Go, standard library only, with git shelled out for list alone. list enumerates a
publisher's .loom/published by partial clone and ls-tree; add fetches one document,
writes it under .loom/externals and records the resolved origin and the publisher's
ETag in .loom/externals/.locks; check asks conditionally and reports.
The first real run did what the tool exists for. All eight documents adopted by
hand before it existed reported unlocked — the tool refuses to invent a lock by
adopting whatever the remote currently serves, since that would assert the local
copy is the one being served, which is the thing it was about to check. Locking
them fetched two that had moved: bedrock/starting.md, which now says the worked
example is private and will not link to something you cannot fetch, and cart.md,
which went to v1.
cart v1 changes a role we cast: a cart is not committed, because a committed cart
grows a third file by itself — version control does not require anybody to ask, so
the two-file rule is never invoked — and because ignored, gone means gone. Adds
.loom/cart/ to .gitignore and supersedes the isolation entry rather than editing
it. osprey and marmalade are already in history and are left there: rewriting to
honour a rule adopted afterwards costs more than it buys.
Records the conflict this creates rather than settling it: the annotation protocol
here says commit before dissolving because git is the only archive, and an ignored
cart has no archive, so dissolving would destroy the annotations outright.
Credentials are read-only, per host, and passed to git through the environment
rather than argv, because argv is visible to every process on the machine.
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The round is over and its artifact is .loom/event-log.md — fifteen entries, each
carrying the belief that could show it wrong, all tagged osprey so it stays
findable what else was in the room.
No spec is written. A spec flattens everything to equal confidence, which is how
the specimen managed to be wrong with a straight face within a day of being
proposed. The specimen is discarded rather than promoted; the story of its being
wrong is in the log, where it can be found, and the artifact would only mislead
somebody who read it without the round beside it.
Reconciles externals.md, which check flagged as the one drifted document of eight.
The new copy carries the 404 row, so the gap filed against it is closed and
externals.gaps.md is deleted — at reconciliation rather than at repair, because a
facet describes the local pair and the gap stayed true of the copy we held until
we fetched. The entry recording that our 404 behaviour is no longer provisional is
the one that would have been easiest to skip and is the reason the log exists.
No shelf: nothing was unresolved.
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Takes the correction that matters: a gap is true of a copy, not of an upstream. I
was about to delete their .gaps.md because I fixed my document, and their copy of
externals.md still lacks the 404 row, so the gap remains true of what they hold.
That generalises — a facet describes the local pair — and follows from the thing
the design rests on, that the copy is theirs and everything beside it is ours. It
goes into the convention rather than staying an exchange.
Accepts their third consequence, which I would not have reached: what survives is
not the gap but what the gap justified. Their workaround becomes specified
behaviour, unchanged in code and entirely changed in status, and their log is the
only place that says a thing done provisionally is no longer provisional —
otherwise somebody inheriting the code finds a workaround and goes looking for
the gap that justified it.
Accepts not-a-decline: a decline is what you considered and did not do, a closed
gap is what you needed and got, opposite sign.
Admits acting on a file that did not exist. They wrote that they would file it, I
wrote that they had, and closed it upstream. The shape is that I read a stated
intention as a completed act.
Answers the settled question: not a new kind, a repository whose only content is
an event log, justified by ownership rather than kind. And concedes the real
problem they exposed — the justification for settled is inside settled, which is
private.
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The repository is furnished rather than scaffolded — every file has content and a
reason, which is the distinction the spec itself draws when it says to resist
building init as a scaffolder.
Four externals fetched and locked under .loom/externals/: bedrock, externals,
annotating, cart. Copies, not to be edited, with a usages file beside cart
casting three of its four roles and leaving one open. The one left open is what
isolates work in progress, and the usages file says how we cast it wrong once and
why the belief was more useful than a preference would have been.
The spec moves out of the README and into the cart as a specimen, which makes it
discard-by-default — that is a stronger statement of "argue with this" than a
sentence asking them to. bedrock and externals stay non-discardable, since
accommodating them is what makes this a loom tool.
The daily says where we expect to be wrong: whether check can say anything useful
about a 404, and whether hash-as-lock survives a fetch that normalises anything,
which we have only tested against gitea.
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