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Problem

Follow-up to #1205.

If the process is terminated after libgit2 enters merge state, the next sync currently reaches commit_all first and fails its clean-state guard. The device remains at Needs attention. A stale index lock from the interrupted owned merge can block the same path.

Solution

  • atomically record the two merge parents before entering libgit2 merge state
  • run recovery in a shared repository-open preflight used by status, commit, fetch, merge, and push
  • resume only when HEAD, MERGE_HEAD, and ORIG_HEAD exactly match the app-owned marker
  • continue the existing merge index in place; never hard-reset the working tree
  • preserve post-crash edits so the immediately following commit captures them
  • keep status informative when recovery fails while write paths remain blocked
  • treat clean, corrupt, unsupported, or superseded markers as stale metadata
  • make marker deletion best-effort after durable completion
  • leave foreign CLI merges/rebases and their locks untouched

A generic stale index.lock without an app-owned marker remains out of scope and should be handled separately.

Review feedback addressed

  • recovery now runs before commit_all
  • the end-to-end test follows commit_all → fetch → merge_remote → push
  • no whole-tree reset
  • MERGE_HEAD and ORIG_HEAD are verified
  • stale or invalid markers self-heal
  • completed-merge cleanup cannot clear a newer foreign operation
  • marker writes reuse atomic_write_to
  • interrupted cleanup after the durable merge commit has direct coverage

Validation

  • pnpm check
  • cargo fmt --check
  • cargo clippy -p reflect-open --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo test -p reflect-open — 377 passed

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Interrupted merges now resume automatically when the repository is reopened.
    • Edits made after an interruption are preserved during conflict resolution.
    • Recovery no longer removes an active index lock, preventing interference with other Git operations.
    • Commit, fetch, pull, and push operations now complete pending merge recovery before proceeding.
    • Repository status remains available even when interrupted-merge recovery cannot complete.

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Walkthrough

The Git merge flow now records app-owned merge state, restores interrupted merges during repository sync preflight, and protects foreign index locks. Commit, fetch, merge, push, and status use the preflight. Tests cover interruption recovery, durable commits, lock handling, and post-interruption edits.

Changes

Merge recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Merge state and recovery marker
apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge.rs
The merge path records parent OIDs in REFLECT_MERGE_STATE, validates recovery state, separates merge commit from cleanup, preserves post-interruption edits, and protects foreign index locks.
Sync preflight recovery
apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/repo.rs, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/commit.rs, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge.rs, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/remote.rs, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/mod.rs
open_for_sync recovers interrupted merges before returning a repository handle. Commit, fetch, merge, and push use this helper. Status falls back to open_existing if recovery fails.
Interruption and recovery validation
apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/tests.rs, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge.rs
Tests simulate interrupted merges and durable commits. Tests verify marker cleanup, foreign lock preservation, and preservation of post-interruption edits.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 81f21

The recovery path can overwrite user changes made after an interrupted merge: a deleted conflicted file may be recreated and an edited binary conflict copy may be replaced. This can cause data loss, so the PR is not merge-ready until recovery preserves both states.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SyncOperation
  participant open_for_sync
  participant recover_interrupted_merge
  participant complete_merge
  SyncOperation->>open_for_sync: Open repository
  open_for_sync->>recover_interrupted_merge: Read recovery marker and merge refs
  recover_interrupted_merge->>complete_merge: Resume verified interrupted merge
  complete_merge-->>open_for_sync: Return completed repository state
  open_for_sync-->>SyncOperation: Return repository handle
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apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/tests.rs (1)

875-880: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for the interrupted-cleanup branch.

finish_interrupted_merge_for_test calls complete_merge, which ends with repo.cleanup_state(). The repository is therefore Clean at line 879, so recover_interrupted_merge takes the early RepositoryState::Clean branch and only drops the marker.

The branch at merge.rs lines 246-251 — merge commit durable, state still Merge, MERGE_HEAD and ORIG_HEAD still matching — appears untested. That branch removes index.lock and calls cleanup_state, so it deserves a direct test. A helper that commits the merge without calling cleanup_state would reach it.

Do you want me to draft that test and helper?

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In `@apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/tests.rs` around lines 875 - 880, Extend the
interrupted-merge tests to cover recovery when the merge commit is durable but
repository state remains Merge: add a helper that commits the merge without
calling cleanup_state, then invoke recover_interrupted_merge and assert
index.lock is removed and cleanup_state completes. Keep the existing clean-state
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In `@apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/mod.rs`:
- Line 72: Make the status path resilient to errors from repo::open_for_sync by
falling back to opening the repository without recovery, preserving the
snapshot’s in_progress and branch/remote details when recover_interrupted_merge
or complete_merge fails. Keep write paths such as commit_all, fetch, and push
propagating recovery errors.

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In `@apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/tests.rs`:
- Around line 875-880: Extend the interrupted-merge tests to cover recovery when
the merge commit is durable but repository state remains Merge: add a helper
that commits the merge without calling cleanup_state, then invoke
recover_interrupted_merge and assert index.lock is removed and cleanup_state
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apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge.rs (1)

336-369: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not remove an unowned index.lock.

The recovery code removes index.lock based on the app-owned merge state, but the marker does not prove that the lock belongs to this process. A foreign CLI or another operation can create the lock after the crash. Deleting that lock can allow concurrent Git operations to race on the index. Record verifiable lock ownership, or leave the lock untouched when ownership is unknown. Add a regression test with a foreign lock.

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In `@apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge.rs` around lines 336 - 369, Update
remove_owned_index_lock and its recovery flow so index.lock is deleted only when
verifiable ownership ties it to this Reflect operation; otherwise leave the lock
untouched, including when a foreign CLI or concurrent operation created it after
a crash. Record durable ownership metadata if needed, and add a regression test
covering a foreign lock.
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In `@apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge.rs`:
- Line 433: Update repository-open recovery around commit_merge so existing
working-tree edits on conflict paths are preserved instead of overwritten by Git
blob writes during merge recovery; compare current files with the merge result
or retain their current content before staging. Add a regression test covering
an edit made after interruption for edit-vs-delete or binary both-edited
conflicts.

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In `@apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge.rs`:
- Around line 336-369: Update remove_owned_index_lock and its recovery flow so
index.lock is deleted only when verifiable ownership ties it to this Reflect
operation; otherwise leave the lock untouched, including when a foreign CLI or
concurrent operation created it after a crash. Record durable ownership metadata
if needed, and add a regression test covering a foreign lock.

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Follow-up commit 81f21649 addresses the two remaining data-integrity concerns:

  • Recovery no longer deletes .git/index.lock based on merge-marker ownership. An unknown lock is left intact and recovery waits, preventing a race with another Git process.
  • Edit-vs-delete and binary conflict recovery no longer overwrite an existing working-tree file, so edits made after interruption are staged into the recovered merge.
  • Added regression coverage for a foreign lock, post-crash edits, and the durable-commit / interrupted-cleanup path.

Local validation is clean:

  • pnpm check
  • cargo fmt --all --check
  • cargo clippy -p reflect-open --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo test -p reflect-open (379 passed)

@maccman, this is the focused follow-up to your feedback on #1205. When you have a chance, would you please review the narrowed recovery fix?

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In `@apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge.rs`:
- Around line 624-625: Update the recovery logic around the NotFound branch and
index.add_path so a conflict path deleted by the user after interruption remains
deleted instead of being recreated from the old blob. Capture the checkout state
before recovery and only call write_blob for an absent path when that state
shows the merge checkout itself removed it; otherwise preserve the absence. Add
a regression test covering post-interruption deletion.
- Line 589: Update the merge materialization flow around
materialize_blob_if_missing and write_blob so the generated binary conflict copy
path is also created only when missing, preserving any user-created or edited
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return Ok(vec![our.path]);
}
write_blob(repo, root, &our.path, our.id)?;
materialize_blob_if_missing(repo, root, &our.path, our.id)?;

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Protect the generated binary conflict copy.

This change preserves an existing our.path, but write_blob still overwrites copy unconditionally. If the user creates or edits foo (conflict).bin after interruption, recovery discards that file. Use materialize_blob_if_missing for copy too, and add a regression test.

Proposed fix
-    write_blob(repo, root, &copy, their.id)?;
+    materialize_blob_if_missing(repo, root, &copy, their.id)?;
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materialization flow around materialize_blob_if_missing and write_blob so the
generated binary conflict copy path is also created only when missing,
preserving any user-created or edited copy during recovery. Add a regression
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Comment on lines +624 to +625
Err(error) if error.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {
write_blob(repo, root, rel, id)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve post-interruption deletions.

If a user deletes a conflicted file after interruption, NotFound causes recovery to restore the old blob. The later index.add_path stages that restored content and discards the user deletion. Record or otherwise establish the checkout state before recovery, then do not recreate an absent conflict path without evidence that the merge checkout left it absent. Add a deletion regression test.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge.rs` around lines 624 - 625, Update the
recovery logic around the NotFound branch and index.add_path so a conflict path
deleted by the user after interruption remains deleted instead of being
recreated from the old blob. Capture the checkout state before recovery and only
call write_blob for an absent path when that state shows the merge checkout
itself removed it; otherwise preserve the absence. Add a regression test
covering post-interruption deletion.

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Closing this approach in favor of #1215's in-memory merge. I compared its current head (47804816) with this PR: merge_commits computes the result without entering libgit2 merge state, and checkout/index writes complete before the branch ref advances. That avoids the new app-owned MERGE_* state this recovery mechanism was designed to repair.

The final review on this PR still identified post-interruption deletion and binary conflict-copy preservation cases; I am not marking those as fixed in this implementation. Instead, #1218 contributes two focused failure/retry tests directly against #1215, checking that an edited recovery copy survives and that a later deletion is snapshotted before a fresh edit/delete merge. The latter retains the existing conflict policy and verifies the deletion remains in the local merge parent.

All 11 failure/retry tests passed locally, along with formatting, strict clippy, pnpm check, and pnpm build. #1215 and #1218 are still awaiting upstream acceptance; this closure does not mean either has shipped. Existing unfinished foreign Git operations remain outside automatic recovery scope.

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