[chrisbonilla95]

Makes the shared git-ai notes workflow cheaper on every run and stops it losing the notes of a rebase merge whose last commit has no AI authorship. Callers keep their current pin until they are repinned to this commit.

What this implements

1. A merge commit with two parents keeps the PR's commits and their notes, and git-ai does nothing for it. The job now reads the parent count from the API and ends before the checkout. If the lookup fails, the run carries on to the full path, which reaches the same decision from the checkout.
2. The checkout uses filter: blob:none. git-ai needs the commit graph and fetches the few file contents it diffs on demand. It supports blobless (promisor) remotes. On gdc-ui the full checkout took 93 of the 105 seconds of a run.
3. git-ai rewrites the note of every rebased commit but pushes refs/notes/ai only when the merge commit itself has AI authorship. The job now pushes the notes ref itself when any commit in the merge has AI sessions or prompts. When the push is rejected, it resets to the remote notes and runs the rewrite again.

Real gdc-nas merges, replayed with git-ai v1.7.6 in a full and in a blobless clone (--skip-push): every rewritten note is byte-identical between the two.

PR      kind                commits  outcome                                         full  blobless
#29922  rebase merge        5        rewrote; "No AI authorship ... for this commit"  5s    12s
#29157  squash              1        authorship rewritten                            5s    10s
#29842  rebase merge        3        authorship rewritten                            4s    8s

On #29922, four of the five rewritten commits carry AI notes, but the tip has none, so git-ai never pushes them:

9b3c32e945  (tip)  no note
83990e0bdf         ai_entries=1
715c1e5af2         ai_entries=1
1601e5bcff         ai_entries=1
0786bea9d4         ai_entries=4

The merge step with the real git-ai binary against a local bare remote, with a test wrapper that pushes a note to the remote right after git-ai's first run:

No AI authorship to track for this commit (no AI-touched files in PR)
[test] injected a concurrent note on 1d3721b210
 ! [rejected]                refs/notes/ai -> refs/notes/ai (fetch first)
notes push rejected in round 1; rewriting on the remote notes in 5s
Rewrote authorship.
   d2fb36dfb68..3313a636953  refs/notes/ai -> refs/notes/ai
  bare note on 83990e0bdf: ai-rules/agent-docs.md
  bare note on 0786bea9d4: components/automation/CLAUDE.md
  bare note on 1d3721b210: concurrent note

Decisions

1. The merge-commit skip uses the API, not the event payload.
   The pull_request payload carries no parent count. One API call is cheaper than any checkout, and a failed call falls back to the full run instead of failing the job.

2. The extra push runs only when a commit in the merge has AI sessions or prompts.
   This matches git-ai's own rule, extended from the tip to the whole merge, so a merge with no AI authorship still pushes nothing. When git-ai has already pushed, the push is a no-op.

3. A rejected notes push resets to the remote notes and reruns the rewrite, instead of running git notes merge.
   git notes merge can abort on notes trees with mixed fanout, which git-ai works around with its own fallback. Rewriting again on top of the remote ref leaves every notes merge to git-ai and makes the push a fast-forward.

• A merge costs up to three git-ai runs when the notes ref keeps moving.

4. A note's JSON is read from after its first --- line.
   A note without file attestations starts with that line, so the parser must not need anything above it.

What comes next

• Repin every caller to this commit: the open caller PRs in gdc-ui, gdc-panther, gitops-panther, gitops-components, gooddata-quiver, gdc-api-support and eng-internal-analytics, and a new gdc-nas PR.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Automated merge processing now checks for AI-authorship notes before publishing them and retries when updates are rejected.
  • Multi-parent merges are skipped, while failed parent-count checks continue through the workflow.
  • The workflow uses a blobless checkout to reduce the amount of repository data fetched.

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Walkthrough

The workflow checks merge commit parent counts before installation and checkout. It skips processing for commits with more than one parent and uses blobless checkout otherwise. After a successful local merge run, it scans first-parent commits and pushes the notes ref when qualifying AI notes are present.

Changes: AI notes workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Merge filtering and checkout .github/workflows/git-ai-notes.yaml	The workflow checks merge parent count and skips installation, checkout, and execution when the count exceeds one. Other runs use blobless checkout.
Notes-ref push after merge .github/workflows/git-ai-notes.yaml	After a successful local merge run, the workflow scans first-parent commits for notes containing sessions or prompts. If it finds any, it pushes refs/notes/ai. A rejected push triggers a fetch of remote notes and another merge-and-push round. The workflow allows up to three rounds, with up to three local merge attempts per round.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHub Actions workflow
  participant GitHub API
  participant git-ai
  participant Remote Git repository
  GitHub Actions workflow->>GitHub API: Look up merge commit parent count
  GitHub API-->>GitHub Actions workflow: Return parent count
  alt Parent count is greater than one
    GitHub Actions workflow->>GitHub Actions workflow: Skip installation, checkout, and execution
  else Parent count is zero or one, or lookup fails
    GitHub Actions workflow->>GitHub Actions workflow: Install and perform blobless checkout
    GitHub Actions workflow->>git-ai: Run local merge
    git-ai-->>GitHub Actions workflow: Return success
    GitHub Actions workflow->>GitHub Actions workflow: Scan first-parent commits for qualifying notes
    GitHub Actions workflow->>Remote Git repository: Push refs/notes/ai when qualifying notes exist
    Remote Git repository-->>GitHub Actions workflow: Reject push
    GitHub Actions workflow->>Remote Git repository: Fetch remote notes before another merge-and-push round
  end

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• gooddata/github-actions-public#30: Adds the git-ai notes workflow that this change updates.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to aab55

The workflow now recognizes prompts-only AI notes and pushes them. No remaining merge-blocking risk was identified.

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_{A rabbit checks the parent count with care,
Then skips the crowded merge before checkout there.
Blobless paths let the workflow proceed,
It finds AI notes when they’re in need.
Rejected pushes fetch notes anew,
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- Line 220: Update the note extraction pipeline in the git-ai notes scan so its
sed range recognizes a `---` divider on the first line as well as later lines,
allowing prompt-only notes to reach the JSON scan instead of being discarded.
- Line 230: Update the retry handling around the `git notes --ref=ai merge
--strategy=ours` command to recover when native notes merging fails, using the
established git-ai fallback rather than exiting before publication. Preserve
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[tychtjan]

Looks good. Replayed the merge and sync paths with git-ai v1.7.6 against local remotes. Full and blobless clones produced identical notes, and the retry preserved a concurrent notes update. Hosted-runner timing was not measured.