Unclear repository update time: some inactive or archived repositories may get a recent "update time"

[sprappcom]

Description

internally hosted gitea instance mentioned my repo is updated 1 hour ago. i didnt do anything and there's no updated information inside the git.

Gitea Version

1.22

Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site?

Yes

Log Gist

No response

Screenshots

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Git Version

No response

Operating System

ubuntu 24.04

How are you running Gitea?

docker gitea instance. is there some backdoor to this?

Database

MySQL/MariaDB

[lunny]

Of course there is no any backdoor. All the sources are open. You can take a look at the files' history commits.

[delvh]

Changing your repo settings also counts as "updated now".
Did you or your site admin perhaps change something there?

[techknowlogick]

Scheduled actions also mark repo as updated, issue comments, PRs, and many other interactions with the repo can mark a repo as updated.

[byCarlsJr]

Having the same issue. I'm browsing unauthenticated, yet repos are showing updated after I do so. When checking inside the repo, nothing has changed.

[yp05327]

Any operation which will update the record in DB of this repo will update the updated time. So it doesn't mean the code has been updated xxx ago

[Shuenhoy]

Just accessing some inactive repo will also update the updated time. I found this behavior pretty annoying. Is it possible to do the update at least only when something visible happens, e.g. issue comments, pr, setting changes mentioned above?

[lunny]

So we need to clarify which kind operations should be considered as updated.

• Change Repository's settings to enable/disable some features, convert from/to archive, public/private
• Rename the Repository or move to another owner
• Users added/removed from this repository
• Commits pushed/Tag pushed
• Branch created/deleted/renamed
• Issues/pull requests created/updated/label changed/project changed/assign changed/milestone changed/reviewer changed
• Comments created/updated
• Release created/deleted, Release attachments changed
• Actions run succeed/fail

[GiteaBot]

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[dsyx]

I recently discovered this phenomenon: when I just browsed the source code of some repositories through the web (without making any changes), the latest update time of some of the browsed repositories would show Updated 1 minutes ago under the Explore page. However, this is not the case for every browsed repository, which seems to be sporadic rather than inevitable.

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[yp05327]

@dsyx
Maybe this is a related fix: #33120

@lunny
I think we can reopen this issue, as the topic here #32046 (comment) is not resolved.