ci: fix vendorHash auto-fix push race and untested PR head

[lionello]

The nix-shell-test job's "Update vendorHash if needed" step committed and pushed its fix with a bare git push. Two problems:

• A concurrent push to the same branch (a human commit, or another nix-shell-test run) landing during the ~2 minute verify step gets a plain non-fast-forward rejection, turning an otherwise healthy branch red for no real reason.
• Even when the push succeeds, it's made with GITHUB_TOKEN, and GitHub never starts a new on:push run for a push made with GITHUB_TOKEN. The fixed commit becomes the PR head, but go-test and nix-shell-test never actually ran against it.

Fix: retry the push with a rebase onto the latest branch tip a few times before giving up, and explicitly dispatch a fresh workflow run (added workflow_dispatch) against the branch so the real head commit gets tested.

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• I have performed a self-review of my code
• I have added appropriate tests
• I have updated the Defang CLI docs and/or README to reflect my changes, if necessary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Added support for manually triggering the workflow.
  • Improved automated vendor hash updates with retry handling for concurrent changes.
  • Detects when an update is already present remotely to avoid duplicate work.
  • Automatically starts a fresh workflow run after a successful vendor hash update.

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Walkthrough

The workflow adds manual dispatch support and grants the vendorHash update job permission to start runs. The vendorHash fix push now retries concurrent updates, handles rebase conflicts, and dispatches a fresh workflow run after a successful push.

Changes

VendorHash workflow recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow dispatch and permissions .github/workflows/go.yml	The workflow accepts workflow_dispatch. The nix-shell-test job receives actions: write. The dispatch command receives GH_TOKEN.
VendorHash push retry flow .github/workflows/go.yml	The vendorHash update compares remote hashes, retries up to five times, fetches and rebases after concurrent updates, fails on conflicts or exhausted retries, and dispatches a new go.yml run after a successful push.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9ad48

This workflow retries vendorHash updates and triggers follow-up testing, but manual dispatch can still rerun tag-based release actions and the initial dispatch may fail after a successful push. Resolve or explicitly accept these workflow behaviors before merging.

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[defangdevs]

Logic checks out:

• The go.yml on: block has no pull_request trigger, only push + the new workflow_dispatch — so nix-shell-test always runs on an attached branch checkout, never detached HEAD. git push/git rebase are safe there.
• The retry loop's if git push; then ...; fi / if ! git rebase ...; then ...; fi guards are the correct idiom under the Actions default bash -eo pipefail shell — a failing command inside an if condition doesn't trip -e.
• actions: write + GH_TOKEN are both present for the gh workflow run call.

One non-blocking note: workflow_dispatch only becomes callable via API/CLI once the workflow file on the default branch declares it (a well-known GitHub Actions quirk — the ref you dispatch runs the target ref's copy, but whether the trigger is recognized is resolved against main). So on this PR's own branch, before merge, if nix-shell-test ever needs to self-heal, the final gh workflow run go.yml --ref "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" call will fail (silently, no set -e around it) until this lands on main. That's a one-time bootstrap gap, not a bug in the merged state — every PR after this one gets the real fix. Worth a one-line comment in the workflow so it doesn't look like a mystery failure if it's hit during this PR's own CI.

Approving — the fix addresses both problems described (push race + untested head) correctly once merged.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/go.yml:
- Around line 222-225: Update the vendorHash check in the workflow branch
containing the git diff command to read the remote pkgs/defang/cli.nix via git
show and compare its vendorHash value directly with NEW_HASH, rather than
comparing the entire file. Preserve the existing pushed=true and break behavior
when the remote hash already matches.
- Around line 14-17: Restrict workflow_dispatch in the go workflow to the
vendorHash recovery path so manually dispatching it for an existing v* tag
cannot run smoketest, signing, release, Docker, or npm publication jobs. Prefer
a separate recovery workflow, or add an explicit recovery input and guard every
release-related job while preserving the automatic workflow behavior.
- Line 249: Ensure the rerun logic around the gh workflow run invocation only
dispatches go.yml after workflow_dispatch is available on the default branch;
otherwise, merge/bootstrap that trigger first or invoke a workflow already
present there. Preserve the existing ref selection and rerun behavior once the
dispatch trigger is available.

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@lionello Checked CodeRabbit's 3 findings on this PR against the actual workflow. Summary (full reasoning in the inline replies):

1. vendorHash compare uses whole-file diff, not the hash value. Valid. Fixed and pushed (9ad48fd): now checks the vendorHash line in origin/$GITHUB_REF_NAME:pkgs/defang/cli.nix directly.
2. workflow_dispatch is unscoped, so a manual run against an existing v* tag or main re-runs the full release pipeline (sign, Docker push, npm publish). Valid — confirmed those jobs gate only on ref, not event type. Not fixed: needs your call on whether manual re-publish via dispatch should ever be possible. See my inline reply for the minimal fix if you want it closed off.
3. Bootstrap chicken-and-egg: until this PR merges to main, the gh workflow run go.yml --ref ... retrigger line will fail on this PR's own branch (default bash -e reds the job even though the push already succeeded). Self-resolves after merge. Optional: make that line best-effort so the job doesn't red for a cosmetic reason.

Ask: your call on finding 2 (scope release jobs to github.event_name == 'push', or leave manual dispatch able to re-run publish steps) — say the word and I'll push it.