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Backlog 3: correctness items from metalgear first b9c2d543933b

refs #36, refs #37, refs #38, refs #29
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· 2026-09-29 21:13 UTC
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  `systemd-run --user --scope -p MemoryMax=8G`, and
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## Correctness first (from metalgear, 2026-09-29)

    

  
    

      
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A working copy that silently becomes the wrong tree is worse than any

    

  
    

      
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slowness, so these come before everything else.

    

  
    

      
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- [ ] C1 **Working-copy writes hold the workspace lock** (oxygen#36). Checkout, bookmark switch (with --carry), pull's checkout, undo, discard and commit hold the lock from reading the head until their operation is recorded. `merge_views` never lets a working-copy change based on a replaced one win. Test: a snapshot concurrent with a checkout never records the checkout's writes as edits.

    

  
    

      
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- [ ] C2 **`bookmark create NAME CHANGE` refuses a partial state** (oxygen#37). When CHANGE is one of the current state's heads but not all of them, it refuses and explains, unless given --only. `bookmark switch` summarises a wide tree difference. The guide explains that bookmarks name states, not ancestry.

    

  
    

      
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- [ ] C3 **A parent's switch never rolls a subrepo's bookmark back** (oxygen#38).

    

  
    

      
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- [ ] C4 **`pull` says "Already up to date" while one behind** (oxygen#29). Reproduce it with a test, then fix it.

    

  
    

      
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