omnigraph/docs/branches-commits.md
Ragnor Comerford 164bafbbe7
recovery: address PR #72 review findings
Bot reviewers (cubic, cursor, chatgpt-codex) caught 4 merge-blocking
bugs + 3 strongly-recommended fixes + 3 doc errors in the initial PR.
Each fix has a paired test demonstrating the bug before the fix.

Merge-blocking fixes:

- BranchMerge moved to loose-match classifier arm. publish_rewritten_
  merge_table runs multiple commit_staged calls per table (merge_insert
  + delete_where + index rebuilds). Strict classification rolled back
  valid completed Phase B work as UnexpectedMultistep. Three new unit
  tests pin the loose-match behavior for BranchMerge.

- branch_merge sidecar uses self.active_branch() (the resolved target
  branch) instead of inferring from the first sorted table key. The
  previous heuristic could record None (== main) when the merge target
  was a non-main branch, causing recovery to publish to the wrong
  manifest namespace.

- Best-effort sidecar delete in all 5 writer sites (mutation, loader,
  schema_apply, branch_merge, ensure_indices). Previously, a sidecar
  cleanup failure after a successful manifest publish would error out
  the user's call for a write that already landed. Now: log a warning
  and ignore — the next open's recovery sweep tidies the stale sidecar
  via NoMovement classification.

- ensure_indices sidecar scoped to tables that need work via new
  helpers needs_index_work_node / needs_index_work_edge. Previously
  the sidecar pinned every catalog table; if only one needed indexing,
  the others classified as NoMovement and the all-or-nothing decision
  rolled back legitimate index work.

Strongly-recommended fixes:

- recover_manifest_drift now takes &mut GraphCoordinator and refreshes
  between sidecars. Sidecar B's classification needs to see sidecar
  A's manifest changes, otherwise B can be classified against stale
  pins and incorrectly roll back work that just landed.

- list_sidecars sorts URIs before reading. Sidecar filenames are
  ULIDs (chronologically sortable), so this gives deterministic,
  time-ordered processing. Filesystem-order was nondeterministic.

- ReadOnly opens skip recover_schema_state_files too (was: only the
  MR-847 sweep was gated). Read-only consumers may run with read-only
  credentials; silent open-time mutations violate the contract.

Doc cleanups:

- Removed stale "Phase 4 placeholder" comment from
  recover_manifest_drift.
- docs/runs.md decision-tree wording now correctly surfaces the
  InvariantViolation abort path.
- docs/branches-commits.md clarifies actor_id is in
  _graph_commit_actors.lance (joined by graph_commit_id), not on
  _graph_commits.lance itself.

Test surface (post-fixes):
- 25 unit tests in db::manifest::recovery (+4 from this commit).
- 10 integration tests in tests/recovery.rs (+3 from this commit).
- ~672 tests across ~25 binaries pass with --features failpoints.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-03 12:21:40 +02:00

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# Branches, Commits, Snapshots
## L1 — Lance per-dataset branches
Lance supports branching at the dataset level: a branch is a named lineage of versions, and `fork_branch_from_state(source_branch, target_branch, source_version)` creates a copy-on-write fork.
## L2 — Graph-level branches
OmniGraph builds *graph branches* on top by branching every sub-table coherently:
- `branch_create(name)` / `branch_create_from(target, name)` — disallowed name `main`; fails if branch exists; ensures the schema-apply lock is idle.
- `branch_list()` — returns public branches, **filters internal** `__run__…` and `__schema_apply_lock__` prefixes.
- `branch_delete(name)` — refuses if there are descendants or active runs on the branch; cleans up owned per-branch fragments.
- **Lazy forking**: a branch only forks a sub-table when that sub-table is first mutated on it. Pure-read branches share fragments with their source.
- `sync_branch(branch)` — re-binds the in-memory handle to the latest head of the branch.
## L2 — Commit graph (`db/commit_graph.rs`)
In-memory shape of a graph commit:
```
GraphCommit {
graph_commit_id: ULID,
manifest_branch: Option<String>,
manifest_version: u64,
parent_commit_id: Option<String>,
merged_parent_commit_id: Option<String>, // populated for merge commits
actor_id: Option<String>, // joined in-memory from _graph_commit_actors.lance, NOT a column on _graph_commits.lance
created_at: i64 (microseconds since epoch),
}
```
Storage is split across two Lance datasets (both with stable row IDs):
- `_graph_commits.lance` — every column above *except* `actor_id`.
- `_graph_commit_actors.lance` — optional separate `(graph_commit_id, actor_id)` map, created on demand. The `actor_id` field above is populated by joining this dataset in-memory at load time.
Notes:
- Every successful publish (load / change / merge / schema_apply) appends one commit.
- Merge commits have two parents; linear commits have one.
- API: `list_commits(branch)`, `get_commit(id)`, `head_commit_id_for_branch(branch)`.
## L2 — Snapshots & time travel
- `snapshot()` — current snapshot for the bound branch; cached.
- `snapshot_of(target)` — snapshot at a `ReadTarget` (branch | snapshot id).
- `snapshot_at_version(v: u64)` — historical snapshot from any manifest version.
- `entity_at(table_key, id, version)` — single-entity time travel without building a full snapshot.
- A `Snapshot` is a `(version, HashMap<table_key, SubTableEntry>)` — cheap to build, snapshot-isolated cross-table reads.
## L2 — Internal system branches
Filtered from `branch_list()` but visible to internals:
- `__schema_apply_lock__` — serializes schema migrations.
- `__run__<run-id>` — legacy from the pre-v0.4.0 Run state machine (removed in MR-771). The branch-name guard predicate `is_internal_run_branch` is kept as defense-in-depth so users cannot create a branch matching the legacy prefix; the filter will be removed once production legacy branches are swept (MR-770).
## L2 — Recovery audit trail (MR-847)
The four migrated writers (`MutationStaging::finalize`, `schema_apply`, `branch_merge`, `ensure_indices`) protect their multi-table commits with a sidecar at `__recovery/{ulid}.json` written before Phase B and deleted after Phase C. The next `Omnigraph::open` (gated on `OpenMode::ReadWrite`) runs the recovery sweep in `crates/omnigraph/src/db/manifest/recovery.rs`: classify per-table state, decide all-or-nothing per sidecar, roll forward / back, record an audit row.
Audit rows live in `_graph_commit_recoveries.lance` (sibling to `_graph_commits.lance`) and reference the commit graph by `graph_commit_id`. The linked recovery commit is identified by that same `graph_commit_id`, and `actor_id="omnigraph:recovery"` is stored in `_graph_commit_actors.lance` (joined by `graph_commit_id`) — `_graph_commits.lance` itself does not carry the `actor_id` column. To find recoveries for a specific original actor: `omnigraph commit list --filter actor=omnigraph:recovery`, then join to `_graph_commit_recoveries.lance` by `graph_commit_id` to read `recovery_for_actor`. Schema: see `crates/omnigraph/src/db/recovery_audit.rs`.