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Nicolas 5f0636faad feat: Support ssh:// action URLs (#1035)
Adds `ssh://` to the list of recognized URL schemes in `newRemoteAction`, so a
step can reference an action over SSH, e.g.:

```yaml
uses: ssh://git@gitea.example.com/actions/checkout@v4
```

Previously only `https://` / `http://` prefixes were parsed; an `ssh://` URL
fell through to the bare `org/repo` parser and failed.

### How auth works

SSH auth is delegated entirely to go-git's defaults — the runner configures no
SSH-specific options:

- **Which key?** go-git falls back to the host's **ssh-agent** (`$SSH_AUTH_SOCK`).
  There is no key-file fallback, so the agent must hold a usable key. The SSH
  **username** comes from the URL, so use `ssh://git@host/...` (a bare
  `ssh://host/...` authenticates as an empty user and most servers reject it).
- **Host key trust?** Established out-of-band via the host's `known_hosts`
  (`$SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS`, `~/.ssh/known_hosts`, `/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts`). The
  runner host must already trust the remote; there is no accept-on-first-use.
- **Host key changes?** The clone fails with a host-key-mismatch error and stays
  failed until `known_hosts` is updated on the host. Note `InsecureSkipTLS` does
  **not** apply to SSH.

### Caching

The action cache path is derived from `{org}/{repo}` only (scheme/host are not
part of the key), so an `ssh://` action shares cache storage with the same
`org/repo` fetched over HTTP. This is unchanged by this PR and works in practice
(fetches resolve by SHA), but is worth noting.

### Tests

Adds `ssh://` cases to `Test_newRemoteAction` covering the scheme prefix, the
`git@` username placement, and a malformed-URL rejection. The agent/known_hosts
behavior lives in go-git and is not unit-tested here.

Fixes #841

Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1035
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
2026-06-17 20:28:40 +00:00
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