Timeline

Sparse classification read, inflated and delta-expanded every held blob, file content included, under a whole-store byte budget. On a clone of the Fossil SCM repository (67,894 blobs, 8.4 GB expanded) LoadAbsences failed at once with "byte budget exceeded", so no path-cone or content-horizon store of a real repository could classify its phantoms, and pull, verify and compaction failed with it.

Reference facts now come from the tables wherever they provably stand in for raw cards. A blob the crosslinker recorded as no artifact and mlink names as a file version is never read. A completely linked check-in (event row, no orphan row, a primary parent edge) whose primary parent and baseline trees are themselves reproduced contributes its mlink rows as F cards and its plink, cherrypick and tagxref rows as references; by induction over the primary chain those rows give the same (name, file) pairs as its raw cards. Everything else is still read raw: unlinked and orphaned check-ins, roots, check-ins whose parent never arrived, other artifacts, and every check-in once the store has seen a sub-manifest, since trees are not crosslinked. Budgets are charged per round for the selected blobs and their delta ancestors only, and a base's bytes are released once its last delta is applied.

A content horizon now reads only its held set's manifests and the baselines and nodes they reach, on demand, with one visited set and a byte budget scaled to the held set.

On the Fossil SCM clone, cone {src} classifies in about 2 s at a 65 MiB peak heap, reading 8,655 of 67,894 blobs; the inside/outside sets equal the all-raw result, and Outside/Required agree on every artifact. check-in: b28c06506b user: [email protected] tags: feat/horizon-cones, trunk