diff --git a/04-ISSUES/245-status-calls-a-module-behind-when-only-its-repository-moved/00-report.md b/04-ISSUES/245-status-calls-a-module-behind-when-only-its-repository-moved/00-report.md index e1eb263..2b7021d 100644 --- a/04-ISSUES/245-status-calls-a-module-behind-when-only-its-repository-moved/00-report.md +++ b/04-ISSUES/245-status-calls-a-module-behind-when-only-its-repository-moved/00-report.md @@ -32,10 +32,19 @@ reads behind. The list then says nothing about what needs building: it hides the really are behind among the many that are not, and it invites a rebuild of everything, which is not a harmless act (above). +## The operator's direction (2026-10-05) + +The only truth is the outcome of the build plan. A plan already decides, from a change, which modules +it affects: those whose sources changed and those that depend on them, tier by tier. "Behind" means +a module that a plan has decided to rebuild and has not yet rebuilt or rolled out, and nothing else. +No second comparison beside the plan is made, whether of commits, of folders or of files, because a +second answer to the same question is how the two came to disagree. + ## Open questions -1. Should "behind" compare the module's own sources, its path and whatever its build reads, between - the commit it was built from and the repository's head, the way a plan already decides what to - rebuild? A module whose files did not change could then simply move its recorded commit forward. -2. Should `build --behind` use the same comparison, so it can never rebuild an unchanged module? -3. Should `status` show only the modules an open plan has not yet rebuilt? +1. Where does `status` read "behind" from today, and what replaces it: the open plans' remaining + tiers? +2. What does a module's recorded commit mean once a plan that leaves it untouched has run? Does it + move forward, or does the record stop carrying a commit that only says when it was last built? +3. Should `build --behind` and `push --behind` take their lists from the same place, so that they can + never act on a module no plan named?