Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

[0.7.0] - 2026-07-27

Added

• libfossil version prints a single, stable, machine-parseable build identifier -- module version (or a -ldflags -X github.com/danmestas/go-libfossil/cli.buildVersion=... override for release builds), Go toolchain version, and platform -- and exits 0. Previously version was not a recognized command at all and fell through to the unrecognized-argument path. There is no global --version flag: repo extract already owns --version as a command-scoped flag (the source version to extract), and kong's global flags are visible in every subcommand's context, so a root-level --version would collide with it.
• libfossil repo serve CLI command wires the already-public Repo.ServeHTTP xfer HTTP server into the command surface. A repository created or cloned with this tool can now be served to a peer -- including a stock fossil clone -- without writing Go. Binds to 127.0.0.1:8080 by default; override with --addr host:port. Process interrupt (Ctrl-C/SIGTERM) cancels the same context ServeHTTP already shuts down on; no new shutdown mechanism was introduced.

Fixed

• The xfer HTTP server now sends an explicit Content-Length on every clone and sync reply. The full response is already materialised by Encode before the first byte is written, so its exact length is known for free; setting the header keeps net/http from silently switching to Transfer-Encoding: chunked once the buffered body passes its internal flush threshold. Release-tagged fossil ≤2.23 reads the reply length only from Content-Length (src/http.c leaves its iLength negative otherwise) and aborts with "server did not reply" on any chunked reply above ~256KB, so those clients could not clone a repository larger than that from a libfossil server. No buffering was introduced — the response was always fully in memory — so #88's per-clone bound (DefaultCloneBatchBytes) still caps each reply. The fix is unconditional rather than negotiated: because the server never streams, chunked framing offers no memory saving over Content-Length, and Content-Length is what canonical fossil's own server emits, so it is strictly the more compatible framing for every client (issue #101).
• The message decoder now selects a body's framing from its §4 Content-Type rather than by trying each framing and seeing which parses. A body sent as application/x-fossil is decoded as the §4.1 compressed container; every other type, including application/x-fossil-uncompressed (used by clone-v3 replies), is decoded as plain card text — the same rule canonical fossil applies. Trial-based dispatch made a decompression failure indistinguishable from "wrong framing"; a compressed body that now fails to inflate is reported as the fault it is and never re-fed to the card parser. The former unprefixed raw-zlib framing was removed: it was checked before the prefixed container on the belief that real fossil emits it, but a fossil 2.28 server never does — its pull replies are the prefixed container and its clone replies are plain text — so the framing was only ever right by accident. Removing it also retires the length-prefix/zlib-header aliasing guard, which existed solely to disambiguate the two compressed framings that trial-dispatch conflated. xfer.Decode now takes the Content-Type; call sites that carry no header (the byte-oriented NATS transport, both ends libfossil) pass the compressed type explicitly, matching what they always emit. The HTTP server rejects a request body whose Content-Type is absent or neither §4 type with 415 Unsupported Media Type instead of decoding it as plain card text: bodies come from untrusted peers, and without a framing signal decoding either way is a guess. Real fossil always sets the header, so no conforming peer is affected. (#106)
• A large artifact now clones regardless of its position within a clone round. The server charged its batch budget before each artifact and sent the one that crossed it whole, so a round carried budget + one whole artifact — and when ordinary sub-budget filler preceded a large artifact, that sum exceeded what the client could decode (xfer.MaxDecompressedBytes), failing the clone with a spurious "declared container length exceeds" error. The size at which a clone failed depended on incidental filler: 8–15 MB of filler ahead of a 58.7 MB artifact all failed, while 17 MB passed by pushing the artifact into a round of its own. emitCloneBatch now flushes the round and sends an over-bound artifact alone when adding it would cross the client's decode bound, so the ceiling is a property of the artifact alone. The 2 * budget compile-time guard now certifies what it appears to: filler plus one budget-sized artifact always fits in a decodable round. (#109)
• A clone from a libfossil server could fail with a card-syntax error (decode card 16303: empty line after split) naming a card the response never contained. The message decoder tried three body framings in order and treated any decompression failure as "not this framing", so a well-formed compressed body that exceeded the decoder's own size bound fell through to the uncompressed branch and the still-compressed bytes were parsed as card text — thousands of nonsense cards until one split into no fields. Worse than the misleading error, an oversize or truncated compressed body was accepted: the garbage cards decoded without error and the artifacts they carried failed their hash check downstream. A body recognizable as zlib is now decompressed or reported, never reparsed. The bound is also raised to 64 MiB, since it sat below what this implementation's own server emits in a single clone round — two libfossil peers could not reliably clone from each other even though each could clone from fossil. A compile-time guard keeps the bound at least twice the server's clone batch budget, so filler plus one budget-sized artifact always fits in a round the client can decode. (#104)
• Committing a file with zero-length content panicked in blob.Store, which treated an empty artifact -- a normal, well-known Fossil blob -- as invalid input; the panic then triggered manifest.Checkin's postcondition defer, which re-panicked with an unrelated "manifestRid must be positive" message that masked the real cause. blob.Store now accepts zero-length (and nil) content, and Checkin's defer re-panics with the original panic value instead of asserting a postcondition that was never going to hold mid-unwind (#68).
• A commit no longer silently carries a tracked file's last-committed content forward when that file has been deleted from disk without Unmanage/Remove -- it now fails clearly, naming the file, matching fossil's own behavior for a missing file that is in scope for the commit being made. A missing file outside the commit's scope (relevant only to an explicit Enqueue) is left untouched exactly as before (#79).
• Clone deadline now interrupts the mid-round phantom-fill crosslink cascade, ensuring the clone does not stall with phantoms outstanding. The same deadline is now threaded into the general push/pull phantom-fill cascade for consistency.
• Sync replies are now decoded by their wire's real Content-Type instead of a hardcoded assumption. The HTTP server sends the correct type on each response; call sites receiving frames without a header (the byte-oriented NATS transport) pass the type explicitly.
• PGP/SSH clearsigned manifests are now accepted: the deck module strips the clearsign framing before verification.
• Manifest now emits delete rows for files omitted by the check-in, matching fossil's own behavior. Renames now resolve their parent blob from the pre-rename path to ensure the rename-source blob exists and is reachable.

Changed

• Breaking: The module path has changed from github.com/danmestas/libfossil to github.com/danmestas/go-libfossil. All replace directives in go.mod have been dropped. Consumers must update their imports and remove any replace directives pointing to the old path.
• Breaking: StatusOpts, MergeOpts, and CheckoutOpts have been removed. No function anywhere accepted any of the three, and nothing constructed one: Checkout.Status() takes zero arguments, Repo.Merge takes positional string arguments, and CheckoutOpts had no construction site at all. A public type with no call site documents a capability that does not exist — a consumer reading MergeOpts{Strategy: ...} in the docs could reasonably conclude a strategy-selecting merge API exists; it never did. Repo.Merge and Checkout.Status keep their current signatures — an options-struct refactor for Merge was considered and declined. CheckoutOpts.Force was also a third same-named Force field in this package, alongside the already-removed UpdateOpts.Force and the real, fully-wired ExtractOpts.Force; removing it also removes that readability hazard. ExtractOpts.Force is unrelated and unaffected.
• Breaking: CloneOpts.ProjectCode and CloneOpts.ServerCode have been removed. Neither was ever wired to anything — Clone accepted both fields but never forwarded them to the internal clone path, so setting either had no effect and gave no error. The internal clone options struct has no matching fields at all, so wiring them would mean designing semantics first (is a caller-supplied code a validation assertion or an identity override?) and no caller has asked for that. CloneResult.ProjectCode and CloneResult.ServerCode are unrelated and unaffected — they continue to report both, populated from the remote via the clone protocol negotiation, which is the only place they meaningfully originate.
• Breaking: UpdateOpts.Force has been removed. It was never wired to anything — Checkout.Update accepted the field but never forwarded it to the internal update path, so setting it had no effect and gave no error. Deleting it is honest about what the API actually does; real forcing semantics for Update can be designed and added later as a new, deliberately-wired field if a caller needs them. ExtractOpts.Force is unrelated and unaffected — it is fully wired and unchanged.
• Breaking: Checkout.Update now returns (UpdateResult, error) instead of a bare error. The internal 3-way merge already tracked which files were written, removed, and left with conflict markers; the old signature discarded all of it, so a caller could not tell a clean update from one that silently wrote <<<<<<< conflict markers into working-tree files. UpdateResult.Conflicted lists the paths that were merged but not cleanly — this is a successful update (err == nil), not an error; a genuine failure still returns a non-nil error with a zero-value UpdateResult. Checkout.Extract is unchanged.
• Breaking: Repo.Timeline now enumerates the repository's event table newest-first (every event kind by default, or a single kind via TimelineOpts.Type), matching canonical fossil timeline. The previous behavior — a first-parent walk from a required start rid — is preserved under a new, honestly-named method, Repo.Ancestry(LogOpts). The old Repo.Timeline(LogOpts) was actually an ancestry walk masquerading as an enumeration: it never visited a second parent or a sibling branch head, so it silently omitted any check-in that wasn't a first-parent ancestor of the given start rid. There is no deprecated shim; callers of the old Timeline should switch to Ancestry if they want the walk, or adopt the new Timeline(TimelineOpts) if they want a full enumeration.
• LogEntry gains a Kind field (EventKind) identifying which of event.type's six kinds (ci, e, f, g, t, w) an entry is. Parents is only populated for Kind == EventKindCheckin.
• Breaking: Repo.Timeline orders by (mtime DESC, rid DESC), a total order with rid as a true tie-break at exact mtime equality — a deliberate improvement over canonical fossil's bare mtime DESC with no tie-break, which can repeat or skip rows at a page boundary. Pagination uses a new opaque Cursor type: take one from a returned LogEntry.Cursor and pass it back as TimelineOpts.After to resume immediately after that entry. TimelineOpts.Before time.Time and TimelineOpts.After FslID are deleted, not deprecated — callers constructing either field will fail to compile. Cursor's representation is intentionally hidden — it can only be obtained from a LogEntry, never built from a timestamp and a rid by hand, because a hand-built cursor derived from a rounded time.Time is not guaranteed to match its row exactly, which is what reintroduces skipped or duplicated rows at a page boundary in the first place.
• Breaking: LogEntry no longer has a Cursor field, and Repo.Timeline now returns []TimelineEntry instead of []LogEntry. LogEntry is Repo.Ancestry's result type; its cursor was always the zero value, which is structurally identical to a legitimate Timeline first-page call — so feeding an Ancestry entry's cursor into TimelineOpts.After silently paginated from page one forever with no error, and documenting the field as invalid on Ancestry entries did nothing to stop it. TimelineEntry (which embeds LogEntry and adds Cursor Cursor) is now Repo.Timeline's result type, so the cursor lives only on the type that has one to give. Callers that read entry.Cursor, entry.UUID, entry.User, etc. off a Repo.Timeline result need no source change — those fields are still reachable through TimelineEntry's embedded LogEntry. Callers that stored a Repo.Timeline result as []LogEntry (rather than letting := infer the type, or using []TimelineEntry) will fail to compile.
• Performance improvements throughout the sync and manifest subsystems: the phantom-fill crosslink cascade now batches onto a shared content cache, db.Querier caches prepared statements to stop per-call SQL re-parse overhead, and delta-chain walks bound their hash-collision chain to prevent quadratic behavior on low-entropy input. History-walking expansions are routed through the content cache, cutting sub-64KiB delta-chain expansion allocation ~18x and bounding Apply growth per-command to cut ~5x allocation overhead.

[0.6.3] - 2026-05-13

Fixed

• The SQLite DSN now sets _txlock=immediate, so writers serialize at BEGIN rather than discovering the conflict partway through a transaction (#33).

[0.6.2] - 2026-05-12

Fixed

• Repo.Commit now preserves the parent check-in's tracked files, instead of dropping files the commit did not itself touch (#30).

[0.6.1] - 2026-05-12

Added

• CreateOpts.ProjectCode accepts an explicit project code when creating a repository, rather than always generating one (#31).

[0.6.0] - 2026-05-05

Fixed

• The WAL is checkpointed on Close, so a repository written by this library is readable by canonical fossil without a recovery pass (#28).

[0.5.0] - 2026-05-04

• Added support for whole-checkin diff via empty filePath parameter.
• Added Repo.UUIDFromRID for public rid-to-uuid lookup.
• Added cross-repo release automation specification and implementation.
• Added release workflow with downstream dispatch for automated releases.

[0.4.5] - 2026-04-30

Fixed

• A clone against a hub that is being written to concurrently now converges, instead of looping without making progress (#17).

[0.4.4] - 2026-04-27

Fixed

• A partial xfer no longer panics with rid=0; the incomplete transfer is handled rather than dereferenced (#14).

[0.4.3] - 2026-04-26

• Stabilized xfer encoder and multi-round sync with deferred manifest crosslink.
• Added libfossil version command to print build identifier including module version, Go toolchain version, and platform.
• Wired live documentation URL into README and hugo baseURL.
• Added SVG architecture diagram and SDK refresh.
• Launched documentation site and Cloudflare auto-deploy.

[0.4.2] - 2026-04-26

• Fixed manifest crosslink deferral to handle referenced blobs arriving later.

[0.4.1] - 2026-04-25

• Implemented xfer encoder and multi-round sync foundation with manifest crosslink.

[0.4.0] - 2026-04-25

• Added Repo.Pull public wrapper with HTTP transport and hostile-input assertions.
• Added Tiger Style test coverage for Checkout.Update.
• Improved documentation and test coverage for Repo.Pull.

[0.3.0] - 2026-04-21

• Added Repo.ReadFile for reading tracked file content from the repository at any version.

[0.2.0] - 2026-04-20

• Added Repo.Merge for branch-to-branch 3-way merge operations.
• Added Repo.Diff for computing diffs between tree states.

[0.1.0] - 2026-04-20

Initial open-source release of libfossil, a pure-Go implementation of the Fossil SCM that reads and writes the same .fossil SQLite repository format.

Added

• Repository lifecycle: create new repos and clone from existing ones.
• Working-tree operations: checkout and checkin.
• Timeline traversal over commits and events.
• Merge and rebase primitives.
• Diff and annotate (blame) over tracked content.
• Manifest parsing and content-addressed blob storage.
• Sync protocol client/server for pulling and pushing between repos.
• Observer interfaces for sync and checkout, allowing external hooks into both network sync events and working-tree state transitions.
• SQLite driver abstraction with support for both modernc.org/sqlite (pure Go) and ncruces/go-sqlite3 (cgo-free, wasm-based) backends.
• Deterministic simulation test harness with BUGGIFY-style fault injection for exercising concurrency and failure paths.
• OpenTelemetry observer provided as a separate submodule to keep the core dependency footprint small.
• wasip1/wasm build target for running libfossil under WASI runtimes.