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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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[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.
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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.
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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. |
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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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[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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[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.
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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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🟡 Changes recommended
Successful reconciliation can retain stale errors or discard edits when no copy writer is available.
Review effort: Balanced
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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.
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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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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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Done in f15f848: the search now tries up to 1000 siblings, the same bound as the other claimed note paths.
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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!apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.ts (1)
10-10: LGTM!apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts (1)
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154-223: LGTM!apps/desktop/src/editor/open-documents.ts (1)
55-55: LGTM!Also applies to: 68-68
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71-71: LGTM!apps/desktop/src/editor/title-rename.test.ts (1)
11-11: LGTM!apps/desktop/src/editor/title-rename.ts (1)
62-62: LGTM!docs/git-backup-safety.md (1)
84-92: LGTM!apps/desktop/src/editor/use-note-document.ts-79-86 (1)
79-86: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.Fall back to a fresh sibling only when the previous copy changed.
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catchtreats everywriteNotefailure 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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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftDo 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.adoptCleanContentclearserror, socommitFrontmatterreturnstruealthough the patch is absent from the original note.commitBodyEdithas 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.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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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”.
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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 (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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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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| 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>
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@@ -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(
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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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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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| 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>
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@@ -258,20 +297,157 @@ export function createNoteSession(options: NoteSessionOptions): NoteSession {
+ }
+ error = null
+ if (header + buffer === ours || (await keepAside())) {
+ adoptCleanContent(unsafe)
+ }
+ }
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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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| 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>
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@@ -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()
+ })
+
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Covered by the previous commit: the file's afterEach now calls vi.restoreAllMocks(), so no spy outlives a failed test.
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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'))
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+ let releaseCreate: (() => void) | null = null
+ createGate = () =>
+ new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+ releaseCreate = resolve
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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.
…ename 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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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
reconcileFromDiskwith a dirty buffer merges three-way.<note> (conflict).mdbeside the note vianote_create(never clobbers), an operation toast names the copy, and the external version is adopted.conflict/mergedPreviewon the snapshot,keepMine/loadTheirs/keepBoth/reviewon the session, the save-pause under a conflict, the conflict branch incommitFrontmatter,NoteConflictBanner, and the rename coordinator'scanFiregate (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.mdS8 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 innotes/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), browseruse-note-document.test.tsx(33 passed).Changes from review
externalbefore its own save, so a title changed on another device is not taken for this user's rename.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.
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