refactor: remove unreachable runner code (#1179)

Remove inherited act APIs, configuration branches, and test seams that neither the daemon nor exec can reach. Constant-fold settings both entry points already enforce and consolidate duplicate runner paths.

Major removals:

- Unwired custom action-cache and local-repository-cache implementations.
- Legacy matrix, platform, input, container-reuse, logging, Git remote, and action-replacement configuration paths.
- Unused Docker socket, container network, tar-copy, and platform PTY wrappers.
- Single-implementation filesystem, environment, runner, and expression abstractions.
- Duplicated step-container, command-logging, credential, reusable-workflow, and execution paths.
- Generated client mock boilerplate, obsolete fixtures, test-only seams, stale wrappers, and commented-out code.

This removes 2844 net Go lines while retaining Gitea RPC, event, matrix, input, cache, artifact, action, reusable workflow, Docker, host, exec, and release behavior.

Assisted by Codex (GPT-5).

Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1179
Reviewed-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>

act/runner/action.go

@@ -124,21 +124,9 @@ func readActionImpl(ctx context.Context, step *model.Step, actionDir, actionPath
 	defer closer.Close()
 
 	action, err := model.ReadAction(reader)
-	// For Gitea, reduce log noise
-	// logger.Debugf("Read action %v from '%s'", action, "Unknown")
 	return action, err
 }
 
-// cachedActionTar returns the action's tree from the action cache, which only a remote action
-// has an entry in.
-func cachedActionTar(ctx context.Context, step actionStep, name, includePrefix string) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
-	remote, ok := step.(*stepActionRemote)
-	if !ok {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("action %q is a remote action but runs as %T", name, step)
-	}
-	return step.getRunContext().Config.ActionCache.GetTarArchive(ctx, remote.cacheDir, remote.resolvedSha, includePrefix)
-}
-
 func maybeCopyToActionDir(ctx context.Context, step actionStep, actionDir, actionPath, containerActionDir string) error {
 	logger := common.Logger(ctx)
 	rc := step.getRunContext()
@@ -148,23 +136,13 @@ func maybeCopyToActionDir(ctx context.Context, step actionStep, actionDir, actio
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	var containerActionDirCopy string
-	containerActionDirCopy = strings.TrimSuffix(containerActionDir, actionPath)
+	containerActionDirCopy := strings.TrimSuffix(containerActionDir, actionPath)
 	logger.Debug(containerActionDirCopy)
 
 	if !strings.HasSuffix(containerActionDirCopy, `/`) {
 		containerActionDirCopy += `/`
 	}
 
-	if rc.Config != nil && rc.Config.ActionCache != nil {
-		ta, err := cachedActionTar(ctx, step, stepModel.Uses, "")
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		defer ta.Close()
-		return rc.JobContainer.CopyTarStream(ctx, containerActionDirCopy, ta)
-	}
-
 	defer git.AcquireCloneLock(actionDir)()
 
 	if !rc.Config.NoActionPatch {
@@ -191,13 +169,10 @@ func runActionImpl(step actionStep, actionDir string, remoteAction *remoteAction
 		}
 
 		action := step.getActionModel()
-		// For Gitea, reduce log noise
-		// logger.Debugf("About to run action %v", action)
 
-		err := setupActionEnv(ctx, step, remoteAction)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
+		rc.withGithubEnv(ctx, step.getGithubContext(ctx), *step.getEnv())
+		populateEnvsFromSavedState(step.getEnv(), step, rc)
+		populateEnvsFromInput(ctx, step.getEnv(), action, rc)
 
 		actionLocation := path.Join(actionDir, actionPath)
 		actionName, containerActionDir := getContainerActionPaths(stepModel, actionLocation, rc)
@@ -215,7 +190,7 @@ func runActionImpl(step actionStep, actionDir string, remoteAction *remoteAction
 
 			rc.ApplyExtraPath(ctx, step.getEnv())
 
-			return rc.execJobContainer(containerArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", "")(ctx)
+			return rc.JobContainer.Exec(containerArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", "")(ctx)
 		case x.IsDocker():
 			location := actionLocation
 			if remoteAction == nil {
@@ -240,8 +215,8 @@ func runActionImpl(step actionStep, actionDir string, remoteAction *remoteAction
 			execArgs := []string{filepath.Join(containerActionDir, execFileName)}
 
 			return common.NewPipelineExecutor(
-				rc.execJobContainer(buildArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", containerActionDir),
-				rc.execJobContainer(execArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", ""),
+				rc.JobContainer.Exec(buildArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", containerActionDir),
+				rc.JobContainer.Exec(execArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", ""),
 			)(ctx)
 		default:
 			return fmt.Errorf("The runs.using key must be one of: %v, got %s", []string{
@@ -257,20 +232,6 @@ func runActionImpl(step actionStep, actionDir string, remoteAction *remoteAction
 	}
 }
 
-func setupActionEnv(ctx context.Context, step actionStep, _ *remoteAction) error {
-	rc := step.getRunContext()
-
-	// A few fields in the environment (e.g. GITHUB_ACTION_REPOSITORY)
-	// are dependent on the action. That means we can complete the
-	// setup only after resolving the whole action model and cloning
-	// the action
-	rc.withGithubEnv(ctx, step.getGithubContext(ctx), *step.getEnv())
-	populateEnvsFromSavedState(step.getEnv(), step, rc)
-	populateEnvsFromInput(ctx, step.getEnv(), step.getActionModel(), rc)
-
-	return nil
-}
-
 // https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/228#issuecomment-629709055
 // files in .gitignore are not copied in a Docker container
 // this causes issues with actions that ignore other important resources
@@ -364,12 +325,6 @@ func execAsDocker(ctx context.Context, step actionStep, actionName, actionDir, b
 					return err
 				}
 				defer buildContext.Close()
-			} else if rc.Config.ActionCache != nil {
-				buildContext, err = cachedActionTar(ctx, step, actionName, contextDir)
-				if err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-				defer buildContext.Close()
 			}
 			prepImage = ContainerNewDockerBuildExecutor(container.NewDockerBuildExecutorInput{
 				ContextDir:   contextDir,
@@ -404,21 +359,19 @@ func execAsDocker(ctx context.Context, step actionStep, actionName, actionDir, b
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	stepContainer := newStepContainer(ctx, step, image, cmd, entrypoint)
+	stepContainer := newStepContainer(ctx, step, image, cmd, entrypoint, rc.Config.ContainerOptions)
 	return common.NewPipelineExecutor(
 		prepImage,
 		stepContainer.Pull(forcePull),
-		stepContainer.Remove().IfBool(!rc.Config.ReuseContainers),
+		stepContainer.Remove(),
 		stepContainer.Create(rc.Config.ContainerCapAdd, rc.Config.ContainerCapDrop),
 		stepContainer.Start(true),
-	).Finally(
-		stepContainer.Remove().IfBool(!rc.Config.ReuseContainers && !rc.Config.AutoRemove),
 	).Finally(stepContainer.Close())(ctx)
 }
 
 // dockerEntrypoint returns the entrypoint the action's image runs with for the given
 // stage. Only the main stage honours the `entrypoint` input.
-func dockerEntrypoint(ctx context.Context, step actionStep, eval ExpressionEvaluator, stage stepStage) ([]string, error) {
+func dockerEntrypoint(ctx context.Context, step actionStep, eval *expressionEvaluator, stage stepStage) ([]string, error) {
 	runs := step.getActionModel().Runs
 
 	var entrypoint string
@@ -469,18 +422,9 @@ func evalDockerArgs(ctx context.Context, step step, action *model.Action, cmd *[
 	}
 }
 
-func newStepContainer(ctx context.Context, step step, image string, cmd, entrypoint []string) container.Container {
+func newStepContainer(ctx context.Context, step step, image string, cmd, entrypoint []string, options string) container.Container {
 	rc := step.getRunContext()
-	stepModel := step.getStepModel()
-	rawLogger := common.Logger(ctx).WithField("raw_output", true)
-	logWriter := common.NewLineWriter(rc.commandHandler(ctx), func(s string) bool {
-		if rc.Config.LogOutput {
-			rawLogger.Infof("%s", s)
-		} else {
-			rawLogger.Debugf("%s", s)
-		}
-		return true
-	})
+	logWriter := rc.commandLogWriter(ctx)
 	envList := make([]string, 0)
 	for k, v := range *step.getEnv() {
 		envList = append(envList, fmt.Sprintf("%s=%s", k, v))
@@ -493,12 +437,12 @@ func newStepContainer(ctx context.Context, step step, image string, cmd, entrypo
 	if rc.IsHostEnv(ctx) {
 		networkMode = "default"
 	}
-	stepContainer := ContainerNewContainer(&container.NewContainerInput{
+	return ContainerNewContainer(&container.NewContainerInput{
 		Cmd:          cmd,
 		Entrypoint:   entrypoint,
 		WorkingDir:   rc.JobContainer.ToContainerPath(rc.Config.Workdir),
 		Image:        image,
-		Name:         createContainerName(rc.jobContainerName(), "STEP-"+stepModel.ID),
+		Name:         createContainerName(rc.jobContainerName(), "STEP-"+step.getStepModel().ID),
 		Env:          envList,
 		Mounts:       mounts,
 		NetworkMode:  networkMode,
@@ -508,12 +452,11 @@ func newStepContainer(ctx context.Context, step step, image string, cmd, entrypo
 		Privileged:   rc.Config.Privileged,
 		UsernsMode:   rc.Config.UsernsMode,
 		Platform:     rc.Config.ContainerArchitecture,
-		Options:      rc.Config.ContainerOptions,
-		AutoRemove:   rc.Config.AutoRemove,
+		Options:      options,
+		AutoRemove:   true,
 		ValidVolumes: rc.validVolumes(),
 		AllocatePTY:  rc.Config.AllocatePTY,
 	})
-	return stepContainer
 }
 
 func populateEnvsFromSavedState(env *map[string]string, step actionStep, rc *RunContext) {
@@ -648,7 +591,7 @@ func runPreStep(step actionStep) common.Executor {
 
 			rc.ApplyExtraPath(ctx, step.getEnv())
 
-			return rc.execJobContainer(containerArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", "")(ctx)
+			return rc.JobContainer.Exec(containerArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", "")(ctx)
 
 		case x.IsDocker():
 			// defaults in pre steps were missing, however provided inputs are available
@@ -681,8 +624,8 @@ func runPreStep(step actionStep) common.Executor {
 			execArgs := []string{filepath.Join(containerActionDir, execFileName)}
 
 			return common.NewPipelineExecutor(
-				rc.execJobContainer(buildArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", containerActionDir),
-				rc.execJobContainer(execArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", ""),
+				rc.JobContainer.Exec(buildArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", containerActionDir),
+				rc.JobContainer.Exec(execArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", ""),
 			)(ctx)
 		default:
 			return nil
@@ -749,7 +692,7 @@ func runPostStep(step actionStep) common.Executor {
 
 			rc.ApplyExtraPath(ctx, step.getEnv())
 
-			return rc.execJobContainer(containerArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", "")(ctx)
+			return rc.JobContainer.Exec(containerArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", "")(ctx)
 
 		case x.IsDocker():
 			populateEnvsFromSavedState(step.getEnv(), step, rc)
@@ -775,8 +718,8 @@ func runPostStep(step actionStep) common.Executor {
 			execArgs := []string{filepath.Join(containerActionDir, execFileName)}
 
 			return common.NewPipelineExecutor(
-				rc.execJobContainer(buildArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", containerActionDir),
-				rc.execJobContainer(execArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", ""),
+				rc.JobContainer.Exec(buildArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", containerActionDir),
+				rc.JobContainer.Exec(execArgs, *step.getEnv(), "", ""),
 			)(ctx)
 
 		default: