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Fixes a data-loss window where a note saved during fetch could be overwritten by a forced fast-forward checkout. Reflect now snapshots those saves under the same local mutation lock used by checkout. Network waits leave editing responsive; saves queued during checkout land afterwards, and delayed editor reads cannot replace the newly saved buffer.

The same pull path now computes merges in memory, uses safe checkout before moving branch refs, preserves unrelated staging, and retains recoverable history and complete conflict copies when applying a pull fails. Binary conflicts claim numbered filenames atomically, including protection against existing files and incoming case aliases.

Runtime exclusion now removes previously tracked .reflect entries (including case and trailing-dot/space aliases) from future commits and filters incoming checkouts and restores without deleting local SQLite or durable chat data. Pre-staged oversized files cannot bypass the attachment size guard. Backup lifecycle fixes preserve local commits on auth failure, push saves captured after fetch, await queued manual cycles, and prevent stale startup/disconnect work from reviving an old controller. Native deletion events with null timestamps now reach the editor and complete the sync cycle. Imports and renames share the checkout boundary, including cancellation and native event-loop handling.

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  • Reproduced all three original audit failures against current master before editing.
  • pnpm check and pnpm build passed.
  • 161 targeted TypeScript tests passed across sync command boundaries, engine, backup controller, note session, and document binding.
  • cargo fmt --all --check and cargo clippy -p reflect-open --all-targets -- -D warnings passed.
  • 288 targeted Rust tests passed: Git (60), filesystem (105), index (64), iCloud (41), and capture (18). Desktop sidecars were staged first.
  • Regression coverage includes saves during fetch/checkout, dirty and ignored checkout collisions, failed index writes, repeated/concurrent binary conflicts, tracked runtime adoption/pull/clone and Windows filename aliases, native null deletion timestamps, and stale editor reads after a save.

Existing Git history is not rewritten, so runtime blobs already committed in old revisions remain there. The mutation lock coordinates Reflect's own writers; external filesystem tools do not participate. An I/O failure may leave some pulled files applied or a complete conflict copy on disk while the previous branch tip remains recoverable. These boundaries are documented in docs/git-backup-safety.md.

Supersedes #1214, which was produced by the previously cancelled duplicate CLI run. Its branch is preserved. Bugbot is disabled for this repository; the repository’s CodeRabbit review remains enabled.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Improved Git backup and sync behavior, including safer merges, conflict-copy preservation, and clearer reporting when oversized files are skipped.
    • Local runtime data remains protected during cloning, merging, and remote operations.
    • Local history can continue saving even when remote credentials or connectivity are unavailable.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented stale external file updates from overwriting newer editor changes.
    • Improved reliability for concurrent saves, imports, note moves, and graph operations.
    • Added safeguards for unresolved Git conflicts and interrupted operations.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance for Git backup safety, recovery, conflict handling, and runtime-file protection.

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Synchronization safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generation-pinned mutation coordination
apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/fs/*
Graph state now supports asynchronous mutation handling with canonical per-root locks, generation checks, blocking execution, and catalog invalidation.
Generation-safe filesystem commands
apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/capture.rs, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/db/*, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/fs/*, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/icloud/*
File imports, writes, deletions, screenshot promotion, indexed moves, graph deletion, and iCloud sweeps now use generation-pinned asynchronous mutation handling.
Runtime exclusion and size-guarded staging
apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/commit.rs, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/runtime*, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/remote.rs, apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/repo.rs
Git filters .reflect runtime paths, including aliases, and prevents oversized staged files from bypassing the size guard.
Transactional Git merge and conflict preservation
apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/*
Repository operations now use generation validation and locks. Merges sanitize trees, preserve conflict data, validate paths, and report skipped large files.
Queued backup lifecycle and sync cycles
apps/desktop/src/lib/*, packages/core/src/sync/*
Backup controllers invalidate stale asynchronous work. Sync cycles commit local changes first, detect merge-created commits, propagate skipped files, and await queued cycles.
Stale external-read prevention
apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts, apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts
External reconciliation retries when a write completes during a disk read.
Synchronization contracts and recovery documentation
packages/core/src/sync/commands.ts, packages/core/src/sync/commands.test.ts, docs/git-backup-safety.md, docs/generic-git-remotes.md
Sync schemas normalize nullable timestamps and expose skipped large files. Documentation describes Git recovery and runtime exclusion behavior.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 47804

Screenshot promotion now keeps blocking image work off synchronization workers while preserving generation-safe asset persistence. No current merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BackupController
  participant SyncEngine
  participant GitRepository
  participant GraphState
  BackupController->>SyncEngine: start or queue sync cycle
  SyncEngine->>GraphState: commit local changes
  SyncEngine->>GitRepository: fetch and merge
  GitRepository-->>SyncEngine: merge outcome and status
  SyncEngine->>GitRepository: push commits ahead
  SyncEngine-->>BackupController: settle cycle and notifications
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apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/capture.rs (1)

501-502: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move the spool read and JPEG downscale to crate::blocking::run_blocking, not into mutation::run. capture_screenshot_promote performs synchronous I/O and image decoding before mutation::run, so it can occupy an async-runtime worker. mutation::run already uses the blocking pool and holds the graph worktree mutex for the full closure; moving decoding there would unnecessarily increase lock contention. The mutation lock does not protect spool writers, so it does not remove the spool-file race. Keep persist_asset as the only operation inside mutation::run.

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In `@apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/capture.rs` around lines 501 - 502, Update
capture_screenshot_promote so the synchronous spool read and downscale_jpeg
image decoding run through crate::blocking::run_blocking before mutation::run.
Keep persist_asset as the only operation inside mutation::run, preserving the
existing spool-file race behavior and avoiding additional graph worktree lock
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In `@apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/capture.rs`:
- Around line 501-502: Update capture_screenshot_promote so the synchronous
spool read and downscale_jpeg image decoding run through
crate::blocking::run_blocking before mutation::run. Keep persist_asset as the
only operation inside mutation::run, preserving the existing spool-file race
behavior and avoiding additional graph worktree lock contention.

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  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/fs/assets.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/fs/mod.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/fs/mutation.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/commit.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/merge_tests.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/mod.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/remote.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/repo.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/runtime.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/runtime_tests.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/git/tests.rs
  • apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/icloud/sweep.rs
  • apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session-state.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/editor/note-session.test.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/lib/backup-controller.test.tsx
  • apps/desktop/src/lib/backup-controller.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/lib/backup-flush.ts
  • docs/generic-git-remotes.md
  • docs/git-backup-safety.md
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Addressed the screenshot-worker finding in 4780481: spool I/O and JPEG decoding now use blocking::run_blocking; only final asset persistence holds the graph mutation lock. The generation is still rechecked at that write boundary.

Validation passed: 18 capture tests, desktop Clippy with warnings denied, Rust formatting, pnpm check, and pnpm build.

The docstring coverage warning includes private helpers and tests. Public contracts and the non-obvious locking/recovery behavior are documented; I have kept the repository convention against comments that only restate code.

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