Deliberately not asking for announce_at_root tail qualifications, extra README env rows, or permit-cost asymmetry docs (out of scope or pre-existing per campaign).

Findings

🟡 P2 — Keep the README configuration table a single contiguous markdown table

📍 Where: README.md (Configuration section, GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_PIN_TASKS area, commit 49a9ade2)

💥 What fails: The maintainer link edit duplicates the pin env row and inserts non-table prose between pipe rows. GitHub-flavored markdown stops treating following lines as table cells, so operators may see broken layout and duplicated sizing guidance for GITLAWB_REPO_LEASE_MAX_WAITERS and the IPFS walk caps.

🔎 Root cause: The PR added a pinning doc pointer by pasting a second pin row plus free-standing paragraphs inside the table instead of extending the existing row or closing the table first.

📜 Stated contract:

The README Configuration section is a continuous markdown table with one row per env var (layout on merge-base d15f194).

🏷️ Attribution: PR-introduced (49a9ade2). Absent at merge-base.

📌 In this PR:

• README.md duplicate GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_PIN_TASKS row (lines 414–415)
• README.md pinning doc prose between table rows (lines 417–419)

🔒 Unchanged on main: Original pin row text is correct; do not rewrite unrelated env descriptions.

🔧 Required correction: Delete lines 415–419 (duplicate row and standalone paragraph). Extend the single surviving pin row’s description with the cross-link, e.g. end the cell with: … Default 8. See [docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md](docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md) for the two-tier model, dedup, and parked-list memory. Restore continuous | rows through GITLAWB_TASK_READ_RATE_LIMIT.

🛠️ Author fix: Fix both README items above in one edit. Leave the staking “Read” list link as-is unless you prefer one primary entry point. Do not touch unrelated configuration copy or Rust code.

🚫 Out of scope: Adding GITLAWB_IPFS_API to the README table, changing pin semantics, or editing docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md for this finding.

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🟡 P2 — Align hot-tier dedup and durability copy with has_ipfs_cid / local_ipfs_provenance

📍 Where: docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md — “De-duplication” paragraph and “Running both” durability bullet (new file, entire PR)

💥 What fails: The page tells operators that the hot tier skip check is row presence and that a warm-first pin suppresses a later hot pin until something re-pins. After Kubo is enabled, pushes still attempt local pins for Pinata-only rows because the hot loop gates on has_ipfs_cid (local_ipfs_provenance = TRUE), not row existence. Operators can mis-plan durability (expecting a permanent warm-only copy) and mis-debug “missing hot copy” after turning on GITLAWB_IPFS_API.

🔎 Root cause: Operator copy still describes the pre–#218 is_pinned mental model. The implementation and DB comments on unchanged main already use writer-owned local_ipfs_provenance.

📜 Stated contract:

“Returns true when this object has a real local IPFS CID. The predicate is local_ipfs_provenance = TRUE (#218 review P1)… A Pinata-only row … keeps local_ipfs_provenance = FALSE… will re-derive by re-pinning if IPFS is enabled later.” (crates/gitlawb-node/src/db/mod.rs)

“This check keys on has_ipfs_cid … NOT on row existence (is_pinned). A Pinata-only row … MUST fall through to the local writer path.” (crates/gitlawb-node/src/ipfs_pin.rs)

PR body: “every concrete claim in this page was re-verified against the implementation on current main.”

🏷️ Attribution: PR-introduced (new doc text only; Rust unchanged).

📌 In this PR:

• Dedup paragraph (STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md ~L63–72) — row presence / warm suppresses hot / “keys on cid/sha256_hex rows”
• Durability “Running both” bullet (~L81–84) — warm-before-Kubo objects keep only warm copy until re-pin
• Same-page tension between those two bullets on what enabling Kubo does

🔒 Unchanged on main: Rust skip logic, migrations, and reconciliation sweep behavior — document them; do not change code in this docs PR.

🔧 Required correction: Rewrite dedup + durability text to use has_ipfs_cid / local_ipfs_provenance vocabulary. State explicitly that Pinata-only rows (local_ipfs_provenance = FALSE) still enter the hot upload path when Kubo is configured, subject to normal budgets and failures — not an automatic skip. Remove “row presence” and “keys on cid/sha256 rows” wording. Make the durability bullet agree with the dedup section (enabling Kubo can backfill local pins on later pushes; it does not permanently suppress hot work for warm-only rows).

🛠️ Author fix: Update every in-diff bullet above together in one pass so the page tells one story. Do not patch only the dedup paragraph. Do not expand into announce_at_root gating (called out of scope in the PR body).

🚫 Out of scope: Changing pin_new_objects or DB predicates, documenting announce/replication tail gates, JWT-unset tail edge cases, or fixing pre-existing README env coverage gaps.

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Addressed on d3ca3b85 (pushed with origin/main merged as 970b13a5).

README table: the duplicate GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_PIN_TASKS row and the free-standing paragraph are gone. The single surviving row's description ends with the docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md cross-link inline, so the Configuration table is contiguous pipe rows again through GITLAWB_TASK_READ_RATE_LIMIT.

Dedup and durability copy: the dedup paragraph now documents the actual predicate: the hot tier skips on has_ipfs_cid, which is local_ipfs_provenance = TRUE. A Pinata-only row is local_ipfs_provenance = FALSE, so a warm-pinned object still enters the hot upload path on later pushes once GITLAWB_IPFS_API is set, subject to the normal budgets and failure handling. The "Running both" bullet agrees: enabling Kubo can backfill local copies for warm-only objects rather than permanently suppressing hot work.

On the housekeeping note: #363 is already closed, so the Closes state is honest without a body edit.

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jatmn re-reviewed head 970b13a56e66c0d1e3a57e255b26dcada7783b80 after the d3ca3b85 fix push. The earlier README table and has_ipfs_cid dedup findings are resolved on this head.

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• Reviews: mergeStateStatus: BLOCKED / REVIEW_REQUIRED. Prior CHANGES_REQUESTED review targeted 49a9ade2; this head needs a fresh approval pass.
• Base / target: Merge-base and live origin/main both 4fc041a3995965e199c5dc49d276717b40ab111a — no rebase drift.
• CI: changed surfaces and triage checks SUCCESS; Rust fmt/clippy/test/build jobs SKIPPED (docs-only). Acceptable for this delta; pinning claims were checked by static read against head checkout, not a workspace cargo test.
• Labels: needs-issue still present (no linked issue); advisory per repo triage, not a doc defect.
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• Housekeeping: Author notes #363 already closed; no Closes body edit required.

Drift audit (post-review challenge)

Both findings below are PR-introduced operator-copy gaps on paths this PR added or edited. They ask for wording qualifiers on those surfaces only, not Rust changes and not the visibility/encrypt depth the PR body marks out of scope.

Finding	Pre-existing on main?	Scope drift?
P2 — gating / JWT-off cost prose	Behavior is unchanged on main; overbroad claims are new in STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md.	No — qualify opening, tier table, JWT-unset, and no-op framing; do not write a full announce_at_root policy guide.
P3 — two pin loops per dual-tier push	Pool fan-out is unchanged on main; sizing omission is on the new STORAGE page and README cross-link.	No — one or two sentences on counting loops; do not change semaphore or reconciliation code.

Withdrawn as findings (pre-existing / out of scope / already fixed): README GITLAWB_IPFS_API row absence (merge-base gap); reconciliation sweep sharing pin_semaphore (README GITLAWB_RECONCILIATION_SWEEP already); legacy pinned_cids migration shapes; batch-truncation + sweep backstop (PR out of scope); README table fracture and row-presence dedup (fixed on 970b13a).

Findings

🟡 P2 — Qualify when post-push pinning actually runs and what “JWT off” costs

📍 Where: docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md — §Two-tier model opening (~L12–13), tier table (~L16–19), JWT-unset paragraph (~L21–25), “pin paths are no-ops” framing (~L21–22, L47–55)

💥 What fails: The new page tells operators that after every push lands, new objects are pinned to up to two sinks, and that unset GITLAWB_PINATA_JWT still leaves the Pinata tail taking a global pin permit and running the full object-list re-derivation walk. On head 970b13a, replication pinning is gated; many pushes never enter either pin loop, and JWT-empty Pinata work is conditional on those gates.

Pinning loops are skipped when:

• publish_durability_confirmed fails — post_receive_replication_tail returns before encrypt/pin or Pinata work (api/repos.rs ~3693–3698).
• The repo is not announceable at root — no hot encrypt/pin spawn; do_pinata_replication is false (announce_at_root ~3719–3724, ~3930, hot spawn ~3847–3871, Pinata else ~3995–4003).
• This push’s own withheld walk failed — do_pinata_replication is false even with JWT set (own_walk_failed ~3775, ~3930).

When JWT is empty and do_pinata_replication is true, uploads no-op in pinata::pin_new_objects (~195–199) but the worker may still acquire pin_semaphore and run pinata_object_list_for_refs before that short-circuit (~3953–3993).

Empty GITLAWB_IPFS_API makes ipfs_pin::pin_new_objects return immediately (~1882–1887), but pin_new_objects_gated can still acquire a pin permit when the hot object_list is non-empty (~1570–1586) — “pin paths are no-ops” overstates “no pool interaction.”

🔎 Root cause: New operator copy describes push outcomes without the admission predicates the unchanged tail already applies.

📜 Stated contract:

“every concrete claim in this page was re-verified against the implementation on current main.” (PR description)

🏷️ Attribution: PR-introduced (new file at merge-base). Implementation unchanged on main.

📌 In this PR:

• Opening “after a push lands” / two-sink pinning (~L12–13)
• Warm tier “Enabled by GITLAWB_PINATA_JWT set” vs tail behavior when JWT empty (~L16–19, L21–25)
• Unqualified “pin paths are no-ops” when API/JWT empty (~L21–22, L47–55)

🔒 Unchanged on main: announce_at_root, durability fence, and Rust pin gates — name them in brief operator terms only; do not expand into visibility-rule or encrypt-then-pin documentation (PR out of scope).

🔧 Required correction: Add short qualifiers (not a new policy chapter): pinning side effects run only on pushes that pass publish-durability confirmation and root replication admission (announce_at_root, and warm path blocked when this push’s own withheld walk failed). State that unset JWT disables uploads; permit + re-derive on the warm worker apply only when do_pinata_replication is true. One sentence that empty GITLAWB_IPFS_API can still briefly touch the pin pool when a non-empty hot list was built. Keep private / non-replicating repos out of “every push pins” wording.

🛠️ Author fix: Rewrite every In this PR bullet together in one pass. Do not patch only the JWT paragraph. Do not add gossip/Arweave ordering or full visibility tables.

🚫 Out of scope: Rust gate changes; deep announce_at_root docs; encrypt-then-pin paths; batch-truncation recovery; reconciliation sweep mechanics; adding GITLAWB_IPFS_API to the README table (pre-existing).

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🔵 P3 — Size GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_PIN_TASKS for two loops per push when both tiers run

📍 Where: docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md §How pinning runs / §Configuration (~L47–48, L37); README GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_PIN_TASKS row (~L414)

💥 What fails: On an announceable push with both Kubo and Pinata configured, post_receive_replication_tail starts two detached workers that each call pin_semaphore.acquire_owned() — hot via pin_new_objects_gated (~3864–3870 → ~1570–1574) and warm via the Pinata spawn (~3947–3957). Default 8 caps loops, not pushes; roughly four concurrent all-dual-tier pushes fit, not eight. STORAGE says both tiers share one semaphore but does not state the per-push fan-out; the README row now points operators here for sizing detail.

🔎 Root cause: New sizing-oriented doc omits loop fan-out the README row already names as “IPFS + Pinata” loops.

📜 Stated contract:

“Max post-push pin loops (IPFS + Pinata) running concurrently across all repos.” (README.md configuration table)

🏷️ Attribution: PR-introduced surfaces (new STORAGE + README cross-link). Semaphore behavior unchanged on main.

📌 In this PR:

• docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md shared-semaphore prose (~L47–48)
• README pin row with STORAGE cross-link (~L414)

🔒 Unchanged on main: config.rs default 8 and defer-not-shed pool — no Rust edits.

🔧 Required correction: Add one explicit sizing sentence on STORAGE: when both backends are enabled on an admitted push, expect up to two concurrent pin loops on the shared pool. Optional matching clause on the README pin row (e.g. “up to two loops per push when both IPFS and Pinata are configured”).

🛠️ Author fix: Apply STORAGE + README wording in one edit so dual-tier capacity math is visible where operators land from the config table.

🚫 Out of scope: Pool implementation changes; reconciliation sweep permit competition (README elsewhere); git_encrypt_semaphore coupling.

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- Line 19: Remove the unsupported Filecoin durability claim in the warm-tier
documentation: update the Pinata label in the storage table and revise the
durability note to describe Pinata’s IPFS storage, while preserving the existing
off-node durability and public gateway wording.
- Line 12: Update the “After a push lands” statement to say that only eligible
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- Around line 71-73: Update the warm-pinning explanation to make local backfill
conditional on object selection: a later ordinary push may select the object
again, or an enabled reconciliation sweep may select an eligible public object.
Preserve the stated visibility checks, budgets, and failure handling, and remove
any claim that configuring Kubo alone guarantees backfill.
- Around line 85-86: Revise the “Running both” statement to describe the hot and
warm copies as conditional on successful pins to their respective sinks, rather
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Addressed on ca068690.

Admission qualifiers: the opening now says pinning runs only on pushes that passed publish-durability confirmation and root replication admission (announce_at_root), with the warm path also requiring the push's own withheld walk to have succeeded; private and non-replicating repos and withheld objects are out of the "every push pins" wording. The JWT-unset paragraph now gates the permit and re-derivation walk on admission, and an empty GITLAWB_IPFS_API is documented as briefly touching the pin pool on a non-empty list.

Loop sizing: the semaphore section and the README pin row now state up to two loops per admitted dual-tier push, so the default of eight reads as roughly four concurrent all-dual-tier pushes before loops wait.

Four inline suggestions folded in: eligibility in the opening, the Filecoin backing claim dropped from the tier table and durability bullet, backfill made conditional on push selection or the reconciliation sweep, and the two-copy durability claim qualified by per-sink success.

[beardthelion]

Round addressed on 17e87709. Of the four items:

• Filecoin claim: fixed, the warm-tier durability note now says Pinata's IPFS storage. The only remaining Filecoin mention is the aspirational future-providers note, which is correct as written.
• "After a push lands" eligibility: already on head at ca068690; the text now gates pinning on publish-durability confirmation plus root admission, excludes withheld objects, and separates the best-effort Kubo path for encrypted withheld blobs.
• Backfill conditionality: already on head; the dedup paragraph makes it conditional on a later push selecting the object or an enabled reconciliation sweep, subject to visibility checks, budgets, and failure handling. No "configure Kubo and backfill happens" claim remains.
• "Running both": already on head; the durability bullet says each copy exists only when its own sink's pin succeeded, notes a truncated batch can leave an object single-copied, and bounds the sweep fill-in to eligible public objects when enabled.

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Admission and dedup copy on ca068690 / 17e87709 matches the Rust tail on this head. One coalescing qualifier remains before merge.

Merge readiness

• Reviews: mergeStateStatus: BLOCKED / REVIEW_REQUIRED. Prior CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews targeted 49a9ade2 and 970b13a5; this head (17e87709) needs a fresh approval pass.
• Base / target: Merge-base with live origin/main is 4fc041a3995965e199c5dc49d276717b40ab111a, but origin/main has advanced three commits (55ca89b, 7ae4707, 72c31dd). Rebase onto current main before merge so the branch is not stale; this diff is docs-only and should rebalance cleanly.
• CI: changed surfaces, triage, and CodeRabbit SUCCESS; Rust fmt/clippy/test/build SKIPPED (docs-only). Acceptable for this delta; pinning claims were checked by static read against head checkout, not a workspace cargo test.
• Labels: needs-issue remains (no linked issue). Advisory per repo triage, not a defect in the changed files.
• Prior review follow-up: README table fracture, has_ipfs_cid dedup, admission/JWT/loop sizing, Filecoin wording, and CodeRabbit eligibility/durability items from earlier rounds are addressed on this head.

Drift audit (post-review challenge)

Item	Pre-existing on main?	Scope drift?
P3 — coalesce warm admission / loop fan-out	No — wrong operator copy is new at ca068690. Coalesce logic in api/repos.rs is unchanged.	No — brief qualifiers on in-diff STORAGE + README pin row only; not Rust, not full encrypt/gossip docs.
README GITLAWB_IPFS_API row absent	Yes — gap exists at merge-base.	N/A (withdrawn; not a finding on this PR).
Legacy local_ipfs_provenance / v35 re-pin churn	Yes — migration behavior unchanged; doc states has_ipfs_cid predicate.	N/A (withdrawn).
pinata.rs module header vs spawn walk cost	Yes — file not in diff.	N/A (withdrawn).
Pinata tail gossip / Arweave / branch→CID	Yes — unchanged tail.	Would be drift if required in this pinning page (withdrawn).
Stale rules snapshot during queued warm worker	Yes — tail capture unchanged.	N/A (withdrawn).

Challenge result: The sole finding is PR-introduced docs copy against unchanged implementation, bounded to the same admission/sizing surfaces this PR already edited. It is not a mandate to fix pre-existing README env coverage, migration history, or replication-side effects.

Findings

🔵 P3 — Qualify warm admission and loop fan-out for EncryptInflight coalescing

📍 Where: docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md §Two-tier model (~L20–21); §How pinning runs (~L60–64); README.md configuration row for GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_PIN_TASKS (~L414)

💥 What fails: The page's warm sentence is accurate for non-coalesced pushes (own_walk_failed blocks warm when this push ran the tail withhold walk and it returned None), but it reads as a universal rule and does not cover coalescing. On a root-listable repo, a second push that coalesces onto an in-flight encrypt/pin task never runs replication_withheld_set in the tail (coalesced forces withheld = None before any walk), yet the warm Pinata worker still runs because own_walk_failed is false when coalesced and do_pinata_replication stays true. That worker acquires pin_semaphore and runs pinata_object_list_for_refs (its own withheld re-derive). The coalescing push does not spawn a new hot encrypt/pin task (try_begin → Coalesced), so it typically adds at most one new pin loop (warm), not two — while STORAGE and the README row still describe up to two loops per dual-tier push without that carve-out.

🔎 Root cause: New operator copy describes warm admission and dual-tier loop math without the per-repo EncryptInflight coalesce edge that separates tail-side withheld walk from warm worker re-derivation and hot-loop spawn.

📜 Stated contract:

every concrete claim in this page was re-verified against the implementation on current main. (PR description)

🏷️ Attribution: PR-introduced (ca068690 admission qualifiers and README loop clause). File absent at merge-base; Rust coalesce behavior unchanged on main.

📌 In this PR:

• docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md warm withheld-walk sentence (~L20–21)
• docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md shared-semaphore / two-loops prose (~L60–64)
• README.md GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_PIN_TASKS row (~L414)

🔒 Unchanged on main: encrypt_inflight, do_pinata_replication, and pinata_object_list_for_refs — qualify copy only; do not document the full encrypt/recovery or gossip tail.

🔧 Required correction: On STORAGE, rewrite the warm withheld-walk sentence so it (a) blocks warm when this admitted, non-coalesced push ran the tail withhold walk and it failed (own_walk_failed), and (b) states that coalesced pushes still run warm pinning via pinata_object_list_for_refs inside the detached worker even though the tail skipped the pre-spawn walk. In the semaphore section and on the README pin row, qualify “up to two loops per push” as applying when an admitted push starts its own hot encrypt/pin task; coalesced pushes on the same repo add at most one new warm loop.

🛠️ Author fix: Update every In this PR row together in one pass so admission, sizing, and coalescing tell one story. Do not patch only the warm sentence. Do not expand into encrypt-coalesce mechanics or replication-side effects beyond what pinning operators need.

🚫 Out of scope: Rust coalesce changes; deep EncryptInflight documentation; gossip/Arweave/branch→CID behavior in the Pinata tail; reconciliation sweep mechanics beyond existing conditional wording; adding GITLAWB_IPFS_API to the README table (pre-existing gap).

[beardthelion]

Addressed on b8435bd0. All three surfaces tell the same coalescing story now:

Warm admission (docs/STORAGE-AND-PINNING.md, two-tier model): the warm gate now distinguishes the two cases instead of stating one universal rule. An admitted, non-coalesced push whose own withheld walk failed (own_walk_failed) spawns no warm worker. A push that coalesced onto an in-flight encrypt/pin task has no walk of its own, so it still runs warm pinning; the detached worker re-derives the withheld set inside its pin permit via pinata_object_list_for_refs and fails closed on that result.

Loop sizing (STORAGE semaphore section and the README GITLAWB_MAX_CONCURRENT_PIN_TASKS row): "up to two loops per push" is now scoped to a push that starts its own hot encrypt/pin task. A coalesced push starts no hot task of its own and adds at most one new loop (the warm worker).

Verified against api/repos.rs on this head: coalesced forces withheld = None, own_walk_failed = announce_at_root && !coalesced && withheld.is_none(), and do_pinata_replication = announce_at_root && !own_walk_failed.

[jatmn]

Merge readiness

• Reviews: mergeStateStatus: BLOCKED / REVIEW_REQUIRED until a maintainer approves on head 86f752e8 (prior CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews targeted older SHAs).
• Base / target: Merge-base with live origin/main is 55ca89bfffa2c81b7f7b6f30cee7743f000197ce; no rebase drift.
• CI: changed surfaces, triage, and CodeRabbit checks SUCCESS; Rust fmt/clippy/test/build SKIPPED (docs-only). Appropriate for this diff; pinning claims verified by static read against head checkout, not a workspace cargo test.
• Labels: needs-issue remains (no linked issue). Advisory per repo triage, not a defect in the changed files.
• Housekeeping: Author notes #363 is already closed.

Drift audit (post-review challenge)

All prior review themes (README table integrity, has_ipfs_cid dedup, admission/JWT/loop sizing, Filecoin wording, eligibility/durability qualifiers, coalesced-push warm admission and loop fan-out) are addressed on this head. Blind-search candidates that name deferred-outbox publish-durability slots, post-tail rules staleness, or README env-table gaps outside the diff were checked and rejected as pre-existing behavior or out of charter for this pinning supplement.

🟢 Thanks for the contribution. I do not see any actionable issues from my review.