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Comment:fix(checkout): Update decides the cone before renames, and never merges symlinks

A file outside a sparse checkout's cone is never on disk, so it read as missing, hence changed, and followed the target's rename; any upstream rename outside the cone then refused the update. It is now classified before renames are followed and matched by name: a rename outside the cone moves only the record, one into the cone writes the file under its new name, and an unedited file renamed out of it leaves the disk.

A symlink edited locally and changed by the target was merged through the link, writing conflict markers into the file it points at. As fossil's update does, it is now a conflict with nothing written, listed in UpdateResult.Unmerged; a rename still removes the old name.

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User & Date: [email protected] on 2026-10-19 18:49:29.000
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2026-10-19
22:48
test(checkout): a renamed symlink is not merged, and the rename drops the old name

Covers the rename and dry-run paths of Update's symlink conflict: the link is listed in Unmerged, nothing is written through it, and only a real run deletes the old name, as fossil's update does. check-in: ef49615d6c user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

18:49
fix(checkout): Update decides the cone before renames, and never merges symlinks

A file outside a sparse checkout's cone is never on disk, so it read as missing, hence changed, and followed the target's rename; any upstream rename outside the cone then refused the update. It is now classified before renames are followed and matched by name: a rename outside the cone moves only the record, one into the cone writes the file under its new name, and an unedited file renamed out of it leaves the disk.

A symlink edited locally and changed by the target was merged through the link, writing conflict markers into the file it points at. As fossil's update does, it is now a conflict with nothing written, listed in UpdateResult.Unmerged; a rename still removes the old name. check-in: f373c9a8ae user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

18:34
fix(checkout): materialize a symlink entering the cone as a symlink

The cones merge called extractSingleFile without the islink argument the symlink fix added, so it did not build. SetCone now passes the row's islink, and a file entering the cone is written as Extract writes it: a symlink with allow-symlinks on. check-in: 36fccc1f87 user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

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