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Cover the post-walk cancellation guard with a test that reaches it
TestSyncScanCancelledWalkKeepsRecords handed syncScan a context that
was already cancelled. loadIndex is the first thing syncScan does, and
its QueryContext fails on that context, so the scan returned before
startWalk was ever called: no walk ran, no pool started, no write path
was reachable, and all three of the test's assertions held for the
wrong reason. The post-walk ctx.Err() guard, which is the highest-stakes
line in the change, had no coverage at all — a panic in its body, or
deleting it outright, left the suite green.

Replace it with TestSyncScanCancelledMidWalkKeepsRecords, which cancels
during the walk and so reaches the guard holding a genuinely partial
census and a still-populated record index. The cancellation is driven
by the scan's own progress rather than by a timer: walkClock is a
context that cancels itself once its Done method has been consulted a
set number of times, and since every blocking channel operation in the
walk selects on Done — one consultation per event, a couple per
directory, against the index load's fixed three — a threshold set to a
quarter of the fixture's file count lands the cancellation deep inside
the walk on every run. The census settles at around 380 of 2000 files,
leaving some 1600 records that a complete-looking census would have
handed to the update phase as deletions.

The already-cancelled case is kept, renamed to what it actually tests
and with its goroutine assertion dropped, since nothing that could leak
is ever started.

Direct tests cover the remaining cancellation branches of both pools:
sendEvent abandoning a blocked send, walk workers dropping queued
directories, a walk worker abandoning its subdirectory hand-off,
dispatchDirs closing jobs on its way out, feedHashJobs doing the same,
hashWorker dropping queued runs, and hashPhase leaving its result loop.
Each is deterministic — the channels involved are unbuffered, unread or
pre-filled, so the cancellation case is the only one that can be ready.

Also correct two overstated claims. The hashLeakFiles comment described
a mechanism that does not occur: the surplus is absorbed exactly by the
two pool channels plus the workers in flight, so the feeder drains and
exits, and what an abandoned pool leaves parked is the workers and the
goroutine waiting on them. And the guard is defence in depth, not the
sole barrier against data loss: the update phase's BeginTx fails on the
same cancelled context before deleting anything today. The guard is
what keeps that true once an interrupted scan is allowed to commit what
it has.
2026-08-09 05:12:43 +00:00

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# Workflow
- take an issue from the `1.0.0` milestone on the tracker; work not
yet on the tracker gets filed as an issue first
- branch (from `main`)
- do the work, with tests, in small focused commits
- record it at the top of Completed Steps (`TODO.md` changes in the
same commit as the work)
- push the branch and open a PR whose title ends with
` (closes #N)`
- an independent review gates the merge; every finding is addressed
or explicitly rebutted on the PR
- merge to `main` once the review passes
# Status
- pre-1.0
- the Gitea tracker is authoritative for the pre-1.0 backlog: the
open issues under the `1.0.0` milestone are what remains before
the tag, and this file records history and process, not the queue
# Next Step
- take the next issue from the `1.0.0` milestone on the tracker:
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/milestone/17 — the milestone is
the source of truth for what is left before 1.0.0. Individual
issues are deliberately not restated here; a copy in this file
drifts out of date the moment the tracker moves
# Completed Steps
- unwind the hash worker pool on the error path (2026-08-09, branch
`hash-pool-cleanup`, closes #6): `hashPhase` used to return the
moment `recordRun` failed and abandon the pool — the feeder parked
forever on a full `jobs` channel and every worker on a full
`results` channel. That only stopped being invisible when #4 landed
and `runScan` began unwinding instead of calling `os.Exit`. The
pool is now an owned, context-aware `hashPool`: every blocking send
in the feeder and the workers selects on `ctx.Done()`, `jobs` is
closed on every path out, and `hashPhase` defers `pool.stop()`,
which cancels and then drains `results` until the last goroutine
has exited — draining is what frees a worker already parked on a
send. `ctx` is threaded from `cmd.Context()` through `runScan`,
`syncScan`, both worker pools and the whole database layer (it is
the first parameter everywhere), so #5 can hand this path a signal
and needs to add nothing else. The walk pool never leaked, because
`walkPhase` always drains its events to close, but it has the same
unbounded-send shape and #5 will give it an early return, so it
gets the same treatment plus a `ctx.Err()` guard after the walk: a
cancelled walk yields a partial size census, and every file it never
reached looks vanished to the update phase. That phase's own
`BeginTx` fails on the same cancelled context before deleting
anything, so the guard is defence in depth rather than the only
barrier — but it is the one that survives #5 deciding an interrupted
scan may commit what it has. Tests drive `run(scan)` against a
database whose insert trigger aborts, and assert both that the scan
fails instead of hanging and that `runtime.NumGoroutine()` polls
back to its pre-scan baseline; a second set cancels a scan part-way
through the walk — deterministically, by counting the scan's own
consultations of `ctx.Done()` rather than racing a timer — and
asserts that it stops at the guard holding a partial census and a
still-populated record index, with every record intact. The
remaining cancellation branches of both pools are covered by direct
tests of `sendEvent`, the walk workers, `dispatchDirs`,
`feedHashJobs`, `hashWorker` and `hashPhase`
- guarantee the database is closed on every fatal exit path
(2026-08-09, branch `db-close-on-fatal`, closes #4): `fatalf` and
its `os.Exit(1)` are gone, so the deferred `db.Close()` — and with
it the SQLite WAL checkpoint — now actually runs when a subcommand
fails; `runScan`, `runReport`, `runTrees`, `loadRecords` and
`resolveRoots` return errors instead. The single exit point is `run`
in `main.go`: it maps a `fatalError` (anything a subcommand
returned) to exit 1 and cobra's own argument and flag errors to exit
2, which keeps a runtime failure from being reported as a usage
error or printing the usage text. New `main_test.go` drives the CLI
in-process and asserts the exit codes from README §Error handling
plus the stdout/stderr split, including that a fatal error raised
after the database is open leaves no `-wal`/`-shm` sidecar behind
for `scan`, `report` or `trees`
- update golangci-lint to v2.12.2 with the canonical config
(2026-08-09, branch `golangci-v2.12.2`, merged as `38a01bd`,
closes #3): bumped the pinned linter in the `Dockerfile` lint
stage and `script/bootstrap` from v2.12.1 to v2.12.2, and replaced
`.golangci.yml` with the canonical file — the linter settings
(`lll`, `funlen`, `cyclop`, `dupl` thresholds) now live under
`linters.settings` per the v2 schema, so they are actually
applied; no new lint findings surfaced
- convert Makefile targets to scripts-to-rule-them-all `script/`
entrypoints like the other managed repos (2026-07-26, commit
`3abeacf`, closes #1): all 12 `script/` entrypoints exist
(`bootstrap`, `setup`, `projectname`, `test`, `lint`, `fmt`,
`fmt-check`, `check`, `docker`, `cibuild`, `precommit`,
`install-precommit`) and every Makefile target is now a thin shim
over them, matching the other managed repos
- make the binary the default Make target (2026-07-24, branch
`make-default-target`): plain `make` now builds `sfdupes`
(previously it ran `check` plus `build`); `make build` remains as
an alias
- scan-wide phases, concurrent operands, batched updates (2026-07-24,
branch `scan-wide-phases`): all operands seed the shared walk pool
and every pass runs once over the whole scan, so totals and ETAs
are scan-global; the per-operand walk/hash/update cycles and their
stderr announcements are gone; the update pass commits in batched
transactions — the filesystem is authoritative and the database an
eventually-consistent reflection, so scan-level atomicity is not
required
- split the stat pass back out of the walk (2026-07-24, branch
`parallel-phases`): phases are strictly sequential again — walk,
stat, hash, update per operand — with parallelism only inside each
phase; the walk enumerates paths with per-directory workers and the
stat pass lstats them with per-file workers, restoring the exact
total/ETA stat bar
- announce each operand on stderr before its passes (2026-07-24,
branch `scan-operand-progress`): with per-operand walk/hash/update
cycles, a multi-operand run (e.g. `scan /srv/*`) showed pass totals
that looked like the whole run's — an operator watching operand 3 of
14 hash 300k files concluded 20M files were being skipped
- parallel walk (2026-07-24, branch `parallel-walk`): the walk pass
was a single goroutine and took hours at ~20M files on a busy pool
(observed: 22M files in 4h on a ZFS server); it is now a
per-directory worker-pool traversal that records size/mtime during
the walk (folding away the separate stat pass, halving metadata
I/O), and each `PATH` operand commits in its own transaction so an
interrupted scan keeps completed operands
- persistent scan database (2026-07-24, branch `persistent-database`):
`scan` now maintains a SQLite database (`modernc.org/sqlite`, pure
Go, cgo stays disabled) keyed by absolute path that survives between
runs — a rescan hashes only new or changed files (by mtime/size),
deletes records for files vanished from under the scanned operands,
and leaves records outside them untouched, so `scan` can be cronned
daily; `report` and `trees` read the database (no positional
arguments) instead of a scan stream. Database at
`/var/lib/sfdupes/db.sqlite`, overridable via `SFDUPES_DATABASE`;
WAL journaling plus a single-transaction update keep a report run
during a scan safe
- add the `origin` remote (`git@git.eeqj.de:sneak/sfdupes.git`), tag
`v0.0.1`, and push `main` plus tags (2026-07-23)
- `scan` CLI rework (2026-07-23, branch `scan-required-paths`): required
`PATH...` operands via cobra flags replacing the `/srv` `-root`
default; new `-x`/`--one-file-system` flag (GNU convention) to stop
at filesystem boundaries, which are crossed by default
- bring the repo into full policy compliance (2026-07-23, branch
`repo-policy-compliance`; checklist below)
- `git init` with README-only first commit; code baseline committed on
`main` (2026-07-22)
- implement `scan`, `report`, and `trees` subcommands (pre-git history)
# Future Steps
- possible later features (explicitly out of scope per README):
full-content verification of candidates, removal-script helpers
# Repo Policy Compliance
Audited 2026-07-22 against `REPO_POLICIES.md` (2026-07-06), the existing
repo checklist, and the Go styleguide. Code is already gofmt-clean, so no
standalone formatting commit is needed.
- [x] `.gitignore` missing — the compiled `sfdupes` binary and
`files.dat` sit untracked in the tree; needs OS/editor/Go
artifacts plus secrets patterns
- [x] `.editorconfig` missing
- [x] `LICENSE` missing and README has no License section (MIT assumed
from house convention — user to confirm)
- [x] `REPO_POLICIES.md` missing from repo root
- [x] `.golangci.yml` missing (install canonical copy); code must then
pass `make lint` (150 findings fixed; `make lint` is clean)
- [x] `Makefile` lacks required targets `test`, `lint`, `fmt`,
`fmt-check`, `docker`, `hooks`; `check` currently depends on
`build`, which writes the binary (`make check` must not modify
files)
- [x] no tests — `go test ./...` has nothing to run; policy requires
real tests with a 30-second timeout and the conditional `-v`
rerun pattern (suite covers parsing, grouping, digests,
suppression, hashing, and the scan pipeline; 64% coverage)
- [x] `Dockerfile` missing — Go multistage with hash-pinned images:
fail-fast lint stage, build stage running `make check`
- [x] `.dockerignore` missing
- [x] `.gitea/workflows/check.yml` missing (`docker build .` on push,
checkout action pinned by commit SHA)
- [x] README lacks required sections: Description first line
(name/purpose/category/license/author), Getting Started,
Rationale, TODO, License, Author
- [x] README non-goal "no git repository setup and no CI" is stale now
that the repo is under git with CI
- [x] pre-commit hook not installed (`make hooks` once the target
exists)
Accepted divergences (no action):
- flat single-package layout with `.go` files in the repo root — fine
for a small single-binary tool per the Go styleguide; the tracker
audit agrees
- `go test` runs without `-race` — the repo mandates `CGO_ENABLED=0`
(pure-Go builds) and the race detector requires cgo