Timeline

Two gaps the first green run exposed.

The repository carried 26 fuzz targets that CI never fuzzed. They reached CI only through their fixed-seed smoke tests inside `zig build test`, so the fuzzing investment was half-realized: the targets compiled and ran a handful of canned cases, but nothing swept them. `zig build fuzz` runs one target per invocation, so the new step loops. The target list is read from the step's own usage output rather than kept in the workflow — a target added to fuzz_tests.zig is swept automatically, with no second list to drift. Seed and rounds are fixed (1, 2000), not random: a red run has to be reproducible verbatim on a developer machine. Bare `zig build fuzz` exits non-zero because it is a usage error, so the enumeration tolerates that; every real invocation still fails the job. Verified by running the identical block under bash — 26/26 targets pass at seed 1.

src/ci_test.zig moves with it. `fuzz` leaves not_in_ci (its stated reason was that wiring a bounded CI invocation belonged to a later step — that step is this one) and a new ci_parameterized table records it as covered-in-a-loop, carrying the exact anchor that proves the invocation exists. The anchor is verified, not trusted: an entry whose anchor drifts out of the workflow fails like any other gap. That distinction is kept separate from not_in_ci on purpose — conflating 'runs, in a loop' with 'deliberately skipped' is how a step silently stops being covered while a stale excuse keeps the pin green.

actions/checkout v4 -> v5 clears the Node 20 deprecation warning the green run reported. check-in: 394b4efa27 user: dmestas tags: trunk

GitHub-hosted runners are unavailable to this repository: it is private, and private-repo Actions minutes are billed, so the first hosted run never started — 'recent account payments have failed or your spending limit needs to be increased', zero steps executed. The gate now runs on the self-hosted mac-mini-zit (macOS/ARM64), which is online and already carries the toolchain.

- runs-on names the specific machine ([self-hosted, mac-mini-zit]) rather than bare self-hosted, so a second runner joining the account cannot silently pick this job up on a different OS or architecture. - The Zig tarball is the aarch64-macos build with its published digest from ziglang.org/download/index.json. macOS ships shasum rather than GNU sha256sum, so the digest is compared explicitly; a swapped tarball still fails the job rather than building silently. - fossil is verified rather than apt-installed — the runner is a developer machine carrying 2.28, newer than what apt ships. The step hard-fails when fossil is absent, because a skipped smoke step would silently stop exercising the conformance claim the release rests on.

src/ci_test.zig moves in lockstep: the runs-on line, the digest constant, the digest-check form, and the fossil-guard pin all now assert the macOS shape. Pins and workflow must change together or zig build test goes red, which is the point of having them. check-in: c8cccb2723 user: dmestas tags: trunk

Lands P4-F6, closing the last unfuzzed attack surface in the release scope. transport.zig and serve.zig are the only two files a remote peer can reach with bytes it fully controls, and neither had a fuzz target: the sync_parsers_adversarial target covers the layer above them, so the HTTP framing itself — the first code to touch untrusted input — was exercised only by hand-written smoke cases. These two targets hit that framing directly.

The increment: src/transport_fuzz.zig (205 L) and src/serve_fuzz.zig (303 L), registered in the fuzz_tests.zig dispatch table alongside the existing 24 and pinned by that file's registration test. serve.zig's driveHttp is promoted to pub with a comment stating why — it is the receiveHead to handleHttpRequest seam the smoke tests and the fuzz target both need, and duplicating it would have meant fuzzing a copy of the request path rather than the real one. Both sides stay in-memory, so neither target binds a port and neither can flake in CI. dst.zig picks up the two targets plus fuzz_tests.zig itself, the latter so the registration pin has a test step to run in: zig build fuzz has none.

Evidence, re-verified on the merged tree rather than on the branch, since trunk had advanced: zig fmt --check ., zig build, and zig build test each exit 0. Both new targets run clean seeded — invoking zig build fuzz with each target name and --seed 1 exits 0 for transport_frame_garbage and for serve_request_garbage — and found no crash, leak, or UB to fix, so this step carries no pinned-seed regression. The merge reported no conflicts; a repo-wide grep for conflict markers is clean, and fossil extras is empty, so both added files are tracked and nothing referenced went unadded. check-in: b8db5ecabd user: dmestas tags: trunk

The 24 existing fuzz targets cover the delta, artifact, sync-parser and logstore layers, but not the two CLI-layer modules that consume bytes an untrusted remote peer chose. `sync_parsers_adversarial` covers the layer above; the HTTP framing itself was unfuzzed. These are the last two wire surfaces on the release bar, and they are what a hostile peer reaches first.

What landed:

- `src/transport_fuzz.zig` — `frameGarbage`, registered as `transport_frame_garbage`. Client-side §4/§4.1 framing and redirect policy: the round-trip law (whatever `frame` produces, `unframe` returns exactly those plaintext bytes), mutation of framed containers (bit damage never survives as *different* plaintext — it either fails the container's Adler-32/zlib checks or, in the length-field range the §4.1 compression-length erratum makes a capacity bound, decodes back to the same bytes), and garbage `Location` headers through `resolveRedirect`. Totality is the asserted contract: every input yields a value whose postconditions hold or a declared member of `TransportError`.

- `src/serve_fuzz.zig` — `requestGarbage`, registered as `serve_request_garbage`. Server-side HTTP request path: raw bytes into `std.http.Server.receiveHead`, then `handleHttpRequest`'s dispatch (`classifyXfer` -> body read -> responder -> reply framing). It does not re-feed `handleXfer` in isolation — that decoding is already fuzzed twice — it reaches it only as the tail of a full-path dispatch, which is the point. Asserted contract: any `receiveHead` error is a clean rejection, `handleHttpRequest` returns void, and any produced response begins with an HTTP/1.1 status line.

- `src/serve.zig`: `driveHttp` becomes `pub`. It is the request-path seam two callers need and neither should reimplement — the §4 smoke tests and this fuzz target. In-memory reader/writer on both sides, so the target binds no port and cannot flake in CI.

- `src/fuzz_tests.zig`: both targets registered in the `targets` table, and `targets` becomes `pub` for a new structural registration pin. An unregistered target compiles, passes review, and is then never run by any invocation; the pin asserts every target the release bar names is actually reachable from the runner, so the registration cannot rot.

- `src/dst.zig`: aggregates both new files plus `fuzz_tests.zig` into `zig build test`. This root is the one that reaches serve.zig and transport.zig relatively while carrying the `zit` dep those two import; `zig build fuzz` has no test step, so it is also the only place the registration pin can run.

No bug found, so no fix and no pinned-seed regression in this commit — both surfaces held over the seeded runs below. The targets are the standing check, not a one-time sweep.

Test evidence (this worktree, after `fossil update` absorbed the sibling `zit open` commit 5ba418801d and its 8 modified files):

- `zig build fuzz -- transport_frame_garbage --seed 1 --rounds 2000` — clean, no crash/leak/UB. - `zig build fuzz -- serve_request_garbage --seed 1 --rounds 2000` — clean, no crash/leak/UB. - `zig build test` — green, including the new registration pin and the fixed-seed smoke tests at the foot of both new files. - `zig build` and `zig fmt --check .` — green.

No borrowed technique in this change. check-in: cec4afaf89 user: dmestas tags: release-0.1

Lands the last of the three P3 CLI cliffs. A clone previously produced only an artifact log: there was no verb that turned one into a working tree, so clone-to-usable-checkout was unreachable and unproven by any test. `zit open` closes that path, resolving the trunk tip and materializing the check-in into the target directory.

The merged tree — not merely the branch — was re-verified on trunk after the merge: zig fmt --check ., zig build, and zig build test all exit 0. The merge reported no conflicts and touched six already-tracked files; fossil extras is empty, so nothing referenced went unadded. The conflict-marker byte sequences that a repo-wide grep reports in src/merge3.zig and src/e2e.zig are that module's own conflict sentinel and the tests asserting on it, not merge residue.

Landed separately from the sibling status increment (3b7fe2fbe1) rather than folded into one commit: the two are independent release steps and each keeps its own subject and evidence. check-in: 91c682fd06 user: dmestas tags: trunk

Lands release step P3-F5-status on trunk, completing the B-status-16 deferral.

The increment: `status` previously classified only `added` and `missing`, so a tracked file that was present but modified produced no line at all — the gap was documented in a comment, in `--help`, and in an e2e test that pinned the silence. Documenting a hole is not the same as not having one, and "your working copy looks clean" is the wrong thing for a version control system to say about an edited file. `status` now resolves the current check-in and compares every tracked file against it, emitting an `edited` row when the bytes or the file mode differ; a file whose contents match is still not listed.

The comparison is not a second implementation. The check-in resolution, the legacy trailing-separator F-card tolerance, the delta-manifest walk, and the merge against the sorted managed set were all machinery `diff` already had; that machinery is extracted into `CheckinBaseline` and `walkWorkingTree`, and both verbs now run through it, with each verb supplying only a sink. `diff` is a pure refactor here — same output, less code. Dirtiness remains a non-failure: every `added`/`edited`/ `missing` row exits 0 (B-status-15); only a genuine comparison failure exits 1. `--help` no longer defers edited-file detection and now narrows the deferral text to the two cases that genuinely remain out of scope.

This lands the full detection called for by P3-F5, not the fallback. The plan's fallback of record required an explicit operator decision; none was taken and none was needed.

Merge evidence: `fossil merge release-0.1` reported no conflicts, updating only src/e2e.zig and src/main.zig. The tree carries no conflict markers — the three open-marker occurrences a grep turns up in src/e2e.zig are string literals inside assertions pinning zit's own merge3 conflict sentinel, not merge residue.

Verification evidence: the merged tree — not merely the branch — was re-verified on trunk after the merge. `zig fmt --check .`, `zig build`, and `zig build test` each exit 0. Behavioral evidence rides in the branch commit's new e2e coverage, which pins each acceptance criterion: an edited tracked file is reported as edited; a rewrite with identical bytes (mtime bump, same content) is not reported; an executable-bit-only change is reported; a file deleted from the check-in but no longer tracked is still not reported; and a delta checkout with an absent B-card baseline fails cleanly rather than reporting a false clean tree. The e2e that pinned the old deferral is replaced by those tests, and the help-text e2es compare against a hand-written expected string, so the `--help` change is pinned too.

`fossil extras` is empty, so the merge adds no file it fails to track.

No performance claim is made here. No borrowed techniques in this change, so no attribution is owed. check-in: 3b7fe2fbe1 user: dmestas tags: trunk

`zit clone` builds a repository file and nothing else. The checkout it left behind was the same UNBORN record `init` writes (`version == ""`, branch `trunk`), with no managed set and no files, and there was no way to turn it into a usable tree: `zit update` accepts only a literal 40/64-hex check-in ID, so a freshly cloned tree could not name its own tip. Clone was a dead end.

`zit open` is the second half of fossil's own clone+open UX. It resolves the tip of the main branch out of this repository's derived state and hands materialization to the SAME `update.applyCheckin` engine every other working-tree move rides — journal-armed, transactional, rollback-safe. Tip resolution is the only work that is open's own; everything else is wiring.

What changed:

- `cli.parseOpenArgs` / `OpenArgs` / `OpenResult`: an operand-free surface. `-h`/`--help` is the only accepted token and wins over every other token; a bare `-x` is an unknown option, anything else an extra argument. The verb takes no operand by design — it derives its target from the repository. - `main.runOpen` plus the `open` entries in the `Verb` enum, the dispatch switch, and the `verb_help` table, so the verb is added in one place and the total switch stays total. `runOpen` writes NO checkout record and NO managed set of its own: `init` already wrote the unborn record, an absent managed set already reads as the empty set, and the update engine stays the single writer of the born record. A second writer of that bootstrap state would only be a second thing to keep in sync. - `main.openApplyFail`: one arm per `update.ApplyError` variant and no `else`, so a new variant fails the compile and forces a decision, mirroring `updateApplyFail`. `SymlinkUnsupported` / `InvalidPath` / `ReservedPath` are raised while planning the TARGET manifest and are reachable on a perfectly intact repository, so they get honest prose instead of a corruption claim. - `update.planUpdate`: an UNBORN record now takes the same arm as an absent one. Unborn is the normal state of every fresh repository, so without this the first `update` after a clone handed `""` to `buildPlan`, failed `artifact.validateName("")`, and reported `CurrentStateInvalid` — a clean, correct tree diagnosed as broken. A record that names no check-in but claims a merge parent or a pending special operation stays incoherent and is still `CurrentStateInvalid`. - BORN-ness, not presence, is the "already open" signal. A presence-based gate would have rejected a clone followed by an open on every clone, the primary path the verb exists to serve.

Test evidence (all run in this worktree after absorbing the sibling P3-F4 commit 281c0ed815, which arrived during this step and was merged by hand in `src/e2e.zig` — both sides had appended the identical P3-F4 block, so the duplicate was dropped):

- `zig build test` — green, including new `update_test.zig` coverage of the unborn-record arm and its incoherent-record rejections. - `zig build e2e` — green, including the P3-F3 block: clone → open → byte-identical tree → update → commit round-trip; a plain clone's unborn checkout tolerated by `update`; an untracked file in the way failing the open and materializing nothing; re-opening an already-open tree refused with no change; a repository with no check-in reported rather than failed; outside a repository failing with the not-a-repo diagnostic (exit 1); unknown option and positional as usage errors (exit 2); and the verb present in top-level help with one help text behind both `--help` and `help open`. - `zig build smoke` — green, with the new S6 scenario (§3.7/§4): `zit clone` + `zit open` against a REAL fossil server materializes the committed bytes byte-for-byte. This is the cross-implementation proof that the new path produces a working tree fossil itself agrees with. - `zig fmt --check .`, `zig build`, and `zig build dst` (6 seeds x 1000 steps) also green.

No borrowed technique in this change. No new file: the work lands entirely in existing modules. check-in: 5ba418801d user: dmestas tags: release-0.1

Completes the B-status-16 deferral. `status` previously classified only `added` and `missing`: a tracked file that was present but modified produced no line at all, and the gap was documented in a comment, in `--help`, and in an e2e test that pinned the silence. Documenting a hole is not the same as not having one, and "your working copy looks clean" is the wrong thing for a version control system to say about an edited file.

What changed:

- `status` now resolves the current check-in and compares every tracked file against it, emitting an `edited` row naming the path when the bytes or the file mode differ. A file whose contents match is still not listed.

- The comparison is not a second implementation. `diff` already resolved the current check-in, tolerated the legacy trailing-separator F-card, walked the delta manifest, and merged that effective file set against the sorted managed set. That machinery is extracted into `CheckinBaseline` (open/resolve) and `walkWorkingTree` (the merge), and both verbs now run through it. `diff` is a pure refactor here -- same output, less code. The `diff*Fail` diagnostic mappers become `compare*Fail` and take the verb as a parameter, the shape `checkoutFail` and `managedFail` already used.

- A verb supplies only a sink with `emit(entry)`. `DiffSink` renders diff records; `StatusSink` renders human rows and drops the deleted-from-check-in class, which `status` still defers because it iterates the managed set. The sink is comptime-generic rather than an erased pointer pair: both sinks are known at compile time, so the call stays direct and type-checked.

- The whole report is buffered and written once, as `diff` already did. A comparison failure part-way through the walk now leaves stdout empty rather than a header above a truncated report. Dirtiness is still never a failure: every `added`/`edited`/`missing` row exits 0 (B-status-15). Only a genuine comparison failure -- unreadable tracked file, corrupt or unresolvable check-in -- exits 1.

- `CheckinBaseline` is self-referential (the walk borrows the resolver, which borrows the log, which reads through the file storage), so it is initialized in place and must not be moved. The open/deinit contract used to rest purely on each call site placing its `defer` correctly; an `opened` flag now makes that invariant assertable, and both `deinit` and the failure path assert it.

- `walkWorkingTree` carries a termination guard against the exact bound (one step per managed path, one per effective file), plus a per-iteration progress assertion, because correctness of the merge rests on every switch arm advancing exactly one cursor. Debug-only, alongside the existing debug-only assertion that the managed set is sorted.

- `--help` no longer defers edited-file detection. It documents the three row classes and narrows the deferral text to the two cases that genuinely remain out of scope: a file deleted from the check-in but no longer tracked, and untracked "extra" files -- pointing at `zit diff` and `zit extras`.

Test evidence: new e2e coverage pins each acceptance criterion -- an edited tracked file is reported as edited in the born state; a rewrite with identical bytes (mtime bump, same content) is not reported; an executable-bit-only change is reported as edited; a file deleted from the check-in but untracked is still not reported; and a current delta checkout with an absent B-card baseline fails cleanly rather than reporting a false clean tree. The pre-existing e2e that pinned the deferral is replaced by the tests above. The help-text e2es compare against a hand-written expected string, so the `--help` change is pinned too. `zig build` and `zig build test` pass in this worktree after absorbing the sibling add/rm recursion commit (281c0ed815), and the commit is proved against a clean `fossil open` checkout running `zig build` then `zig build test`. check-in: 02d993f860 user: dmestas tags: release-0.1

Lands release step P3-F4-addrm on trunk. `zit add DIR` and `zit rm DIR` were hard errors directing the user to name individual files, which made `zit add .` and adding a source subtree dead ends. The increment makes both verbs recurse: `add DIR` expands over the already-shipped `extras.sweep` of the checkout root rather than introducing a second walker, so the exclusions, the no-follow symlink posture, and the tracked-set subtraction are the ones `addremove` and `clean` already use, with the sweep lazy and memoized so multiple directory arguments still perform one enumeration. `rm DIR` expands over the tracked keys via `ManagedSet.iterate` rather than over the disk, so an already-deleted directory remains forgettable. A single containment predicate, `pathUnderDir`, serves both verbs so the prefix-boundary case cannot diverge between them. Help text and exit-status wording now describe recursion instead of the removed directory error.

Merge evidence: `fossil merge release-0.1` reported no conflicts, updating only src/e2e.zig and src/main.zig; the tree carries no conflict markers (the open-marker occurrences that a grep turns up in src/merge3.zig and src/e2e.zig are that module's own conflict sentinel constant and the tests asserting on it, not merge residue). The merged tree — not merely the branch — was re-verified green on trunk after the merge: `zig fmt --check .`, `zig build`, and `zig build test` all exit 0. `fossil extras` is empty, so the merge adds no file it fails to track.

No borrowed techniques in this change, so no attribution is owed. check-in: fca1e073c2 user: dmestas tags: trunk

`zit add DIR` and `zit rm DIR` were hard errors that told the user to name individual files. That made the two most common invocations -- `zit add .` and adding a source subtree -- dead ends, and it was the last place where the CLI asked the user to do work the repository already knows how to do.

What changed:

- `add DIR` now expands to every untracked file beneath the directory. It reuses the ALREADY SHIPPED `extras.sweep` of the checkout root rather than introducing a second walker: the same walk, the same exclusions, the same no-follow symlink posture `addremove` and `clean` use. The sweep is lazy and memoized for the whole invocation, so `zit add a b c` over three directories still performs exactly one enumeration. Because the sweep already subtracts the tracked set and the depth-0 control names, neither can be re-inserted or re-reported by the directory path. - `rm DIR` expands over the TRACKED keys via `ManagedSet.iterate`, never over the disk, so a directory the user has already deleted is still forgettable. Keys are copied into the arena before the first removal, because `iterate()`'s slice and its backing bytes are invalidated by `remove` -- the same discipline `addremove` uses for its remove set. Ascending order is preserved and every expanded key still passes the per-key control-file guard (B-rm-7). - One containment predicate, `pathUnderDir`, serves both verbs, so the boundary case cannot diverge between them: `src2/c` is not under `src`, because containment requires the separator immediately after the directory's bytes. - No new diagnostic class. `zit rm .` with nothing tracked resolves to the existing not-tracked message rather than inventing an empty-expansion error; `zit add .` on a tree holding only control files adds nothing and succeeds. - The `add` and `rm` help text and exit-status wording now describe recursion instead of the removed directory error.

Test evidence: the B-add-5 and B-rm-5 contract tests were rewritten to pin the new behavior (a named symlink is still rejected; a directory now recurses; `.` at the root is never reported as outside the repository), and a new P3-F4 block of end-to-end tests covers nested trees, prefix-boundary siblings, multiple directory arguments sharing one sweep, --dry-run, --hard, and rm of a directory that no longer exists on disk. `zig build test` passes in this worktree after absorbing the sibling packaging commit (3645c03e2d), and the commit is proved against a clean `fossil open` checkout running `zig build` then `zig build test`. check-in: 281c0ed815 user: dmestas tags: release-0.1