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2026-10-03
19:00
ci(release): drop the downstream dispatch to EdgeSync (#251)

The release workflow's last step sent EdgeSync an upstream-bump event with a personal access token. It has failed with 401 on every release since v0.8.1 because the token expired, marking each release run failed after the release itself was published. EdgeSync also stopped accepting the event when the repository was renamed.

EdgeSync now tracks go-libfossil with Dependabot (danmestas/EdgeSync #199), which needs no token here, so the step is removed. A release run now succeeds once the GitHub release exists. check-in: af8e531e68 user: [email protected] tags: trunk

17:48 • Edit [e241048f77]: Add tag "v0.10.0" with note "Release v0.10.0

## Highlights

- Checkouts created by the fossil binary (`fossil open`) now work through go-libfossil. `Status` no longer fails on them, and change detection follows fossil's own rules. - Checkout operations now match fossil's behavior: `Status` reports missing files, `Extract` checks for unsaved work before changing anything, and checking out a partly synced version is refused up front. - `Revert` restores missing files, drops pending merges and undoes renames. Reading a stored artifact no longer returns compressed bytes on any Go version. - The CLI's `add`, `rm`, `rename` and `revert` commands now call the library instead of editing the checkout database directly.

## Breaking changes

- `Checkout.Revert` keeps a never-committed file on disk when it reverts the add. It used to delete the file. - `Checkout.Rename` refuses to move a file onto one that already exists on disk. It used to overwrite it. - `Revert` refuses, changing nothing, when undoing a rename would overwrite another file (#248). - A tracked file missing from disk no longer blocks `Extract` from switching versions, and `Status` reports it as `missing`.

## Upgrade notes

- Reverting a pending add no longer deletes the file. Delete it yourself if that's what you relied on. - Checking out a version whose content is partly missing now returns an error naming the missing files. It used to fail later, or panic. - The CLI's `rename` moves the file on disk, and `revert` restores committed content.

## Changes 554084e chore(release): v0.10.0 changelog (#250) d4da783 fix(checkout): revert undoes a pending rename (#242) (#249) 307250c fix(content): report database faults from the availability check (#239) (#247) 4770fc8 fix(checkout): dry runs change nothing; switching ends a merge (#236) (#246) c863090 fix(cli): add, rm, rename and revert call the library (#234) (#245) d5fddcb refactor(vfile): give the checkout's vfile encoding one owner (#233) (#243) aa37186 fix(checkout): classify changes in one place; report missing files (#232) (#241) 068a1b5 fix(checkout): refuse to load a version with missing content (#231) (#240) d47a204 fix(blob): always inflate blob.content on load (#235) (#238) 86743db fix(checkout): check Extract's safety before replacing vfile (#230) (#237) 33695e7 fix(checkout): read checkouts made by the fossil binary (#228) (#229)". artifact: 5a889a80f5 user: [email protected]

17:47
chore(release): v0.10.0 changelog (#250) check-in: e241048f77 user: [email protected] tags: trunk, v0.10.0
17:47 • Edit [e241048f77]: Add tag "v0.10.0". artifact: 5400ec1032 user: [email protected]
17:38
fix(checkout): revert undoes a pending rename (#242) (#249)

* fix(checkout): revert undoes a pending rename (#242)

Revert-all selected rows by content and removal, so a rename recorded by fossil mv (origname set, chnged 0) was skipped; a renamed and edited file had its committed content written under the new name, leaving the rename pending. A named revert only matched the current name.

Like fossil's revert, a pending rename is now undone: the file under the new name is removed, the row takes its old name back (UPDATE OR REPLACE, as fossil does), and the committed content is written there. Revert-all includes renamed rows, and a named revert answers to either the new or the old name. A renamed file a merge added is still removed outright, as before and as in fossil.

removeRegularFile is shared by the rename undo and removeMergeAdded, so neither deletes a directory the user made at that path.

* fix(checkout): plan a revert before changing anything (#242)

Undoing a rename with UPDATE OR REPLACE let a swap destroy files: reverting a.txt and b.txt exchanged through fossil mv deleted the other row, the loop then removed a file it had just restored from its stale row list, and the next restore failed half way, leaving both files gone from disk. A new file added under the old name was overwritten the same way. A named revert of the old name also stopped at the first match.

Revert now plans, checks, then acts. planRevert decides every target row's action (restore, un-manage, remove a merge-added file, undo a rename) before anything changes; checkRenameUndoFree refuses the whole revert when undoing a rename would land on a name another tracked row holds, since go-libfossil has no undo copy to recover an overwritten file (fossil saves one); revertFile carries out the planned action. The rename undo is a plain UPDATE, which fails rather than replace a row. A name selects every row it matches, new name or old. The callback reports a rename under the name the file gets back.

Swaps and chains, which fossil completes via its undo store, are #248.

* fix(checkout): revert named paths as one; refuse untracked file at old name (#242)

Review of the planned revert found two remaining ways to lose work:

- Several named paths were reverted one at a time, so in `revert b.txt z.txt` the edit to b.txt was discarded before z.txt's rename undo was refused. revertPaths now gathers every named row (new or old name) and plans and checks them as one revert: a refusal reverts none of them. - Undoing a rename restored the committed content over an untracked file at the old name. checkRenameUndoFree now also refuses when a file on disk there differs from the committed content (wouldClobber), for the same reason it refuses a tracked one: there is no undo copy.

* docs(changelog): note revert's untracked-file and multi-path rules (#242) check-in: 50d1a7f72b user: [email protected] tags: trunk

17:27
fix(content): report database faults from the availability check (#239) (#247)

* fix(content): report database faults from the availability check (#239)

IsAvailable and AvailableByUUID return a bool, so a busy, closed or I/O-failed database read as "content missing". Where missing content is tolerated on purpose, that swallowed the fault: since #231, CreateCheckout leaves vfile empty for a partly synced tip, and a fault during resolveFiles' availability check took the same path, so Create succeeded with an empty checkout.

The chain walk moves to checkAvailable, which returns an error for a fault and a plain false for an unknown rid, a phantom, a cycle or an over-long chain. New CheckAvailableByUUID exposes that distinction, and resolveFiles uses it, so a fault fails LoadVFile with its own error instead of errMissingContent. IsAvailable and AvailableByUUID keep their signatures and their fail-closed reading of a fault; their ~30 callers treat "not available" as a failure already.

* docs(changelog): note the availability fault fix (#239)

* fix(content): NULL size is missing content; don't cache faults (#239)

checkAvailable scanned blob.size into an int64, so a NULL size (legal in the schema) became a hard error in resolveFiles where it used to read as missing content. Both walks now read a NULL size as a phantom.

AvailabilityCache memoized a walk's verdict for every node it visited, including a false that came from a database fault, so one transient fault stayed wrong for the rest of the crosslink sweep. A faulted walk now returns false without being remembered; an unknown rid is still a verdict and is cached as before. check-in: 4b14509374 user: [email protected] tags: trunk

17:22
fix(checkout): dry runs change nothing; switching ends a merge (#236) (#246)

* fix(checkout): dry runs change nothing; switching ends a merge (#236)

A dry-run Extract still called LoadVFile(rid, clear=true) and finalizeExtract, replacing the current version's vfile rows (pending adds, renames, merge state) and moving vvar to the target. A dry-run Update still ran finalizeUpdate, with the same effect.

Extract now lists the target's files from its manifest (resolveFiles) instead of reading them back from vfile, so a dry run never loads them; only a real extract replaces vfile and records the version. Update skips finalizeUpdate on a dry run.

finalizeExtract also clears vmerge, as fossil's checkout does: a forced switch used to leave a merge record that would give the next commit a bogus merge parent.

* fix(checkout): forced extract starts fresh; re-extract keeps a merge (#236)

Two gaps against fossil's checkout found in review:

- A forced extract dropped only other versions' vfile rows (LoadVFile keeps the target's), so re-forcing the current version left a pending rename's two names on disk and in vfile, and a removed file restored but still marked deleted. fossil checkout --force deletes every row first; replaceFileList now does the same when Force is set. - Extract cleared vmerge on every completed run. fossil's checkout returns early when the version does not change and Force is off, keeping a pending merge; finalizeExtract now ends the merge only for a switch or a forced extract.

* refactor(checkout): finalizeExtract reads the prior version itself (#236)

Only the final step needs the version being replaced, and nothing changes vvar before it, so finalizeExtract reads it there. A dry run no longer calls Version at all, and Extract drops to 64 lines. check-in: 139d426384 user: [email protected] tags: trunk

17:09
fix(cli): add, rm, rename and revert call the library (#234) (#245)

* fix(cli): add, rm, rename and revert call the library (#234)

These commands wrote the checkout's vfile with raw SQL, each with its own copy of rules the library already gets right, and ignored most Exec errors. rename recorded the new name but left the file under the old one, so the next commit failed on a "missing" tracked file. revert only cleared change flags over an edited file and restored nothing. add wrote a SHA1 mhash whatever the repo's hash policy.

They now open the checkout through the library (openWorkingCheckout, which finds the repository from the checkout when -R is not given) and call Add, Remove, Rename and Revert, returning every error, including from closing. rename moves the file, like fossil mv --hard; revert restores committed content, like fossil revert.

Two library gaps the CLI exposed are fixed where they live, matching fossil's revert: - Revert refreshes change flags from disk before choosing files, so an edit no scan has recorded yet is reverted instead of skipped. - Reverting a never-committed add un-manages it and leaves the file on disk. It used to delete the file, destroying the only copy; fossil prints UNMANAGE and keeps it.

revertFile's restore path moves to restoreCommitted, bringing it under 70 lines. The merge, merge-resolve and conflicts commands are #244.

* docs(changelog): note the CLI and Revert changes (#234)

* fix(checkout,cli): revert and rename match fossil; find repo without -R (#234)

Review of the CLI switch found the library and the new helper falling short of fossil:

- Without -R, every command failed on a fresh fossil checkout: the repository lookup opened the checkout database read-only, which clashes with the WAL pragma on a database fossil left in delete journal mode, and hid the real error. It now opens it as the library does, reports the error, and resolves a relative repository path, as fossil open stores it, against the checkout's directory. - Rename moved the file onto an existing untracked file, destroying it. It now refuses, as fossil mv --hard does, before changing anything. - Revert skipped a file missing from disk (no change flag records it) while the CLI reported it reverted. A named file is now reverted whatever its flags say, and revert-all includes missing files. - Revert left merge state behind: restored rows kept mrid on the merged-in version and vmerge kept its row, so the next scan saw the file changed and the next commit recorded a merge parent. Restored rows now reset mrid and mhash, and revert-all clears vmerge, as fossil's revert does.

Rename's vfile lookups move to renameRowID and revert-all's selection to needsRevert, keeping both functions under 70 lines. The re-add test now checks the vfile row itself, since fossil's own scan would hide a stray chnged=1.

* fix(checkout): revert removes a file a merge added, as fossil does (#234)

Revert decided between restore and un-manage by rid alone. A file a merge added has a non-zero rid (its merged-in artifact) but is not in the checked-out version, so revert restored it as if committed and left it tracked; the next commit then included it. Fossil looks the file up in the version's manifest and, when it is absent and rid is not 0, deletes the file and its row (its content lives on in the merged-in version).

revertFile now takes the vfile row and the version's path set and does the same: a pending add is un-managed and kept on disk; a file the version lacks, under its name or its name before a pending rename, is removed; anything else gets its committed content back. Checking the pre-rename name keeps a renamed, edited file from being deleted.

Rename's refusal message now fits a directory at the destination too.

* fix(checkout): never remove a non-file when reverting a merge add (#234)

removeMergeAdded deletes only a regular file at the merge-added path; anything else there, such as a directory the user made, is left alone. Revert's doc now says edits to reverted files are discarded: fossil saves an undo copy first, go-libfossil has no undo yet. check-in: de8f3ed302 user: [email protected] tags: trunk

16:47
refactor(vfile): give the checkout's vfile encoding one owner (#233) (#243)

* refactor(vfile): give the checkout's vfile encoding one owner (#233)

Checkin, stash and status each decoded fossil's vfile columns on their own: rid=0 for an add, origname==pathname on unrenamed rows, chnged merge codes. That is how #228 happened, and stash still had it wrong: it selected chnged=1 only, so files changed by a merge (chnged 2..9) were silently left out, and it stashed a rename as a plain edit.

New package internal/vfile owns the encoding. Load reads a version's rows; Row answers what callers ask (IsAdded, IsRemoved, RenamedFrom, ContentChanged, PendingMerge); Classify gives the change type in fossil's order. checkout.FileChange is now an alias of vfile.Change, so the checkout API is unchanged.

internal/checkout's status, Extract safety check and checkin read rows through it. The never-read vfileCommitEntry.changed field is gone.

internal/stash selects changes with vfile.Classify against the checked- out version and refuses a pending merge or rename by name, since its save and revert paths restore files by current name against the committed version and would drop either. Its store-and-revert loop is split into stashRecord and revertStashedFile; removed and modified files share one revert path, keyed by row id.

* fix(vfile): a pending merge is chnged 2-5 or mrid != rid (#233)

PendingMerge counted every chnged above 1 as a merge, but 6 through 9 record a change to the executable or symlink bit; fossil leaves chnged=6 after a plain chmod +x. Stash then refused an ordinary permission change as "a pending merge". It also ignored mrid: an edit made on top of a merge drops chnged back to 1 while mrid still names the merged-in content, so the refusal could be bypassed and the merge half-dropped.

Row now carries mrid; PendingMerge is chnged 2..5 or mrid != rid, and ModeChanged covers 6..9. Stash refuses a permission change with that reason, since its revert writes default permissions.

Load reads a NULL rid as 0 and a NULL mrid as rid, the tolerance the checkin code had when it scanned rid into a NullInt64.

* refactor(checkout): ask vfile.Row about merges in Extract's check (#233)

Extract's safety check relaxed only rows with chnged == 1, decoding the column itself. It now asks the row (not a pending merge, not a mode change), keeping fossil's encoding in internal/vfile. Equivalent for every real row. nextChangedState's comment no longer calls the mode changes (6..9) merge states. check-in: f55d0ed2de user: [email protected] tags: trunk

16:28
fix(checkout): classify changes in one place; report missing files (#232) (#241)

* fix(checkout): classify changes in one place; report missing files (#232)

HasChanges, VisitChanges and Extract's safety check each decided what counts as a change: two SQL WHERE clauses and classifyChange, with an error path whose only job was catching their disagreement. They had already drifted once (HasChanges missed renames until #229).

Now one reader, loadVFileRows, returns every row of a version and one classifier, classifyChange, judges it, in the order fossil's changes command uses: removed > missing > added > renamed > modified. A renamed file that is also edited stays "renamed", so callers that see only the change type do not lose the rename. The WHERE clauses and the malformed-row error are gone.

VisitChanges with a scan now reports a tracked file that is gone from disk as ChangeMissing, which the public API already exposed as "missing" but nothing produced; such files were left out, or shown as added or modified. HasChanges sees a fossil add (rid=0, chnged=0) without a scan, since rid=0 now always means added (#231).

* fix(checkout): treat a non-file at a tracked path as missing (#232)

ScanChanges read each tracked path and failed the whole scan when a directory stood where a file belongs. Fossil's scan reports that path as NOT_A_FILE under its missing filter. The scan now stats first and treats anything that is not a regular file as missing, so Status reports it instead of erroring.

loadVFileRows orders rows by pathname, as fossil's changes lists them. The changelog notes that checkouts written before #231 may hold rid=0 placeholder rows, which HasChanges now counts. check-in: ff9c1af49d user: [email protected] tags: trunk

16:16
fix(checkout): refuse to load a version with missing content (#231) (#240)

* fix(checkout): refuse to load a version with missing content (#231)

LoadVFile wrote a vfile row with rid=0 for each file whose content the repo does not hold (a phantom, or a delta on one), as a partial sync leaves it. In fossil's vfile rid=0 means "added", so those rows were indistinguishable from pending adds, and Extract then panicked in content.Expand(0) trying to write them.

LoadVFile now does what fossil's checkout does: it resolves every file first and refuses the version, naming up to ten missing files and wrapping errMissingContent, before changing vfile at all. It no longer returns a missing count, which no caller used.

Create is the one caller that tolerates the refusal. A tip that a partial sync has not finished is no reason to fail CreateCheckout: the caller may be about to extract an older, complete version (EdgeSync's ExtractTo). vfile then stays empty instead of claiming files the repo cannot produce. Create's environment defaulting, shared with Open, moves to resolveEnv, and the initial load to loadInitialVFile.

Tests cover the refusal (vfile untouched, files named), Extract leaving the checkout as it was, Create on a partial tip followed by Extract of a complete version, and parity with the fossil binary, which refuses the same repository with "missing content".

* fix(checkout): refuse missing content in Update before writing (#231)

Update wrote changed files to disk and only then reloaded vfile, which now refuses a version with missing content. A target sharing a missing file with the current version (its content is never read, because it does not change) could therefore leave disk on the target while vvar and vfile stayed on the old version. Like fossil's update, Update now resolves the target's content before writing anything, through resolveFiles, the resolution step split out of LoadVFile.

Update moves its target selection into updateTarget, reuses Extract's checkinTime, and builds its result through sortedUpdateResult, bringing it under 70 lines. Create now reports a tip it could not load to the observer instead of tolerating it silently.

* fix(checkout): report Update refusals to observers; tighten checks (#231)

The missing-content check in Update moves after ExtractStarted, so a refused update still reaches observers as an ExtractCompleted carrying the error, as other Update failures do. A negative target from the public UpdateOpts is an error, not a panic. resolveFiles errors carry their own prefix instead of LoadVFile's.

Adds the entry and exit assertions the new helpers were missing, a compile-time check on missingNamesMax, and wraps lines over 100 columns; tests check Version's error instead of discarding it. check-in: a317896683 user: [email protected] tags: trunk

15:59
fix(blob): always inflate blob.content on load (#235) (#238)

* fix(blob): always inflate blob.content on load (#235)

blob.Load decided whether a row was stored raw by comparing len(content) with blob.size. That guess is unsound for delta rows: blob.size is the expanded artifact's length, while content is the compressed delta, and the two can be equal by coincidence. When they are, Load handed back the still-compressed bytes, and the delta applier failed with "expected integer at pos 0".

Go 1.27 replaced compress/flate's encoder, so the compressed size of any given delta shifted. The fixture in TestExpand_SingleDelta and TestIsAvailable_GroundedChain now compresses to exactly the target size (62 bytes), which exposed the bug. Any real repository could hit it under either Go version.

Fossil itself never makes this guess: content_of_blob (src/content.c:218-230) inflates blob.content unconditionally, and every writer here stores the compressed form. Load now does the same. TestLoadInflatesWhenStoredLengthEqualsSize forces the coincidence directly so it fails on the old code under any Go version.

Separately, TestDecodeRejectsOversizeDeclaredLength built its container from a 64-byte payload. Go 1.27's flate skips match-finding for inputs under 128 bytes, so that payload came out as a stored block larger than its input and tripped the helper's did-it-compress guard. The test now uses 1 KiB. The property it asserts is unchanged.

* docs(changelog): note the blob.Load inflate fix (#235) check-in: 60ef41b5b1 user: [email protected] tags: trunk

15:52
fix(checkout): check Extract's safety before replacing vfile (#230) (#237)

* fix(checkout): check Extract's safety before replacing vfile (#230)

Extract called LoadVFile(rid, clear=true) first and only then checked for local work. A refusal therefore returned with the current version's rows already gone: pending adds, renames and merge state were lost, and vvar still named the old version while vfile held only the new one, so Status saw an empty checkout. The check also compared disk against the target version, so switching a clean checkout to any version that changed a file was refused.

Extract now follows fossil's checkout command, before touching anything: the current version must have no unsaved changes, and no file the current version does not track may sit where the target would write different content (fossil prompts there; a library refuses). Force skips both, as before.

The safety scan runs through a new refreshChanged, the observer-free core of ScanChanges, so an Extract does not report a scan of its own. Extract is split into extractRows, checkinTime and extractRow to bring it under 70 lines; behavior of the write loop is unchanged.

* fix(checkout): let Extract proceed when no change would be lost (#230)

Create records the tip as checked out before any file is written, so Create followed by Extract of an older version, into a directory that already holds it, saw every file differing from the tip as an unsaved edit and refused. That is EdgeSync's ExtractTo pattern.

The safety check now refuses only changes the extract would lose: a plain edit whose content already equals what the target writes is not lost, so it no longer blocks. Adds, removals, renames, merge states and edits to files the target does not write still refuse. The edit check and the untracked-file check share wouldClobber, and the target manifest is read once and walked in manifest order.

* fix(checkout): never relax Extract's check while a merge is pending (#230)

A vmerge row is unsaved work on its own. With every merged file already matching the target, the previous commit let Extract switch versions, dropping the merge and leaving the stale vmerge row to give a later commit a bogus merge parent. The content-equality relaxation now applies only when no merge is pending. check-in: c9d97efb90 user: [email protected] tags: trunk

15:20
fix(checkout): read checkouts made by the fossil binary (#228) (#229)

Status on a checkout created by `fossil open` failed with "converting NULL to string" on vfile.mhash. go-libfossil treated mhash as every file's baseline hash; fossil only fills it while a merge is pending (the hash of mrid when mrid != rid) and judges a file against the blob that vfile.mrid names. A NULL-tolerant scan alone would not have fixed it: with no baseline the comparison panics, and skipping it would hide real edits.

ScanChanges now compares each file with blob.uuid for vfile.mrid and moves chnged through fossil's own transitions (vfile_check_signature): a pending add (mrid=0) becomes 1, unchanged and clean-merge states (0, 2, 4) become 1 on a difference, a reverted edit returns to 0, and other merge states are kept. Comparing against the artifact's own uuid also picks the hash algorithm per file, independent of hash-policy.

The non-forced Extract guard read mhash with its error discarded, so on a fossil checkout it skipped the check and overwrote local edits. It now uses the same baseline, propagates read errors, and refuses while a merge is pending (mrid != rid or chnged > 1).

Status and HasChanges treat a rename as origname not in ('', pathname), since fossil stores origname == pathname on unrenamed rows, and HasChanges now sees `fossil mv`. A malformed row returns an error instead of being reported as ChangeNone.

LoadVFile and Manage stop writing mhash, and Manage writes islink, which fossil's vfile schema declares without a default.

Tests drive real fossil-made checkouts: clean status, edits and adds, a pending merge (status, preserved merge state, extract refusal), local edits under extract, fossil mv, and a go-libfossil Add read back by both tools. check-in: 0069100efe user: [email protected] tags: trunk