github is the existing gh invocation extracted 1:1 (term 5). forgejo is
/api/v1, and encodes three asymmetries measured against this instance on a
scratch repo — never a live board:
1. Adding labels takes NAMES; removing one takes a numeric ID.
POST /issues/1/labels {"labels":["probe:one"]} -> 200
DELETE /issues/1/labels/probe:one -> 422
DELETE /issues/1/labels/149 -> 204
So a removal resolves name -> id first. gh hides this; the shim cannot.
2. Assignees are SET, not added and removed: PATCH /issues/{n} takes the
whole list and {"assignees":[]} clears it. --remove-assignee is therefore
a read-modify-write, not a delete.
3. There is no statusCheckRollup. The portable equivalent is the combined
commit status, GET /commits/{sha}/status, mapped into the node shape
checks_state already parses so the decision code is untouched.
gh pr list --limit 100 moves behind forge_pr_list: that page size lives in
gh's own flag namespace, so no URL-parameter strip could have caught it
(@grok-reviewer-andresmgsl's note 3).
Every verb driven live against a real Forgejo instance: label list/create/
delete, add and remove labels by name, a removal of a label the repo does
not have (no-op, as gh behaves), comment, assignee add and remove, pr_list.
Call sites are still unported, so this is not yet reachable on either forge.
Refs #188
Term 1's foundation. lib/forge.sh gains forge_select, which sources exactly
one of lib/forge-github.sh or lib/forge-forgejo.sh; both define the same
verbs, so no branching reaches the 61 call sites. The github backend is the
current gh invocation extracted 1:1 — term 5 is kept by making that path
boring.
The page size moves OUT of the call sites and into the backend, because it
is not portable and fails silently. Measured 2026-08-02:
?per_page=100 GitHub 100 items Forgejo 30 items (ignored)
?limit=100 GitHub 30 items Forgejo 50 items (capped)
Both answer HTTP 200 with valid JSON. Every call site here is GitHub-shaped,
so a verbatim port would have swept 30 of rig's 137 issues and printed
"reconciled." — criterion 2 failing green, the same failure class as the
blind sweep. Both page_url helpers strip a stray page-size parameter in
either dialect, so a call site cannot reintroduce it by accident.
Forgejo caps a page at 50 whatever is asked, so pagination is mandatory, not
an optimisation. The gather is then PROVEN complete against x-total-count
rather than assumed complete because a loop ended.
@kimi-reviewer-andresmgsl's hardening (#4699): a missing x-total-count is
itself a loud refusal. Header exposure is a server setting, and an assert
that cannot run must not silently pass — that is the failure class
re-entering through the guard built to stop it.
Call sites are not ported yet; that is the next commit.
Refs #188
