zit serve on the imported destination, zit clone over a real socket, then the clone compared to Git commit by commit out of its own store. Proves the packed generation is a usable repository, not merely a readable file.

The mirror fixture gains five validated pairs and an orphan look-alike, so gate 3 is exercised in both directions -- the look-alike's bytes must survive. Author and committer instants are now distinct: git's default made them equal, which left the --attribution author comparison inert, and a regression that always wrote the committer instant would have shipped green. storeHolds errors on an undecodable name instead of answering "absent" to a question it cannot ask; twenty drop-set assertions rested on that. check-in: 4a7c197abd user: dmestas tags: sub-manifest