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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 0ab7d94294 versioning: refuse to publish a version below what the channel already serves
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Step 5 of M314, note 3127 §6.3. Everything else in this milestone derives a
number and trusts it; this compares the derived value against what the channel
is actually serving and fails the lane if it went down.

Too-low is the unrecoverable direction: every installed client reports "up to
date" forever, and no later build fixes it until one climbs back above the bad
number. #2183 and #2993 are both that symptom.

## Two hazards, two mechanisms

A shallow clone is now tested DIRECTLY, in `version.sh`, via
`--is-shallow-repository`. The empty-result guard only caught the case where
nothing matched — and run 4796 showed the worse one, where a partial match
returned a real six-days-stale answer. Asking the question outright costs no
network and covers artifacts with nothing published to compare against.

`guard-forward.sh` handles the rest: a squash or rebase merge rewriting the
committer date, a rebuild of an older commit, and clock skew between runners.

## The comparison is per artifact, and the operator differs

  desktop  derived >= published   commit time, so equality is the ORDINARY
                                  no-change case and `<=` would fail every
                                  build that changed nothing
  android  derived >  published   build time, so equality means two builds in
                                  one minute — and Android refuses to install
                                  an APK whose versionCode does not RISE

The server is deliberately unguarded: nothing compares its version, `:latest`
moves regardless, and rule 145 removed the version tags that would be the
published list. A too-low value there is a wrong date in a footer, not a
stranded client. It still gets the shallow-clone check.

## Proved to fire, not assumed

Cloned the repo, checked out a commit eight back, ran the guard against the
LIVE dev feed:

  at the tip     derived 1.0.3502151, published 1.0.3502151  -> pass
  eight back     derived 1.0.3501535, published 1.0.3502151  -> FAILS
  android tip    derived 3502171,     published 3502152      -> pass
  stable         derived 1.0.3502151, published 0.2.0        -> pass

That last row is worth keeping: stable still advertises the bare `0.2.0` from
the old Cargo.toml scheme, so the transition orders upward on BOTH channels,
not just the one being exercised.

A channel with nothing published passes rather than failing — otherwise the
first publish to a new channel could never happen.

The guard runs BEFORE the build in all three lanes, so a bad derivation costs
seconds rather than a five-minute compile and a publish to undo.

`compare` is exposed as an explicit mode so the ordering is testable without a
network and inspectable without a push — 16 cases including `1.0.9 < 1.0.10`,
which a string compare gets exactly backwards.

#3145

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 21:33:00 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 85ead4d66b versioning: anchor at the repo root — a pathspec is relative to the caller's cwd
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Three failures on c504433, two root causes, and the interesting one is that
`git log -- <paths>` resolves pathspecs against the CURRENT DIRECTORY.

Callers run from wherever suits them: the desktop build from
`desktop/src-tauri`, the Android build from `android`, the manifest job from
the root. So one push produced THREE versions:

  desktop build      1.0.3494522     <- six days stale
  pacman packager    1.0.3502131
  manifest job       1.0.3502131

The build's pathspec had matched `desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml` — a real file
— so git answered with the newest commit touching THAT. Non-empty, so the
shallow-clone guard could not fire; the manifest then found no bundle matching
its own answer and the lane went red two steps from the cause. The Android job
failed loudly in the same run only because ITS pathspec happened to match
nothing from `android/`. Same bug, luckier symptom.

The script `cd`s to `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` before doing anything now,
and the test asserts every artifact answers identically from four directories.

## And a third instance of the trap that bit yesterday

The unit test caught it: `version.sh display nope` printed "unknown artifact"
to stderr and then answered `2026.08.28.0900` with exit 0. `paths_for` is
reached through `$(paths_for "$1")`, so its `exit 2` ended the subshell,
returned an EMPTY pathspec — and an empty pathspec matches everything.

That is now three occurrences of one mistake in one file: the shallow-clone
guard on `key` (emitted `1.0.-26297280`, exit 0), the same guard on `display`
(which failed only because `date` then choked on the empty string), and this.
Each was found by a different mechanism and none by reading the code. The
artifact is validated in the parent shell now, and the file says so where the
next guard would be written.

Both tests assert on STDOUT as well as the exit code. The exit code alone
passed for `display nope` while stdout carried a lie.

#3144

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 21:03:04 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 c5044339a1 versioning: each artifact derives from its own files, with the clock picked per value
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Step 4 of M314. `desktop/packaging/build-version.sh` was one generator feeding
the desktop bundles AND the Android APK off `GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER`, so a
Kotlin-only commit re-versioned the desktop and a Rust-only commit
re-versioned the phone. Note 3127 §3 cites this repo as its example of that
failure. It is replaced by `packaging/version.sh` — one definition of HOW to
derive, three file sets, and the sets in one place.

Lives at the repo root rather than under desktop/, because it serves three
artifacts now and a shared thing filed under one consumer ends up owned by it.

## Two values, and the clock chosen per value (§2)

  desktop  key      1.0.<minutes since 2020-01-01>   commit time
  desktop  display  2026.08.28.0900                  commit time  (#3181 shows it)
  android  versionName                               commit time
  android  versionCode  <minutes since 2020>         BUILD time
  server   version  2026.08.28.0900                  commit time, no ordering key

Every human-readable version in the repo is now one shape. The two exceptions
are not version names at all — they are bare monotonic integers a comparator
reads and nobody quotes.

The desktop needs a separate key because Tauri parses `latest.json` with the
semver crate and `2026.08.28.0900` fails it twice (four segments, and `08` is a
leading zero). `1.0.` and not `0.0.`: the minor has to clear the installed
`0.2.466` line or every dev user is stranded on "up to date" permanently.

Android's code comes from BUILD time while the desktop's key comes from COMMIT
time, deliberately. Android hard-fails a downgrade with
INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE and leaves a channel you cannot get out of, so
its key must be monotonic by construction; the desktop merely declines to offer
an update, which a guard can catch.

## The bug this found in itself

The shallow-clone guard `exit 1`-ed inside a function called as `$(...)` —
which ends the SUBSHELL, not the script. `display` still failed, but only
because `date` then choked on the empty string. `key` printed the error to
stderr, emitted `1.0.-26297280`, and exited ZERO.

That is precisely the failure the guard exists to prevent: a too-low version on
a green lane, and too-low is the direction you cannot recover from. It resolves
into a global in the parent shell now. The test is parametrized over both
requests, because one path was covered and the other was broken in exactly the
way the covered one was meant to rule out.

## Also

`fetch-depth: 0` on every job that derives — four of them, and only ci.yml's
gate had it. Depth-1 is silently wrong rather than loudly broken (§6.1).

The file sets include each artifact's BUILD RECIPE (its workflow, and
`packaging/`). A workflow file is not shipped, but change a Gradle flag and the
bytes change while the source does not — and once step 6 skips a build whose
version already exists, that serves the OLD artifact on a green run.

The base images are deliberately NOT resolved at derive time: that is an
external lookup, which §7's corollary forbids. `Dockerfile` is already in the
server's set, so pinning `FROM` by digest in step 6 puts the base inside the set
for free.

`build-version.sh` is deleted, its last consumer (the pacman packager) moved
over, and the one finding worth keeping out of its header — why not a `-dev.N`
prerelease — is preserved in the successor.

#3144

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 20:51:39 -04:00