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+# Copyright (C) all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
+# License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
+
+# "lei add-external --mirror" support (also "public-inbox-clone");
+package PublicInbox::LeiMirror;
+use v5.12;
+use parent qw(PublicInbox::IPC);
+use IO::Uncompress::Gunzip qw(gunzip $GunzipError);
+use IO::Compress::Gzip qw(gzip $GzipError);
+use PublicInbox::Spawn qw(spawn run_wait run_die run_qx);
+use PublicInbox::IO qw(write_file);
+use File::Path ();
+use File::Temp ();
+use File::Spec ();
+use Fcntl qw(SEEK_SET O_CREAT O_EXCL O_WRONLY);
+use Carp qw(croak);
+use URI;
+use PublicInbox::Config qw(glob2re);
+use PublicInbox::Inbox;
+use PublicInbox::LeiCurl;
+use PublicInbox::OnDestroy;
+use PublicInbox::SHA qw(sha256_hex sha_all);
+use POSIX qw(strftime);
+use PublicInbox::Admin qw(fmt_localtime);
+use autodie qw(chdir chmod close open pipe readlink
+                seek symlink sysopen sysseek truncate unlink);
+
+our $LIVE; # pid => callback
+our $FGRP_TODO; # objstore -> [[ to resume ], [ to clone ]]
+our $TODO; # reference => [ non-fgrp mirror objects ]
+our @PUH; # post-update hooks
+
+sub keep_going ($) {
+        $LIVE && (!$_[0]->{lei}->{child_error} ||
+                $_[0]->{lei}->{opt}->{'keep-going'});
+}
+
+sub _wq_done_wait { # awaitpid cb (via wq_eof)
+        my ($pid, $mrr, $lei) = @_;
+        if ($?) {
+                $lei->child_error($?);
+        } elsif (!$lei->{child_error}) {
+                if (!$mrr->{dry_run} && $lei->{cmd} ne 'public-inbox-clone') {
+                        require PublicInbox::LeiAddExternal;
+                        PublicInbox::LeiAddExternal::_finish_add_external(
+                                                        $lei, $mrr->{dst});
+                }
+                $lei->qerr("# mirrored $mrr->{src} => $mrr->{dst}");
+        }
+        $lei->dclose;
+}
+
+# for old installations without manifest.js.gz
+sub try_scrape {
+        my ($self, $fallback_manifest) = @_;
+        my $uri = URI->new($self->{src});
+        my $lei = $self->{lei};
+        my $curl = $self->{curl} //= PublicInbox::LeiCurl->new($lei) or return;
+        my $cmd = $curl->for_uri($lei, $uri, '--compressed');
+        my $opt = { 0 => $lei->{0}, 2 => $lei->{2} };
+        my $html = run_qx($cmd, undef, $opt);
+        return $lei->child_error($?, "@$cmd failed") if $?;
+
+        # we grep with URL below, we don't want Subject/From headers
+        # making us clone random URLs.  This assumes remote instances
+        # prior to public-inbox 1.7.0
+        # 5b96edcb1e0d8252 (www: move mirror instructions to /text/, 2021-08-28)
+        my @html = split(/<hr>/, $html);
+        my @urls = ($html[-1] =~ m!\bgit clone --mirror ([a-z\+]+://\S+)!g);
+        if (!@urls && $fallback_manifest) {
+                warn <<EOM;
+W: failed to extract URLs from $uri, trying manifest.js.gz...
+EOM
+                return start_clone_url($self);
+        }
+        my $url = $uri->as_string;
+        chop($url) eq '/' or die "BUG: $uri not canonicalized";
+
+        # since this is for old instances w/o manifest.js.gz, try v1 first
+        return clone_v1($self) if grep(m!\A\Q$url\E/*\z!, @urls);
+        if (my @v2_urls = grep(m!\A\Q$url\E/[0-9]+\z!, @urls)) {
+                my %v2_epochs = map {
+                        my ($n) = (m!/([0-9]+)\z!);
+                        $n => [ URI->new($_), '' ]
+                } @v2_urls; # uniq
+                clone_v2_prep($self, \%v2_epochs);
+                delete local $lei->{opt}->{epoch};
+                clone_all($self);
+                return;
+        }
+
+        # filter out common URLs served by WWW (e.g /$MSGID/T/)
+        if (@urls && $url =~ s!/+[^/]+\@[^/]+/.*\z!! &&
+                        grep(m!\A\Q$url\E/*\z!, @urls)) {
+                die <<"";
+E: confused by scraping <$uri>, did you mean <$url>?
+
+        }
+        @urls and die <<"";
+E: confused by scraping <$uri>, got ambiguous results:
+@urls
+
+        die "E: scraping <$uri> revealed nothing\n";
+}
+
+sub clone_cmd {
+        my ($lei, $opt) = @_;
+        my @cmd = qw(git);
+        $opt->{$_} = $lei->{$_} for (0..2);
+        # we support "-c $key=$val" for arbitrary git config options
+        # e.g.: git -c http.proxy=socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050
+        push(@cmd, '-c', $_) for @{$lei->{opt}->{c} // []};
+        push @cmd, qw(clone --mirror);
+        push @cmd, '-q' if $lei->{opt}->{quiet} ||
+                        ($lei->{opt}->{jobs} // 1) > 1;
+        push @cmd, '-v' if $lei->{opt}->{verbose};
+        # XXX any other options to support?
+        # --reference is tricky with multiple epochs, but handled
+        # automatically if using manifest.js.gz
+        @cmd;
+}
+
+sub ft_rename ($$$;$) {
+        my ($ft, $dst, $open_mode, $fh) = @_;
+        my @st = stat($fh // $dst);
+        my $mode = @st ? ($st[2] & 07777) : ($open_mode & ~umask);
+        chmod($mode, $ft);
+        require File::Copy;
+        File::Copy::mv($ft->filename, $dst) or croak "E: mv($ft => $dst): $!";
+        $ft->unlink_on_destroy(0);
+}
+
+sub do_reap ($;$) {
+        my ($self, $jobs) = @_;
+        $jobs //= $self->{-jobs} //= $self->{lei}->{opt}->{jobs} // 1;
+        $jobs = 1 if $jobs < 1;
+        while (keys(%$LIVE) >= $jobs) {
+                my $pid = waitpid(-1, 0) // die "waitpid(-1): $!";
+                if (my $x = delete $LIVE->{$pid}) {
+                        my $cb = shift @$x;
+                        $cb->(@$x) if $cb;
+                } else {
+                        warn "reaped unknown PID=$pid ($?)\n";
+                }
+        }
+}
+
+sub _get_txt_start { # non-fatal
+        my ($self, $endpoint, $fini) = @_;
+        my $uri = URI->new($self->{cur_src} // $self->{src});
+        my $lei = $self->{lei};
+        my $path = $uri->path;
+        chop($path) eq '/' or die "BUG: $uri not canonicalized";
+        $uri->path("$path/$endpoint");
+        my $f = (split(m!/!, $endpoint))[-1];
+        my $ft = File::Temp->new(TEMPLATE => "$f-XXXX", TMPDIR => 1);
+        my $opt = { 0 => $lei->{0}, 1 => $lei->{1}, 2 => $lei->{2} };
+        my $cmd = $self->{curl}->for_uri($lei, $uri, qw(--compressed -R -o),
+                                        $ft->filename);
+        do_reap($self);
+        $lei->qerr("# @$cmd");
+        return if $self->{dry_run};
+        $self->{"-get_txt.$endpoint"} = [ $ft, $cmd, $uri ];
+        $LIVE->{spawn($cmd, undef, $opt)} =
+                        [ \&_get_txt_done, $self, $endpoint, $fini ];
+}
+
+sub _get_txt_done { # returns true on error (non-fatal), undef on success
+        my ($self, $endpoint) = @_;
+        my ($fh, $cmd, $uri) = @{delete $self->{"-get_txt.$endpoint"}};
+        my $cerr = $?;
+        $? = 0; # don't influence normal lei exit
+        return warn("$uri missing\n") if ($cerr >> 8) == 22;
+        return warn("# @$cmd failed (non-fatal)\n") if $cerr;
+        seek($fh, 0, SEEK_SET);
+        $self->{"mtime.$endpoint"} = (stat($fh))[9];
+        $self->{"txt.$endpoint"} = PublicInbox::IO::read_all $fh, -s _;
+        undef; # success
+}
+
+sub _write_inbox_config {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        my $buf = delete($self->{'txt._/text/config/raw'}) // return;
+        my $dst = $self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst};
+        my $f = "$dst/inbox.config.example";
+        my $mtime = delete $self->{'mtime._/text/config/raw'};
+        if (CORE::sysopen(my $fh, $f, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY)) {
+                print $fh $buf;
+                chmod(0444 & ~umask, $fh);
+                $fh->flush or die "flush($f): $!";
+                if (defined $mtime) {
+                        utime($mtime, $mtime, $fh) or die "utime($f): $!";
+                }
+        } elsif (!$!{EEXIST}) {
+                die "open($f): $!";
+        }
+        my $cfg = PublicInbox::Config->git_config_dump($f,
+                                                { 2 => $self->{lei}->{2} });
+        my $ibx = $self->{ibx} = {}; # for indexing
+        for my $sec (grep(/\Apublicinbox\./, @{$cfg->{-section_order}})) {
+                for (qw(address newsgroup nntpmirror)) {
+                        $ibx->{$_} = $cfg->{"$sec.$_"};
+                }
+        }
+}
+
+sub set_description ($) {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        my $dst = $self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst};
+        chomp(my $orig = PublicInbox::IO::try_cat("$dst/description"));
+        my $d = $orig;
+        while (defined($d) && ($d =~ m!^\(\$INBOX_DIR/description missing\)! ||
+                        $d =~ /^Unnamed repository/ || $d !~ /\S/)) {
+                $d = delete($self->{'txt.description'});
+        }
+        $d //= 'mirror of '.($self->{cur_src} // $self->{src});
+        atomic_write($dst, 'description', $d."\n") if $d ne $orig;
+}
+
+sub index_cloned_inbox {
+        my ($self, $iv) = @_;
+        my $lei = $self->{lei};
+
+        # n.b. public-inbox-clone works w/o (SQLite || Xapian)
+        # lei is useless without Xapian + SQLite
+        if ($lei->{cmd} ne 'public-inbox-clone') {
+                require PublicInbox::InboxWritable;
+                require PublicInbox::Admin;
+                my $ibx = delete($self->{ibx}) // {
+                        address => [ 'lei@example.com' ],
+                        version => $iv,
+                };
+                $ibx->{inboxdir} = $self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst};
+                PublicInbox::Inbox->new($ibx);
+                PublicInbox::InboxWritable->new($ibx);
+                my $opt = {};
+                for my $sw ($lei->index_opt) {
+                        my ($k) = ($sw =~ /\A([\w-]+)/);
+                        $opt->{$k} = $lei->{opt}->{$k};
+                }
+                # force synchronous awaitpid for v2:
+                local $PublicInbox::DS::in_loop = 0;
+                my $cfg = PublicInbox::Config->new(undef, { 2 => $lei->{2} });
+                my $env = PublicInbox::Admin::index_prepare($opt, $cfg);
+                local %ENV = (%ENV, %$env) if $env;
+                PublicInbox::Admin::progress_prepare($opt, $lei->{2});
+                PublicInbox::Admin::index_inbox($ibx, undef, $opt);
+        }
+        return if defined $self->{cur_dst}; # one of many repos to clone
+}
+
+sub run_reap {
+        my ($lei, $cmd, $opt) = @_;
+        $lei->qerr("# @$cmd");
+        my $ret = run_wait($cmd, undef, $opt);
+        $? = 0; # don't let it influence normal exit
+        $ret;
+}
+
+sub start_cmd {
+        my ($self, $cmd, $opt, $fini) = @_;
+        do_reap($self);
+        $self->{lei}->qerr("# @$cmd");
+        return if $self->{dry_run};
+        $LIVE->{spawn($cmd, undef, $opt)} = [ \&reap_cmd, $self, $cmd, $fini ]
+}
+
+sub fetch_args ($$) {
+        my ($lei, $opt) = @_;
+        my @cmd; # (git --git-dir=...) to be added by caller
+        $opt->{$_} = $lei->{$_} for (0..2);
+        # we support "-c $key=$val" for arbitrary git config options
+        # e.g.: git -c http.proxy=socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050
+        push(@cmd, '-c', $_) for @{$lei->{opt}->{c} // []};
+        push @cmd, 'fetch';
+        push @cmd, '-q' if $lei->{opt}->{quiet} ||
+                        ($lei->{opt}->{jobs} // 1) > 1;
+        push @cmd, '-v' if $lei->{opt}->{verbose};
+        push(@cmd, '-p') if $lei->{opt}->{prune};
+        PublicInbox::Git::git_version() ge v2.29.0 and
+                push(@cmd, '--no-write-fetch-head');
+        @cmd;
+}
+
+sub upr { # feed `git update-ref --stdin -z' verbosely
+        my ($lei, $w, $op, @rest) = @_; # ($ref, $oid) = @rest
+        $lei->qerr("# $op @rest") if $lei->{opt}->{verbose};
+        print $w "$op ", join("\0", @rest, '') or die "print(w): $!";
+}
+
+sub start_update_ref {
+        my ($fgrp) = @_;
+        pipe(my $r, my $w);
+        my $cmd = [ 'git', "--git-dir=$fgrp->{cur_dst}",
+                qw(update-ref --stdin -z) ];
+        my $pack = on_destroy \&satellite_done, $fgrp;
+        start_cmd($fgrp, $cmd, { 0 => $r, 2 => $fgrp->{lei}->{2} }, $pack);
+        close $r;
+        $fgrp->{dry_run} ? undef : $w;
+}
+
+sub upref_warn { warn "E: close(update-ref --stdin): $! (need git 1.8.5+)\n" }
+
+sub fgrp_update {
+        my ($fgrp) = @_;
+        return if !keep_going($fgrp);
+        my $srcfh = delete $fgrp->{srcfh} or return;
+        my $dstfh = delete $fgrp->{dstfh} or return;
+        seek($srcfh, 0, SEEK_SET);
+        seek($dstfh, 0, SEEK_SET);
+        my %src = map { chomp; split /\0/ } PublicInbox::IO::read_all $srcfh;
+        my %dst = map { chomp; split /\0/ } PublicInbox::IO::read_all $dstfh;
+        $srcfh = $dstfh = undef;
+        my $w = start_update_ref($fgrp) or return;
+        my $lei = $fgrp->{lei};
+        my $ndel;
+        for my $ref (keys %dst) {
+                my $new = delete $src{$ref};
+                my $old = $dst{$ref};
+                if (defined $new) {
+                        $new eq $old or
+                                upr($lei, $w, 'update', $ref, $new, $old);
+                } else {
+                        upr($lei, $w, 'delete', $ref, $old);
+                        ++$ndel;
+                }
+        }
+        # git's ref files backend doesn't allow directory/file conflicts
+        # between `delete' and `create' ops:
+        if ($ndel && scalar(keys %src)) {
+                $fgrp->{-create_refs} = \%src;
+        } else {
+                while (my ($ref, $oid) = each %src) {
+                        upr($lei, $w, 'create', $ref, $oid);
+                }
+        }
+        $w->close or upref_warn();
+}
+
+sub satellite_done {
+        my ($fgrp) = @_;
+        if (my $create = delete $fgrp->{-create_refs}) {
+                my $w = start_update_ref($fgrp) or return;
+                while (my ($ref, $oid) = each %$create) {
+                        upr($fgrp->{lei}, $w, 'create', $ref, $oid);
+                }
+                $w->close or upref_warn();
+        } else {
+                pack_refs($fgrp, $fgrp->{cur_dst});
+                run_puh($fgrp);
+        }
+}
+
+sub pack_refs {
+        my ($self, $git_dir) = @_;
+        my $cmd = [ 'git', "--git-dir=$git_dir", qw(pack-refs --all --prune) ];
+        start_cmd($self, $cmd, { 2 => $self->{lei}->{2} });
+}
+
+sub unlink_fetch_head ($) {
+        my ($git_dir) = @_;
+        return if CORE::unlink("$git_dir/FETCH_HEAD") || $!{ENOENT};
+        warn "W: unlink($git_dir/FETCH_HEAD): $!";
+}
+
+sub fgrpv_done {
+        my ($fgrpv) = @_;
+        return if !$LIVE;
+        my $first = $fgrpv->[0] // die 'BUG: no fgrpv->[0]';
+        return if !keep_going($first);
+        unlink_fetch_head($first->{-osdir}) if !$first->{dry_run};
+        pack_refs($first, $first->{-osdir}); # objstore refs always packed
+        for my $fgrp (@$fgrpv) {
+                my $rn = $fgrp->{-remote};
+                my %opt = ( 2 => $fgrp->{lei}->{2} );
+                my $update_ref = on_destroy \&fgrp_update, $fgrp;
+                my $src = [ 'git', "--git-dir=$fgrp->{-osdir}", 'for-each-ref',
+                        "--format=refs/%(refname:lstrip=3)%00%(objectname)",
+                        "refs/remotes/$rn/" ];
+                open(my $sfh, '+>', undef);
+                $fgrp->{srcfh} = $sfh;
+                start_cmd($fgrp, $src, { %opt, 1 => $sfh }, $update_ref);
+                my $dst = [ 'git', "--git-dir=$fgrp->{cur_dst}", 'for-each-ref',
+                        '--format=%(refname)%00%(objectname)' ];
+                open(my $dfh, '+>', undef);
+                $fgrp->{dstfh} = $dfh;
+                start_cmd($fgrp, $dst, { %opt, 1 => $dfh }, $update_ref);
+        }
+}
+
+sub fgrp_fetch_all {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        my $todo = $FGRP_TODO;
+        $FGRP_TODO = \'BUG on further use';
+        keys(%$todo) or return;
+
+        # Rely on the fgrptmp remote groups in the config file rather
+        # than listing all remotes since the remote name list may exceed
+        # system argv limits:
+        my $grp = 'fgrptmp';
+
+        my @git = (@{$self->{-torsocks}}, 'git');
+        my $j = $self->{lei}->{opt}->{jobs};
+        my $opt = {};
+        my @fetch = do {
+                local $self->{lei}->{opt}->{jobs} = 1;
+                (fetch_args($self->{lei}, $opt), qw(--no-tags --multiple));
+        };
+        push(@fetch, "-j$j") if $j;
+        while (my ($osdir, $fgrp_old_new) = each %$todo) {
+                my $f = "$osdir/config";
+                return if !keep_going($self);
+                my ($old, $new) = @$fgrp_old_new;
+                @$old = sort { $b->{-sort} <=> $a->{-sort} } @$old;
+                # $new is ordered by {references}
+                my $cmd = ['git', "--git-dir=$osdir", qw(config -f), $f ];
+
+                # clobber settings from previous run atomically
+                for ("remotes.$grp", 'fetch.hideRefs') {
+                        my $c = [ @$cmd, '--unset-all', $_ ];
+                        $self->{lei}->qerr("# @$c");
+                        next if $self->{dry_run};
+                        run_wait($c, undef, $opt);
+                        die "E: @$c \$?=$?" if ($? && ($? >> 8) != 5);
+                }
+
+                # permanent configs:
+                my $cfg = PublicInbox::Config->git_config_dump($f);
+                for my $fgrp (@$old, @$new) {
+                        my $u = $fgrp->{-uri} // die 'BUG: no {-uri}';
+                        my $rn = $fgrp->{-remote} // die 'BUG: no {-remote}';
+                        for ("url=$u", "fetch=+refs/*:refs/remotes/$rn/*",
+                                        'tagopt=--no-tags') {
+                                my ($k, $v) = split(/=/, $_, 2);
+                                $k = "remote.$rn.$k";
+                                next if ($cfg->{$k} // '') eq $v;
+                                my $c = [@$cmd, $k, $v];
+                                $fgrp->{lei}->qerr("# @$c");
+                                next if $fgrp->{dry_run};
+                                run_die($c, undef, $opt);
+                        }
+                }
+
+                if (!$self->{dry_run}) {
+                        # update the config atomically via O_APPEND while
+                        # respecting git-config locking
+                        sysopen(my $lk, "$f.lock", O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY);
+                        open my $fh, '>>', $f;
+                        $fh->autoflush(1);
+                        my $buf = '';
+                        if (@$old) {
+                                $buf = "[fetch]\n\thideRefs = refs\n";
+                                $buf .= join('', map {
+                                        "\thideRefs = !refs/remotes/" .
+                                                "$_->{-remote}/\n";
+                                } @$old);
+                        }
+                        $buf .= join('', "[remotes]\n",
+                                (map { "\t$grp = $_->{-remote}\n" } @$old),
+                                (map { "\t$grp = $_->{-remote}\n" } @$new));
+                        print $fh $buf or die "print($f): $!";
+                        close $fh;
+                        unlink("$f.lock");
+                }
+                $cmd  = [ @git, "--git-dir=$osdir", @fetch, $grp ];
+                push @$old, @$new;
+                my $end = on_destroy \&fgrpv_done, $old;
+                start_cmd($self, $cmd, $opt, $end);
+        }
+}
+
+# keep this idempotent for future use by public-inbox-fetch
+sub forkgroup_prep {
+        my ($self, $uri) = @_;
+        $self->{-ent} // return;
+        my $os = $self->{-objstore} // return;
+        my $fg = $self->{-ent}->{forkgroup} // return;
+        my $dir = "$os/$fg.git";
+        if (!-d $dir && !$self->{dry_run}) {
+                PublicInbox::Import::init_bare($dir);
+                write_file '+>>', "$dir/config", <<EOM;
+[repack]
+        useDeltaIslands = true
+[pack]
+        island = refs/remotes/([^/]+)/
+EOM
+        }
+        my $key = $self->{-key} // die 'BUG: no -key';
+        my $rn = substr(sha256_hex($key), 0, 16);
+        if (!-d $self->{cur_dst} && !$self->{dry_run}) {
+                PublicInbox::Import::init_bare($self->{cur_dst});
+                write_file '+>>', "$self->{cur_dst}/config", <<EOM;
+; rely on the "$rn" remote in the
+; $fg fork group for fetches
+; only uncomment the following iff you detach from fork groups
+; [remote "origin"]
+;        url = $uri
+;        fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
+;        mirror = true
+EOM
+        }
+        if (!$self->{dry_run}) {
+                my $alt = File::Spec->rel2abs("$dir/objects");
+                my $o = "$self->{cur_dst}/objects";
+                my $l = File::Spec->abs2rel($alt, File::Spec->rel2abs($o));
+                open my $fh, '+>>', my $f = "$o/info/alternates";
+                seek($fh, 0, SEEK_SET); # Perl did SEEK_END when it saw '>>'
+                my $seen = grep /\A\Q$l\E\n/, PublicInbox::IO::read_all $fh;
+                print $fh "$l\n" if !$seen;
+                close $fh;
+        }
+        bless {
+                %$self, -osdir => $dir, -remote => $rn, -uri => $uri
+        }, __PACKAGE__;
+}
+
+sub fp_done {
+        my ($self, $cmd, $cb, @arg) = @_;
+        if ($?) {
+                $self->{lei}->err("@$cmd failed (\$?=$?) (non-fatal)");
+                $? = 0; # don't let it influence normal exit
+        }
+        return if !keep_going($self);
+        my $fh = delete $self->{-show_ref} // die 'BUG: no show-ref output';
+        sysseek($fh, 0, SEEK_SET);
+        $self->{-ent} // die 'BUG: no -ent';
+        my $A = $self->{-ent}->{fingerprint} // die 'BUG: no fingerprint';
+        my $B = sha_all(1, $fh)->hexdigest;
+        return $cb->($self, @arg) if $A ne $B;
+        $self->{lei}->qerr("# $self->{-key} up-to-date");
+}
+
+sub cmp_fp_do {
+        my ($self, $cb, @arg) = @_;
+        # $cb is either resume_fetch or fgrp_enqueue
+        $self->{-ent} // return $cb->($self, @arg);
+        my $new = $self->{-ent}->{fingerprint} // return $cb->($self, @arg);
+        my $key = $self->{-key} // die 'BUG: no -key';
+        if (my $cur_ent = $self->{-local_manifest}->{$key}) {
+                # runs go_fetch->DESTROY run if eq
+                return if $cur_ent->{fingerprint} eq $new;
+        }
+        my $dst = $self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst};
+        my $cmd = ['git', "--git-dir=$dst", 'show-ref'];
+        my $opt = { 2 => $self->{lei}->{2} };
+        open($opt->{1}, '+>', undef);
+        $self->{-show_ref} = $opt->{1};
+        do_reap($self);
+        $self->{lei}->qerr("# @$cmd");
+        $LIVE->{spawn($cmd, undef, $opt)} = [ \&fp_done, $self, $cmd,
+                                                $cb, @arg ];
+}
+
+sub resume_fetch {
+        my ($self, $uri, $fini) = @_;
+        return if !keep_going($self);
+        my $dst = $self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst};
+        my @git = ('git', "--git-dir=$dst");
+        my $opt = { 2 => $self->{lei}->{2} };
+        my $rn = 'random'.int(rand(1 << 30));
+        for ("url=$uri", "fetch=+refs/*:refs/*", 'mirror=true') {
+                push @git, '-c', "remote.$rn.$_";
+        }
+        my $cmd = [ @{$self->{-torsocks}}, @git,
+                        fetch_args($self->{lei}, $opt), $rn ];
+        push @$cmd, '-P' if $self->{lei}->{prune}; # --prune-tags implied
+        my $run_puh = on_destroy \&run_puh, $self, $fini;
+        ++$self->{chg}->{nr_chg};
+        start_cmd($self, $cmd, $opt, $run_puh);
+}
+
+sub fgrp_enqueue {
+        my ($fgrp, $end) = @_; # $end calls fgrp_fetch_all
+        return if !keep_going($fgrp);
+        ++$fgrp->{chg}->{nr_chg};
+        my $dst = $FGRP_TODO->{$fgrp->{-osdir}} //= [ [], [] ]; # [ old, new ]
+        push @{$dst->[defined($fgrp->{-sort} ? 0 : 1)]}, $fgrp;
+}
+
+sub clone_v1 {
+        my ($self, $end) = @_;
+        my $lei = $self->{lei};
+        my $curl = $self->{curl} //= PublicInbox::LeiCurl->new($lei) or return;
+        my $uri = URI->new($self->{cur_src} // $self->{src});
+        my $path = $uri->path;
+        $path =~ s!/*\z!! and $uri->path($path);
+        defined($lei->{opt}->{epoch}) and
+                die "$uri is a v1 inbox, --epoch is not supported\n";
+        $self->{-torsocks} //= $curl->torsocks($lei, $uri) or return;
+        my $dst = $self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst};
+        my $resume = -d $dst;
+        if ($resume) { # respect read-only cloned w/ --epoch=
+                my @st = stat(_); # for root
+                if (!-w _ || !($st[2] & 0222)) {
+                        warn "# skipping $dst, not writable\n";
+                        return;
+                }
+        }
+        my $fini = on_destroy \&v1_done, $self;
+        if (my $fgrp = forkgroup_prep($self, $uri)) {
+                $fgrp->{-fini} = $fini;
+                if ($resume) {
+                        $fgrp->{-sort} = $fgrp->{-ent}->{modified};
+                        cmp_fp_do($fgrp, \&fgrp_enqueue, $end);
+                } else { # new repo, save for last
+                        fgrp_enqueue($fgrp, $end);
+                }
+        } elsif ($resume) {
+                cmp_fp_do($self, \&resume_fetch, $uri, $fini);
+        } else { # normal clone
+                my $cmd = [ @{$self->{-torsocks}},
+                                clone_cmd($lei, my $opt = {}), "$uri", $dst ];
+                if (defined($self->{-ent})) {
+                        if (defined(my $ref = $self->{-ent}->{reference})) {
+                                -e "$self->{dst}$ref" and
+                                        push @$cmd, '--reference',
+                                                "$self->{dst}$ref";
+                        }
+                }
+                ++$self->{chg}->{nr_chg};
+                start_cmd($self, $cmd, $opt,
+                        on_destroy(\&run_puh, $self, $fini));
+        }
+        if (!$self->{-is_epoch} && $lei->{opt}->{'inbox-config'} =~
+                                /\A(?:always|v1)\z/s &&
+                        !-f "$dst/inbox.config.example") {
+                _get_txt_start($self, '_/text/config/raw', $fini);
+        }
+
+        my $d = $self->{-ent} ? $self->{-ent}->{description} : undef;
+        utf8::encode($self->{'txt.description'} = $d) if defined $d;
+        (!defined($d) && !$end) and
+                _get_txt_start($self, 'description', $fini);
+
+        $end or do_reap($self, 1); # for non-manifest clone
+}
+
+sub parse_epochs ($$) {
+        my ($opt_epochs, $v2_epochs) = @_; # $epochs "LOW..HIGH"
+        $opt_epochs // return; # undef => all epochs
+        my ($lo, $dotdot, $hi, @extra) = split(/(\.\.)/, $opt_epochs);
+        undef($lo) if ($lo // '') eq '';
+        my $re = qr/\A~?[0-9]+\z/;
+        if (@extra || (($lo // '0') !~ $re) ||
+                        (($hi // '0') !~ $re) ||
+                        !(grep(defined, $lo, $hi))) {
+                die <<EOM;
+--epoch=$opt_epochs not in the form of `LOW..HIGH', `LOW..', nor `..HIGH'
+EOM
+        }
+        my @n = sort { $a <=> $b } keys %$v2_epochs;
+        for (grep(defined, $lo, $hi)) {
+                if (/\A[0-9]+\z/) {
+                        $_ > $n[-1] and die
+"`$_' exceeds maximum available epoch ($n[-1])\n";
+                        $_ < $n[0] and die
+"`$_' is lower than minimum available epoch ($n[0])\n";
+                } elsif (/\A~([0-9]+)/) {
+                        my $off = -$1 - 1;
+                        $n[$off] // die "`$_' is out of range\n";
+                        $_ = $n[$off];
+                } else { die "`$_' not understood\n" }
+        }
+        defined($lo) && defined($hi) && $lo > $hi and die
+"low value (`$lo') exceeds high (`$hi')\n";
+        $lo //= $n[0] if $dotdot;
+        $hi //= $n[-1] if $dotdot;
+        $hi //= $lo;
+        my $want = {};
+        for ($lo..$hi) {
+                if (defined $v2_epochs->{$_}) {
+                        $want->{$_} = 1;
+                } else {
+                        warn
+"# epoch $_ is not available (non-fatal, $lo..$hi)\n";
+                }
+        }
+        $want
+}
+
+sub init_placeholder ($$$) {
+        my ($src, $edst, $ent) = @_;
+        PublicInbox::Import::init_bare($edst);
+        my @owner = defined($ent->{owner}) ? (<<EOM) : ();
+[gitweb]
+        owner = $ent->{owner}
+EOM
+        write_file '>>', "$edst/config", <<EOM, @owner;
+[remote "origin"]
+        url = $src
+        fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
+        mirror = true
+
+; This git epoch was created read-only and "public-inbox-fetch"
+; will not fetch updates for it unless write permission is added.
+; Hint: chmod +w $edst
+EOM
+        my %map = (head => 'HEAD', description => undef);
+        while (my ($key, $fn) = each %map) {
+                my $val = $ent->{$key} // next;
+                $fn //= $key;
+                write_file '>', "$edst/$fn", $val;
+        }
+}
+
+sub reap_cmd { # async, called via SIGCHLD
+        my ($self, $cmd) = @_;
+        my $cerr = $?;
+        $? = 0; # don't let it influence normal exit
+        $self->{lei}->child_error($cerr, "@$cmd failed (\$?=$cerr)") if $cerr;
+}
+
+sub up_fp_done {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        return if !keep_going($self);
+        my $fh = delete $self->{-show_ref_up} // die 'BUG: no show-ref output';
+        sysseek($fh, 0, SEEK_SET);
+        $self->{-ent} // die 'BUG: no -ent';
+        my $A = $self->{-ent}->{fingerprint} // die 'BUG: no fingerprint';
+        my $B = sha_all(1, $fh)->hexdigest;
+        return if $A eq $B;
+        $self->{-ent}->{fingerprint} = $B;
+        push @{$self->{chg}->{fp_mismatch}}, $self->{-key};
+}
+
+sub atomic_write ($$$) {
+        my ($dn, $bn, $raw) = @_;
+        my $ft = File::Temp->new(DIR => $dn, TEMPLATE => "$bn-XXXX");
+        print $ft $raw;
+        $ft->flush or die "flush($ft): $!";
+        ft_rename($ft, "$dn/$bn", 0666);
+}
+
+sub run_next_puh {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        my $puh = shift @{$self->{-puh_todo}} // return delete($self->{-fini});
+        my $fini = on_destroy \&run_next_puh, $self;
+        my $cmd = [ @$puh, ($self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst}) ];
+        my $opt = +{ map { $_ => $self->{lei}->{$_} } (0..2) };
+        start_cmd($self, $cmd, undef, $opt, $fini);
+}
+
+sub run_puh {
+        my ($self, $fini) = @_;
+        $self->{-fini} = $fini;
+        @{$self->{-puh_todo}} = @PUH;
+        run_next_puh($self);
+}
+
+# modifies the to-be-written manifest entry, and sets values from it, too
+sub update_ent {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        my $key = $self->{-key} // die 'BUG: no -key';
+        my $new = $self->{-ent}->{fingerprint};
+        my $cur = $self->{-local_manifest}->{$key}->{fingerprint} // "\0";
+        my $dst = $self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst};
+        if (defined($new) && $new ne $cur) {
+                my $cmd = ['git', "--git-dir=$dst", 'show-ref'];
+                my $opt = { 2 => $self->{lei}->{2} };
+                open($opt->{1}, '+>', undef);
+                $self->{-show_ref_up} = $opt->{1};
+                my $done = on_destroy \&up_fp_done, $self;
+                start_cmd($self, $cmd, $opt, $done);
+        }
+        $new = $self->{-ent}->{head};
+        $cur = $self->{-local_manifest}->{$key}->{head} // "\0";
+        if (defined($new) && $new ne $cur) {
+                # n.b. grokmirror writes raw contents to $dst/HEAD w/o locking
+                my $cmd = [ 'git', "--git-dir=$dst" ];
+                if ($new =~ s/\Aref: //) {
+                        push @$cmd, qw(symbolic-ref HEAD), $new;
+                } elsif ($new =~ /\A[a-f0-9]{40,}\z/) {
+                        push @$cmd, qw(update-ref --no-deref HEAD), $new;
+                } else {
+                        undef $cmd;
+                        warn "W: $key: {head} => `$new' not understood\n";
+                }
+                start_cmd($self, $cmd, { 2 => $self->{lei}->{2} }) if $cmd;
+        }
+        if (my $symlinks = $self->{-ent}->{symlinks}) {
+                my $top = File::Spec->rel2abs($self->{dst});
+                push @{$self->{-new_symlinks}}, @$symlinks;
+                for my $p (@$symlinks) {
+                        my $ln = "$top/$p";
+                        $ln =~ tr!/!/!s;
+                        my (undef, $dn, $bn) = File::Spec->splitpath($ln);
+                        File::Path::mkpath($dn);
+                        my $tgt = "$top/$key";
+                        $tgt = File::Spec->abs2rel($tgt, $dn);
+                        if (lstat($ln)) {
+                                if (-l _) {
+                                        next if readlink($ln) eq $tgt;
+                                        unlink($ln);
+                                } else {
+                                        push @{$self->{chg}->{badlink}}, $p;
+                                }
+                        }
+                        symlink($tgt, $ln);
+                        ++$self->{chg}->{nr_chg};
+                }
+        }
+        if (defined(my $t = $self->{-ent}->{modified})) {
+                my ($dn, $bn) = ("$dst/info/web", 'last-modified');
+                my $orig = PublicInbox::IO::try_cat("$dn/$bn");
+                $t = strftime('%F %T', gmtime($t))." +0000\n";
+                File::Path::mkpath($dn);
+                atomic_write($dn, $bn, $t) if $orig ne $t;
+        }
+
+        $new = $self->{-ent}->{owner} // return;
+        $cur = $self->{-local_manifest}->{$key}->{owner} // "\0";
+        return if $cur eq $new;
+        utf8::encode($new); # to octets
+        my $cmd = [ qw(git config -f), "$dst/config", 'gitweb.owner', $new ];
+        start_cmd($self, $cmd, { 2 => $self->{lei}->{2} });
+}
+
+sub v1_done { # called via OnDestroy
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        return if $self->{dry_run} || !keep_going($self);
+        _write_inbox_config($self);
+        my $dst = $self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst};
+        unlink_fetch_head($dst);
+        update_ent($self) if $self->{-ent};
+        my $o = "$dst/objects";
+        if (CORE::open(my $fh, '<', my $fn = "$o/info/alternates")) {;
+                my $base = File::Spec->rel2abs($o);
+                my @l = <$fh>;
+                my $ft;
+                for (@l) {
+                        next unless m!\A/!;
+                        $_ = File::Spec->abs2rel($_, $base);
+                        $ft //= File::Temp->new(TEMPLATE => '.XXXX',
+                                                DIR => "$o/info");
+                }
+                if ($ft) {
+                        print $ft @l;
+                        $ft->flush or die "flush($ft): $!";
+                        ft_rename($ft, $fn, 0666, $fh);
+                }
+        }
+        eval { set_description($self) };
+        warn $@ if $@;
+        return if ($self->{-is_epoch} ||
+                $self->{lei}->{opt}->{'inbox-config'} ne 'always');
+        write_makefile($dst, 1);
+        index_cloned_inbox($self, 1);
+}
+
+sub v2_done { # called via OnDestroy
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        return if $self->{dry_run} || !keep_going($self);
+        my $dst = $self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst};
+        require PublicInbox::Lock;
+        my $lk = PublicInbox::Lock->new("$dst/inbox.lock");
+        my $lck = $lk->lock_for_scope;
+        _write_inbox_config($self);
+        require PublicInbox::MultiGit;
+        my $mg = PublicInbox::MultiGit->new($dst, 'all.git', 'git');
+        $mg->fill_alternates;
+        for my $i ($mg->git_epochs) { $mg->epoch_cfg_set($i) }
+        for my $edst (@{delete($self->{-read_only}) // []}) {
+                my @st = stat($edst) or die "stat($edst): $!";
+                chmod($st[2] & 0555, $edst);
+        }
+        write_makefile($dst, 2);
+        undef $lck; # unlock
+        eval { set_description($self) };
+        warn $@ if $@;
+        index_cloned_inbox($self, 2);
+}
+
+sub clone_v2_prep ($$;$) {
+        my ($self, $v2_epochs, $m) = @_; # $m => manifest.js.gz hashref
+        my $lei = $self->{lei};
+        my $curl = $self->{curl} //= PublicInbox::LeiCurl->new($lei) or return;
+        my $first_uri = (map { $_->[0] } values %$v2_epochs)[0];
+        $self->{-torsocks} //= $curl->torsocks($lei, $first_uri) or return;
+        my $dst = $self->{cur_dst} // $self->{dst};
+        my $want = parse_epochs($lei->{opt}->{epoch}, $v2_epochs);
+        my $task = $m ? bless { %$self }, __PACKAGE__ : $self;
+        my (@skip, $desc);
+        my $fini = on_destroy \&v2_done, $task;
+        for my $nr (sort { $a <=> $b } keys %$v2_epochs) {
+                my ($uri, $key) = @{$v2_epochs->{$nr}};
+                my $src = $uri->as_string;
+                my $edst = $dst;
+                $src =~ m!/([0-9]+)(?:\.git)?\z! or die <<"";
+failed to extract epoch number from $src
+
+                $1 + 0 == $nr or die "BUG: <$uri> miskeyed $1 != $nr";
+                $edst .= "/git/$nr.git";
+                my $ent;
+                if ($m) {
+                        $ent = $m->{$key} //
+                                die("BUG: `$key' not in manifest.js.gz");
+                        if (defined(my $d = $ent->{description})) {
+                                $d =~ s/ \[epoch [0-9]+\]\z//s;
+                                $desc = $d;
+                        }
+                }
+                if (!$want || $want->{$nr}) {
+                        my $etask = bless { %$task, -key => $key }, __PACKAGE__;
+                        $etask->{-ent} = $ent; # may have {reference}
+                        $etask->{cur_src} = $src;
+                        $etask->{cur_dst} = $edst;
+                        $etask->{-is_epoch} = $fini;
+                        my $ref = $ent->{reference} // '';
+                        push @{$TODO->{$ref}}, $etask;
+                        $self->{any_want}->{$key} = 1;
+                } else { # create a placeholder so users only need to chmod +w
+                        init_placeholder($src, $edst, $ent);
+                        push @{$task->{-read_only}}, $edst;
+                        push @skip, $key;
+                }
+        }
+        # filter out the epochs we skipped
+        $self->{chg}->{manifest} = 1 if $m && delete(@$m{@skip});
+
+        $self->{dry_run} or File::Path::mkpath($dst);
+
+        if ($lei->{opt}->{'inbox-config'} =~ /\A(?:always|v2)\z/s &&
+                        !-f "$dst/inbox.config.example") {
+                _get_txt_start($task, '_/text/config/raw', $fini);
+        }
+
+        defined($desc) ? ($task->{'txt.description'} = $desc) :
+                _get_txt_start($task, 'description', $fini);
+}
+
+sub decode_manifest ($$$) {
+        my ($fh, $fn, $uri) = @_;
+        my $js;
+        my $gz = PublicInbox::IO::read_all $fh;
+        gunzip(\$gz => \$js, MultiStream => 1) or
+                die "gunzip($uri): $GunzipError\n";
+        my $m = eval { PublicInbox::Config->json->decode($js) };
+        die "$uri: error decoding `$js': $@\n" if $@;
+        ref($m) eq 'HASH' or die "$uri unknown type: ".ref($m);
+        $m;
+}
+
+sub load_current_manifest ($) {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        my $fn = $self->{-manifest} // return;
+        if (CORE::open(my $fh, '<', $fn)) {
+                decode_manifest($fh, $fn, $fn);
+        } elsif ($!{ENOENT}) { # non-fatal, we can just do it slowly
+                $self->{-initial_clone} or
+                        warn "W: open($fn): $! (non-fatal)\n";
+                undef;
+        } else {
+                die "E: open($fn): $!\n";
+        }
+}
+
+sub multi_inbox ($$$) {
+        my ($self, $path, $m) = @_;
+        my $incl = $self->{lei}->{opt}->{include};
+        my $excl = $self->{lei}->{opt}->{exclude};
+
+        # assuming everything not v2 is v1, for now
+        my @v1 = sort grep(!m!.+/git/[0-9]+\.git\z!, keys %$m);
+        my @v2_epochs = sort grep(m!.+/git/[0-9]+\.git\z!, keys %$m);
+        my $v2 = {};
+
+        for (@v2_epochs) {
+                m!\A(/.+)/git/[0-9]+\.git\z! or die "BUG: $_";
+                push @{$v2->{$1}}, $_;
+        }
+        my $n = scalar(keys %$v2) + scalar(@v1);
+        my @orig = defined($incl // $excl) ? (keys %$v2, @v1) : ();
+        if (defined $incl) {
+                my $re = '(?:'.join('\\z|', map {
+                                glob2re($_) // qr/\A\Q$_\E/
+                        } @$incl).'\\z)';
+                my @gone = delete @$v2{grep(!/$re/, keys %$v2)};
+                delete @$m{map { @$_ } @gone} and $self->{chg}->{manifest} = 1;
+                delete @$m{grep(!/$re/, @v1)} and $self->{chg}->{manifest} = 1;
+                @v1 = grep(/$re/, @v1);
+        }
+        if (defined $excl) {
+                my $re = '(?:'.join('\\z|', map {
+                                glob2re($_) // qr/\A\Q$_\E/
+                        } @$excl).'\\z)';
+                my @gone = delete @$v2{grep(/$re/, keys %$v2)};
+                delete @$m{map { @$_ } @gone} and $self->{chg}->{manifest} = 1;
+                delete @$m{grep(/$re/, @v1)} and $self->{chg}->{manifest} = 1;
+                @v1 = grep(!/$re/, @v1);
+        }
+        my $ret; # { v1 => [ ... ], v2 => { "/$inbox_name" => [ epochs ] }}
+        $ret->{v1} = \@v1 if @v1;
+        $ret->{v2} = $v2 if keys %$v2;
+        $ret //= @orig ? "Nothing to clone, available repositories:\n\t".
+                                join("\n\t", sort @orig)
+                        : "Nothing available to clone\n";
+        my $path_pfx = '';
+
+        # PSGI mount prefixes and manifest.js.gz prefixes don't always align...
+        if (@v2_epochs) {
+                until (grep(m!\A\Q$$path\E/git/[0-9]+\.git\z!,
+                                @v2_epochs) == @v2_epochs) {
+                        $$path =~ s!\A(/[^/]+)/!/! or last;
+                        $path_pfx .= $1;
+                }
+        } elsif (@v1) {
+                while (!defined($m->{$$path}) && $$path =~ s!\A(/[^/]+)/!/!) {
+                        $path_pfx .= $1;
+                }
+        }
+        ($path_pfx, $n, $ret);
+}
+
+sub clone_all {
+        my ($self, $m) = @_;
+        my $todo = $TODO;
+        $TODO = \'BUG on further use';
+        my $end = on_destroy \&fgrp_fetch_all, $self;
+        {
+                my $nodep = delete $todo->{''};
+
+                # do not download unwanted deps
+                my $any_want = delete $self->{any_want};
+                my @unwanted = grep { !$any_want->{$_} } keys %$todo;
+                my @nodep = delete(@$todo{@unwanted});
+                push(@$nodep, @$_) for @nodep;
+
+                # handle no-dependency repos, first
+                for (@$nodep) {
+                        clone_v1($_, $end);
+                        return if !keep_going($self);
+                }
+        }
+        # resolve references, deepest, first:
+        while (scalar keys %$todo) {
+                for my $x (keys %$todo) {
+                        my ($nr, $nxt);
+                        # resolve multi-level references
+                        while ($m && defined($nxt = $m->{$x}->{reference})) {
+                                exists($todo->{$nxt}) or last;
+                                if (++$nr > 1000) {
+                                        $m->{$x}->{reference} = undef;
+                                        $m->{$nxt}->{reference} = undef;
+                                        warn <<EOM
+E: dependency loop detected (`$x' => `$nxt'), breaking
+EOM
+                                }
+                                $x = $nxt;
+                        }
+                        my $y = delete $todo->{$x} // next; # already done
+                        for (@$y) {
+                                clone_v1($_, $end);
+                                return if !keep_going($self);
+                        }
+                        last; # restart %$todo iteration
+                }
+        }
+
+        # $end->DESTROY will call fgrp_fetch_all once all references
+        # in $LIVE are gone, and do_reap will eventually drain $LIVE
+        $end = undef;
+        do_reap($self, 1);
+}
+
+sub dump_manifest ($$) {
+        my ($m, $ft) = @_;
+        # write the smaller manifest if epochs were skipped so
+        # users won't have to delete manifest if they +w an
+        # epoch they no longer want to skip
+        my $json = PublicInbox::Config->json->encode($m);
+        my $mtime = (stat($ft))[9];
+        seek($ft, 0, SEEK_SET);
+        truncate($ft, 0);
+        gzip(\$json => $ft) or die "gzip($ft): $GzipError";
+        $ft->flush or die "flush($ft): $!";
+        utime($mtime, $mtime, "$ft") or die "utime(..., $ft): $!";
+}
+
+sub dump_project_list ($$) {
+        my ($self, $m) = @_;
+        my $f = $self->{'-project-list'};
+        my $old = defined($f) ? PublicInbox::IO::try_cat($f) : '';
+        my %new;
+
+        open my $dh, '<', '.';
+        if (!$self->{dry_run} || -d $self->{dst}) {
+                chdir($self->{dst});
+        }
+        my @local = grep { -e $_ ? ($new{$_} = undef) : 1 } split(/\n/s, $old);
+        chdir($dh);
+
+        $new{substr($_, 1)} = 1 for keys %$m; # drop leading '/'
+        my @list = sort keys %new;
+        my @remote = grep { !defined($new{$_}) } @list;
+        my %lnk = map { substr($_, 1) => undef } @{$self->{-new_symlinks}};
+        @remote = grep { !exists($lnk{$_}) } @remote;
+
+        if (@remote) {
+                warn <<EOM;
+The following local repositories are ignored/gone from $self->{src}:
+EOM
+                warn "\t", $_, "\n" for @remote;
+
+                if ($self->{lei}->{opt}->{purge} && !$self->{dry_run}) {
+                        my $o = {};
+                        $o->{verbose} = 1 if $self->{lei}->{opt}->{verbose};
+                        my $dst = $self->{dst};
+                        File::Path::remove_tree(map { "$dst/$_" } @remote, $o);
+                        my %rm = map { $_ => undef } @remote;
+                        @list = grep { !exists($rm{$_}) } @list;
+                        $self->{lei}->qerr('# purged ');
+                }
+        }
+        if (defined($f) && @local) {
+                warn <<EOM;
+The following repos in $f no longer exist on the filesystem:
+EOM
+                warn "\t", $_, "\n" for @local;
+        }
+        $self->{chg}->{nr_chg} += scalar(@remote) + scalar(@local);
+        return if !defined($f) || $self->{dry_run};
+        my (undef, $dn, $bn) = File::Spec->splitpath($f);
+        my $new = join("\n", @list, '');
+        atomic_write($dn, $bn, $new) if $new ne $old;
+}
+
+# FIXME: this gets confused by single inbox instance w/ global manifest.js.gz
+sub try_manifest {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        my $uri = URI->new($self->{src});
+        my $lei = $self->{lei};
+        my $curl = $self->{curl} //= PublicInbox::LeiCurl->new($lei) or return;
+        $self->{-torsocks} //= $curl->torsocks($lei, $uri) or return;
+        my $path = $uri->path;
+        chop($path) eq '/' or die "BUG: $uri not canonicalized";
+        my $rmf = $lei->{opt}->{'remote-manifest'} // '/manifest.js.gz';
+        if ($rmf =~ m!\A[^/:]+://!) {
+                $uri = URI->new($rmf);
+        } else {
+                $rmf = "/$rmf" if index($rmf, '/') != 0;
+                $uri->path($path.$rmf);
+        }
+        my $manifest = $self->{-manifest} // "$self->{dst}/manifest.js.gz";
+        my %opt = (UNLINK => 1, SUFFIX => '.tmp', TMPDIR => 1);
+        if (!$self->{dry_run} && $manifest =~ m!\A(.+?)/[^/]+\z! and -d $1) {
+                $opt{DIR} = $1; # allows fast rename(2) w/o EXDEV
+                delete $opt{TMPDIR};
+        }
+        my $ft = File::Temp->new(TEMPLATE => '.manifest-XXXX', %opt);
+        my $cmd = $curl->for_uri($lei, $uri, qw(-R -o), $ft->filename);
+        push(@$cmd, '-z', $manifest) if -f $manifest;
+        my $mf_url = "$uri";
+        %opt = map { $_ => $lei->{$_} } (0..2);
+        my $cerr = run_reap($lei, $cmd, \%opt);
+        if ($cerr) {
+                return try_scrape($self) if ($cerr >> 8) == 22; # 404 missing
+                return $lei->child_error($cerr, "@$cmd failed");
+        }
+
+        # bail out if curl -z/--timecond hit 304 Not Modified, $ft will be empty
+        if (-f $manifest && !-s $ft) {
+                $lei->child_error(127 << 8) if $lei->{opt}->{'exit-code'};
+                return $lei->qerr("# $manifest unchanged");
+        }
+
+        my $m = eval { decode_manifest($ft, $ft, $uri) };
+        if ($@) {
+                warn $@;
+                return try_scrape($self);
+        }
+        local $self->{chg} = {};
+        local $self->{-local_manifest} = load_current_manifest($self);
+        local $self->{-new_symlinks} = [];
+        my ($path_pfx, $n, $multi) = multi_inbox($self, \$path, $m);
+        return $lei->child_error(0, $multi) if !ref($multi);
+        my $v2 = delete $multi->{v2};
+        if ($v2) {
+                for my $name (sort keys %$v2) {
+                        my $epochs = delete $v2->{$name};
+                        my %v2_epochs = map {
+                                $uri->path($n > 1 ? $path_pfx.$path.$_
+                                                : $path_pfx.$_);
+                                my ($e) = ("$uri" =~ m!/([0-9]+)\.git\z!);
+                                $e // die "no [0-9]+\.git in `$uri'";
+                                $e => [ $uri->clone, $_ ];
+                        } @$epochs;
+                        ("$uri" =~ m!\A(.+/)git/[0-9]+\.git\z!) or
+                                die "BUG: `$uri' !~ m!/git/[0-9]+.git!";
+                        local $self->{cur_src} = $1;
+                        local $self->{cur_dst} = $self->{dst};
+                        if ($n > 1 && $uri->path =~ m!\A\Q$path_pfx$path\E/(.+)/
+                                                        git/[0-9]+\.git\z!x) {
+                                $self->{cur_dst} .= "/$1";
+                        }
+                        index($self->{cur_dst}, "\n") >= 0 and die <<EOM;
+E: `$self->{cur_dst}' must not contain newline
+EOM
+                        clone_v2_prep($self, \%v2_epochs, $m);
+                        return if !keep_going($self);
+                }
+        }
+        if (my $v1 = delete $multi->{v1}) {
+                my $p = $path_pfx.$path;
+                chop($p) if substr($p, -1, 1) eq '/';
+                $uri->path($p);
+                for my $name (@$v1) {
+                        my $task = bless { %$self }, __PACKAGE__;
+                        $task->{-ent} = $m->{$name} //
+                                        die("BUG: no `$name' in manifest");
+                        $task->{cur_src} = "$uri";
+                        $task->{cur_dst} = $task->{dst};
+                        $task->{-key} = $name;
+                        if ($n > 1) {
+                                $task->{cur_dst} .= $name;
+                                $task->{cur_src} .= $name;
+                        }
+                        index($task->{cur_dst}, "\n") >= 0 and die <<EOM;
+E: `$task->{cur_dst}' must not contain newline
+EOM
+                        $task->{cur_src} .= '/';
+                        my $dep = $task->{-ent}->{reference} // '';
+                        push @{$TODO->{$dep}}, $task; # for clone_all
+                        $self->{any_want}->{$name} = 1;
+                }
+        }
+        delete local $lei->{opt}->{epoch} if defined($v2);
+        clone_all($self, $m);
+        return if !keep_going($self);
+
+        # set by clone_v2_prep/-I/--exclude
+        my $mis = delete $self->{chg}->{fp_mismatch};
+        if ($mis) {
+                my $t = fmt_localtime((stat($ft))[9]);
+                warn <<EOM;
+W: Fingerprints for the following repositories do not match
+W: $mf_url @ $t:
+W: These repositories may have updated since $t:
+EOM
+                warn "\t", $_, "\n" for @$mis;
+                warn <<EOM if !$self->{lei}->{opt}->{prune};
+W: The above fingerprints may never match without --prune
+EOM
+        }
+        if ((delete($self->{chg}->{manifest}) || $mis) && !$self->{dry_run}) {
+                dump_manifest($m => $ft);
+        }
+        my $bad = delete $self->{chg}->{badlink};
+        warn(<<EOM, map { ("\t", $_, "\n") } @$bad) if $bad;
+W: The following exist and have not been converted to symlinks
+EOM
+        dump_project_list($self, $m);
+        ft_rename($ft, $manifest, 0666) if !$self->{dry_run};
+        !$self->{chg}->{nr_chg} && $lei->{opt}->{'exit-code'} and
+                $lei->child_error(127 << 8);
+}
+
+sub start_clone_url {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        return try_manifest($self) if $self->{src} =~ m!\Ahttps?://!;
+        die "TODO: non-HTTP/HTTPS clone of $self->{src} not supported, yet";
+}
+
+sub do_mirror { # via wq_io_do or public-inbox-clone
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        my $lei = $self->{lei};
+        $self->{dry_run} = 1 if $lei->{opt}->{'dry-run'};
+        umask($lei->{client_umask}) if defined $lei->{client_umask};
+        $self->{-initial_clone} = 1 if !-d $self->{dst};
+        local @PUH;
+        if (defined(my $puh = $lei->{opt}->{'post-update-hook'})) {
+                require Text::ParseWords;
+                @PUH = map { [ Text::ParseWords::shellwords($_) ] } @$puh;
+        }
+        eval {
+                my $ic = $lei->{opt}->{'inbox-config'} //= 'always';
+                $ic =~ /\A(?:v1|v2|always|never)\z/s or die <<"";
+--inbox-config must be one of `always', `v2', `v1', or `never'
+
+                # we support these switches with '' (empty string).
+                # defaults match example conf distributed with grokmirror
+                my @pairs = qw(objstore objstore manifest manifest.js.gz
+                                project-list projects.list);
+                while (@pairs) {
+                        my ($k, $default) = splice(@pairs, 0, 2);
+                        my $v = $lei->{opt}->{$k} // next;
+                        $v = $default if $v eq '';
+                        $v = "$self->{dst}/$v" if $v !~ m!\A\.{0,2}/!;
+                        $self->{"-$k"} = $v;
+                }
+
+                local $LIVE = {};
+                local $TODO = {};
+                local $FGRP_TODO = {};
+                my $iv = $lei->{opt}->{'inbox-version'} //
+                        return start_clone_url($self);
+                return clone_v1($self) if $iv == 1;
+                die "bad --inbox-version=$iv\n" if $iv != 2;
+                die <<EOM if $self->{src} !~ m!://!;
+cloning local v2 inboxes not supported
+EOM
+                try_scrape($self, 1);
+        };
+        $lei->fail($@) if $@;
+}
+
+sub start {
+        my ($cls, $lei, $src, $dst) = @_;
+        my $self = bless { src => $src, dst => $dst }, $cls;
+        $lei->request_umask;
+        my ($op_c, $ops) = $lei->workers_start($self, 1);
+        $lei->{wq1} = $self;
+        $self->wq_io_do('do_mirror', []);
+        $self->wq_close;
+        $lei->wait_wq_events($op_c, $ops);
+}
+
+sub ipc_atfork_child {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        $self->{lei}->_lei_atfork_child;
+        $self->SUPER::ipc_atfork_child;
+}
+
+sub write_makefile {
+        my ($dir, $ibx_ver) = @_;
+        my $f = "$dir/Makefile";
+        if (CORE::sysopen my $fh, $f, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY) {
+                print $fh <<EOM;
+# This is a v$ibx_ver public-inbox, see the public-inbox-v$ibx_ver-format(5)
+# manpage for more information on the format.  This Makefile is
+# intended as a familiar wrapper for users unfamiliar with
+# public-inbox-* commands.
+#
+# See the respective manpages for public-inbox-fetch(1),
+# public-inbox-index(1), etc for more information on
+# some of the commands used by this Makefile.
+#
+# This Makefile will not be modified nor read by public-inbox,
+# so you may edit it freely with your own convenience targets
+# and notes.  public-inbox-fetch will recreate it if removed.
+EOM
+                print $fh <<'EOM';
+# the default target:
+help :
+        @echo Common targets:
+        @echo '    make fetch        - fetch from remote git repostorie(s)'
+        @echo '    make update       - fetch and update index '
+        @echo
+        @echo Rarely needed targets:
+        @echo '    make reindex      - may be needed for new features/bugfixes'
+        @echo '    make compact      - rewrite Xapian storage to save space'
+        @echo '    make index        - initial index after clone'
+
+fetch :
+        public-inbox-fetch
+update :
+        @if ! public-inbox-fetch --exit-code; \
+        then \
+                c=$$?; \
+                test $$c -eq 127 && exit 0; \
+                exit $$c; \
+        elif test -f msgmap.sqlite3 || test -f public-inbox/msgmap.sqlite3; \
+        then \
+                public-inbox-index; \
+        else \
+                echo 'public-inbox index not initialized'; \
+                echo 'see public-inbox-index(1) man page'; \
+        fi
+index :
+        public-inbox-index
+reindex :
+        public-inbox-index --reindex
+compact :
+        public-inbox-compact
+
+.PHONY : help fetch update index reindex compact
+EOM
+                close $fh;
+        } else {
+                die "open($f): $!" unless $!{EEXIST};
+        }
+}
+
+1;