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Why

When an external change lands on a note whose buffer has unsaved edits, the session used to park it and offer Keep mine / Load theirs. In the field that is a script appending to today's daily note (via the GitHub API) while the user has folded a bullet: nothing overlaps, yet the user gets a prompt, and "Keep mine" writes the old copy back over the appended entry.

The session already holds the three inputs of a merge: the last content read from disk (base), the buffer (ours), and the arrived content (theirs). conflict_merge_text (#1453) runs the same resolution ladder Git pulls and iCloud sweeps use. So the editor now handles its conflicts the way those two do: as data in the file, not as a modal state in the session.

What

  • reconcileFromDisk with a dirty buffer merges three-way.
    • Clean: the merge becomes the dirty buffer over the external content and saving continues. No prompt, no write of anything the user did not produce.
    • Conflicted: the marked merge is written over the external version it was made from (the write expects that version, so a file that moved again is re-read and merged afresh instead of overwritten) and adopted. Markers open the note protected, where the existing conflict notice resolves block by block, exactly like a conflicted pull.
    • Unmergeable (a side already carries markers, no merge capability, or the buffer would not hold still for three rounds): the buffer is kept as <note> (conflict).md beside the note via note_create (never clobbers), an operation toast names the copy, and the external version is adopted.
  • Keystrokes that land while the marked merge or the conflict copy is being written are copied again: the copy made in that reconciliation is overwritten with a checked write, so a copy another window or device changed is left alone and the newer text goes to the next free sibling. A later conflict in the same session gets its own copy. A failed marker write or a failed copy leaves the buffer dirty with the error; its next save finds the file changed, reconciles, and comes back to retry. The external version replaces the buffer only once a copy holds it.
  • The parked-conflict state is gone: conflict / mergedPreview on the snapshot, keepMine / loadTheirs / keepBoth / review on the session, the save-pause under a conflict, the conflict branch in commitFrontmatter, NoteConflictBanner, and the rename coordinator's canFire gate (its only user was the park). The buffer is never left in a state it cannot save from, so no exit path has to rescue it.
  • docs/git-backup-safety.md S8 reworded for the new behaviour.

Tests

note-session.test.ts: clean merge applies silently and saves with the external content as the expected revision; overlapping edits are written as markers and open protected; a file that moved again before the markers landed is merged afresh; typing during the marker write is kept aside; a failed marker write keeps the save chain live; unmergeable edits are kept aside and the external version loads; the same edit from both sides adopts cleanly. use-note-document.test.tsx: unmergeable edits land in notes/a (conflict).md. open-documents.test.ts: a dirty open note keeps its edits beside the note on an index reload. Failed copies and keystrokes during the copy have their own regressions in both suites.

Verification

pnpm fix, pnpm typecheck, node editor suites (116 passed), browser use-note-document.test.tsx (33 passed).

Changes from review

  • A final flush that an external change refuses (the pane closes right after another device wrote the note) runs its reconciliation to completion after the session is disposed: merge and save, exact write, or a copy beside the note.
  • Reconciliations run one at a time, with one rerun when another is asked for meanwhile, so two signals for one change (the watcher and a refused save) cannot merge the first one's result again.
  • A clean merge reports the other writer's version as external before its own save, so a title changed on another device is not taken for this user's rename.
  • A commit (frontmatter or body) whose edit ended in a conflict copy reports the failure instead of success. A lossy clean merge stays out of the live editor even without a writer.
  • The settle loop in flush() is bounded, and the notice for edits kept beside a note stays until dismissed.

Summary by Sourcery

Merge external note changes into unsaved edits while preserving unmergeable work in conflict copies and eliminating parked conflict resolution.

New Features:

  • Merge external note changes into unsaved edits using three-way reconciliation, applying clean merges silently and representing overlapping edits with conflict markers.
  • Preserve unmergeable or concurrent edits in uniquely named conflict copies beside the original note while adopting the external version.

Bug Fixes:

  • Prevent external changes from overwriting unsaved edits or leaving the session blocked behind a modal conflict state.
  • Ensure refused saves and final flushes reconcile completely, retry safely after concurrent changes, and report failures when edits are kept aside.

Enhancements:

  • Replace parked conflict resolution actions with a serialized reconciliation pipeline that handles concurrent signals, protected conflicted notes, save retries, and editor input during writes.
  • Remove obsolete conflict UI, session state, save gating, and rename coordination dependencies.

Documentation:

  • Update Git backup safety guidance to describe three-way merging, conflict markers, conflict copies, and retry behavior.

Tests:

  • Expand session, hook, and open-document coverage for clean and conflicted merges, conflict copies, concurrent writes, failed writes, final flushes, and edits arriving during reconciliation.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Compatible external changes are merged with your unsaved edits and saved automatically. Overlapping edits are preserved with conflict markers, and the note opens in protected mode.
    • When changes can’t be merged, your local edits are saved to a neighboring conflict file before the external version is loaded.
  • Changes
    • The “Keep mine” and “Load theirs” prompt is no longer available; external changes are reconciled automatically.

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Walkthrough

Dirty note buffers now reconcile external changes through three-way merges, protected writes, or sibling copies. The parked-conflict state, resolution callbacks, and conflict banner were removed.

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Note Reconciliation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session merge and reconciliation
apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-types.ts, apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts, apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.ts, apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts
The session I/O contract adds optional merge and copy callbacks. Dirty buffers are reconciled with external content: clean merges are saved, unsafe merges are written protected, and unavailable or unsuccessful merges preserve local content in a copy. Flushes and commits account for reconciliation outcomes.
Document integration and conflict-copy handling
apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts, apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.test.tsx
The hook supplies merge and copy operations. It updates a prior copy only when its contents still match, and otherwise creates a numbered sibling copy.
Conflict UI and dependent integrations
apps/desktop/src/components/note-conflict-banner*, apps/desktop/src/components/note-save-alerts.tsx, apps/desktop/src/editor/open-documents*, apps/desktop/src/editor/rename-coordinator*, apps/desktop/src/editor/title-rename*, apps/desktop/src/editor/alias-placement.ts, apps/desktop/src/editor/document-binding.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/editor/move-note.test.ts, docs/git-backup-safety.md
The conflict banner and resolution callbacks are removed. Open-document reloads and rename coordination no longer use parked-conflict state or its firing gate. Related test fixtures and safety documentation are updated.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Disk
  participant NoteSession
  participant mergeText
  participant copyAside
  Disk->>NoteSession: External content arrives
  NoteSession->>mergeText: Merge disk base, local buffer, and external content
  mergeText-->>NoteSession: Return merge outcome
  NoteSession->>Disk: Save clean merge or protected content
  NoteSession->>copyAside: Preserve local content when merge cannot be used
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b1e66

Commits no longer report copied-aside edits as saved, and protected conflict content does not trigger a title rename. No merge-blocking issue remains in the supplied evidence.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b1e66

Automatic reconciliation retains important file-containment and overwrite protections. However, a privacy-setting operation can complete after a conflicted merge is saved without validating the resulting privacy metadata. Whether that outcome preserves downstream privacy enforcement remains unresolved.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: A security-sensitive frontmatter commit can acknowledge success after conflict-marker materialization without checking that its requested metadata is effective in the resulting document. The privacy toggle relies on that acknowledgement. Editor protection preserves bytes but does not establish privacy classification; whether reachable merge outputs weaken downstream cloud restrictions remains unresolved.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed path requires external content to reach an open, dirty note. Its direct mutation scope is the selected note and graph-relative sibling copies, using existing desktop filesystem authority; this is not evidence of a new remotely callable API.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A writer supplying conflicting external content can route a pending privacy-setting operation through marker persistence and successful commit acknowledgement. The unresolved security question is whether such output retains effective privacy metadata or is rejected by every relevant cloud consumer. No confirmed disclosure path is established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Main-note and copy-refresh writes carry expected content. The backend checks it under the note-write lock; new siblings use atomic no-clobber creation. Mutations require a graph generation, and path resolution rejects traversal and resolved symlink escapes. These inspected controls do not establish cross-process transactional isolation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Protection blocks ordinary saves of unsafe documents, while external adoption only re-baselines title tracking rather than scheduling a rename. This counters the concern that removing the parked-conflict rename gate directly gives marker content rename authority.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define successful security-metadata commits by their effective parsed postcondition, not only successful byte persistence. Preserve or conservatively restrict privacy classification while conflicts remain unresolved.



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Reviewed by GPT-6 at 152c16b. Not approved. Reviewed the complete diff, session save/reconcile paths, UI bindings, and writeNote CAS contract. Three actionable findings below concern stale local edits, concurrent disk writes, and failed writes. Validation: static source and design/convention review plus GitHub CI inspection. CI is still running; no local tests were run.

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cancelScheduledSave()
conflict = content
mergedPreview = merged?.kind === 'conflicted' ? merged.content : null

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[P1] Invalidate previews when the local buffer changes

GPT-6, reviewed SHA 152c16b. If typing continues while a conflicted merge is in flight, only the clean result checks whether ours is still current. The conflicted result is retained anyway. The same stale preview persists when the user edits after the banner appears: editorChanged does not invalidate it. Keep both and Review then replace the current buffer with that older snapshot, silently dropping later keystrokes. Track the buffer revision used for the preview and recompute or disable those actions whenever it changes; test both edits during the merge and edits after parking.

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Done in 8f5c9f0: editorChanged drops mergedPreview whenever the buffer changes while a conflict is parked (Keep both / Review disappear from the banner), and a conflicted merge result is only kept as a preview if the buffer is still the one it was computed from. Test: typing after the banner clears the preview and Keep both then does nothing.

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Follow-up in deae21f for the in-flight case: review() snapshots the buffer when clicked; after the write lands it adopts the marked file only if the buffer is unchanged. If the user typed meanwhile, the marked merge (now on disk) is parked as an ordinary external change instead: the newer buffer stays, Keep mine overwrites the markers with it, Load theirs opens them protected. Test: a keystroke injected during the review write survives, and the session re-parks on the marked content.

conflict = null
mergedPreview = null
saveChain = saveChain.then(async () => {
await write(path, marked)

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[P1] Compare the disk version before writing the reviewed merge

GPT-6, reviewed SHA 152c16b. If another device or editor changes the file after the conflict was read but before Review finishes, write(path, marked) omits expectedContents. The production writeNote binding forwards that omission, so the marked snapshot overwrites the newer external content unconditionally. Unlike Keep mine, Review promises to preserve both sides. Capture the external version used for this preview and use it as the CAS expectation; on a stale result, reconcile and retain the local buffer instead of overwriting.

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Done in 8f5c9f0: the Review write passes the external version the merge was made from as expectedContents. A newer file on disk is refused by the CAS, the buffer stays intact, and the conflict is reconciled afresh (new merge, new preview). Test: the disk changes again before Review; nothing is written and the session re-parks on the newer content.

const write = io.write
conflict = null
mergedPreview = null
saveChain = saveChain.then(async () => {

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[P2] Recover the save chain when the review write fails

GPT-6, reviewed SHA 152c16b. When the Review write rejects (for example disk full), conflict and mergedPreview have already been cleared, and this promise has no catch. The session gets neither its normal error state nor a retryable conflict, and saveChain remains rejected. On the next edit, save() appends a then to that rejected chain, so its write is skipped; the catch only reconciles and does not retry the queued write. Keep the conflict until the write succeeds, surface failures, and restore a settled save chain so an ordinary retry can save. Add a failed-review-write regression followed by a successful retry.

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Done in 8f5c9f0: the parked state is cleared only after the write lands. On failure the session records error, reconciles, and the chain settles (the rejection is caught inside the step), so the next save runs normally. Test: a failing Review write keeps the conflict with the error, and Keep mine afterwards writes.

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Reviewed by GPT-6 at 8f5c9f0. Not approved. The previous disk-CAS P1 and failed-save-chain P2 are resolved. Preview invalidation now covers typing during merge computation and after parking. One part of the local-edit P1 remains: review() captures marked, awaits write(path, marked, onDisk), then unconditionally calls adoptCleanContent(marked). The live editor remains editable during that await. Typing after clicking Review clears mergedPreview but does not invalidate the captured marked value, so successful completion overwrites those newer keystrokes and sets dirty=false. Capture/check the buffer revision across the write, retaining and reconciling newer edits, or synchronously transition to a mode that prevents further editing before dispatching the write. Test with a gated review write and typing before it resolves. This follows up the existing stale-local-edits finding rather than duplicating the resolved cases.

Validation: static incremental review and call-path inspection; CI inspected and still in progress. No local tests run.

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Reviewed by GPT-6. I approve the changes at deae21f. Checked implementation, design consistency, and Rust/TypeScript conventions.

The remaining P1 is resolved: Review captures the local contents before dispatching the write and only adopts the marked result if those contents still match. Later typing stays in the buffer, with the written marked version parked as the external conflict. The new regression exercises typing during the write. Earlier CAS and failed-write recovery fixes remain intact.

Validation: static incremental review and related save/reconcile call paths; GitHub CI inspected. No local tests run. The regular CI checks have passed at inspection; autofix is still pending, so this is code-review approval rather than a completed CI sign-off.

@ocavuebot ocavuebot changed the title feat(desktop): merge external changes into unsaved edits three-way feat(desktop): merge external changes into unsaved edits like a pull Oct 7, 2026

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Reviewed by GPT-6 at 20fe455. Not approved. The new automatic marker/copy flow removes the previous parked actions and retains CAS for marker writes. Two data-loss paths remain around conflict-copy persistence. Validation: static incremental review of session state, copy creation, save/reconcile and UI call paths; GitHub CI inspected, still running. No local tests run.

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await io.copyAside(path, contents)

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[P1] Keep the dirty buffer when the conflict copy fails

GPT-6, reviewed SHA 20fe455. keepAside catches copyAside failures and returns success. Both callers then adoptCleanContent and clear dirty. If creating the sibling fails (disk full, permission denied, or all nine names occupied), the only local version is discarded without a durable copy. Propagate failure or return an explicit success result. Adopt external/marked content only after the copy succeeds; otherwise retain the dirty buffer and a retryable error. Add a failed-copy regression.

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Done in d67ba00: keepAside reports whether the copy exists, and both callers adopt the external (or marked) content only when it does. A failed copy keeps the dirty buffer with the error; the buffer's next save is refused as stale, reconciles, and comes back to copy again. Test: a copy that fails with "disk full" leaves the buffer dirty and nothing applied; once copies work, the next edit's save path makes the copy and adopts the external version.

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await keepAside(header + buffer)
adoptCleanContent(content)
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[P1] Recheck the buffer after the conflict copy completes

GPT-6, reviewed SHA 20fe455. The argument to keepAside snapshots the buffer before awaiting createNoteIfAbsent. The editor remains editable during that IPC. Any keystrokes entered while the copy is pending are absent from the copy, then adoptCleanContent overwrites them and clears dirty. The same gap exists after materialize calls keepAside. Preserve a revision across the copy and retry or retain newer edits before adopting, or gate editing for this transition. Add a deferred-copy test that types before the promise resolves. This is a new asynchronous gap in the replacement flow; the former Review write race was previously resolved.

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Done in d67ba00: keepAside re-reads the buffer after each copy and copies again when keystrokes landed meanwhile (three rounds, then it keeps the dirty buffer with an error). The hook's copier is one per session and overwrites the copy it made instead of creating a second file. The same path covers typing during the marker write. Tests: session "keystrokes typed while the conflict copy is made are copied too"; hook "keystrokes typed while the conflict copy is made overwrite the same copy" (gated note_create, a keystroke, then one note_write to the same (conflict).md).

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Reviewed by GPT-6 at d67ba00. Not approved. The two previous copy-persistence findings are resolved for a single reconciliation: failures keep the dirty buffer, and typing during a copy triggers another copy. The new session-wide copy reuse introduces a separate data-loss issue. Validation: static incremental and session/copier call-path review, GitHub CI inspected and still running. No local tests run.

throw new Error('no graph generation available for the conflict copy')
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if (copy !== null) {
await writeNote(copy, contents, current)

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[P1] Limit copy reuse to one reconciliation and protect later changes

GPT-6, reviewed SHA d67ba00. copy is retained for the whole session. After an unmergeable conflict saves local version A and adopts the external file, a later independent conflict writes version B over that same sibling. A can be the only durable copy of the earlier edits, so it is lost. The unchecked write also overwrites any edits another window or device made to the sibling. Reuse a copy only within retries of one reconciliation, with expectedContents/CAS against the content last written. Allocate a fresh sibling for a later conflict or if that copy changed externally. Test two independent conflicts in one session and an externally edited copy.

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Done in eb6bd2f: the copy now lives only inside one keepAside() call. The session passes the copy it made in that reconciliation (previous: path + contents last written) to copyAside; a later conflict passes null and gets a fresh sibling. The hook overwrites previous with writeNote(..., expectedContents = previous.contents), so a copy another window or device changed is left alone and the newer buffer goes to the next free sibling. No copy state is kept in the hook anymore. Tests: session "a later conflict in the same session gets its own copy" (both rounds start from previous: null); hook "a later conflict in the same session gets its own sibling, and a copy that moved is left alone" ((conflict).md, (conflict 2).md, then an edited (conflict 3).md is kept and the retake lands in (conflict 4).md).

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Successful reconciliation can retain stale errors or discard edits when no copy writer is available.

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What changed in this PR

Replaces parked editor conflicts with three-way merging and safe conflict copies.

Changes:

  • Automatically merges external changes into dirty buffers.
  • Materializes overlapping edits as conflict markers and archives unmergeable edits.
  • Removes the conflict prompt and related rename gating.
File Description
docs/​git-backup-safety.md Documents merge-first behavior.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​use-note-document.ts Wires merge and conflict-copy I/O.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​use-note-document.test.tsx Tests hook-level conflict copies.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​title-rename.ts Removes conflict gating.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​title-rename.test.ts Removes obsolete gate test.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​rename-coordinator.ts Removes conflict gate plumbing.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​rename-coordinator.test.ts Updates coordinator fixtures.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​open-documents.ts Updates reconciliation documentation.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​open-documents.test.ts Tests preserving dirty reloads.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​note-session.ts Exports conflict-copy type.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​note-session.test.ts Covers merge and copy recovery.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​note-session-types.ts Replaces parked-conflict APIs with merge I/O.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​note-session-state.ts Implements merge-first reconciliation.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​move-note.test.ts Updates session fixture.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​document-binding.test.ts Updates session fixture.
apps/​desktop/​src/​editor/​alias-placement.ts Updates behavior documentation.
apps/​desktop/​src/​components/​note-save-alerts.tsx Removes the conflict banner.
apps/​desktop/​src/​components/​note-conflict-banner.tsx Deletes obsolete conflict UI.
apps/​desktop/​src/​components/​note-conflict-banner.test.tsx Deletes obsolete UI tests.

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* Either way nothing typed is lost and the buffer is never left unsavable.
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async function mergeExternal(content: string, attempt = 0): Promise<void> {
const ours = header + buffer

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Done in f15f848: adoptCleanContent and adoptMerged clear error (both are the landing points of a reconciliation), so the failure from the checked save that led there does not linger with nothing left to save. The materialize and copy failure paths still set their own error afterwards. Test: a stale autosave whose content is already on disk ends with dirty: false, error: null.

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for (let n = 1; n < 10; n += 1) {
const copy = `${stem} (conflict${n === 1 ? '' : ` ${n}`})${ext}`

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Done in f15f848: the search now tries up to 1000 siblings, the same bound as the other claimed note paths.

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try {
merged = await io.mergeText(path, disk, ours, content)
} catch (cause) {
console.error('three-way merge failed:', cause)
}

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Done in f15f848: "a merge that throws keeps the edits beside the note before adopting the external version" scripts setMerge(null), spies console.error (and asserts the message), and checks the copy is made before the external content is applied, with nothing written to the note.

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apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-types.ts (1)

44-78: LGTM!

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79-86: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Fall back to a fresh sibling only when the previous copy changed.

The bare catch treats every writeNote failure as "the copy changed under us." That includes a stale generation, a disk-full error, and a permission error. After a transient failure, the code creates another sibling. This leaves extra conflict files behind, and the real error is never shown. Check for the changed-on-disk error and rethrow every other error.

-    } catch {
-      // The copy changed under us: keep it, and make a fresh one below.
+    } catch (cause) {
+      if (!errorMessage(cause).includes('changed on disk')) throw cause
+      // The copy changed under us: keep it, and make a fresh one below.
     }

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Reviewed by GPT-6 at f15f848. Not approved: the new clean-merge recovery does not satisfy the exit flush's persistence boundary.

The previous conflict-copy reuse/CAS findings are resolved. I also checked the current marker-based design and existing review discussion. The optional copyAside contract concern already posted remains applicable; I am not duplicating that inline.

Validation: static review of the session, binding, copy helper, and quit/background flush call chains. Existing CI checks have no reported failures. No local tests were run.

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[P1] Make flush await the clean merge's write, not its debounce timer

If another device changes the file just before Cmd-Q, the exit-facing flush() attempts a checked write against the old disk. That fails, and the save-chain catch awaits reconcileFromDisk(). A clean merge reaches this code, which only schedules a write for 800 ms later. The catch then resolves with dirty === true and error === null; flushOpenDocuments() finishes, and quit-flush.ts can call confirmQuit() before the merged local edits reach disk. The same early completion affects background persistence. On navigation, immediate disposal can instead make reconciliation return at its disposed guard before preserving the buffer.

Please make the persistence boundary drain reconciliation and its resulting checked write before resolving, including teardown, without waiting recursively on the same save chain. Add a regression with stale disk plus a clean merge: awaiting flush() must leave the merged bytes on disk without advancing the debounce timer, and disposal during the deferred merge must retain local edits.

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Done in b9e1164. Two changes: adoptMerged writes the merge now (save(), not the debounce), and flush() settles the whole save chain, looping until no step was appended while it waited, so the write a reconciliation appended inside the refused save's catch lands before the flush resolves. Test: "a flush that runs into an external change lands the clean merge before it resolves" (edit, external write, flush(); the merged content is the last write and the snapshot is clean).

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🟠 Major · Do not report a copy-aside reconciliation as a committed edit. · note-session-state.ts:515-516

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Do not report a copy-aside reconciliation as a committed edit.

If the checked write finds an external change and merging is unavailable, flush() can preserve the patched content in a sibling copy and adopt the external note. adoptCleanContent clears error, so commitFrontmatter returns true although the patch is absent from the original note. commitBodyEdit has the same result for a source edit. Track whether the requested edit reached the original note; return failure when reconciliation only preserved it in a copy.

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Track whether the requested edit was applied to the original note in the flush
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Review by Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic model claude-fable-5-1). Static review of the diff and the call chains it touches, against the sync design (D9 as restated for P2.3 / P2.6). Probe tests were run in a scratch worktree to confirm the two main findings; CI was green at review time.

Reviewed head b294e9dc68f2ebd263026a30cc636287e0a99acb.

Verdict: needs changes (one P1 on the dispose path, two P2).

Earlier findings, status on this head: all GPT-6 P1/P2 threads (preview invalidation, CAS before the reviewed write, save-chain recovery, dirty buffer kept when the copy fails, buffer re-checked after the copy, copy reuse limited to one reconciliation plus CAS) are resolved; Copilot’s three (clear stale error, 1000 siblings, rejected mergeText test) resolved; CodeRabbit’s lossy clean merge resolved in this head. GPT-6’s last P1 (flush must await the clean merge’s write; dispose can abort a reconciliation) is half resolved: flush() now loops saveChain until nothing is appended, so quit is covered; the dispose half is the P1 below. Two CodeRabbit items are still open: commitFrontmatter / commitBodyEdit reporting true after a copy-aside (P2 below), and the bare catch in keepBesideNote (minor).

What I confirmed works: clean → adoptMerged → immediate save() with CAS against the external version; keystrokes during mergeText are caught by the re-merge loop (3 rounds); conflicted → materialize with CAS, a CAS failure re-reads and re-merges, a buffer that moved during the write is copied aside first; unmergeable → keepAside (CAS on the copy, fresh sibling per reconciliation) and only then adoptCleanContent. The lossy gate uses the same classify the load path uses. The merge-tree against master is clean.

Minor, not inline: error.includes("changed on disk") (line 352) matches the Rust message text; a reworded message silently turns every CAS refusal into keep-dirty-and-retry. A dedicated error kind would be safer. icloud-controller.ts:95-97 still says a sweep write under a dirty session “parks it as a conflict”.

@@ -261,17 +265,154 @@ export function createNoteSession(options: NoteSessionOptions): NoteSession {
return
}
if (dirty) {

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[P1] (anchored here; the early return is at line 253 in reconcileFromDisk)

** A final flush refused by CAS drops the buffer: no write, no copy, no error.**

document-binding.ts:84-93 calls target.flush() and then target.dispose() synchronously, so disposed === true before the write runs. Sequence: the user edits note A, another device or a pull writes A before the 800 ms debounce fires, the user navigates away. save() fails CAS → catch at 132 → reconcileFromDisk → reads the new content → returns here. No merge, no keepAside, no emit, and flush() resolves. Reproduced with a probe test (edit, mutate disk, dispose(), advance timers): writes: [], copies: [], disk unchanged.

Master had the same hole but parked the buffer. This PR and docs/git-backup-safety.md S8 claim “the buffer is never left in a state it cannot save from, so no exit path has to rescue it”, and #1451 was closed on that claim, so this needs to hold.

Fix: let a reconciliation that a dispose-flush started run to completion. Make disposed suppress only emit() / applyToEditor, not reconcileFromDisk / mergeExternal / materialize / keepAside (for example a finalizing flag set by dispose() that these guards accept). Regression: “a dispose flush refused by an external change still merges or copies the buffer”.

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Confirmed, and it had to hold. Fixed in b1e6613 without a new flag: the disposed early returns in reconcileFromDisk, mergeExternal, and materialize are gone, so a reconciliation that the final flush's refused save started runs to completion (merge and save, exact write, or a copy beside the note). What disposed still suppresses is the UI side only: emit() already ignored it, and applyToEditor now does too, since the editor belongs to the next session by then. Two guards replace the old ones: a discarded session (its file is being deleted) still stops at every await, and a disposed session with nothing dirty returns after the read, because it has nothing to rescue.

Tests: a dispose flush refused by an external change still merges the buffer (flush, dispose in the same tick, disk mutated before; the merged content is written) and a dispose flush refused with no merge available keeps the buffer beside the note. docs/git-backup-safety.md S8 names the case and the test.

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[P2] Two overlapping reconciliations corrupt the session and create a junk conflict copy.

An external write under a dirty buffer starts R1 from the watcher and R2 from the debounced save’s CAS failure (catch at 135); reloadOpenDocuments() or a second watcher batch does the same. Both read the same content. R1 merges conflicted, materialize writes markers and adoptCleanContent(marked) (dirty false, protected). R2’s mergeText resolves later: header + buffer !== ours → re-merge with ours = marked → Rust returns unmergeable (markers in ours) → keepAside() writes a (conflict).md containing the marker text → adoptCleanContent(theirs). The session now believes disk = theirs, protected false, dirty false, while the file holds markers. Reproduced with a probe test with a delayed second mergeText: copies: [<marked text>], snapshot {protected: false, initialContent: "theirs\n"}, disk = marked. In the opposite ordering R2’s CAS fails and leaves a spurious “changed on disk” error on a protected note that is fine.

Nothing is lost (the marker file holds both sides and the watcher echo re-adopts it), but the user sees their edits vanish plus a junk conflict file.

Fix: serialize reconcileFromDisk (one in-flight promise; a call during it sets a rerun flag), or re-check dirty / disk after every await in mergeExternal and materialize and return when another reconciliation already landed.

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Confirmed. Fixed in b1e6613 by serializing, the first of your two options: reconcileFromDisk keeps one in-flight promise and a rerun flag, and a call during a reconciliation joins it and schedules one more pass. That pass reads the file, finds what the first one landed (content === disk), and returns, so nothing is merged twice and no junk copy appears. materialize's own "changed on disk" retry uses the same flag instead of recursing.

The opposite ordering is covered as well: when the rerun finds the change already taken in and nothing dirty, it clears a leftover "changed on disk" error from the refused save. Test: two signals for one external change reconcile once.

I preferred this to re-checking dirty / disk after every await: one rule in one place, and each merge runs against a settled state.

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[P2, CodeRabbit’s open item, confirmed] commitFrontmatter / commitBodyEdit return true when the flush was refused and the reconciliation went unmergeable: keepAside + adoptCleanContent(external) sets error = null (line 220), so the shouldPersist && error !== null check passes and a Tasks toggle, pin, or publish flag is reported as persisted while it exists only in <note> (conflict).md. Have mergeExternal record whether the buffer reached the note (merged or materialized) or a copy, and return false / throw in the copy case.

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Confirmed. Fixed in b1e6613: keepAside counts the copies it made, and commitFrontmatter / commitBodyEdit compare the count across their flush. If the flush's reconciliation put the edit in a conflict copy, the commit throws ("The note changed on disk; the edit was kept beside it") through the same path as a failed write, so a toggle, pin, or publish flag is no longer reported as persisted. A merged or materialized edit did reach the note and still returns true. Test: a frontmatter commit whose edit was kept beside the note reports the failure.

A counter rather than a result threaded through mergeExternal → materialize → keepAside: the commit only needs to know whether a copy was made on its watch.

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if (merged?.kind === 'clean') {
if (io.write !== null && classify(splitDoc(merged.content).body) === 'lossy') {

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[P3] The lossy gate is skipped when io.write === null, so a clean merge with lossy syntax enters the live editor via adoptMerged. Nothing is saved without a writer, so no loss, but it contradicts the rule at line 231. Drop the io.write !== null && and fall through to keep-dirty / keepAside when there is no writer.

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Done in b1e6613. The lossy check no longer depends on the writer: a clean, round-trippable merge is adopted; anything else the live editor must not hold (markers, or lossy syntax) is materialized when there is a writer, and otherwise falls through to keepAside. Test: a lossy clean merge stays out of the live editor even without a writer.

…n one at a time

A dispose flush refused by an external change dropped the buffer: the
reconciliation stopped at the first `disposed` check. It now runs to
completion (merge, markers, or a copy beside the note); only the editor
and the snapshot stay untouched after dispose.

Two signals for one change (the watcher and a refused save) ran two
interleaved merges, and the second merged the first one's result again.
Reconciliations are serialized, with a rerun when one is asked for
during another.

A commit whose edit ended in a conflict copy now reports the failure,
and a lossy clean merge stays out of the live editor without a writer.
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1. Closing can abandon a pending merge save 📘 Rule violation
Description
flush() awaits at most five save-chain tails without checking whether the fifth reconciliation
queued another write. When external changes repeatedly reject checked saves, a clean merge can queue
a sixth write that remains pending while window close treats the flush as complete, leaving the edit
without a completed save or conflict copy.
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apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts[R177-179]

+    for (let round = 0; round < 5; round += 1) {
+      const tail = saveChain
+      await tail
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## Issue description
A fifth reconciliation can queue another write after the last save-chain tail that `flush()` awaits, allowing window close to proceed while the edit remains unsecured.

## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts[167-183]
- apps/desktop/src/editor/open-documents.ts[104-113]
- apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts[281-303]

## Recommended Fix
Keep retries bounded, but do not report a completed final flush while the latest write is pending or the buffer remains unsecured. On exhaustion, durably preserve the dirty buffer beside the note or surface a failure that prevents quit from treating the flush as complete; test repeated rejected or stale-write retries.

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2. Choosing my title leaves links stale 🐞 Bug
Description
materialize adopts the marked merge as external content, which clears the rename tracker's pending
user-authored title change. If the user then resolves the markers in favor of that title, the
resolver writes and reloads the file as another external change, so the link rewrite and
managed-file rename never run.
Code

apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts[R397-399]

+    if (header + buffer === ours || (await keepAside())) {
+      adoptCleanContent(unsafe)
+    }
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## Issue description
Writing conflict markers re-baselines and cancels a pending user-authored title rename. Resolving the markers by keeping that title cannot trigger the usual link and filename updates.
## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts[393-399]
- apps/desktop/src/hooks/use-conflict-resolution.ts[38-60]
- apps/desktop/src/editor/rename-coordinator.ts[230-239]
## Recommended Fix
Carry the pre-conflict title and authored-title state through marker resolution. When the resolved title keeps the user's rename, trigger the normal rename coordination after the resolved write lands; do not trigger it when the external title wins. Cover both choices in tests.

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3. Conflict copy captures links to the note 🐞 Bug
Description
keepBesideNote writes the unchanged buffer to <stem> (conflict).md, preserving the original
note’s managed id, H1 title and aliases. Because that sibling path sorts before <stem>.md,
first-match id, title and alias lookups in resolveNoteTarget open the stale copy, while
SyncForkNotice also lists the pair as notes renamed differently on two devices.
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apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts[R90-92]

+  for (let n = 1; n <= 1000; n += 1) {
+    const copy = `${stem} (conflict${n === 1 ? '' : ` ${n}`})${ext}`
+    const outcome = await createNoteIfAbsent(copy, contents, generation)
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## Issue description
Conflict copies retain the original note’s id, title and aliases. Their paths sort before the original paths, so navigation can select stale copies and the sync-fork notice reports the pair.

## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts[70-101]
- packages/core/src/indexing/resolve-target.ts[24-35]

## Recommended Fix
Before `createNoteIfAbsent`/`writeNote`, change the copy’s contents while preserving its saved edits: remove the original `id` and `aliases` frontmatter keys, for example with the core frontmatter helpers, and give it a distinct title so it cannot win title lookups. If the copy needs a managed ID, assign a new one rather than retaining the original. Add tests that the copy does not retain the original ID and that the original ID still resolves to the original note.

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1. Failed merge tests leave console muted ✓ Resolved
Description
Two new session tests install a console.error spy but restore it only after their assertions,
without disposing their sessions. If an assertion or awaited step fails, the spy and session remain
active because the shared afterEach only restores real timers.
Code

apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts[R572-573]

+    const consoleError = vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {})
+    const { session, copies, applied, writes, snapshots, setDisk, setMerge } = harness({
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## Issue description
Two new session tests restore console spies only on successful completion and do not dispose their sessions.

## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts[571-590]
- apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts[624-642]

## Recommended Fix
Wrap each test body in `try/finally`. Restore its spy and dispose or discard its session in `finally`, including when an assertion fails.

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2. Failed copy tests leave writes blocked ✗ Dismissed
Description
Two new hook tests install a createGate that blocks note_create, then release it only on the
normal path. If setup, a wait, or an assertion fails before release, the pending conflict-copy
operation remains blocked; unmounting the hook does not resolve the gate.
Code

apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.test.tsx[R751-754]

+    createGate = () =>
+      new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+        releaseCreate = resolve
+      })
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## Issue description
Two hook tests manually block conflict-copy creation but do not guarantee the gate is released when a test fails.

## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.test.tsx[750-759]
- apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.test.tsx[790-803]

## Recommended Fix
Put each gate's release in a `finally` block, clear `createGate`, and await the pending reconciliation so failures cannot leave a copy operation blocked.

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3. Conflict warnings stack without dismissal ✓ Resolved
Description
keepBesideNote() creates a persistent warning with no action and does not retain its operation
handle. Each conflict copy adds a warning that never expires, while the desktop toast disables its
close button and swipe dismissal.
Code

apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts[R94-98]

+      // Stays until dismissed: the editor has just swapped to the other
+      // version, and this line is what says where the replaced text went.
+      startOperation('Edits kept beside the note', { persistent: true }).warn(
+        `${path} changed on disk in a way that could not be merged. Your version is at ${copy}.`,
+      )
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## Issue description
Persistent conflict-copy warnings accumulate because desktop operation toasts have no dismissal control.
## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts[94-98]
- apps/desktop/src/components/operation-toasts.ts[18-20]
- apps/desktop/src/components/operation-toasts.ts[75-90]
## Recommended Fix
Give persistent conflict-copy warnings a desktop dismissal path that removes their operation-store entries, while retaining the warning until the user dismisses it.

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4. A rename from another device is redone here ✓ Resolved
Description
adoptMerged puts the merge in as the dirty buffer and calls save(), so the only signal the
rename coordinator gets is onContent(merged, 'saved'); unlike adoptCleanContent, nothing is
reported as 'external', which is what resets the title tracker's baseline. When the other side's
change includes a new H1 or title: and the user's unsaved edit is elsewhere, the merge is clean.
The tracker then treats the other device's title as this user's rename and runs the rename flow
after its quiet period: it rewrites links across the graph, adds an auto alias and moves the file to
the new slug.
Code

apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts[R446-448]

+    emit()
+    applyToEditor(doc.body)
+    save()
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## Issue description
After a clean three-way merge, `adoptMerged` only lets the rename coordinator see the merged content as `'saved'`. A title change from the other side therefore looks like the local user's rename and triggers link rewrites, an alias and a file move.

## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts[438-449]

## Recommended Fix
In `adoptMerged`, call `onContent?.(onDisk, 'external')` before `save()`. That resets the title baseline to the other side's content, so the following `'saved'` event for the merge counts only a title change the user made locally as a rename. Add a test where the other side changes the H1, the user edits the body, and no rename fires.

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5. Moved edits are announced only by a brief toast ✓ Resolved
Description
When keepAside succeeds, adoptCleanContent swaps the open editor to the external version, and
the only notice is startOperation(...).warn(...), which clears itself after LINGER_MS (8s) plus
the minimum visible time. A user who is looking at the editor rather than the toast area sees their
text vanish, with nothing persistent that names the (conflict).md file it went to.
Code

apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts[R94-96]

+      startOperation('Edits kept beside the note').warn(
+        `${path} changed on disk in a way that could not be merged. Your version is at ${copy}.`,
+      )
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## Issue description
The only signal that the user's unsaved edits were moved into a conflict copy, and replaced in the open editor, is a toast that disappears after about 9 seconds.

## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts[94-96]

## Recommended Fix
Call `startOperation('Edits kept beside the note', { persistent: true, action: <open the copy> })` so the notice stays until the user dismisses it or opens the copy.

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Comment thread apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts
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7 issues found across 19 files

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Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.


<file name="apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts">

<violation number="1" location="apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts:398">
P2: Preserve the pending user-authored title rename when materializing conflict markers; resolving a marker to that title currently arrives as external content and never runs the link rewrite or managed-file rename.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts:448">
P2: `adoptMerged` drops the `onContent('external')` notification when the clean merge already equals the external revision. Report the adopted content in the no-write branch so rename tracking and other consumers do not retain the pre-merge baseline.</violation>
</file>

<file name="apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts">

<violation number="1" location="apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts:92">
P1: Give the conflict copy a distinct note identity and title before creating it; copying `contents` verbatim duplicates the original ID, title, and aliases, so lookups can resolve to the recovery copy.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts:170">
P2: `copyAside` snapshots the graph generation for the entire asynchronous copy attempt. If the graph generation changes while the checked overwrite is in flight, the fallback sibling creation uses the stale generation and is rejected, leaving the external version unapplied until a later save or edit retries it. Pass a generation getter into `keepBesideNote` and read it for each write/create attempt, matching the existing save callback’s per-write generation lookup.</violation>
</file>

<file name="apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts">

<violation number="1" location="apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts:589">
P3: `consoleError.mockRestore()` runs without a matching `try/finally`, so a failed assertion mid-test leaves console.error mocked for the rest of the suite, silencing real error logs and obscuring later failures. Wrap the spy setup and all assertions in try/finally like the other console-error tests in this file.</violation>
</file>

<file name="docs/git-backup-safety.md">

<violation number="1" location="docs/git-backup-safety.md:87">
P2: `keepAside()` can fail without producing a conflict copy, but S8 states every unmergeable edit is kept beside the note and needs no exit-time rescue. Qualify this guarantee for failed persistence and retries, or ensure teardown durably retries the copy before disposing.</violation>
</file>

<file name="apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.test.tsx">

<violation number="1" location="apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.test.tsx:751">
P3: Release each `createGate` in `finally` and await the pending reconciliation; otherwise a failed assertion leaves `note_create` suspended after the test.</violation>
</file>

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Comment thread apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts
const [stem, ext] = dot > slash ? [path.slice(0, dot), path.slice(dot)] : [path, '']
for (let n = 1; n <= 1000; n += 1) {
const copy = `${stem} (conflict${n === 1 ? '' : ` ${n}`})${ext}`
const outcome = await createNoteIfAbsent(copy, contents, generation)

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P1: Give the conflict copy a distinct note identity and title before creating it; copying contents verbatim duplicates the original ID, title, and aliases, so lookups can resolve to the recovery copy.

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<comment>Give the conflict copy a distinct note identity and title before creating it; copying `contents` verbatim duplicates the original ID, title, and aliases, so lookups can resolve to the recovery copy.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -61,6 +59,47 @@ export interface NoteDocumentOptions {
+  const [stem, ext] = dot > slash ? [path.slice(0, dot), path.slice(dot)] : [path, '']
+  for (let n = 1; n <= 1000; n += 1) {
+    const copy = `${stem} (conflict${n === 1 ? '' : ` ${n}`})${ext}`
+    const outcome = await createNoteIfAbsent(copy, contents, generation)
+    if (outcome.kind === 'created') {
+      startOperation('Edits kept beside the note').warn(
</file context>
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Declining in this PR, and saying where it goes. The sibling copy is the interim form: in the follow-up that lets the editor adopt the total merge, the replaced edits go to the conflict archive under .reflect/, which is not indexed and has no note identity at all. Rewriting the copy here (dropping id and aliases, changing its title) would mean the file no longer holds exactly what the user typed, for a shape that is about to be removed. Until then a duplicate id is something the app already handles as a reviewable fork: both files are listed in Settings, which is the right prompt for a copy the user has to look at.

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applyToEditor(doc.body)
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P2: adoptMerged drops the onContent('external') notification when the clean merge already equals the external revision. Report the adopted content in the no-write branch so rename tracking and other consumers do not retain the pre-merge baseline.

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<comment>`adoptMerged` drops the `onContent('external')` notification when the clean merge already equals the external revision. Report the adopted content in the no-write branch so rename tracking and other consumers do not retain the pre-merge baseline.</comment>

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@@ -258,20 +297,157 @@ export function createNoteSession(options: NoteSessionOptions): NoteSession {
+    error = null
+    emit()
+    applyToEditor(doc.body)
+    save()
+  }
+
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save()
if (dirty) {
save()
} else {
onContent?.(merged, 'external')
}
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Covered by the same fix: adoptMerged now always reports the on-disk version as external, whether or not a write follows.

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error = null
if (header + buffer === ours || (await keepAside())) {
adoptCleanContent(unsafe)

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P2: Preserve the pending user-authored title rename when materializing conflict markers; resolving a marker to that title currently arrives as external content and never runs the link rewrite or managed-file rename.

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<comment>Preserve the pending user-authored title rename when materializing conflict markers; resolving a marker to that title currently arrives as external content and never runs the link rewrite or managed-file rename.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -258,20 +297,157 @@ export function createNoteSession(options: NoteSessionOptions): NoteSession {
+    }
+    error = null
+    if (header + buffer === ours || (await keepAside())) {
+      adoptCleanContent(unsafe)
+    }
+  }
</file context>
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Declining here. This path needs a pending title change by the user and an overlapping edit to the same title from another device, resolved through markers. The marker outcome is removed further up this stack (#1480 replaces conflicted with a marker-free merge), and what is left behind in the meantime is a filename and links that lag until the next title edit, which the rename pipeline already treats as a recoverable state. Carrying authored-title state through marker resolution would be new machinery for a path with one PR left to live.

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Comment thread apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-types.ts
Comment thread apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts
expect(applied).toEqual(['theirs\n'])
expect(writes).toEqual([])
expect(snapshots.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ dirty: false, error: null })
consoleError.mockRestore()

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P3: consoleError.mockRestore() runs without a matching try/finally, so a failed assertion mid-test leaves console.error mocked for the rest of the suite, silencing real error logs and obscuring later failures. Wrap the spy setup and all assertions in try/finally like the other console-error tests in this file.

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<comment>`consoleError.mockRestore()` runs without a matching `try/finally`, so a failed assertion mid-test leaves console.error mocked for the rest of the suite, silencing real error logs and obscuring later failures. Wrap the spy setup and all assertions in try/finally like the other console-error tests in this file.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -213,26 +256,418 @@ describe('createNoteSession', () => {
+    expect(applied).toEqual(['theirs\n'])
+    expect(writes).toEqual([])
+    expect(snapshots.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ dirty: false, error: null })
+    consoleError.mockRestore()
+  })
+
</file context>
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Covered by the previous commit: the file's afterEach now calls vi.restoreAllMocks(), so no spy outlives a failed test.

await act(() => result.current.onEditorChange('# My unsaved edit\n'))

let releaseCreate: (() => void) | null = null
createGate = () =>

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P3: Release each createGate in finally and await the pending reconciliation; otherwise a failed assertion leaves note_create suspended after the test.

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<comment>Release each `createGate` in `finally` and await the pending reconciliation; otherwise a failed assertion leaves `note_create` suspended after the test.</comment>

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@@ -689,28 +724,95 @@ describe('useNoteDocument', () => {
+    await act(() => result.current.onEditorChange('# My unsaved edit\n'))
+
+    let releaseCreate: (() => void) | null = null
+    createGate = () =>
+      new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+        releaseCreate = resolve
</file context>
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Declining, as on Qodo's thread about the same tests: beforeEach sets createGate = null and installs a fresh mockInvoke, so a gate left closed by a failed test belongs to an unmounted hook and blocks nothing in the next one.

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A clean merge now reports the other writer's version as external before
its own save, so the rename tracker takes that version's title as ground
truth. The flush that follows a reconciliation is bounded, the notice for
edits kept beside a note stays until dismissed, and a merge adopted before
the editor mounts seeds it.
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Replies to the Qodo summary, at the latest commit on this branch:

  1. Failed merge tests leave console muted: fixed; the shared afterEach restores all mocks.
  2. A rename from another device is redone here: confirmed and fixed. adoptMerged reports the on-disk version as external before it saves, so the tracker's baseline is the other device's title. Test: a clean merge reports the other version as external before its own save.
  3. Choosing my title leaves links stale: declined for this PR. It needs a pending title change that overlaps one from another device and goes through markers; feat(conflict): resolve overlapping edits with the total merge instead of conflict markers #1480 removes the marker outcome, and the interim result is a filename and links that lag until the next title edit.
  4. Conflict copy captures links to the note: declined for this PR. The sibling copy is replaced by the conflict archive under .reflect/ (no note identity) in the follow-up where the editor adopts the marker-free merge. Until then the duplicate id surfaces as a reviewable fork in Settings, and rewriting the copy would stop it from holding exactly what the user typed.
  5. Moved edits are announced only by a brief toast: fixed in part; the notice is now persistent. No open action yet: the copy is written outside React, and the message names its path.

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All reported issues were addressed across 5 files (changes from recent commits).

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Replies to the new items in the Qodo summary, at the latest commit:

  1. Closing can abandon a pending merge save: this is the trade-off of the bound, and deliberate. It takes an external writer that changes the file again before each of five consecutive retries. Waiting without a bound would keep the window from closing for as long as that writer runs; with the bound, the window closes and the last merge may be unsaved, while everything the other writer wrote is on disk. The earlier rounds have each written a merged state, so what can be missing is the edit's last re-merge, not the note.
  2. Conflict warnings stack without dismissal: correct, and my mistake in the previous commit: desktop operation toasts have no close button, so a persistent warning needs an action. Fixed: the notice carries an OK action that dismisses it. (On mobile a tap on the pill already dismisses.)
  3. and 4. are answered above and unchanged.

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