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2026-10-17
23:26
docs(submanifest): point the version-gate and config deviations at zit

Fossil has no plans to read sub-manifests, so the 22900 threshold is not only fossil 2.29's announcement: every later release clears it too. The fix is a version no fossil announces, agreed with zit and the draft; SM-7.2-1 now cites danmestas/zit#239, and SM-6.3-3's draft wording is tracked in danmestas/zit#240. check-in: 7408c02304 user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

21:54
fix(sync): close the review's sub-manifest transfer findings

- A clone to a client the 7.2 gate refuses could name a withheld tree as a delta source: walkCloneChain never asked the gate, and a refused artifact was still recorded as sent. A flat check-in stored as a delta of a tree manifest -- the normal flat-to-tree transition -- then reached a 2.28 client as a cfile it could never apply. A withheld source is now unforwardable, so its dependent goes out whole, and a refused artifact is not recorded as sent. Gimme answers and pushes already send full content, and igot only announces, so the clone was the one path. - The gate armed only once a crosslink set the seen-submanifest indicator, so a tree a sync had stored but not yet linked went out ungated. Every receive path now sets it as the artifact is stored -- checkDelta hands back the content it rebuilt, so a verified delta costs no second expansion -- and a repository an earlier version swept, which may hold trees that version filed as unparseable, arms the gate until the next sweep re-examines them. - The three sub-manifest settings are written inside one savepoint, so a database error partway leaves none of them applied. - The 22900 threshold is zit's and is also what an unreleased fossil 2.29 announces without reading trees. The constant says so, and the conformance suite records SM-7.2-1 as a deviation with a case that shows such a peer being sent a tree. check-in: 4deb9d870f user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

21:29
perf(manifest): parse a delta's baseline once per sweep for the tree check

A sweep asked every delta manifest whether its baseline is a tree by expanding and parsing the baseline again, after missingBaseline had just done so. Record tree-ness where the baseline is first verified, and walk only a tree baseline. check-in: edefbcd26f user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

21:13
test(testutil): exempt the zit interop test from the fossil-home check

It runs zit, not fossil, each time under a HOME of its own. check-in: 6b694f0419 user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

21:10
docs(changelog): sub-manifest reader, transfer gate and version announcement check-in: 3232f3b158 user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk
21:10
test(conformance): read zit's sub-manifest trees end to end

TestZitInterop, with zit on PATH or in ZIT_BIN, builds a flat history in go-libfossil (edits, a delete, a rename, a merge), serves it for zit to re-mint as sub-manifest trees at k = 1, which gives interior sub-manifests, and clones zit's trees over HTTP. Every check-in's file set must equal zit's own `ls --long`, the clone must verify and every R card check. go-libfossil then serves the clone to a zit clone, which verifies and lists the tip the same; pulls a tree check-in zit commits to its own server; and, as a server, receives and links a tree check-in zit pushes to it. REQUIRE_ZIT_BIN=1 makes a missing zit a failure.

CI has no zit, so TestZitTreeBundle reads a recorded copy of what zit wrote (testdata/zit-trees: 81 artifacts and the per-check-in listings, rewritten by ZIT_REGENERATE=1), storing every manifest before any sub-manifest so the deferral and retry run on real zit output. check-in: 3e7b98e18d user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

21:05
test(conformance): add the submanifest suite (draft-fossil-submanifests-00)

Pin draft-fossil-submanifests-00 from zit check-in 3f86ff4261 and write its reader-scope requirements table, 55 rows, from the draft text. The writer sections, the informative 5.6, the operator rule of 8.2 and the 7.4 SHOULD are listed as skipped, with reasons, in the table's header.

84 cases: card-level cases through deck.Parse; tree cases that store artifacts and read them back through ListFiles, LookupFile, Crosslink, VerifyRCard, Verify, Rebuild, Checkin and the sync handler; and the Appendix A vectors, as zit's byte vectors (vendored under testdata/submanifest), checked for their recorded names, walked enumerations and R cards, the A.5 delta-over-tree vector included.

Result: 50 COVERED, 4 PARTIAL, 1 DEVIATION. SM-6.3-3 deviates by following zit: the configuration request is reqconfig /config, the scalar marker zit's server answers, sent once in the clone's cleanup round and never on pull. The PARTIAL rows: a reference cycle cannot be built from content-addressed artifacts (SM-5.1-5); go-libfossil writes no tree, so the emission rules hold vacuously (SM-7.2-3, SM-8.1-1); and the visit bound is not reached by a case (SM-10-1). check-in: 6ccebaeab5 user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

20:57
feat(sync): carry sub-manifest trees safely (draft-fossil-submanifests-00)

Gate, announce and configure sub-manifest transfer the way zit does, so the two implementations interoperate and no fossil release is handed a tree it cannot read.

- 7.2 gate: once the repository has stored an S-bearing artifact, a tree manifest or sub-manifest is withheld from a peer announcing a release below 2.29.0, zit's threshold, with one explicit error card per reply and never by omission. The server applies it to gimme answers and clone batches; the client to gimmes on push, recording each withheld artifact in the result. - This library reads trees, so it announces 22900 in client-version and server-version; a peer holding trees refuses them to anything lower. No fossil release gates any behaviour between 22800 and 22900. - A ci-lock reply carries pragma avoid-submanifests, where avoid-delta-manifests goes, while enable-submanifests is off. - 6.3: the three settings are /project members on the server, which also answers zit's reqconfig /config with them. Clone asks for them as zit's clone does, once, in its cleanup round with zit's scalar marker; fossil answers that with nothing. A reply's settings are staged and applied all or none.

The examined-blob table's old revision is dropped only when present, so a sweep pays no extra write. check-in: 707ffd05a2 user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

20:50
fix(verify): report a tree waiting on a sub-manifest as a missing reference

A tree check-in whose sub-manifest has not arrived is deferred with no derived rows (draft-fossil-submanifests-00 5.2, 7.3). Verify reported that as a missing event row and missing plink rows, which reads as damage. Report it once as a missing reference naming the sub-manifest, and count it in MissingRefs. check-in: ffdf538656 user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

20:49
feat(manifest): read sub-manifest trees (draft-fossil-submanifests-00)

Parse the S card and the SUBMANIFEST artifact type, and read tree manifests through one enumeration seam.

deck: the S card (exact arity, decoded filename, raw 40/64-hex hash, strictly ascending run between R and T), type Submanifest reached only by reassigning a D-less manifest, its F S Z legality row, and the 4.4 checks: no B with S, no F with S in a manifest, F xor S in a sub-manifest.

manifest: checkinFileCards, ownFileCards and lookupFileCard are the one place a check-in's file set is assembled (9.3). A tree manifest is walked depth first with an explicit stack, a depth bound of 16, the repeated-artifact check and the least-filename and ordering checks of 5.1; lookup binary-searches one sub-manifest per level (5.3); a delta may name a tree as its baseline (5.4). A tree that cannot be walked is an error, never a partial file set (5.2). mlink derivation, R-card verification and the delta-manifest builder read through the seam, and a commit on a tree parent is written flat.

Crosslink defers a check-in whose tree cannot be walked, recording the blocking sub-manifest in orphan so the phantom-fill cascade links it on arrival (7.3, 9.4). Storing an S-bearing artifact reserves phantoms for its absent references with the referrer's privacy (7.1) and sets the seen-submanifest indicator (8.1). A sub-manifest is filed as examined so the sweep never reselects it (9.2). The examined-blob table is versioned, so verdicts a parser without S cards reached are dropped. check-in: f51becc770 user: [email protected] tags: feat/submanifest-reader, main, trunk

20:27
test(conformance): re-pin the -01 drafts with the 2026-10-14/16 errata (#436)

zit check-in 3f86ff4261 applies six more errata to the -01 drafts. Copy the three drafts and the five new -01 errata files, re-pin their SHA-256 in the requirements tables, and record the check-in in the README.

The draft text changes add six requirements and reword two:

- AF-4.7.3-2: a named delta's delete markers are filtered out of a delta-of-delta's file set and lookups. - AF-4.7.8-1: an absent and a present empty J value decode alike. - AF-6.2-7: the Z verification state is read from the bytes at n-35 and n-34, not from card lines. - RS-5.3-3: a cancel keeps its card's value on the row it writes. - RS-5.3-6: the event table and propagation treat that value as null. - RS-5.3-7: an artifact's tag cards apply in card order. - RS-6.2-4: a branch root carrying *sym-NAME and -sym-NAME keeps the tag. - SP-6.6-4: a client recognizes a refusal by its leading text.

go-libfossil already behaves this way. Each row has a case, checked against fossil 2.28 where the harness does: 421 requirements, 420 covered, 1 partial (SP-9.5-7, as before).

The repo-state §5.3 step 3 change is filed in zit as a -00 erratum and is not pinned, like the other -00 errata; the -01 draft carries its text. check-in: f61c8174a8 user: [email protected] tags: main, trunk