Landing never drops a contributor's reviewed lines: a combined build that had… #12119

A combined build no longer lands with a side picked: two sides that only add lines at the same place keep both, and any other overlap holds the pull. Pushed. tsc and scripts/gate.ts are clean. I ran the 81 merge, combined, conflict and pull test files and the rest of the suite is left to the forge's check. Two failures there were timing assertions in the pull-page tests, which pass alone. I also ran the MCP merge tests.

What changed

• Pure additions: new src/git/union.ts settles a conflict whose every block has an empty base, writing main's lines first and then the pull's. combine and the plain merge path in src/git/merge.ts both use it.
• Overlaps: combine makes no combined commit and mergePull answers conflict. The pull page shows one sentence naming the files and saying nothing was dropped. A tip carrying an old Combined-Kept: main trailer is ignored, so nothing with that trailer lands, and no new commit writes the trailer.
• Crew run: sweepConflicts now picks up a held kept-fork pull and starts a run on it from the repository's builder. It never closes or releases a person's pull. I did not add a "next: builder" path of my own.
• Merge reply (your message): a repeated merge on a landed pull now answers {merged: true, mergeOid, repeated: true} over the API and merged: true over MCP.

- I changed one assertion in test/mcp-merge.test.ts: it expected already_merged on the repeat, which contradicts the new rule.

• Tests: test/union-merge.test.ts appends a test to the same file from two pulls, in either order, and main holds both. combined-fork.test.ts checks the held overlap with its sentence and a crew run started. The repeat-merge assertion is there too.

Not done

• test/landsim.test.ts isn't on this branch, so I haven't run it. It should pass if its known violation is the held case plus the repeat merge.
• Non-text conflicts and files both sides added whole are held, not unioned.

Try it: run bun test test/union-merge.test.ts test/combined-fork.test.ts.

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The check failed because eleven comment lines were over the gate's 100-column limit. I rewrapped all of them and pushed; the pull's description below is unchanged.

bun scripts/gate.ts now prints nothing. The type check is clean, and the three test files I touched pass (13 tests: union-merge, mcp-merge, combined-fork). I did not run the wider suite again, since the rewrap changes comments only.

What changed in the pull

• Landing never picks a side. A combined build is made only when the pull's changes and main's are all additions at the same place; both are kept, main's lines first and then the pull's, in src/git/union.ts. Any other overlap makes no combined commit, and mergePull answers conflict.
• A held pull shows one sentence on its page naming the files and saying nothing was dropped. sweepConflicts starts a crew run on it from the repository's builder, and never closes or releases it. A combined tip that carries the old Combined-Kept: main trailer is ignored, and no new commit writes that trailer.
• Repeating merge on a landed pull answers merged: true with the same mergeOid over the API, and merged: true over MCP. The merge reply no longer says merged for a pull that was not landed. I changed one assertion in test/mcp-merge.test.ts because it expected the old already_merged refusal on a repeat.
• Tests: test/union-merge.test.ts appends a test to the same file from two pulls, in either order, and main holds both. test/combined-fork.test.ts covers the held overlap with its sentence and a crew run started, and the repeat merge.

Not done

• Non-text conflicts and files both sides added whole are held, not unioned.
• test/landsim.test.ts isn't on this branch, so I haven't run it.

Try it: bun test test/union-merge.test.ts test/combined-fork.test.ts.

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Landing now keeps both sides when two changes only add lines at the same place. Any other overlap still holds the pull, and a repeated merge answers merged.

Why the check failed: two of the 23 failures were mine. The two studio tests ("a change that no longer merges into its base…" and "a conflicted change alice opened herself…") built their "conflict" from two pure additions after the same line. That is now a union, not a conflict, so the pull no longer showed as conflicted. I changed the fixtures in test/studio.test.ts and test/studio-shipping.test.ts so both sides replace the same existing line, which is a real conflict. The tests were wrong about what counts as a conflict; the code is unchanged.

The rest were not caused by this pull:

• I merged main into the branch and re-ran the failing tests.
• On a clean origin/main checkout, unreached (src/crew/week_burn.ts is imported by nothing), header-width (header comments over 160 columns in several files) and the docs/MCP.md tool table also fail.
• The cookie-flags tests still fail on the merged branch. I did not check them on main.
• The other shards in the log (first-view budgets, panel grid, design baseline, home statements, kpi) I did not run, so I can't say whether the merge cleared them. Some of them probably only failed because the base was stale.

Not fixed: I left those failures alone because they are outside this pull's scope. Someone should run bun scripts/mcp-table.ts, wrap the over-long header comments, and import or allow week_burn.ts.

Checks: bun x tsc --noEmit and bun scripts/gate.ts are clean, and the studio, merge, combined and union tests pass. I pushed the fixture commit.

Parked by the crew: the check stayed red through 2 automatic tries

Landing no longer drops a contributor's reviewed lines when two pulls add lines at the same place. A kept fork's landing now keeps both sides, and the check was failing only because a test hadn't caught up with that.

What changed

• test/landsim.test.ts: the #12104 reproducer ("two fork pulls that add lines at the end of one file both land, both sides present") was marked test.failing. It now passes, which bun reports as a failure, so I removed the .failing marker and updated its comment. The test body is unchanged.
• I merged origin/main first. My branch was behind it and didn't contain test/landsim.test.ts.

What I checked

• test/landsim.test.ts passes 8 of 8 after the change, and bun x tsc --noEmit is clean.
• test/union-merge.test.ts and test/combined-fork.test.ts passed in the first run. I didn't rerun them after the one-line test edit.
• The other seven failures in the check log were already red on main at 127a6c2 (the check log says so). I left them alone.

What I chose not to do

• I kept the #12104 entries in the known-issue list in test/support/landsim.ts. The test that covers them still passes, and conflicts that aren't pure additions may still hit the same drop-by-combine classes.

Pull #12119 now fixes #12104: when two fork pulls add lines at the same place, a landing keeps both sides instead of dropping the contributor's lines. I've pushed fixes for the five failures in the check. I ran the gate, tsc, and the affected tests locally, and they pass. The forge's full check hasn't run on this push yet.

• Unread table week_reading: main had already fixed this, so I merged origin/main into the branch.
• Retry-after test: src/http/api/user.ts returns a 503 whose headers are copied from tryAgain. That line came in on main and isn't part of this change. The test didn't recognise it, so I added it to the exempt list in test/retry-after.test.ts, with the reason.
• Two slow tests: this pull changed test/landsim.test.ts and test/combined-fork.test.ts, which puts them under the 2 s per-test budget. Each runs real merges against a real bare repository, so I named both in SLOW in scripts/gate.ts under #12104. I didn't make them faster. The landing simulator's seeded corpus takes about 10 s even with a single seed.
• Crew-key link: test/first-ask-new-app.test.ts expected /#crew-key-note, but main changed the link to /feed#crew-key-note. The test was out of date, so I updated it. The source is unchanged.

No application code changed in this push.

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I merged main into the branch, resolved the two conflicts, and pushed. The type check and gate are clean. The combined, union-merge, landsim and combined-git tests I re-ran pass; the full check hasn't run on this push yet.

The conflicts were in src/git/combined.ts and test/combined-git.test.ts. Both sides handled an edit that overlaps a change on main, so I kept this pull's rule and kept what #12151 on main protected:

• Overlap: an edit that overlaps main (a delete, a rename, or edits to the same lines) is held. The combined commit isn't written, no side is picked, and the failure sentence names the files.
• Branch cleanup: a held pull deletes a combined branch the forge made itself, so a stale one can't be read later. A combined branch that carries a writer's commits stays. I kept main's carriesWriter check for this.
• Dropped: main's -X ours "keep main's side" path and its "rebuild stopped" message. This pull's held rule replaces them.
• Tests:

- Updated: main's #12151 test for a writer's branch now expects the pull to be held instead of undefined. - Added: a test that a held rebuild removes a forge-made combined branch. - Dropped: main's "keeps main's side" tests, because that behaviour is gone.

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This push fixes the three tests that failed because of this pull. I didn't re-run the full suite here. bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit were clean.

What was red

• Fast-tier fixtures: test/red-on-main.test.ts builds a scratch tree and writes the files EXCLUDED names. This pull puts test/landsim.test.ts and test/combined-fork.test.ts in SLOW. The gate refused the scratch tree, so the script printed nothing and both "fast tier asks main" tests failed. The fixture now writes the SLOW files too.
• Refusal sentence: test/combined-recombine.test.ts expected main's older "The rebuild stopped: one.txt…" sentence. After merging main, a delete on main against an edit in the pull is an overlap, so the pull is held. The sentence it now records is "#N is held: it overlaps main in one.txt, nothing was dropped…". The test was out of date, not the code, so I changed it to expect the held sentence.

I merged the latest origin/main first. After the fix, test/combined-recombine.test.ts and test/red-on-main.test.ts pass (19 tests).

What I left alone

• test/keys-goto.test.ts and test/boundary-tenancy-cell.test.ts are red on main too, and the check doesn't count them against this pull.
• The TUI system-telemetry test and the three code-browser tests failed in the shard run, but their files pass here (53 tests). The two telemetry and code-browser test files pass here, so I took them to be shard flakes. If the forge's check fails on them again, I'll look at them.

Pure additions at the same place now keep both sides when a kept fork's pull lands. Any other overlap holds the pull instead of picking a side (#12104). This push takes out the extra scope the review named.

• SLOW: scripts/gate.ts is back to empty.

- combined-fork is fast again: the repeat-merge and crew-sweep parts of its tests are gone, and it runs about 2 s. - landsim is not fast. Its corpus test takes about 6.5 s on main with SLOW empty, so I left it as it is on main. The only change is dropping .failing from the #12104 reproducer. Splitting it by seed made single seeds take 3–13 s, so I didn't keep that. If you want the corpus itself shrunk, that is a follow-up.

• Unrelated edits: the repeat-merge reply in api.ts and the MCP merge tool is dropped, along with its mcp-merge.test.ts change. The retry-after.test.ts exemption and the /feed#crew-key-note fixture edit are also reverted.

- retry-after.test.ts and first-ask-new-app.test.ts fail again locally. They were red on main before this pull and are not caused by it.

• Crew sweep: my sweepConflicts and bringUpToDate changes in autonomy.ts are reverted. The cost is that a held kept-fork pull is not brought up to date by the crew. It waits for its author to merge main in. That should be its own small pull.
• Design and both doors: pull-combined.ts is back to main's version. combinedView already makes a "Not combined with main" card from a failure sentence alone, so the hand-rolled <p> was redundant.

- combinedWords now makes the held sentence the card's single line. - The terminal draws the same words through combinedLines, which I exported for the new test/combined-held-words.test.ts.

• Performance: combinedTip no longer runs git log --grep. The dropped-side check now runs only inside combine(), which every landing and rebuild goes through.

- A reader can still see an old dropped-side tip until the next rebuild replaces it. The test in combined-git.test.ts now checks that combining does not build on it.

bun scripts/gate.ts, bun x tsc --noEmit and bun scripts/design-lint.ts are clean. The tests covering this change pass (136).

I merged main into this branch and pushed it. src/core/pulls.ts was the only conflict.

main added a fast-forward landing path (landsAsIs / fastForward). This branch holds a pull when the combined fork branch has overlapping edits. I kept both. A held combined branch still returns the conflict error before anything lands. The fast-forward now runs only when no combined branch was built (combined === undefined), so it can't skip the combined tip.

bun x tsc --noEmit and scripts/gate.ts showed no errors in the output I read. The tests I ran passed: test/combined-fork.test.ts and test/pulls*.test.ts, 21 tests across 7 files. I did not run the full suite; the forge's check does that on the push.

Landing no longer drops a contributor's lines when a kept fork pull and main both add lines at the same place in a file. I fixed only the one failure this pull caused. The other failures also fail on main, and I left them. Gate and tsc --noEmit ran clean. I did not run the full suite.

What changed

• When a fork pull and main both append at the same place in a file, the combined branch (the fork head merged with main) now keeps both sides, main's first. The union merge is in src/git/union.ts.
• When two edits overlap, no combined branch is built and the pull says it is held, naming the file. Landing it is refused with a 409 and main is unchanged. src/git/merge.ts and src/tui/screens/pull.ts changed to match.
• The reproducer in test/landsim.test.ts is no longer test.failing.

This push

• test/combined-fork.test.ts had one test at 1.86 s on main that crept over the 2 s per-test budget on a loaded shard. I split it into two tests, one for the combined branch and its note and preview, and one for recombine on push, stale and landing. Nothing else in the file changed. The file now passes (3 tests).
• scripts/gate.ts passes and bun x tsc --noEmit is clean.

What I left alone

• landsim seeded-corpus test (11.69 s in the check, over budget): it takes 8–10 s on main too. I tried one test per seed and it got slower, so I reverted. It needs an entry in SLOW in scripts/gate.ts with an issue that owns it, and I have no issue to name.
• Failing on main, not touched by this pull (confirmed locally):

- the first-screen line tests - the docs/MCP.md tool table, stale for the forges tool - the data-browser column audit

• Not rerun here: the 429/503 retry-after check, the MCP stall test, the credit-spent test, the findings test and the hosted-forge mount test.

- The retry-after test passes here. - The sandbox can't run the unix-socket suites. - I haven't compared the rest against main.

To try it, bun test test/combined-fork.test.ts test/union-merge.test.ts test/landsim.test.ts.

I merged current origin/main into the branch and pushed it. The remaining check failures also fail on main, so I changed nothing for them; I haven't seen the check's verdict on the new push. tsc --noEmit is clean after the merge. I didn't rerun scripts/gate.ts after the merge. The union-merge, combined-fork and spawn tests I ran after it left only the two spawn failures below.

What this pull does: when a fork pull and main both add lines at the same place in a file, landing now keeps both sides, main's first. When their edits overlap, no combined branch is built and the pull says it is held, naming the file; merging it is refused with a 409 and main stays as it was. The change is in src/git/union.ts and src/git/combined.ts, plus small edits in src/git/merge.ts, src/core/pulls.ts, src/core/combined_view.ts and src/tui/screens/pull.ts. The #12104 reproducer in test/landsim.test.ts is now a normal test. Last round I split the slowest combined-fork test in two so each half stays under the 2 s test budget.

Failures that are not from this pull:

• Spawn tests: the two spawn tests (test/spawn-sites.test.ts and test/spawn-pipes.test.ts) name src/git/own_refs.ts, which came in with #12097's merge on main and isn't on either test's list. test/spawn-sites.test.ts fails on a clean checkout of main at fc82d1a49.
• landsim seeded-corpus test: it takes 8–10 s on main as well, and has no entry in SLOW. Splitting it into one test per seed made it slower, so I reverted that.
• Fail on main when I ran them (first-screen line, docs/MCP.md table, data-browser column audit): my branch's results match main's.
• Not run: the other listed failures (stall watcher, suggestion query count, hosted-forge mounts). The stall one needs a socket the sandbox can't open. I didn't look at the others.

To try it: bun test test/union-merge.test.ts test/combined-fork.test.ts test/landsim.test.ts.

I merged main into the branch and pushed it, so the branch merges cleanly again.

The only conflict was in test/red-on-main.test.ts: a one-line comment that both sides had reworded. I kept main's wording. The code around it was identical, so nothing else from either side was lost.

After the merge, bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit printed nothing to flag, and test/red-on-main.test.ts passes (9 tests). I did not run the rest of the suite here; the forge's check runs it on this push.

The red tests are not caused by this pull. I changed no code for them. I merged the latest main and pushed that, so the check will re-run on the new head.

I ran the failing files here on a clean checkout of origin/main and on this branch. Both give the same results:

• First-screen line: 4 tests fail with r.where.inProcess undefined in src/web/pages/forges.ts. This pull doesn't touch that file.
• Spawn lists: the spawn-pipes and spawn-sites tests fail because src/git/own_refs.ts starts processes but isn't on their lists. This pull doesn't touch that file.
• docs/MCP.md: the tool-table test fails on main too.
• Landing simulator: the seeded-corpus test takes about 12 s on main and on this branch alike, over the 2 s test budget. The budget check isn't something I can run in this sandbox.

I did not look at four other failures from the check: data browser, the terminal's shift, did-you-mean and the tenancy cell. They are in files this pull doesn't touch, and I didn't run them here, so I can't say whether main is red on them. Fixing any of this is a separate change, so I left it alone rather than widen this pull.

bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit both came back clean before the push.

I changed no code for this failure. The two failing tests I could name pass here, so I think they failed under the load of the full check, and I merged the latest main and pushed that.

• Not this pull: the check log says test/data-browser.test.ts, test/did-you-mean.test.ts and test/boundary-tenancy-cell.test.ts are also red on main at b070674.
• Counted against this pull: test/crew-proposal.test.ts ("the terminal's c has the crew propose") is green on main there. The second test, "the second look at home as the owner…", lives in test/home-200.test.ts. I ran both files after merging main, and all 16 tests pass.
• Why I think it's load: this pull changes src/git/ merge code, src/core/pulls.ts, src/core/combined_view.ts and src/tui/screens/pull.ts, but not the crew-proposal or home code. The check log shows the machine busy, with many tests running 2–20 s. I didn't see the failing assertions, so I haven't confirmed this.

bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit came back clean before the push. If crew-proposal or home-200 fails again on the new head, the log's assertion text will say whether it is load or something in this pull.