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[Add] Pin the ticket move's conflicts to Git's, and word them by kind (#351) - #418

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Under #350's contract the conflicts the app shows must be the conflicts Git would show, same files, same regions. #408 moved the ticket move onto merge-tree --write-tree, but nothing proved its verdicts against a real git merge, and its one refusal sentence, "Trunk changed the same lines as your work", is false when trunk deleted the file or both sides created it. The acceptance run for #351 (seven three-way fixtures against the bundled Git 2.53.0) found the verdicts match and the sentence does not.

What changes

Acceptance tests pin the match. tests/unit/git-read.integration.test.cjs builds seven conflict shapes (same lines, same file far apart, adjacent lines, rename/modify, delete/modify, add/add, three regions with one clash), runs a real git merge in a throwaway worktree, and asserts mergeTree names the same files, the same marker regions in the tree it writes, and the same conflict kinds git merge prints. tests/unit/patch-apply.integration.test.cjs asserts the regions the app names for a patch are the hunks git apply --reject rejects, and records as a characterisation that a neighbouring edit is refused the way git apply refuses it, though a merge would take it.

The refusal says what kind of conflict it is. parseMergeTreeZ now reads the conflicted index entries merge-tree -z lists (<mode> <oid> <stage>\t<path>, so --name-only is gone) and classifies each path by its stages, the way git status and every merge tool do: all three stages is content, stages 2 and 3 with no base is add/add, a base with one side left is modify/delete. mergeTree returns that as kinds, rebaseOntoTrunk attaches it to the rebase-conflict error, main's branches handler forwards it, and rebaseRefusal groups the paths per kind with one clause each: "Trunk changed the same lines as your work in", "Deleted on one side and changed on the other" (one kind whichever side deleted, so the clause names no side), "Trunk added a file your work also adds, with different content", and a generic "Trunk and your work disagree in" for any other stage combination or when no kind arrived.

Deliberately not in this PR: the patch flow stays on two-way git apply. It agrees with git apply hunk for hunk, but git apply refuses adjacent edits and rename/modify that git merge and GitHub take cleanly. Closing that means a three-way apply, which leaves unmerged index entries in the checkout, and the app first has to recognise that state (#352).

How to test this

Platforms: any. The unit and integration layers carry the verdict comparison; the manual steps cover the sentence.

Starting state: a site created by this build, a ticket linked (say #60001) with one edit in src/wp-login.php, then the ticket unlinked so the work is parked. Then move trunk under it by hand with the bundled Git from the site folder (macOS: <app>/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/dugite/git/bin/git; Windows: resources\app.asar.unpacked\node_modules\dugite\git\cmd\git.exe, add --no-pager).

  1. From the site folder: git checkout trunk, delete src/wp-login.php, git commit -am "trunk deletes it". Link #60001 again. Expected: the ticket card shows Trunk has moved since this ticket started.
  2. Click Update this ticket to the current trunk. Expected: the card says Deleted on one side and changed on the other: src/wp-login.php. Nothing was moved. followed by the manual path. Not "changed the same lines".
  3. Repeat from the starting state, but instead of deleting, edit the same line of src/wp-login.php on trunk and commit. Expected after the click: Trunk changed the same lines as your work in: src/wp-login.php. Nothing was moved.
  4. Repeat with a new file: on the ticket add src/wp-includes/new.php, park; on trunk add src/wp-includes/new.php with different content and commit. Expected after the click: Trunk added a file your work also adds, with different content: src/wp-includes/new.php. Nothing was moved.

What must not have happened: the ticket's parked work is still byte for byte what it was (git show ticket/60001:src/wp-login.php), the ticket's recorded base did not move (the notice is still shown after the refusal), and git status in the site is clean, no unmerged entries, no MERGE_HEAD.

The verdict comparison itself cannot be driven by hand any more precisely than the tests do: node --test tests/unit/git-read.integration.test.cjs runs the seven shapes against a real git merge, and breaking the "same files" assertion turns all seven red.

Risks and limitations

  • kinds is derived from index stages, porcelain-stable; nothing in this PR reads Git's human-facing conflict messages (an earlier revision did, and CodeRabbit rightly flagged it). Stage combinations the app has no words for (a rename tangle, a type change) keep no kind and read generically.
  • Tests add a worktree beside the temporary repository and remove it with the helper's removeRepo (read-only objects handled, Deleting a site on Windows silently leaves behind anything a real Git wrote #381), because the fixture's own cleanup runs first.
  • No manual Windows pass for this PR, on purpose. Nothing here touches paths, spawning, line endings or signing; what is platform-dependent (the merge and apply verdicts, the refusal reaching the card) runs in CI on windows-latest in the integration layer and in the existing ticket-rebase journey, and the two new sentences are pinned in the unit layer. The steps above are for a reviewer who wants to see it, not a gate.
  • Self-review: 5 fix-here, all fixed; 1 follow-up applied as documentation (see the collapsed outcome).

Related

Part of #351. Follow-up to #408. The two-way patch gap stays open in #351 and depends on #352 and #290.


Design decisions and alternatives considered
  • Showing regions for the ticket move was considered and left out: the refusal happens before anything is written, and the regions are identical to git merge's by construction (same tree). Naming the kind is what a mentor needs to recognise the merge; the line numbers are not.
  • Making conflicts an array of objects instead of adding kinds was rejected: the paths array is the contract three tests and the renderer already pin, and a separate map degrades cleanly when absent.
  • git apply --3way for patches was rejected here (see What changes). The acceptance script that settled this, seven fixtures with raw git merge, merge-tree, apply --check, apply --reject and apply --3way, is archived outside the repo.
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5 [fix here] · 1 [follow-up] — all 5 fixed, the follow-up applied as a JSDoc note.

Fixed: (1) the worktree cleanup in the new integration tests ran after the fixture's own cleanup and silently no-oped, leaking a checkout per test; both tests now remove the worktree with removeRepo, and the review standard gained a sentence about cleanup that is green while doing nothing. (2) The modify/delete clause named trunk as the deleting side, but Git uses the same kind when the ticket deleted; the clause now names no side, and the matrix gained the mirror shape. (3) KIND_CLAUSES[kind] and the parser's kinds map read through the prototype; own-property checks and a null-prototype map, with tests for constructor and __proto__. (4) Two parser branches (a CONFLICT message without a parenthesis, a malformed count) were unreached; both pinned. (5) The no-paths refusal still claimed "changed the same lines"; it now says "disagree", like the layer below.

Follow-up, superseded: the first revision read the kind from Git's CONFLICT (…) message and documented why; CodeRabbit flagged it against §1, and the parser now classifies by index stages instead, with the parser test on bytes captured from the bundled binary. CodeRabbit's other three findings (fixture bytes for the parser test, the .rej file instead of Rejected hunk stderr, a content assertion after the refused apply) are applied too.

Style notes taken: "for instance" in the guide's list of reasons; strictEqual on a count.

Implementation notes
  • merge-tree -z lists one field per conflicted index entry before an empty field, then informational records (<count>, paths, type, message) that this parser never reads: the type field says contents for both a content clash and an add/add, so only the stages, or the human message, can tell them apart, and the stages are the porcelain.
  • git merge leaves no markers for modify/delete (the modified side is left in the tree); the test treats "no markers on either side" as agreement.
  • The journey ticket-rebase.spec.js is unchanged: its fixture is a content clash, whose sentence did not change.
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The only visible change is the refusal sentence on the ticket card for delete/modify and add/add conflicts; the manual steps above show the exact text. No recording.

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…#351)

Acceptance tests run seven three-way shapes through a real `git merge`
and assert `mergeTree` names the same files, marker regions and conflict
kinds; the patch flow's regions are pinned to the hunks `git apply
--reject` rejects, with the two-way limit recorded as a characterisation.

`parseMergeTreeZ` reads the `-z` informational records into `kinds`,
threaded through `rebaseOntoTrunk`, main's branches handler and
`rebaseRefusal`, which now words a refusal per kind instead of claiming
"the same lines" for a deleted or a doubly added file.

Self-review: 5 fix-here fixed (worktree cleanup that no-oped and leaked,
side-less modify/delete wording plus the mirror fixture, prototype-safe
kind lookups, two unpinned parser branches, the no-paths sentence); the
follow-up on parsing Git's message is documented in the parser.

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The merge-tree parser now returns conflict kinds for each conflicted path. Rebase errors and IPC payloads preserve these kinds. The ticket notice renders separate messages for content, modify/delete, add/add, and other conflicts. Tests compare merge and patch behavior with Git, and documentation covers conflict outcomes and fixture cleanup.

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In `@src/git-read.cjs`:
- Line 286: Update the conflict-kind classification around the message/type
match so it no longer derives the kind from human-facing Git text; use a
porcelain-stable field or redesign the classification to receive the kind from
the designated progress reader. Preserve the existing downstream refusal
behavior, including its generic fallback when no kind is available.

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- Around line 172-194: Update the parseMergeTreeZ tests to use captured
merge-tree -z --name-only fixture bytes directly instead of constructing records
with z(). Preserve coverage for normal conflicts and malformed, stray, reworded,
and prototype-named paths while ensuring the assertions exercise the bundled
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…ts message (#351)

CodeRabbit flagged the parser for reading `CONFLICT (…)` out of Git's
human-facing message. The conflicted section of `merge-tree -z` carries
the index stages when `--name-only` is not asked for, and the stages
are the kind: all three is content, 2 and 3 alone is add/add, a base
with one side left is modify/delete. Nothing after the empty field is
read any more. The parser test now runs on bytes captured from the
bundled Git 2.53.0.

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…e is untouched (#351)

Two CodeRabbit findings on the acceptance test: `Rejected hunk #N` is
diagnostic text, so the rejected hunks are now matched by the headers
`--reject` writes into the `.rej` file; and an empty `applied` list does
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## Why

`v1.0.1` shipped on 21 August. Trunk carries 45 commits since, and this
is the **beta for 1.1.0**, published so contributors can test it before
the stable tag. The headline is the bundled Git: the app ships its own
Git binary and every checkout operation runs on it, so a contributor no
longer needs Git installed (#401 to #411, #418, #420). It also ships the
packaging allow-list (#450) and the fixes closed under the v1.1.0
milestone.

The version reaches two places a contributor sees, and both must carry
the real build: electron-builder embeds it in the artifact names
(`wordpress-contributor-toolkit-1.1.0-beta.1-*`), and `src/logging.js`
writes `app <version>` as the log's first line, so a problem report
names the build it came from. That is why the bump merges before the
tag.

## What changes

Only the version. All three package-version fields in `package.json` and
`package-lock.json` move together from `1.0.1` to `1.1.0-beta.1`. No
dependency versions change, and there is no application behaviour change
in this PR.

## How to test this

Platforms: any for the suite; macOS or Windows for the artifact check
that follows the merge.

In the repository root:

1. `npm run lint` is clean and `npm test` passes.
2. `node -e "console.log(require('./package.json').version)"` prints
`1.1.0-beta.1`.
3. `python3 -c "import
json;d=json.load(open('package-lock.json'));print(d['version'],
d['packages']['']['version'])"` prints `1.1.0-beta.1 1.1.0-beta.1`.

**What must not have happened:** no dependency version may change. `git
diff trunk` shows exactly three changed lines, all of them the root
package version.

After merge, the release build must produce artifacts named
`wordpress-contributor-toolkit-1.1.0-beta.1-*`, and the first line of a
fresh app log must read `app 1.1.0-beta.1`.

## Risks and limitations

No UI change. The risk is a mis-scoped edit in `package-lock.json`,
where dependencies also carry `1.0.1`; the replacement was confined to
the first 2000 bytes of the file, which holds the two root entries, and
both files were re-parsed as JSON afterwards.

## Related

Same shape as #244 (v1.0.0-beta.1) and #397 (v1.0.1).

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Version-only change, three lines. Verified locally on this branch: `npm
run lint` clean, `npm test` 1316 pass, 0 fail; `git diff --stat` shows
two files, three insertions, three deletions; both JSON files parse.
Nothing to fix, nothing deferred.

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