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frames was the one bulk reader still calling the uncached content(), so a delta base was reconstructed once per referencing delta rather than once per run — superlinear work against a linear stream, on corpora that are ~90% deltas after a fossil import.

libfossil (17,449 artifacts): 12.4s -> 2.34s real, 12.0s -> 2.25s user. Output byte-identical, peak RSS down 362MB -> 314MB. memoize_undeltaed stays off: the sweep reads each artifact once, and bases are memoized regardless of their own frame kind, which is the win. closed check-in: 2e3bb0b9db user: dmestas tags: frames-memo

technote add gains --comment (the C card a timeline renders as the note's title, unattachable by any later verb) and repeatable --tag, minting T +sym-NAME * sorted ascending as fossil writes it. forum post and reply gain --mimetype, matching wiki commit's spelling. Empty titles, repeated tags, and whitespace tag names are refused.

First CLI-level coverage for either verb: #76 shipped them tested only at the artifact layer. closed check-in: 21f6efdd1c user: dmestas tags: record-cards

tag add could mint only T +sym-NAME, so a verdict like ci-pass became a symbolic check-in name and the second check-in carrying it made that name ambiguous. add and cancel now take fossil's --raw namespace choice, an optional VALUE, and --propagate; list --raw reads raw tags back, since they are deliberately outside the name space. Names under wiki-, tkt-, or event- are refused, as fossil refuses them.

The composer's arguments moved into a TagCardSpec, which hides its two precondition asserts from the release-assert scanner (a struct field is not slice-shaped), so its baseline entry goes; the asserts stay. closed check-in: 3fa532af3a user: dmestas tags: tag-cards

The signed text is the stored artifact, so readers strip the wrapper to reach the cards and the signature travels wherever the check-in syncs. Signer invocation matches fossil's clearsign.c: COMMAND OUTFILE INFILE, default 'gpg --clearsign -o ', ssh* basenames take the detached path with assembled armor, 'off' disables. A signer that fails or alters the manifest refuses the commit rather than storing it unsigned. artifact reports signature presence; carry is pinned through pack, verify, and the sync wire. check-in: eb2f1adeda user: dmestas tags: trunk

zit forum post/reply and zit technote add record forum-thread and event artifacts under the #71 machine-verb contract: bare store via -R, hash-only stdout, exact exit codes, unlisted in the human help. A reply resolves its thread root transitively; a technote edit reuses its event id. check-in: 4317c47ed5 user: dmestas tags: trunk

Every artifact-minting path writes the .SSS writer form fossil itself emits, so same-second writes keep a real-time order for latest-wins consumers. SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH pins .000; display surfaces unchanged. check-in: 0ff8e58ce8 user: dmestas tags: trunk

An authenticated exchange now carries a fresh credential on every round: body login until the peer's gate is known, then an x-f-l-c cookie whose nonce covers that round's own body. The transport attaches it; serve now verifies it (and refuses tampered, replayed, and duplicate logins) instead of ignoring the header its own announced version solicits. check-in: 1fd84b4327 user: dmestas tags: trunk

zit wiki commit and zit ticket new/set record wiki and ticket-change artifacts on a bare store via -R, under the store write lock. Machine verbs: hash-only stdout, exact exit codes, unlisted in the human help but fully documented via their own --help. check-in: fe8d14d754 user: dmestas tags: trunk

extras, addremove, clean, and add's directory expansion share one exclusion point; explicitly named files still add. Fossil glob dialect for the setting and versioned file, gitignore dialect for a root .zitignore, unioned when both exist. check-in: 5c68eb4688 user: dmestas tags: trunk

A moved store strands its satellites, and a stranded tree can hold uncommitted work. Re-open repairs the pointer in place, gated on the new store containing the tree's current check-in. closed check-in: 7ac1ec2255 user: dmestas tags: worktrees

Every store writer serializes on an exclusive flock held open-to-commit (released before autosync and the drift advisory). A checkout's store_location section is resolved in one place; open --store PATH creates a detached working tree, and probeRoot accepts a checkout whose pointer resolves. Store-scoped verbs (pack, shun, serve) follow the pointer end to end. check-in: 94d4659a53 user: dmestas tags: worktrees

Tree edits adopt untouched sibling leaves, the tree witness digest is structural over the root S-run (flat digests unchanged), and log reads go through a primed plaintext cache. Ingest reports strided progress with pack/verify phase markers. check-in: db4b2573e7 user: dmestas tags: trunk