docs: replace the cutover plan with the phased one that matches reality
Phase 1 requires nothing from anyone: agents keep pushing to GitHub, a timer syncs GitHub -> Windy Git every 15 minutes, CI runs on Veron against current code. Phase 2 flips one repo at a time, only when that repo is idle. Records the direction mistake honestly: the source of truth is wherever people are actually typing, not wherever the plan says it should be. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Windy Git is the daily driver — 2026-08-13
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# Migration plan — GitHub first, Windy Git second, flip per repo
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Grant's call, 2026-08-12: **push to Windy Git; GitHub is the second copy.**
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**Superseded the 2026-08-13 "daily driver" cutover, which was premature.**
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you ──push──▶ Windy Git (Veron 1) ──▶ CI on 24 cores
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│
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└──push-mirror on every commit──▶ GitHub
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## What went wrong, recorded so it is not repeated
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## 🔴 The one rule this creates
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Nine repos were migrated writable with **push-mirrors pointed at GitHub**. At
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the same time a dozen agent sessions on the Mac mini were pushing to GitHub
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continuously — so GitHub, not Windy Git, was where the live work actually was.
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**Do not push directly to GitHub for a migrated repo.**
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A push-mirror force-updates refs. On its 8-hour timer it would have pushed Windy
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Git's stale copy **over live work, silently, with no conflict to notice.**
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A push mirror makes GitHub match Windy Git. Anything committed straight to
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GitHub is **overwritten on the next sync**, silently, with no conflict and no
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warning. That is the cost of having one writer, and one writer is the point —
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two writers with no reconciliation is how you lose work you thought was saved.
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All nine mirrors were removed before the first timer fired, and every GitHub
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repo was verified untouched (latest push predated the mirrors). **No work was
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lost.** The mistake was direction, and the lesson is: *the source of truth is
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wherever people are actually typing, not wherever the plan says it should be.*
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If you must hotfix on GitHub: push there, then immediately pull that commit into
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Windy Git *before* anything triggers a mirror sync. Better: don't.
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## Phase 1 — now. Nothing changes for anyone.
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## Migrated (9)
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Mac mini agents ──push──▶ GitHub ──sync every 15 min──▶ Windy Git ──▶ CI on Veron
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`windy-calendar` · `windy-search` · `windy-registry` · `Windy-Clone` ·
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`WindyCloud` · `windy-cloud-sites` · `windy-mind` · `eternitas` · `windy-agent`
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- **You do not have to tell your agents anything.** No remote changes, no
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coordination, no "everyone stop pushing." They keep working exactly as they
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are.
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- `windygit-sync.timer` runs `scripts/sync_from_github.sh` every 15 minutes.
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- Windy Git is **force-updated** on purpose: it holds nothing anyone depends on,
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so GitHub always wins and there is **no merge to reconcile**. That is the
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whole point of not flipping until a repo is quiet.
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- CI runs on Veron 1 against current code, on the 36 workflows that already say
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`runs-on: [self-hosted, linux, x64]`.
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All writable (`mirror=false`), all push-mirroring to GitHub with
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`sync_on_commit: true`. Clone from `https://app.windygit.com/windyadmin/<repo>.git`.
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Tracked repos live in `REPOS` in the script (currently 9 of 141).
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**Not migrated on purpose:** `windy-pro`. Six checkouts exist, the build counter
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has forked three ways (main 12 / overnight 34 / wave-44 56), and two sessions
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recorded different HEADs hours apart. Resolve which is current and write it
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down first (G11.5). The import script refuses it by name.
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## Phase 2 — later, one repo at a time, only when that repo is idle
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## CI
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For a single repo, when nobody is mid-work on it:
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The runner advertises `veron-1`, `linux-x64`, `self-hosted`, `linux`, `x64`.
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**36 of 36 active workflows in the fleet already say
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`runs-on: [self-hosted, linux, x64]`** — they were written for the self-hosted
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runners that died when the repos went private, so they run **as-is, unedited**.
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1. Remove it from `REPOS` in `sync_from_github.sh` — **first**, or the sync will
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fight its authors and win.
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2. Point that repo's sessions at Windy Git:
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`git remote set-url origin https://app.windygit.com/windyadmin/<repo>.git`
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3. Add a push-mirror back to GitHub with `sync_on_commit: true`, so GitHub stays
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a current second copy.
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Proven: `windy-calendar`'s existing `.github/workflows/ci.yml` ran on Veron 1
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and reported success with no changes.
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**Never flip more than one repo at a time, and never while an agent is working
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in it.** A dozen parallel sessions is exactly the situation where a big-bang
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cutover produces the dirty-branch mess this plan exists to avoid.
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**Per-repo secrets are not imported.** A repo whose CI needs a database URL or
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an API key will fail until those are set in its Gitea repo settings. Set them as
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each repo needs them, not speculatively.
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## What is NOT on Windy Git
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**9 of 141 repos.** The whole GitHub account is 1.58 GB, so the rest is a
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capacity non-issue — it simply has not been imported yet. Add repos to the
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import list as they become useful to build.
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**`windy-pro` is excluded on purpose.** Six checkouts, a build counter forked
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three ways, two sessions recording different HEADs hours apart. Resolve which is
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current and write it down before importing (G11.5). The import script refuses it
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by name.
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## Backups
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Nightly `windygit-backup.timer` at 04:17 (`Persistent=true`, so a window missed
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while the workstation is off is caught up rather than skipped). Every repo is
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bundled `--all`, verified, and uploaded to R2 with the `windgit` schema.
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**Restore is rehearsed, not assumed:** a bundle was pulled back from R2, cloned,
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and its HEAD matched live `origin/main` exactly.
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## Verify the loop yourself
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```bash
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git clone https://app.windygit.com/windyadmin/windy-calendar.git
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cd windy-calendar && git commit --allow-empty -m "probe" && git push
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# CI runs on Veron 1; GitHub receives the commit within ~20s
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```
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`windygit-backup.timer`, nightly 04:17, `git bundle --all` + verify + `windgit`
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schema dump to R2, 30-day retention. **Restore rehearsed:** a bundle was pulled
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from R2, cloned, and its HEAD matched live `origin/main` exactly.
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