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Summary

  • On startup, detect repos the DB believes are indexed but whose zoekt shard files are missing from disk (e.g. INDEX_CACHE_DIR wiped independently of the DB on ephemeral storage)
  • Re-queue those repos through the existing repo-index workload/execution lock instead of waiting for the next scheduled reindex
  • Add regression coverage for missing vs. healthy shard state, repos with multiple shard files, and one repo failing to enqueue not blocking recovery of the others

Fixes #1210

Note: a few earlier community PRs attempted this against the old repoIndexManager.ts, which has since been replaced by the BullMQ workload system (repoIndexWorkload.ts, repoCleanupWorkload.ts, jobManager.ts). This targets the current architecture and reuses its existing queue/lock conventions.

Testing

  • yarn workspace @sourcebot/backend test
  • yarn workspace @sourcebot/backend build

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Medium Risk
Changes worker startup to enqueue indexing for many repos after index loss; mis-detection could cause extra load, but scope is limited to connected/pinned indexed repos and mirrors existing reindex eligibility.

Overview
Adds startup recovery when the database still marks repositories as indexed but Zoekt shard files are gone from INDEX_CACHE_DIR (for example after ephemeral index storage is wiped).

On worker boot, after config sync and before job schedulers start, reindexReposWithMissingShards scans the index directory for real *.zoekt shards (ignoring .tmp, .meta, and other non-shard files), loads indexed repos that still have a connection or isAutoCleanupDisabled, and enqueues repo-index jobs at scheduled priority for any mismatch. Enqueue failures are logged per repo so one Redis error does not block the rest or crash startup.

Regression tests cover missing index dirs, partial shard artifacts, multi-shard repos, and mixed healthy/broken repos.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Repositories with missing or incomplete search index files are now automatically reindexed when the backend starts.
    • Recovery correctly handles missing index directories and ignores invalid or incomplete shard files.
    • Healthy repositories with valid index files are not unnecessarily requeued.
  • Documentation
    • Added changelog details describing automatic startup recovery for missing search indexes.

If INDEX_CACHE_DIR is wiped independently of the DB (e.g. placed on
ephemeral storage in Kubernetes), repos stay marked as indexed while
their shard files are gone, and search silently returns nothing until
the next scheduled reindex.

On startup, scan the index directory and re-queue any repo the DB
believes is indexed but has no shard file on disk, reusing the
existing repo-index workload and its per-repo execution lock.
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Walkthrough

The backend checks indexed repositories for missing Zoekt shard files during startup. It schedules affected repositories for reindexing and continues processing after individual enqueue failures. Tests cover shard detection, repository eligibility, and error handling.

Changes

Missing shard recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recovery detection and startup wiring
packages/backend/src/repoCleanupWorkload.ts, packages/backend/src/index.ts, CHANGELOG.md
reindexReposWithMissingShards treats a missing index directory as empty, recognizes only .zoekt files, and schedules eligible repositories without shards with scheduled priority. Startup invokes recovery after configuration synchronization. The changelog records the fix.
Recovery scheduling validation
packages/backend/src/repoCleanupWorkload.test.ts
Tests cover missing directories, valid and invalid shard files, sidecar files, unrelated files, repository eligibility, selective reindexing, scheduled priority, and continued processing after enqueue failures.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2c5e1

The change adds localized startup recovery for repositories whose indexed shard files are missing; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Startup
  participant Recovery
  participant Prisma
  participant JobManager
  Startup->>Recovery: invoke missing-shard recovery after config sync
  Recovery->>Prisma: query eligible indexed repositories
  Recovery->>Recovery: compare repositories with valid Zoekt shard files
  Recovery->>JobManager: schedule repo-index jobs for missing shards
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: reindexing repositories with missing Zoekt shards.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #1210. Startup now detects indexed repositories with missing Zoekt shards and re-queues eligible repositories after configuration synchronization. Tests cover missing directo…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changelog update, startup integration, recovery implementation, and regression tests directly support issue #1210. No unrelated changes are identified.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 3…
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Explanation

The changes satisfy issue #1210. Startup now detects indexed repositories with missing Zoekt shards and re-queues eligible repositories after configuration synchronization. Tests cover missing directories, valid shards, invalid files, and enqueue failures.

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In `@packages/backend/src/repoCleanupWorkload.ts`:
- Around line 245-246: Update the repo cleanup flow around INDEX_CACHE_DIR so a
missing directory is treated as an empty shard set rather than returning early.
Continue to the database query with an empty entry list, allowing eligible
indexed repositories to queue recovery jobs, and update the no-directory
regression test to expect recovery.
- Line 257: Update the shard-entry handling around getRepoIdFromShardFileName to
require the filename’s .zoekt extension before accepting its repository ID;
ignore valid-looking non-shard names such as 1_42_backup, and add a regression
test covering that case.
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<file name="packages/backend/src/repoCleanupWorkload.ts">

<violation number="1" location="packages/backend/src/repoCleanupWorkload.ts:279">
P2: A multi-shard repo is considered healthy when any single shard file remains, so a partial shard loss (one fanout file deleted while others survive) is never detected and the repo is skipped, leaving incomplete search results until the next scheduled reindex. This is one of the scenarios the PR lists as covered, but the presence-only check can't catch it.</violation>
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const reposMissingShards = indexedRepos.filter(
(repo) => !repoIdsWithShards.has(repo.id),

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P2: A multi-shard repo is considered healthy when any single shard file remains, so a partial shard loss (one fanout file deleted while others survive) is never detected and the repo is skipped, leaving incomplete search results until the next scheduled reindex. This is one of the scenarios the PR lists as covered, but the presence-only check can't catch it.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/backend/src/repoCleanupWorkload.ts, line 279:

<comment>A multi-shard repo is considered healthy when any single shard file remains, so a partial shard loss (one fanout file deleted while others survive) is never detected and the repo is skipped, leaving incomplete search results until the next scheduled reindex. This is one of the scenarios the PR lists as covered, but the presence-only check can't catch it.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -231,3 +232,72 @@ export const cleanupOrphanedRepoResources = async (db: PrismaClient) => {
+    });
+
+    const reposMissingShards = indexedRepos.filter(
+        (repo) => !repoIdsWithShards.has(repo.id),
+    );
+
</file context>
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Comment thread packages/backend/src/repoCleanupWorkload.ts
Two gaps in the missing-shard reconciliation added for sourcebot-dev#1210:

- A missing INDEX_CACHE_DIR caused an early return, skipping recovery
  entirely for the exact scenario the check exists to handle (the whole
  index directory gone). Now treated as zero shards on disk instead.
- Shard detection accepted any numeric-prefixed filename, so the .meta
  sidecar zoekt writes alongside every shard, or an unrelated file,
  could make a repo look healthy with no searchable index. Now requires
  the real .zoekt suffix.
Missing-shard recovery ran before configManager.syncConfig(), so it
could evaluate repo eligibility against connections about to be
removed by this startup's config sync, wasting a reindex enqueue on a
repo that's about to be orphaned. Moved it after syncConfig(), which
handles connection removal synchronously, and still before
reconcileJobSchedulers()/jobManager.start().
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[bug/rfe] Rebuild or mark repos stale when zoekt shard files are missing but DB marks repos indexed

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