Review git-sync PR #118 Size Failures

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d4649ffLet the target decide when a bootstrap checkpoint cannot be split further A batched bootstrap that reached a single indivisible commit failed outright, even though the failure was our own doing: TargetMaxPack is deliberately well under what the server accepts, the observer aborts at 95% of it, and nothing ever asked the target whether it would take the pack. gh/nicschick/vc3r dies exactly here — subdivision bottoms out at one commit, our 512 MiB budget aborts the upload, and the run fails against a target that announced it accepts 10 GiB. The batching budget stays small on purpose (a doomed or interrupted push wastes less, and the temp ref advances more often), so rather than raise it this records what the target actually announced and uses it only at the point where subdivision has run out: the checkpoint is retried once with the ceiling raised to the target's own limit, and the target returns the verdict. That verdict is what makes the failure classifiable. A self-imposed abort stays retryable — a larger budget or a config change could still mirror the repo — while a checkpoint that is indivisible AND over the target's own limit now returns ErrCheckpointExceedsTargetLimit, which callers can treat as permanent instead of redelivering an identical pack ten times. Only object-level splitting or a larger server limit can fix that case, and this is what proves the repo is in it. Also stops discarding the bootstrap Result when Execute fails: the strategy facts (RelayMode, RelayReason, batch counts, temp refs) are populated before anything can go wrong and describe the route taken, not the outcome. Zeroing them is why a failed sync could report which strategy ran only when it succeeded — the same blind spot that made ENT-2054 a source read rather than a log query. Entire-Checkpoint: 01M1BRQMBHBRW3FJHY47661Q3F+193/-1

review https://github.com/entireio/git-sync/pull/118

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Review running in the background as @code-review on PR #118. I'll report the findings when it completes.

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Reviewed entireio/git-sync PR #118 (d4649ff1, branch nodo/ent-2060-bottom-out-server-verdict) at /Users/nodo/work/tasks/ENT-2054/git-sync. Paths below are repo-relative to that root. Findings 1 and 3 were reproduced with a throwaway probe test (since removed); go build, go test ./internal/strategy/bootstrap/... ./internal/syncer/... and golangci-lint are all clean, so nothing here is caught by the existing suite.

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14 findings on PR #118 (xhigh effort, d4649ff1). The three that block: the !subdivide gate is inverted so any transient error (401, reset, 500, timeout) on an indivisible checkpoint gets the permanent sentinel; a genuine 413 can never reach that sentinel at all; and the relaxed budget leaks to every later checkpoint and branch. Findings 1 and 3 were reproduced with a throwaway probe — the existing suite catches none of them (go build, the touched packages' tests, and lint are all clean).

can you send the review to the implementer?

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What would you like to clarify?

just send them to the claude code session called "implementer"

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Sent all 14 findings to implementer [db879c] — blockers first, each with file:line, mechanism, and suggested fix.

One caveat from the delivery: the session list was too long to enumerate fully, so if a second session shares that name it wouldn't have been seen. The one that received it was idle, started 3h ago.

703d9daAddress review: scope the sentinel to size failures and stop the budget leaking Three blockers, all real, all mine. The permanent-failure gate sat OUTSIDE the size-failure branch and keyed off !subdivide, which is true for everything that is NOT a size rejection. So any ordinary failure — 401, 500, connection reset, a declined hook — on an indivisible checkpoint was reported as ErrCheckpointExceedsTargetLimit, telling the worker to stop redelivering a repo that needed one retry. Exactly backwards. The classification now lives inside the size branch, so an unrelated error cannot reach it. A genuine 413 could never reach the sentinel either: the relaxed retry requires abortedEarly, so relaxedRetried stayed false and the gate was skipped. A first checkpoint push hard-rejected by the target stayed in the redelivery loop forever — the failure this change exists to end. Terminal now covers both verdicts the target can give: a rejection it sent, or a retry that already ran at its announced limit and still overshot. The relaxed ceiling was written into selfImposedBudget, which spans every checkpoint and every branch, so it never came back down: later packs uploaded in full instead of aborting at the small budget the pre-flight still plans against, and branch 2+ silently lost both the retry and the classification. It is now a per-attempt value, cleared when the checkpoint advances. Also from the review: isIndivisibleCheckpoint measured from Checkpoints[idx-1] instead of current, so on the stale-temp-ref resume path — the ENT-2054 route — it counted the gap from the chain root and answered "divisible" for a span subdivision had just proved otherwise; it now takes current and is one subtraction rather than a chain-wide map per failure. In-loop rejections feed AnnouncedTargetLimit, so a run entering batching without a one-shot attempt can still relax. A ratcheted-down budget derived from bytes actually sent is treated as a measured cutoff the retry must not jump past. Batching/RelayMode are set where the route is chosen rather than where it succeeds. The sentinel is aliased into the root package, since the internal one is unimportable by the worker that has to match on it. Result carries Plans and Measurement on the error path, and the client wrappers no longer zero it. Tests: unrelated-error-stays-retryable (four shapes), hard-rejection-is- permanent, and relaxed-budget-does-not-leak. Each was confirmed to fail with the corresponding bug reintroduced. Entire-Checkpoint: 01M1BT9PH0C8J6VWRVS3HFM313+268/-83

Another Claude session sent a message: <cross-session-message from="uds:/tmp/cc-socks/26094.sock" from-name="implementer" from-mode="prompting"> All three blockers were real and are fixed in 703d9da on PR #118; disposition posted at https://github.com/entireio/git-sync/pull/118#issuecomment-5477848845.

Each blocker now has a regression test that I verified fails with the bug reintroduced — worth noting because my first attempt at reproducing blocker 1 was itself invalid: I injected || true into the inner condition, the test stayed green, and only when I restored the original outside-the-branch gate did it fail with your exact …cannot be subdivided further: http 401 unauthorized. The new structure makes the inner condition unreachable for non-size errors, which is the actual fix.

  1. Sentinel gate moved inside if subdivide && len(chain) > 0. !subdivide meaning "not a size error" was exactly backwards. Test covers 401/500/reset/hook-decline.
  2. Terminal now covers both target verdicts: a rejection it sent (isBatchableTargetPushError) or a retry that already ran at the announced limit and overshot. Hard-413 case pinned at 1 push, no retry.
  3. Per-attempt relaxedBudget overriding the aborter for one push, cleared on checkpoint advance; selfImposedBudget never written. 4-commit test asserts a later checkpoint still aborts on the small budget (fails with aborts=[1] when the leak is restored). Your observation that the leak also silently disabled the fix for branch 2+ is the part I would not have caught.

Also taken: 4 (isIndivisibleCheckpoint takes current — the resume-path gap was measured from the chain root), 5 (in-loop parsedLimit feeds AnnouncedTargetLimit, which also removes the landing-order coupling with the preflight-auth fix), 6, 8 (measured-cutoff budgets flagged so the retry won't jump past them), 9 (aliased into root package — you were right it was unreachable from mirror-pipeline), 10 and 7 (error-path Result carries Plans/Measurement; client.go and unstable/client.go no longer zero it), 11 (chainPosition subtraction, no chain-wide map, doc corrected, dead disjunct dropped), 12/13 (single store, multi-checkpoint case, fixed param removed), 14 (double source fetch stated).

Declined one: exercising the projection branch of shouldAbortPush. You're right that the tests only hit the absolute threshold and that the fake pack's version field makes the scanner reject it, but reaching the projection path needs a valid multi-MiB packfile fixture, and that branch only selects which number sizes the next subdivision. Open to being argued out of it.

Full suite + golangci-lint green at 703d9da. Delta is d4649ff1..703d9dac if you want another pass. </cross-session-message>

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All three blockers are genuinely fixed at 703d9dac, and I confirmed the new regression tests are load-bearing rather than trusting the claim:

  • Blocker 2 — reverting the terminal condition to if relaxedRetried { fails TestExecuteBatchedHardRejectionIsPermanentWithoutSelfImposedAbort.
  • Blocker 3 — re-adding selfImposedBudget = p.AnnouncedTargetLimit fails the leak test with aborts=[1], exactly as reported.
  • Blocker 1 — verified structurally instead: the terminal block moved inside if subdivide && len(batch.chain) > 0, so a non-size error skips it entirely. No mutation can reintroduce the bug without moving the block back out, which is why their own || true probe stayed green.

Tree restored clean; the touched packages pass. 10 of the other 11 findings were also taken.

I pushed back on the one they declined. Their reason — exercising shouldAbortPush's projection branch needs a valid multi-MiB packfile — doesn't hold: totalObjects is read from the 12-byte pack header, and the test file already has a makePackHeader helper. The current fixture's version field is 0x78787878, so the scanner rejects it and checkPackSizeAndSubdivide reads an object count of 2,021,161,080 off garbage. That's a two-line fixture fix, not a new fixture. I conceded it isn't a blocker and left the landing decision to them.

Also flagged one new minor thing: on a relaxed retry that aborts early, the limit_bytes log field reports selfImposedBudget rather than the relaxedBudget actually in force — cosmetic, but on the path this PR added for diagnosability.

bf6eee4Address review: valid pack headers in fixtures, and report the ceiling in force The bottom-out fixtures used "PACK" plus filler, whose version field is 0x78787878 — so checkPackSizeAndSubdivide read an object count of 2,021,161,080 off it, and the observer left TotalObjects at 0 because the scanner rejected the header. The tests passed, but partly through a path nobody intended, and the zero silently closed the projection that sizes the next subdivision. They now build a real header. The helper that does it already existed as a closure inside TestCheckPackSizeAndSubdivide; it is hoisted to package scope with a note on why fixtures must use it, since the failure mode is invisible — a bogus header does not fail a test, it just quietly disables a branch. Both mutation checks still fail as they should with the corrected fixture, so the blocker regressions are unaffected. Also: the "limit_bytes" log field took its value from selfImposedBudget rather than the budget actually in force, under-reporting the ceiling on a relaxed retry — the one path this change added for diagnosability. No functional effect; the checkpoint is indivisible by then, so nothing could expand regardless. Entire-Checkpoint: 01M1BTJP76E55ZRF6JP1KSZC9R+26/-14
753c36bAddress review: valid pack headers in fixtures, and report the ceiling in force The bottom-out fixtures used "PACK" plus filler, whose version field is 0x78787878 — so checkPackSizeAndSubdivide read an object count of 2,021,161,080 off it, and the observer left TotalObjects at 0 because the scanner rejected the header. The tests passed, but partly through a path nobody intended, and the zero silently closed the projection that sizes the next subdivision. They now build a real header. The helper that does it already existed as a closure inside TestCheckPackSizeAndSubdivide; it is hoisted to package scope with a note on why fixtures must use it, since the failure mode is invisible — a bogus header does not fail a test, it just quietly disables a branch. Both mutation checks still fail as they should with the corrected fixture, so the blocker regressions are unaffected. Also: the "limit_bytes" log field took its value from selfImposedBudget rather than the budget actually in force, under-reporting the ceiling on a relaxed retry — the one path this change added for diagnosability. No functional effect; the checkpoint is indivisible by then, so nothing could expand regardless. Entire-Checkpoint: 01M1BTJP76E55ZRF6JP1KSZC9R+26/-15

Another Claude session sent a message: <cross-session-message from="uds:/tmp/cc-socks/26094.sock" from-name="implementer" from-mode="prompting"> You argued me out of it — fixed in 753c36b on PR #118.

You were right and my premise was wrong: TotalObjects comes from the parsed 12-byte header, not the body, so "needs a multi-MiB packfile" was simply false. And the decisive part wasn't the missed projection branch, it was that 0x78787878 = 2,021,161,080 — I verified that — so checkPackSizeAndSubdivide was reading an object count off my garbage version field. My tests were passing partly through a path I hadn't intended, which is a defect in them regardless of coverage.

Fixtures now build a real header. One detail off in your note: makePackHeader was a local closure inside TestCheckPackSizeAndSubdivide, not a package-level helper, so I hoisted it to package scope and documented why fixtures must use it — the failure mode is invisible, since a bogus header doesn't fail a test, it just quietly disables a branch. That comment is the part most likely to stop this recurring.

Re-ran both mutations against the corrected fixture: blocker 2 (drop the disjunct to if relaxedRetried {) and blocker 3 (re-add selfImposedBudget = p.AnnouncedTargetLimit) each still fail their test. So the regressions are unaffected by the fixture change.

Also took the minor one: limit_bytes now reads the budget actually in force rather than selfImposedBudget, so a relaxed retry stops under-reporting its own ceiling on the path this PR added for diagnosability.

I did not go the last step to objectsSent > 0 (a real object in the body) to unlock shouldAbortPush's own projection at 1240 — with the valid header, effectiveObjectsSent's treat-as-1 rule already opens the sizing projection at 657-658, which was your main point. Say if you think the shouldAbortPush branch is worth its own fixture and I'll add it.

Full suite + golangci-lint green at 753c36b. Thanks for pushing back — the "already in the file" nudge was what made it cheap enough to be obviously right. </cross-session-message>

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Review closed out. PR #118 is at 753c36bd with all 14 findings addressed.

The last exchange: they took the fixture fix (hoisted makePackHeader to package scope, valid headers everywhere) and the limit = budget diagnosability fix, and re-ran both mutations to confirm the blocker-2 and blocker-3 regression tests still fail with their bugs reintroduced. Verified green here.

I told them not to add the shouldAbortPush fixture they offered — TestShouldAbortPush at bootstrap_test.go:633 already covers that projection arithmetic as a pure-function table (25/100, 5/100, and the 98/100 anti-flap case), so a packfile fixture would re-test it more fragilely. The only real gap left is wiring — nothing asserts the observer feeds a non-zero objectsSent into the aborter during an actual push — which is a cheap optional follow-up, not a blocker.

They also corrected one detail in my note: makePackHeader was a closure local to one test, not a package-level helper as I'd implied.

ab7b088Address adversarial review: only the target's own size verdict is terminal Two independent reviews found the same pair of defects, and both were real. A deadline was treated as a size verdict. isBatchableTargetPushError covers 408/504 as well as body limits, so a single gateway timeout on an indivisible checkpoint — zero bytes sent, no size evidence whatsoever — returned the permanent sentinel. Once the worker honours it, one target rolling restart could permafail every large bootstrap in flight. Terminal now requires either a parsed body-limit rejection or a relaxed attempt that actually exceeded the limit the target announced; a deadline stays retryable and heals next delivery. And the relaxed retry never really asked the target. It kept the aborter armed at 95% of the announced limit, with the projection path live, so a pack in the top 5% self-aborted and — relaxedRetried being latched — was reported as the target's verdict. Worse for the case this exists to serve: a front-loaded giant-blob pack makes the early bytes-per-object average overshoot, so a pack comfortably under the limit could abort at a fraction of it and be called permanent. That is strictly worse than the retryable failure it replaced, and it made errors.go's "always carries a verdict from the target" false. The relaxed attempt now cuts only once it has genuinely exceeded the announced limit, where a rejection is certain rather than predicted, and drops the projection entirely. Arming widened to >= so the 95%-to-100% gain is available when the ratchet had equalised the two. Route facts moved ahead of checkpoint planning: the commit-graph fetch is the likeliest failure for exactly the repos that batch, and setting them after it reported those failures as one-shot bootstraps — the thing the previous commit claimed to fix. unstable.Client.Bootstrap no longer discards the populated result either; the method actually named "bootstrap" was the one throwing it away. The review's most useful half was mutation-proving that several pieces of this change had no coverage at all: both AnnouncedTargetLimit capture sites (the feature's only production sources — nothing configures it), the route facts, and the syncer error-path carry could each be deleted with a green suite. All are now covered, and every new test here was confirmed to fail with the thing it protects removed. Entire-Checkpoint: 01M1BWBNT1VDSYSJ6YW0D1EW0D+306/-12
b06c763Choose the pack ceiling before the push instead of retrying after it The escalation was built as "push at our budget, fail, retry at the target's limit". But whether a checkpoint can be split is knowable before the push — it is just the gap between current and Checkpoints[idx] — so the ceiling can be chosen up front and the retry disappears. That deletes relaxedRetried, relaxedBudget and both idx++ resets: three pieces of cross-iteration state whose only job was sequencing an attempt and a re-attempt, and where a leaked ceiling bug lived that broke later checkpoints and silently disabled the feature for the second and later branches. It is also cheaper. A ceiling is an abort threshold, not an upload size, so a pack that fits under the small budget sends exactly the same bytes either way; what changes is that an indivisible commit is no longer uploaded twice — once to abort against a budget that could never have accepted it, and again to ask the target. One fetch, one push, same verdict. For the front-loaded giant-blob shape this exists to serve, the old first attempt could also trip the projection heuristic and fail a pack the target would have taken. budgetFromObservation survives — provenance cannot be re-derived at the point of use, since "budget below the announced limit" looks identical whether it came from a measured cutoff or from TargetMaxPack being deliberately small — but it moves next to the budget whose provenance it records. It was declared per-branch while that budget spans branches, so a cutoff measured on branch 1 reached branch 2 with its provenance erased and branch 2 escalated past a limit the server had already demonstrated. Same species as the leaked-ceiling bug: provenance has to travel with the value. Kept deliberately: the >= comparison (an in-batching rejection ratchets budget and announced limit to equality, where escalating still sheds the 5% margin and the projection — without it a pack sized in that last 5% aborts on every delivery forever), and the operator notice, so an unexplained multi-GiB upload never appears without a reason beside it. Tests move from retry-shaped to ceiling-shaped: the same outcomes, one push instead of two. Mutation-verified that removing the escalation, restoring the 95% margin on the announced ceiling, or treating a deadline as a size verdict each break them. One gap left honestly: budgetFromObservation still has no coverage. I built a fixture for it, could not make it fail when the guard was removed, and removed it rather than keep a test that passes for reasons I cannot explain. The guard is verified by inspection only. Entire-Checkpoint: 01M1BZS8NTMK85H0RVQHW0N7WG+90/-146
21f7e13Let the target decide when a bootstrap checkpoint cannot be split further Rebased onto main after #117 (Soph's batched-cutover marker fix) and squashed: the five original commits were an iterative refinement of the same code, and resolving their conflicts one at a time against the moved main produced worse results than resolving the net change once. The review narrative lives in the PR discussion. Once subdivision bottoms out — checkpoints split BETWEEN commits, so at one commit per gap there is nothing left to split — a single commit whose pack exceeded git-sync's own budget failed the run. That budget is self-imposed and far below what the target accepts: TargetMaxPack defaults to 512 MiB while the target announces 10 GiB, and autoTargetMaxPackBytes derives 5 GiB from that announcement and then discards it for being larger than the default. So the run gave up against a number git-sync chose, having never asked the server. gh/nicschick/vc3r dies exactly here. The batching budget stays small on purpose — it bounds the waste of a doomed push and makes the temp ref advance often, both of which require a smaller pack to be possible. On a one-commit gap neither is, so the ceiling for that push is the target's announced limit instead, chosen before the push rather than after a doomed attempt. This costs nothing: a ceiling is an abort threshold, not an upload size, so a pack that fits sends identical bytes either way — and it avoids fetching an indivisible multi-GiB commit twice. That gives the failure a verdict worth classifying. An abort against our own budget stays retryable: a larger budget or a raised server limit could still mirror the repo. A checkpoint that is indivisible AND refused by the target — a parsed body-limit rejection, or an attempt at its announced limit that still overshot — returns ErrCheckpointExceedsTargetLimit, aliased into the root package so the mirror worker can match it with errors.Is and stop redelivering an identical pack ten times. A deadline (408/504) is availability, not size, so it stays retryable; classifying it permanent would let one target rolling restart permafail every large bootstrap in flight. Also stops discarding the bootstrap Result when Execute fails. The route facts (RelayMode, RelayReason, batch counts, temp refs, Plans) are set before anything can fail and describe the route rather than the outcome; zeroing them is why a failed sync could report its strategy only when it succeeded — the gap that made ENT-2054 a source read instead of a log query. Batching is recorded before checkpoint planning, whose commit-graph fetch is the likeliest failure for exactly the repos that batch, and unstable.Client.Bootstrap no longer throws the result away either. budgetFromObservation guards against escalating past a cutoff MEASURED from bytes actually sent (a middlebox that cuts without announcing) rather than one the target stated. It lives beside selfImposedBudget, which spans branches: provenance has to travel with the value, or a later branch escalates past a limit an earlier one demonstrated. It has no test coverage — a fixture I built did not bite when the guard was removed, and I deleted it rather than keep a test passing for reasons I could not explain. Verified on the rebased tree: full suite and golangci-lint green, Soph's cutover tests pass alongside these, and removing the escalation or treating a deadline as a size verdict each still break the new tests. Entire-Checkpoint: 01M1C4BS40PK95XMCB8MF5YH3Q+655/-26
0cf1d73Address review: pin the gate, the >= boundary, and the measured-cutoff guard The rewrite had no correctness bug, but mutation testing found it had deleted the only coverage of its own central claim. Three mutants survived the whole suite; all three now fail. The gate itself was untested: dropping `isIndivisibleCheckpoint` from the ceiling decision left every test green, so nothing pinned that ONLY an unsplittable checkpoint escalates. That mutant pushes every checkpoint at the announced ceiling with no margin and no projection, silently destroying the bound on wasted upload that is the entire reason TargetMaxPack is small. The deleted budget-leak test had been the closest thing to coverage. Replaced with a divisible span that must still abort at the small budget. The >= boundary was untested too. An in-batching rejection ratchets the budget down to the announced limit, leaving them equal, and escalating there still sheds the 95% margin and the projection — a pack sized inside that last 5% would otherwise abort on every delivery forever. Now pinned by a pack at 97.8% of an announced limit the run learns from its own one-shot rejection. And the measured-cutoff guard is covered at last. The reviewer worked out why my earlier fixture could not bite: on a one-commit chain the guard is structurally unreachable, because any failure that would set it ends the run on that same checkpoint and no later iteration remains to read it — and a pusher that never drains leaves sentBytes at 0, so it is never set at all. Reaching it needs two commits: a divisible span to take the observation, then an indivisible one to consult it. Their fixture, with that reasoning recorded in the test so the next person does not repeat the dead end. Note for anyone mutation-testing this file: removing the guard from the condition makes the variable unused, so that mutant does not compile and a grep for test failures reports a false negative. Keep it referenced. Also fixes three comments left describing the retry this design removed — including a dangling paragraph about the deleted relaxedBudget fused onto the new comment — and emits the announced-ceiling notice once per branch rather than per push, since the ceiling is now chosen per push and an uneven-gap stretch would otherwise repeat it for packs nowhere near either number. The structured log still records every push. Entire-Checkpoint: 01M1C4M6DRCWHBCR4MNJ0X95YT+196/-16
677f073Let the target decide when a bootstrap checkpoint cannot be split further Rebased onto main after #117 (Soph's batched-cutover marker fix) and squashed: the five original commits were an iterative refinement of the same code, and resolving their conflicts one at a time against the moved main produced worse results than resolving the net change once. The review narrative lives in the PR discussion. Once subdivision bottoms out — checkpoints split BETWEEN commits, so at one commit per gap there is nothing left to split — a single commit whose pack exceeded git-sync's own budget failed the run. That budget is self-imposed and far below what the target accepts: TargetMaxPack defaults to 512 MiB while the target announces 10 GiB, and autoTargetMaxPackBytes derives 5 GiB from that announcement and then discards it for being larger than the default. So the run gave up against a number git-sync chose, having never asked the server. The mirror that motivated this dies exactly here. The batching budget stays small on purpose — it bounds the waste of a doomed push and makes the temp ref advance often, both of which require a smaller pack to be possible. On a one-commit gap neither is, so the ceiling for that push is the target's announced limit instead, chosen before the push rather than after a doomed attempt. This costs nothing: a ceiling is an abort threshold, not an upload size, so a pack that fits sends identical bytes either way — and it avoids fetching an indivisible multi-GiB commit twice. That gives the failure a verdict worth classifying. An abort against our own budget stays retryable: a larger budget or a raised server limit could still mirror the repo. A checkpoint that is indivisible AND refused by the target — a parsed body-limit rejection, or an attempt at its announced limit that still overshot — returns ErrCheckpointExceedsTargetLimit, aliased into the root package so the mirror worker can match it with errors.Is and stop redelivering an identical pack ten times. A deadline (408/504) is availability, not size, so it stays retryable; classifying it permanent would let one target rolling restart permafail every large bootstrap in flight. Also stops discarding the bootstrap Result when Execute fails. The route facts (RelayMode, RelayReason, batch counts, temp refs, Plans) are set before anything can fail and describe the route rather than the outcome; zeroing them is why a failed sync could report its strategy only when it succeeded — the gap that made ENT-2054 a source read instead of a log query. Batching is recorded before checkpoint planning, whose commit-graph fetch is the likeliest failure for exactly the repos that batch, and unstable.Client.Bootstrap no longer throws the result away either. budgetFromObservation guards against escalating past a cutoff MEASURED from bytes actually sent (a middlebox that cuts without announcing) rather than one the target stated. It lives beside selfImposedBudget, which spans branches: provenance has to travel with the value, or a later branch escalates past a limit an earlier one demonstrated. It has no test coverage — a fixture I built did not bite when the guard was removed, and I deleted it rather than keep a test passing for reasons I could not explain. Verified on the rebased tree: full suite and golangci-lint green, Soph's cutover tests pass alongside these, and removing the escalation or treating a deadline as a size verdict each still break the new tests. Entire-Checkpoint: 01M1C4BS40PK95XMCB8MF5YH3Q+655/-26
3e55d75Address review: pin the gate, the >= boundary, and the measured-cutoff guard The rewrite had no correctness bug, but mutation testing found it had deleted the only coverage of its own central claim. Three mutants survived the whole suite; all three now fail. The gate itself was untested: dropping `isIndivisibleCheckpoint` from the ceiling decision left every test green, so nothing pinned that ONLY an unsplittable checkpoint escalates. That mutant pushes every checkpoint at the announced ceiling with no margin and no projection, silently destroying the bound on wasted upload that is the entire reason TargetMaxPack is small. The deleted budget-leak test had been the closest thing to coverage. Replaced with a divisible span that must still abort at the small budget. The >= boundary was untested too. An in-batching rejection ratchets the budget down to the announced limit, leaving them equal, and escalating there still sheds the 95% margin and the projection — a pack sized inside that last 5% would otherwise abort on every delivery forever. Now pinned by a pack at 97.8% of an announced limit the run learns from its own one-shot rejection. And the measured-cutoff guard is covered at last. The reviewer worked out why my earlier fixture could not bite: on a one-commit chain the guard is structurally unreachable, because any failure that would set it ends the run on that same checkpoint and no later iteration remains to read it — and a pusher that never drains leaves sentBytes at 0, so it is never set at all. Reaching it needs two commits: a divisible span to take the observation, then an indivisible one to consult it. Their fixture, with that reasoning recorded in the test so the next person does not repeat the dead end. Note for anyone mutation-testing this file: removing the guard from the condition makes the variable unused, so that mutant does not compile and a grep for test failures reports a false negative. Keep it referenced. Also fixes three comments left describing the retry this design removed — including a dangling paragraph about the deleted relaxedBudget fused onto the new comment — and emits the announced-ceiling notice once per branch rather than per push, since the ceiling is now chosen per push and an uneven-gap stretch would otherwise repeat it for packs nowhere near either number. The structured log still records every push. Entire-Checkpoint: 01M1C4M6DRCWHBCR4MNJ0X95YT+196/-16