feat(land): add targets, policy and the landing queue by PiquelChips · Pull Request #13 · sourceorigin-dev/origin

PiquelChips · 2026-10-18T16:02:56Z

Changes could be made and annotated, but nothing moved a target after init.

What origin land does:

Rebase. It rebases a change, and the changes below it, onto the target's tip with a three-way merge at path level.
Merge base. When one target lands on another, the base comes from both histories: their best common ancestors, merged recursively when there are several, as git's recursive strategy does. Wherever the bases disagree on whether a path is a file or a directory, any change under that path conflicts.
Policy check. It checks the statements policy.toml requires against the policy in force. Results whose input digest still matches are promoted first, and only checked claims count.
Acceptance. It appends an acceptance signed by the target's authority, one per change, bottom of the stack first.
Refusals. Divergent changes, abandoned ones and revisions with unresolved conflicts are refused. Only the authority lands.
Policy edits. A landing on policy is judged by the policy before it, never by the one it brings (Policy::governing).
Waiting. A conflict issues core.conflict. A landing that lacks evidence waits in a durable queue, and a stack that waits is kept whole.

Conflicts are explicit state:

A merge (converge, the queue, and later pull) writes conflict markers into text files. It issues a core.conflict listing each conflicted path and the exact content written there.
A path is resolved once a later revision changes it, or with the new origin resolve <path>….
Every operation that makes a revision carries unresolved paths forward.
The statements are written before the revision, so nothing can find the revision without its conflicts, even after a crash.
Markers are only an editing aid: origin never scans files for them.

Targets and policy:

origin target new forks a target, and origin land --from <a> --onto <b> lands one target on another.
policy.toml gets its schema: nodes, groups, per-target authority and requirements, and path rules. It is validated, so a policy landing can never lock policy up. [retention] comes in feat(policy): drop statement payloads past their retention #37.

Benchmarks:

	Time
Landing on the tip	15.7 ms
Rebased landing	24.7 ms
Target onto target, 2,000 acceptances of history	40 ms

Throughput is about 41 landings per second whatever the number of proposers, because landings on a target are serialized. Batching comes later.

Review fixes: a missing conflict list fails closed. A target merge that changes nothing still records the source's tip when the destination's history lacks it, unless either tip already contains the other. A change the target already has moves the working copy onto the tip. land --status skips landings that finish while it reads. Conflict markers label merged heads honestly. Proved with focused tests that fail without their fix, and just (332 tests).

Reviewed with review-loop: 2 rounds with 2× GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5. Verdict: approved

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Landing and target management

Added origin target new, origin targets, origin new --on <target>, and origin land commands. Landing supports changes, target tips, and queue status.
Added a durable landing queue. It serializes landings per target, processes change stacks from the bottom up, and retains blocked work for retry.
Added target authority checks. Only the configured authority can land on a target.
Added policy checks for required evidence. The queue promotes eligible results before checking requirements. Only qualifying checked claims count as evidence.
Added signed acceptances for successful landings. A landing on the policy target uses the preceding policy to govern the change.
Added policy and history checks that refuse divergent, abandoned, or unresolved-conflict revisions.

Policy and merge behavior

Added policy.toml parsing and validation for nodes, groups, target authorities, requirements, and ordered path rules. Path rules are parsed but are not enforced by the merge implementation.
Added policy inheritance for target authority and policy-chain validation.
Added path-level tree merges, including marked merges for readable text conflicts and conflict tracking for other conflicts.
Added ancestry traversal and recursive merge-base handling for histories with multiple best common ancestors. Target landings use shared acceptance ancestry.
Added conflict state in core.conflict statements. Unresolved paths can persist across revisions, and origin resolve <path>… records selected paths as resolved. Conflict markers are editing aids; conflict state is tracked in statements.

Workspace, APIs, and supporting changes

Updated workspace initialization, status, convergence, and revision operations to preserve and report conflict state.
Added public ancestry, conflict, policy, and queue modules, plus tree merge APIs and acceptance lookup by sequence.
Updated annotation promotion APIs to accept a RecordId.
Added parsing for NodePublicKey and Verdict.
Added landing benchmarks and documented the new commands and workflows. The PR description reports landing timings and throughput; these figures are author-reported.

Validation status

The supplied information describes added tests and benchmarks, but does not provide test-run results. Current review severity counts were not supplied.

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AGENTS.md
README.md
apps/origin-src/Cargo.toml
apps/origin-src/benches/annotations.rs
apps/origin-src/benches/land.rs
apps/origin-src/src/ancestry.rs
apps/origin-src/src/annotations/mod.rs
apps/origin-src/src/annotations/promotion.rs
apps/origin-src/src/cli.rs
apps/origin-src/src/conflict.rs
apps/origin-src/src/lib.rs
apps/origin-src/src/policy.rs
apps/origin-src/src/queue.rs
apps/origin-src/src/store/mod.rs
apps/origin-src/src/targets.rs
apps/origin-src/src/tree.rs
apps/origin-src/src/workspace/annotate.rs
apps/origin-src/src/workspace/land.rs
apps/origin-src/src/workspace/mod.rs
apps/origin-src/tests/cli.rs
crates/origin-shared/src/object/acceptance.rs
crates/origin-shared/src/object/mod.rs
crates/origin-shared/src/object/statement.rs
docs/design.md

Walkthrough

The changes add tree and ancestry merging, conflict tracking, policy parsing, and a persistent landing queue. Workspace and CLI commands support landing changes and targets, resolving conflicts, and converging divergent heads. New tests and benchmarks cover these flows.

Changes: Landing and merge workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Merge ancestry and conflict data `apps/origin-src/src/ancestry.rs`, `apps/origin-src/src/conflict.rs`, `apps/origin-src/src/tree.rs`, `apps/origin-src/src/lib.rs`	Tree merge operations combine nonconflicting changes and record conflicts. Ancestry lookup finds shared merge bases, including multiple best bases. Conflict records track affected paths and whether their recorded entries remain unchanged.
Policy and evidence contracts `apps/origin-src/src/policy.rs`, `apps/origin-src/src/annotations/`, `crates/origin-shared/src/object/`	Policy parsing validates node keys, groups, target rules, requirements, and path rules. Public-key and verdict values gain string parsing. Promotion methods accept record subjects, and the promotion benchmarks and tests use revision records.
Queue landing and persistence `apps/origin-src/src/queue.rs`, `apps/origin-src/src/store/mod.rs`, `apps/origin-src/src/targets.rs`, `apps/origin-src/benches/land.rs`, `apps/origin-src/Cargo.toml`, `AGENTS.md`	The queue lands change stacks and target tips, checks policy authority and evidence, and records pending landings when blocked. Store helpers read queue paths and target acceptances. Landing benchmarks cover rebasing, required evidence, target merges, and concurrent proposers.
Workspace conflict lifecycle `apps/origin-src/src/workspace/mod.rs`, `apps/origin-src/src/cli.rs`, `apps/origin-src/tests/cli.rs`, `README.md`	Workspace revisions retain unresolved conflicts. `converge` merges files across heads and records conflicts; `resolve` accepts selected paths as they are. CLI tests cover text and binary conflicts, conflict persistence, and resolution.
Workspace and CLI landing commands `apps/origin-src/src/workspace/land.rs`, `apps/origin-src/src/workspace/mod.rs`, `apps/origin-src/src/cli.rs`, `apps/origin-src/tests/cli.rs`, `README.md`	Workspace and CLI commands land changes and targets, report pending landings, list and create targets, and start changes on target tips. Tests cover landing stacks, policy requirements, authority checks, target forks, and conflicting landings.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workspace
  participant Queue
  participant Policy
  participant Store
  Workspace->>Queue: submit a change or target landing
  Queue->>Store: read proposal and target history
  Queue->>Policy: check authority and requirements
  Policy-->>Queue: return policy rules
  alt checks pass
    Queue->>Store: append target acceptance
  else evidence or conflicts block landing
    Queue->>Store: persist pending landing
  end
  Queue-->>Workspace: return landing outcome

Possibly related issues

piquel-fr/origin#25 and piquel-fr/origin#30: Both concern follow-up structure-aware or line-level merging for the path-level merge behavior added here.

Possibly related PRs

piquel-fr/origin#5: Changes the landing methods and queue behavior introduced here to route through a remote.
piquel-fr/origin#14: Modifies landing interfaces and behavior introduced here, including acceptance_at and workspace landing.
piquel-fr/origin#2: Adds store and target-log foundations used by the landing and acceptance lookup changes here.

Suggested labels: area: cli

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 282ea

Resolve the deletion-handling and policy-check gaps before merging. Later landings can silently retain deleted files, and missing conflict data can allow unresolved revisions through. Status listing and conflict labels also need bounded corrections.

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apps/origin-src/src/tree.rs: 1

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Add a merge test for a file deleted on one side and replaced by a directory on the other.

The directory branch in merge_dir treats a file entry as an absent subtree through TreeEntry::subtree. When the base has file p, ours lacks p, and theirs has the directory p/child, the merge returns theirs's directory with no conflict. No merge test in tree.rs covers a file base in this branch, so a regression in that handling would not fail any existing test. The proposed test pins the clean result, which follows the file-level rule in the merge documentation.

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     #[test]
+    fn merges_file_deleted_on_one_side_over_directory_on_the_other() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let store = Store::new(dir.path().join(".origin"), Native::default());
+        store.init().unwrap();
+        let base = build(&store, &[("p", "p")]);
+        let ours = build(&store, &[]);
+        let theirs = build(&store, &[("p/child", "c")]);
+        let merge = store.merge(Some(base), ours, theirs).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(merge.conflicts, Conflicts::default());
+        let expected = build(&store, &[("p/child", "c")]);
+        assert_eq!(files(&store, merge.tree), files(&store, expected));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
     fn looks_entries_up_by_path() {

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Add a regression test alongside `conflicts_keep_ours` in the `tree.rs` tests for
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Review comments at @apps/origin-src/src/conflict.rs:
- Around line 191-195: Update Conflicts::listed to return an error when the
referenced core.conflict payload blob is missing instead of defaulting to empty
content. Preserve existing decoding and conflict parsing for present payloads so
Conflicts::of can report unresolved paths and Session::stack can refuse the
revision.

Review comments at @apps/origin-src/src/queue.rs:
- Around line 333-342: Update the file read in `Queue::pending` to treat
`NotFound` as a landing that is no longer waiting and continue to the next path.
Preserve the existing `StoreError::io` behavior for all other read errors.
- Around line 278-281: Update the `land_target` path that handles a merged tree
equal to the destination: record the unchanged target landing as an acceptance
in the destination’s history instead of forgetting the proposal without a
record. Preserve the existing behavior for merges that change the destination.
- Around line 299-312: Update create_target to validate the new target’s policy
requirements against the source before writing its first AcceptanceBody, reusing
submit’s evidence-checking path where possible. Populate the initial acceptance
with the validated evidence and prevent it from being signed or appended when
requirements are unmet.
- Around line 538-545: Update follow so a working copy is rebased onto the tip
with its landed snapshot as the base when its change has a Landing::Unchanged
result. Reuse the existing rebase_onto_tip path before the Base::Revision
handling, preserving the current behavior for other landing results.

Review comments at @apps/origin-src/src/workspace/mod.rs:
- Around line 648-653: Update the `merge_marked` calls in the workspace merge
flow so each conflict side is labeled with the revision that actually supplied
its text. Track the provenance of the accumulated side across successive head
merges instead of always using `kept.short()`; for example, text from an earlier
head must carry that head’s label.

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Review comments at @apps/origin-src/src/tree.rs:
- Around line 588-605: Add a regression test alongside `conflicts_keep_ours` in
the `tree.rs` tests for a base file `p`, its deletion in `ours`, and a directory
containing `p/child` in `theirs`. Assert the merge has no conflicts and its
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`AGENTS.md`

`README.md`

`apps/origin-src/Cargo.toml`

`apps/origin-src/benches/annotations.rs`

`apps/origin-src/benches/land.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/ancestry.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/annotations/mod.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/annotations/promotion.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/cli.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/conflict.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/lib.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/policy.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/queue.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/store/mod.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/targets.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/tree.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/workspace/annotate.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/workspace/land.rs`

`apps/origin-src/src/workspace/mod.rs`

`apps/origin-src/tests/cli.rs`

`crates/origin-shared/src/object/acceptance.rs`

`crates/origin-shared/src/object/mod.rs`

`crates/origin-shared/src/object/statement.rs`

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Changes could be made and annotated, but nothing moved a target past `init`. The landing queue now lands them: `origin land` rebases a change and the changes below it onto the target's tip with a path-level three-way merge, checks the statements `policy.toml` requires against the policy in force (promoting results whose input digest still matches), and appends an acceptance signed by the target's authority, one per change. Only checked claims count as evidence, a promotion as its original's issuer. Conflicts issue `core.conflict`, and landings without evidence wait in a durable, enumerable queue until they're retried; a stack that waits is kept whole. Divergent changes, those abandoned by their creator and revisions with unresolved conflicts are refused, and only the authority lands. A landing on `policy` is governed by the acceptance before it, never by the policy it lands (`Policy::governing`). `policy.toml` gets its schema: nodes, groups, per-target authority and requirements, and path rules, validated so a policy landing can never lock `policy` up. Targets fork with `origin target new` and land on each other with `origin land --from`. Their merge base comes from both histories (`ancestry.rs`): the best common ancestors, merged recursively when there are several, and any change under a path the bases disagree on conflicts. Conflicts are explicit state. A merge (`converge` now merges every head's files) writes both versions of a conflicted text file between markers, and a `core.conflict` lists each conflicted path with what was written there. A path stays unresolved until a revision changes it or `origin resolve` accepts it, every revision-producing operation carries unresolved paths forward, and the statements are published before their revision, so nothing finds the revision without them. Markers are only an editing aid; nothing scans files for them.

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