0.8.30

Release Notes

Four ways confer could lose a message while telling you it had sent it. Upgrade recommended.

Two independent consumer-side audits of 0.8.29, run by jarvis as part of an open-source readiness
sweep, each reproduced defects end to end with a fresh binary. Every one turned out to be the same
mistake wearing a different costume: a success value that nothing verified.

• A message reported as NOT sent could be delivered later, under a different message's id.
  commit_and_sync stages the message file and then commits it. When the commit failed but the
  git add had succeeded, the blob stayed in the index — and the failure path removed only the
  worktree file. The next append staged its own file and committed both, so a message confer had
  explicitly told you it did not send went out later, attached to an unrelated commit. Reproduced
  with a peer receiving both copies.

• A clone with a detached HEAD reported sent, exited 0, and confer sync said "up to date".
  The hub received nothing. rev_count swallowed every failure into 0, so pushed: 0 meant both
  "verified: nothing to push" and "I could not tell how much needed pushing" — the first is
  success, the second is an error wearing success's clothes. Detached, @{u} does not resolve, so
  every count failed and everything looked clear. Two appends could leave a clone ahead of a hub
  that had never heard either.

  A detached clone now refuses to write the message at all, which is deliberately harsher than
  reporting it as stuck. A commit made on a detached HEAD is on no branch, so re-attaching orphans
  it rather than flushing it — any "we saved it, go fix your clone" message would have been a fresh
  false statement in the same place as the old one. You get a clean "did NOT send" and retry.

• Every rebase conflict was reported as "the hub was busy/offline — it will auto-sync." That is
  never true of a conflict, and the advice steers you away from the one thing that clears it.
  Conflicts, a lost upstream and a detached clone are now a distinct stranded state: committed
  locally, and it will not self-heal. confer sync says so instead of reassuring you, and its
  "up to date" is now a claim it has actually earned.

  Relatedly, a rebase that hits the 15-second timeout now aborts before reporting. It used to
  return first, leaving the clone mid-rebase and detached — which is how a clone reached the silent
  state above with nobody doing anything wrong. A slow rebase was enough.

• An offline confer done wrote the auto-claim and never the close. Closing an unclaimed
  request writes a claim first; that claim returned an error for committed-but-not-yet-pushed, and
  the close was abandoned on it. Once the clone caught up, the board showed the request claimed
  by the agent that had just closed it. Writing neither would have been recoverable; writing only
  the claim is the worse half. Both now land, and both flush together on the next sync.

Also: the "the clone may be busy, retry" hint used to be appended to every send failure, including
the ones a retry cannot fix. It now travels with the busy error itself, so the remedy always matches
the cause.

Internally, Committed gained a third state and rev_count returns a Result — after which the
compiler enumerated every call site that had been quietly wrong. That is the fix that generalises:
the type, not the vigilance.

Each defect was reproduced against released 0.8.29 before being fixed, and every regression test was
re-run against the unfixed code to confirm it actually fails there. One test that did not — it passed
either way — was rewritten until it did.

Install confer-cli 0.8.30

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/codeshrew/confer/releases/download/v0.8.30/confer-cli-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install codeshrew/tap/confer

Download confer-cli 0.8.30

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