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Comment:Fold managed/undo/bisect into the .zit-checkout container v2 (consolidation Task 6)

Sectioned container (ZITCKOT, tagged table, whole-file CRC); payloads are the existing formats unchanged. Byte-1 dispatch migrates legacy checkouts on first write; siblings dead once a container exists. Undo/redo restore and the commit/merge record+membership writes each collapse to one atomic splice. DST gains a legacy-seeded migration sweep (full-legacy or full-container at every crash cut). Registry: the three names move to the legacy tier. Perf on pkgsrc: adjacent update 6.50s (was 6.8), no-op 5.14s (was 7.69); migration of a 66k-file checkout invisible inside one update.

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User & Date: dmestas on 2026-08-10 19:31:09.105
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2026-08-10
20:17
Delete the legacy reserved-name tier (consolidation Task 7)

The policy is three names and a prefix: .zit, .zit-checkout, .zit-cache, .zit-tmp-*. Removed: the absorbed sibling reservations (.zit-managed/-undo/ -bisect), the pre-directory cache/vstat spellings and their read tolerance, the retired scratch spellings, and the import-provenance names (refs, .zit-import-map.jsonl).

Behavior shift: in never-re-opened old checkouts these leftovers are now visible to extras and deletable by clean. The container's byte-1 fold stays, so a legacy authoritative sibling still migrates losslessly on first contact (e2e: every-leftover checkout converges to the clean root with membership intact). check-in: c0a116d458 user: dmestas tags: sub-manifest

19:31
Fold managed/undo/bisect into the .zit-checkout container v2 (consolidation Task 6)

Sectioned container (ZITCKOT, tagged table, whole-file CRC); payloads are the existing formats unchanged. Byte-1 dispatch migrates legacy checkouts on first write; siblings dead once a container exists. Undo/redo restore and the commit/merge record+membership writes each collapse to one atomic splice. DST gains a legacy-seeded migration sweep (full-legacy or full-container at every crash cut). Registry: the three names move to the legacy tier. Perf on pkgsrc: adjacent update 6.50s (was 6.8), no-op 5.14s (was 7.69); migration of a 66k-file checkout invisible inside one update. check-in: efa29d234f user: dmestas tags: sub-manifest

17:25
control files: registry, provenance opt-in, one scratch prefix, advisory dir

Tasks 1-5 of the control-file consolidation plan. The checkout root goes from twelve zit-owned names to six live ones; the authoritative-tier container (task 6) and legacy removal (task 7) are deliberately not in this change.

Registry: control_paths now carries every reserved root name with its tier -- authoritative, advisory, scratch, legacy -- and is the single authority the case table, the extras exclusions and the ignore-glob coverage pin all derive from or test against. A name added without its glob line or case coverage is a test failure, proven by mutation. The pin caught two live gaps on arrival: a crashed update's transaction directory had no ignore-glob line, and a crashed import's staging directory was never reserved at all.

import-git --provenance: the per-object map and the source ref manifest are now instrumentation, published only on request. The default destination is the repository and its checkout record -- fossil's own shape. Both files are still written and verified in staging every run; without the flag they leave with the raw generation, and the staging manifest check enforces whichever set was chosen.

Scratch: one prefix. .zit-tmp-txn- (update transactions), .zit-tmp-import- (import staging), .zit-tmp-pack (pack scratch; name only, the truncate-reuse and rewrite-exclusion lock protocol are untouched). One registry prefix row and one glob line cover the tier including names that do not exist yet.

Advisory: .zit-cache is a directory -- repo (derived-state cache) and vstat (materialization plan), with the tree-checkpoint's member reserved. A legacy cache FILE is served through a read fallback and migrated by the first write via rename through a scratch name: the derivation survives with no bytes copied and no re-derive. Verified on a 66k-file pkgsrc checkout: identical SHA-256 across migration of a 35.8MB cache, fallback reads at parity, no-op update 7.69s vs 7.74s.

Legacy spellings of every renamed or relocated name stay reserved and ignore-globbed until the removal release. check-in: f1ac625093 user: dmestas tags: sub-manifest

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