Walk a stopped walk's merges again in the open batch, in one act, and say what stays on the machines (review of #232, hq issue 459)

A new batch beside the open one walked an older commit after a newer one, and a
stop that failed partway could leave a merge on two plans. A module shared with
the stopped merge, built at its branch, would deliver it; it is left out or
withheld. A batch not yet cut can drop a merge, so mesh-delivery can stop a
merge walked again. The stopped walk names what it left on which machines.

cmd/mesh-controller/batches.go

@@ -367,7 +367,13 @@ func keepBatch(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, b *inventory.Plan,
 	}
 	closes, latest := windowOf(merges, b.Created, window, atMost)
 	b.Delivery.Merges = named
-	b.Delivery.Batch = &inventory.PlanBatch{ClosesAt: closes, AtMost: latest, Behind: behind, Own: b.OwnPath()}
+	var closed bool
+	var withheld []string
+	if was := b.Delivery.Batch; was != nil {
+		closed, withheld = was.Closed, was.Withheld // a stop's, which no look takes back (novox/hq ADR 0299)
+	}
+	b.Delivery.Batch = &inventory.PlanBatch{ClosesAt: closes, AtMost: latest, Behind: behind, Own: b.OwnPath(),
+		Closed: closed, Withheld: withheld}
 	b.State = inventory.PlanAssembling
 	if behind != "" && windowClosed(*b, now) {
 		b.State = inventory.PlanQueued
@@ -402,7 +408,7 @@ func windowClosed(b inventory.Plan, now time.Time) bool {
 		return true
 	}
 	w := b.Delivery.Batch
-	return !now.Before(w.ClosesAt) || !now.Before(w.AtMost)
+	return w.Closed || !now.Before(w.ClosesAt) || !now.Before(w.AtMost)
 }
 
 // carriedOf is a set of merges as a walk carries them: the latest merge of each repository's branch, and
@@ -763,6 +769,15 @@ func planBatch(ctx context.Context, open *stores, batch *inventory.Plan, carry [
 	sort.Strings(also)
 	ordered := groupOrderEdges(members, entries, read, edges)
 	plan := planOfMoves(moved, append(append([]inventory.Edge{}, edges...), ordered...))
+	// **Withheld, a stopped merge's modules** (novox/hq ADR 0299): a module is built at its branch, which holds the
+	// merge a stop left out of the walk these merges were walked again from — built here only as a dependent, it
+	// would deliver that merge. One a merge of this batch moves is built: that merge carries the stopped change,
+	// and the stop named it.
+	if batch.Delivery != nil && batch.Delivery.Batch != nil {
+		if out := withhold(&plan, batch.Delivery.Batch.Withheld, moved); len(out) > 0 {
+			fmt.Printf("  withheld, a stopped merge's modules built only as dependents: %s\n", strings.Join(out, ", "))
+		}
+	}
 	plan.ID, plan.Revision, plan.Created, plan.Epoch = batch.ID, batch.Revision, now, batch.Epoch
 	plan.Commits = commits
 	newest := newestCommit(commits)
@@ -823,6 +838,39 @@ func planBatch(ctx context.Context, open *stores, batch *inventory.Plan, carry [
 	return nil
 }
 
+// withhold takes from a plan every module named that its merges do not move, and the tiers left empty: the
+// modules taken.
+func withhold(plan *inventory.Plan, names, moved []string) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, n := range names {
+		if _, in := plan.Modules[n]; in && !slices.Contains(moved, n) {
+			delete(plan.Modules, n)
+			out = append(out, n)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(out) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var tiers [][]string
+	for _, t := range plan.Tiers {
+		var kept []string
+		for _, n := range t {
+			if !slices.Contains(out, n) {
+				kept = append(kept, n)
+			}
+		}
+		if len(kept) > 0 {
+			tiers = append(tiers, kept)
+		}
+	}
+	if tiers == nil {
+		tiers = [][]string{}
+	}
+	plan.Tiers = tiers
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out
+}
+
 // walkTimesAtCut is a walk's own moments as it is cut (novox/hq ADR 0282 decision 6): when its batch's window
 // closed — no merge for the window's length, or its maximum, whichever came first — when it was cut, and its
 // class. A merge walked alone had no window.

cmd/mesh-controller/delivery.go

@@ -121,22 +121,35 @@ func stopWalk(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, id, by, why string)
 	return p, err
 }
 
-// stopAnswer is what a stop that leaves merges out says, as data (novox/hq ADR 0299): the walk stopped, the
-// batch that walks its other merges again, those merges as `<repository>@<commit>`, and every merge left out.
+// stopAnswer is what a stop that leaves merges out says, as data (novox/hq ADR 0299): the record stopped, the
+// batch that walks its other merges again with those merges, every merge left out, the modules the stopped walk
+// already sent that stay on the machines named, the modules the batch's walk withholds, and every merge elsewhere
+// that will deliver a stopped change when it is walked — a later merge of its repository, or one moving its modules.
 type stopAnswer struct {
-	Stopped       string                  `json:"stopped"`
-	WalkedAgainBy string                  `json:"walked_again_by,omitempty"`
-	WalkedAgain   []string                `json:"walked_again,omitempty"`
-	LeftOut       []inventory.PlanLeftOut `json:"left_out,omitempty"`
+	Stopped        string                  `json:"stopped"`
+	WalkedAgainBy  string                  `json:"walked_again_by,omitempty"`
+	WalkedAgain    []string                `json:"walked_again,omitempty"`
+	LeftOut        []inventory.PlanLeftOut `json:"left_out,omitempty"`
+	Kept           []inventory.PlanKept    `json:"kept,omitempty"`
+	Withheld       []string                `json:"withheld,omitempty"`
+	StillCarriedBy []string                `json:"still_carried_by,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // stopWalkWithout ends a walk on its delivery's word and, given merges to leave out, walks every other merge it
-// answered again in a fresh batch without them (novox/hq issue 459, ADR 0299): one walk carries every merge of its
-// batch, so ending it for one group member ended every other delivery on it. Left out are the merges named and
-// each later merge of their repository's branch, which contains one of them and cannot be walked without
-// delivering it. The fresh batch's window is closed — its merges were heard before — and it is cut by the usual
-// rules, as a failed walk's merges are walked again (ADR 0276 decision 3). With nothing left to walk, or no merge
-// named, the walk is only ended. A merge named that the walk does not answer refuses the stop whole.
+// answered again without them (novox/hq issue 459, ADR 0299): one walk carries every merge of its batch, so ending
+// it for one group member ended every other delivery on it.
+//
+//   - Left out are the merges named, each later merge of their repository's branch, which contains one, and each
+//     merge moving a module a left-out merge moves: a module is built at its branch, which holds the stopped merge.
+//   - The others join the open batch of their kind — merges heard while the walk ran wait there, and an older
+//     commit never walks after a newer one — or a new batch when none is open; its window is closed, and its walk
+//     withholds the left-out merges' modules where it would build them only as dependents.
+//   - Given a batch not yet cut, the merges left out leave it for a stopped record of their own, and the batch
+//     goes on without them; with nothing left in it, the batch itself is stopped.
+//   - The stopped record, the batch and every merge moved are written in one transaction (decision 7).
+//
+// With nothing left to walk, or no merge named, the walk is only ended. A merge named that the record does not
+// answer refuses the stop whole.
 func stopWalkWithout(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, id, by, why string, without []string,
 	now time.Time) (inventory.Plan, stopAnswer, error) {
 	said := stopAnswer{Stopped: id}
@@ -149,94 +162,158 @@ func stopWalkWithout(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, id, by, why
 	if err != nil {
 		return inventory.Plan{}, said, err
 	}
-	if !p.Open() {
+	batch := p.Batch()
+	if !p.Open() && !(batch && len(without) > 0) {
 		return p, said, fmt.Errorf("%s is already %s", p.ID, p.State)
 	}
-	var again []inventory.BatchedMerge
+	var merges, again []inventory.BatchedMerge
 	if len(without) > 0 {
-		merges, err := inv.MergesOf(ctx, p.ID)
-		if err != nil {
+		if merges, err = inv.MergesOf(ctx, p.ID); err != nil {
 			return p, said, err
 		}
 		if again, said.LeftOut, err = leaveOut(merges, without); err != nil {
 			return p, said, fmt.Errorf("%s is not stopped: %w", p.ID, err)
 		}
 	}
-	if p.Delivery == nil {
-		p.Delivery = &inventory.PlanDelivery{}
-	}
-	p.Delivery.Stopped, p.Delivery.StoppedWhy = by, why
-	p.Delivery.LeftOut = said.LeftOut
-	p.State = inventory.PlanFailed
-	p.Note = fmt.Sprintf("stopped by %s at tier %d: %s", by, p.Tier, why)
-	if len(again) > 0 {
-		batch, err := walkAgain(ctx, inv, p, again, now)
-		if err != nil {
-			return p, said, fmt.Errorf("%s is not stopped: its other merges could not be batched again: %w", p.ID, err)
+	stopped := func(r *inventory.Plan) {
+		if r.Delivery == nil {
+			r.Delivery = &inventory.PlanDelivery{}
 		}
-		said.WalkedAgainBy = batch.ID
-		for _, m := range again {
-			said.WalkedAgain = append(said.WalkedAgain, m.Repository+"@"+m.Commit)
-		}
-		p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy = batch.ID
-		p.Note += fmt.Sprintf("; its other merges are walked again without %s, by %s: %s", mergesLeftOutWords(said.LeftOut),
-			batch.ID, strings.Join(said.WalkedAgain, ", "))
-		if err := inv.SavePlan(ctx, &p); err != nil {
-			// The merges go back to the walk that still answers them, and the batch holds none: it is never walked.
-			for _, m := range again {
-				_ = inv.AnswerMerge(ctx, m.Repository, m.Commit, p.ID, m.Alone)
-			}
-			return p, said, err
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("%s stopped by %s; %s walks its other merges again: %s\n", p.ID, by, batch.ID,
-			strings.Join(said.WalkedAgain, ", "))
-		return p, said, nil
+		r.Delivery.Stopped, r.Delivery.StoppedWhy, r.Delivery.LeftOut = by, why, said.LeftOut
+		r.State = inventory.PlanFailed
+		r.Note = fmt.Sprintf("stopped by %s at tier %d: %s", by, r.Tier, why)
 	}
-	if len(said.LeftOut) > 0 {
-		p.Note += fmt.Sprintf("; left out %s, nothing else to walk", mergesLeftOutWords(said.LeftOut))
-	}
-	if err := inv.SavePlan(ctx, &p); err != nil {
+	withheld := movesOf(leftOutMerges(merges, said.LeftOut))
+	said.Withheld = withheld
+	if said.StillCarriedBy, err = stillCarried(ctx, inv, p.ID, merges, said.LeftOut, withheld); err != nil {
 		return p, said, err
 	}
+	if batch {
+		return p, said, stopInBatch(ctx, inv, &p, merges, again, &said, stopped, now)
+	}
+	said.Kept = keptOf(p, movesOf(again))
+	stopped(&p)
+	p.Delivery.Kept = said.Kept
+	if len(again) == 0 {
+		if len(said.LeftOut) > 0 {
+			p.Note += fmt.Sprintf("; left out %s, nothing else to walk", mergesLeftOutWords(said.LeftOut))
+		}
+		return p, said, inv.SavePlan(ctx, &p)
+	}
+	target, err := batchToWalkAgain(ctx, inv, again, now)
+	if err != nil {
+		return p, said, fmt.Errorf("%s is not stopped: %w", p.ID, err)
+	}
+	target.Delivery.Batch.Closed = true
+	target.Delivery.Batch.Withheld = union(target.Delivery.Batch.Withheld, withheld)
+	sort.Strings(target.Delivery.Batch.Withheld)
+	said.WalkedAgainBy = target.ID
+	var moves []inventory.MergeMove
+	for _, m := range again {
+		said.WalkedAgain = append(said.WalkedAgain, m.Repository+"@"+m.Commit)
+		moves = append(moves, inventory.MergeMove{Repository: m.Repository, Commit: m.Commit, Plan: target.ID, Alone: m.Alone})
+	}
+	p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy = target.ID
+	p.Note += fmt.Sprintf("; its other merges are walked again by %s: %s", target.ID, strings.Join(said.WalkedAgain, ", "))
+	if len(said.LeftOut) > 0 {
+		p.Note += "; left out " + mergesLeftOutWords(said.LeftOut)
+	}
+	if len(said.Kept) > 0 {
+		p.Note += "; " + keptWords(said.Kept)
+	}
+	// The batch first, so no merge names a plan the store does not hold; all of it, or nothing (decision 7).
+	if err := inv.SavePlansMoving(ctx, []*inventory.Plan{&target, &p}, moves); err != nil {
+		return p, said, fmt.Errorf("%s is not stopped, and none of its merges moved: %w", p.ID, err)
+	}
+	// What the batch holds and names now: written again by the cutter's next look should this fail.
+	if err := keepBatch(ctx, inv, &target, now, ""); err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("  %s holds its merges; its record is written again at the next look: %v\n", target.ID, err)
+	}
+	fmt.Printf("%s stopped by %s; %s walks its other merges again: %s\n", p.ID, by, target.ID,
+		strings.Join(said.WalkedAgain, ", "))
 	return p, said, nil
 }
 
-// walkAgain puts merges of a stopped walk into a fresh batch of their kind, its window closed: kept before its
-// first merge names it, then each merge moved to it.
-func walkAgain(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, stopped inventory.Plan, again []inventory.BatchedMerge,
+// stopInBatch leaves merges out of a batch not yet cut (ADR 0299): they go to a stopped record of their own, which
+// names the batch as walking the others, and the batch withholds their modules; a batch left with none is stopped
+// itself.
+func stopInBatch(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, b *inventory.Plan, merges, again []inventory.BatchedMerge,
+	said *stopAnswer, stopped func(*inventory.Plan), now time.Time) error {
+	if len(again) == 0 {
+		stopped(b)
+		b.Delivery.Batch = nil
+		b.Note = "a batch whose every merge was left out by a stop: " + b.Note
+		return inv.SavePlan(ctx, b)
+	}
+	left := leftOutMerges(merges, said.LeftOut)
+	first := left[0]
+	r := inventory.Plan{ID: fmt.Sprintf("plan-%d", now.UnixNano()), Repository: first.Repository, Branch: first.Branch,
+		Commit: first.Commit, Merged: first.Merged, Created: now, Tiers: [][]string{},
+		Modules: map[string]*inventory.PlanModule{}}
+	if r.ID == b.ID {
+		r.ID += "-left"
+	}
+	stopped(&r)
+	r.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy = b.ID
+	r.Note += fmt.Sprintf("; left out of %s before it was walked: %s; %s walks the others", b.ID,
+		mergesLeftOutWords(said.LeftOut), b.ID)
+	b.Delivery.Batch.Withheld = union(b.Delivery.Batch.Withheld, said.Withheld)
+	sort.Strings(b.Delivery.Batch.Withheld)
+	var moves []inventory.MergeMove
+	for _, m := range left {
+		moves = append(moves, inventory.MergeMove{Repository: m.Repository, Commit: m.Commit, Plan: r.ID, Alone: m.Alone})
+	}
+	for _, m := range again {
+		said.WalkedAgain = append(said.WalkedAgain, m.Repository+"@"+m.Commit)
+	}
+	said.Stopped, said.WalkedAgainBy = r.ID, b.ID
+	if err := inv.SavePlansMoving(ctx, []*inventory.Plan{&r, b}, moves); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s is not changed, and none of its merges moved: %w", b.ID, err)
+	}
+	if err := keepBatch(ctx, inv, b, now, ""); err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("  %s holds its merges; its record is written again at the next look: %v\n", b.ID, err)
+	}
+	fmt.Printf("%s: %s left out by a stop, kept by %s\n", b.ID, mergesLeftOutWords(said.LeftOut), r.ID)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// batchToWalkAgain is the batch a stopped walk's merges join: the open batch of their kind, or a new one, not yet
+// written. The kind is read from what the merges moved.
+func batchToWalkAgain(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, again []inventory.BatchedMerge,
 	now time.Time) (inventory.Plan, error) {
 	own := false
-	for _, m := range again {
-		for _, n := range announcedOf(m).Moves {
-			if _, on := onTheControllersPath[n]; on {
-				own = true
+	for _, n := range movesOf(again) {
+		if _, on := onTheControllersPath[n]; on {
+			own = true
+		}
+	}
+	batches, err := inv.Batches(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return inventory.Plan{}, err
+	}
+	for _, b := range batches {
+		if b.OwnPath() == own {
+			if b.Delivery == nil {
+				b.Delivery = &inventory.PlanDelivery{}
 			}
+			if b.Delivery.Batch == nil {
+				b.Delivery.Batch = &inventory.PlanBatch{Own: own}
+			}
+			return b, nil
 		}
 	}
 	first := again[0]
-	b := inventory.Plan{ID: fmt.Sprintf("plan-%d", now.UnixNano()), Repository: first.Repository, Branch: first.Branch,
+	return inventory.Plan{ID: fmt.Sprintf("plan-%d", now.UnixNano()), Repository: first.Repository, Branch: first.Branch,
 		Commit: first.Commit, Merged: first.Merged, Created: now, State: inventory.PlanAssembling,
 		Tiers: [][]string{}, Modules: map[string]*inventory.PlanModule{},
-		Delivery: &inventory.PlanDelivery{Batch: &inventory.PlanBatch{Own: own}}}
-	if b.ID == stopped.ID {
-		b.ID += "-again"
-	}
-	if err := inv.SavePlan(ctx, &b); err != nil {
-		return b, err
-	}
-	for _, m := range again {
-		if err := inv.AnswerMerge(ctx, m.Repository, m.Commit, b.ID, m.Alone); err != nil {
-			return b, err
-		}
-	}
-	// Its merges were heard before: the window, measured from the last of them, is closed, and the cutter cuts it
-	// once no walk of its kind is open.
-	return b, keepBatch(ctx, inv, &b, now, "")
+		Delivery: &inventory.PlanDelivery{Batch: &inventory.PlanBatch{Own: own}}}, nil
 }
 
 // leaveOut splits a walk's merges by the merges named to leave out, each `<repository>@<commit>` (a commit's
-// first characters will do): the merges walked again, and those left out — each named one, and each later merge
-// of its repository's branch, which contains it. A name the walk does not answer is refused.
+// first characters will do): the merges walked again, and those left out — each named one; each later merge of
+// its repository's branch, which contains it; and each merge moving a module a left-out merge moves, which is
+// built at its branch and so holds the stopped merge — until none more is. A name the walk does not answer is
+// refused.
 func leaveOut(merges []inventory.BatchedMerge, without []string) ([]inventory.BatchedMerge, []inventory.PlanLeftOut, error) {
 	var stopped []inventory.BatchedMerge
 	for _, w := range without {
@@ -252,40 +329,181 @@ func leaveOut(merges []inventory.BatchedMerge, without []string) ([]inventory.Ba
 		}
 		stopped = append(stopped, merges[i])
 	}
-	// The earliest stopped merge of each repository's branch: every merge of that branch after it contains it.
-	earliest := map[string]inventory.BatchedMerge{}
-	for _, s := range stopped {
-		k := strings.ToLower(s.Repository) + "\x00" + s.Branch
-		if e, ok := earliest[k]; !ok || laterMerge(e, s) {
-			earliest[k] = s
+	same := func(a, b inventory.BatchedMerge) bool {
+		return strings.EqualFold(a.Repository, b.Repository) && a.Commit == b.Commit
+	}
+	out := map[int]inventory.PlanLeftOut{}
+	for i, m := range merges {
+		if slices.ContainsFunc(stopped, func(s inventory.BatchedMerge) bool { return same(s, m) }) {
+			out[i] = inventory.PlanLeftOut{Repository: m.Repository, Commit: m.Commit}
+		}
+	}
+	for grew := true; grew; {
+		grew = false
+		for i, m := range merges {
+			if _, left := out[i]; left {
+				continue
+			}
+			for j, o := range out {
+				l := merges[j]
+				contains := o.Contains
+				if contains == "" {
+					contains = l.Commit
+				}
+				if strings.EqualFold(l.Repository, m.Repository) && l.Branch == m.Branch && laterMerge(m, l) {
+					out[i] = inventory.PlanLeftOut{Repository: m.Repository, Commit: m.Commit, Contains: contains}
+				} else if shared := sharedMoves(m, l); len(shared) > 0 {
+					out[i] = inventory.PlanLeftOut{Repository: m.Repository, Commit: m.Commit, Contains: contains,
+						Shares: shared}
+				} else {
+					continue
+				}
+				grew = true
+				break
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	var again []inventory.BatchedMerge
-	var out []inventory.PlanLeftOut
-	for _, m := range merges {
-		named := slices.ContainsFunc(stopped, func(s inventory.BatchedMerge) bool {
-			return strings.EqualFold(s.Repository, m.Repository) && s.Commit == m.Commit
-		})
-		e, has := earliest[strings.ToLower(m.Repository)+"\x00"+m.Branch]
-		switch {
-		case named:
-			out = append(out, inventory.PlanLeftOut{Repository: m.Repository, Commit: m.Commit})
-		case has && laterMerge(m, e):
-			out = append(out, inventory.PlanLeftOut{Repository: m.Repository, Commit: m.Commit, Contains: e.Commit})
-		default:
+	var left []inventory.PlanLeftOut
+	for i, m := range merges {
+		if o, is := out[i]; is {
+			left = append(left, o)
+		} else {
 			again = append(again, m)
 		}
 	}
-	sort.SliceStable(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Contains == "" && out[j].Contains != "" })
-	return again, out, nil
+	sort.SliceStable(left, func(i, j int) bool { return left[i].Contains == "" && left[j].Contains != "" })
+	return again, left, nil
 }
 
-// mergesLeftOutWords is the merges a stop left out, as a person reads them: each that contains a stopped one says so.
+// sharedMoves are the modules two kept merges both moved when they were heard.
+func sharedMoves(a, b inventory.BatchedMerge) []string {
+	var out []string
+	theirs := announcedOf(b).Moves
+	for _, n := range announcedOf(a).Moves {
+		if slices.Contains(theirs, n) && !slices.Contains(out, n) {
+			out = append(out, n)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out
+}
+
+// leftOutMerges are the kept merges a stop left out.
+func leftOutMerges(merges []inventory.BatchedMerge, out []inventory.PlanLeftOut) []inventory.BatchedMerge {
+	var left []inventory.BatchedMerge
+	for _, m := range merges {
+		if slices.ContainsFunc(out, func(o inventory.PlanLeftOut) bool {
+			return strings.EqualFold(o.Repository, m.Repository) && o.Commit == m.Commit
+		}) {
+			left = append(left, m)
+		}
+	}
+	return left
+}
+
+// movesOf is every module kept merges moved when they were heard, sorted.
+func movesOf(merges []inventory.BatchedMerge) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, m := range merges {
+		out = union(out, announcedOf(m).Moves)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out
+}
+
+// keptOf are the modules a stopped walk sent that no merge walked again moves, and the machines each reached:
+// those keep running the stopped walk's build.
+func keptOf(p inventory.Plan, walkedAgain []string) []inventory.PlanKept {
+	var out []inventory.PlanKept
+	for name, m := range p.Modules {
+		if m == nil || slices.Contains(walkedAgain, name) {
+			continue
+		}
+		var machines []string
+		if m.FirstAt != nil || m.SentAt != nil {
+			machines = union(machines, m.First)
+		}
+		if m.Gate != nil && m.Gate.Since != nil {
+			machines = union(machines, m.Gate.Machines)
+		}
+		for machine := range m.Rest {
+			machines = union(machines, []string{machine})
+		}
+		if len(machines) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		sort.Strings(machines)
+		out = append(out, inventory.PlanKept{Module: name, Machines: machines})
+	}
+	sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Module < out[j].Module })
+	return out
+}
+
+// keptWords is what a stopped walk leaves on the machines, as a person reads it.
+func keptWords(kept []inventory.PlanKept) string {
+	var words []string
+	for _, k := range kept {
+		words = append(words, k.Module+" on "+strings.Join(k.Machines, ", "))
+	}
+	return "left running the stopped walk's build, which nothing walks again: " + strings.Join(words, "; ")
+}
+
+// stillCarried are the merges outside the stopped record, in a batch or an open walk, that will deliver a stopped
+// change when they are walked: a later merge of its repository's branch, which contains it, or one that moves a
+// module it moves. Holding a merged change back for good is a revert's (ADR 0299).
+func stillCarried(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, id string, merges []inventory.BatchedMerge,
+	out []inventory.PlanLeftOut, withheld []string) ([]string, error) {
+	var named []inventory.BatchedMerge
+	for _, m := range leftOutMerges(merges, out) {
+		if slices.ContainsFunc(out, func(o inventory.PlanLeftOut) bool { return o.Commit == m.Commit && o.Contains == "" }) {
+			named = append(named, m)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(named) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	open, err := inv.OpenPlans(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	batches, err := inv.Batches(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	var carried []string
+	for _, p := range append(open, batches...) {
+		if p.ID == id {
+			continue
+		}
+		ms, err := inv.MergesOf(ctx, p.ID)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		for _, m := range ms {
+			later := slices.ContainsFunc(named, func(s inventory.BatchedMerge) bool {
+				return strings.EqualFold(s.Repository, m.Repository) && s.Branch == m.Branch && laterMerge(m, s)
+			})
+			shares := slices.ContainsFunc(announcedOf(m).Moves, func(n string) bool { return slices.Contains(withheld, n) })
+			if later || shares {
+				carried = append(carried, fmt.Sprintf("%s@%s (in %s)", m.Repository, m.Commit, p.ID))
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(carried)
+	return carried, nil
+}
+
+// mergesLeftOutWords is the merges a stop left out, as a person reads them: each that contains a stopped one, or
+// shares its modules, says so.
 func mergesLeftOutWords(out []inventory.PlanLeftOut) string {
 	var words []string
 	for _, o := range out {
 		s := o.Repository + "@" + short(o.Commit)
-		if o.Contains != "" {
+		switch {
+		case len(o.Shares) > 0:
+			s += " (which moves " + strings.Join(o.Shares, ", ") + " as " + short(o.Contains) + " does)"
+		case o.Contains != "":
 			s += " (which contains " + short(o.Contains) + ")"
 		}
 		words = append(words, s)

cmd/mesh-controller/issue459_test.go

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"reflect"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -52,6 +55,49 @@ func TestLeftOutAreTheStoppedMergeAndTheMergesThatContainIt(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// moving is a kept merge that moved modules when it was heard.
+func moving(m inventory.BatchedMerge, modules ...string) inventory.BatchedMerge {
+	m.Event, _ = json.Marshal(keptMerge{Moves: modules})
+	return m
+}
+
+// A merge of another repository that moves a module the stopped merge moves is left out too, naming the modules
+// it shares: the module is built at its branch, which holds the stopped merge (review of #232). And so on, until
+// none more is: a merge sharing a module with that one is left out as well.
+func TestAMergeSharingAStoppedMergesModuleIsLeftOut(t *testing.T) {
+	stopped := moving(leaved("novox/mesh-catalog", "c1aaaaaaaaaa", t0), "app")
+	reader := moving(leaved("novox/one", "o1bbbbbbbbbb", t0.Add(time.Second)), "app", "one")
+	next := moving(leaved("novox/two", "t1cccccccccc", t0.Add(2*time.Second)), "one")
+	free := moving(leaved("novox/three", "h1dddddddddd", t0.Add(3*time.Second)), "three")
+	again, out, err := leaveOut([]inventory.BatchedMerge{stopped, reader, next, free}, []string{"novox/mesh-catalog@c1aaaaaaa"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(again) != 1 || again[0].Commit != free.Commit {
+		t.Fatalf("walked again: %+v; want the merge that shares nothing alone", again)
+	}
+	want := []inventory.PlanLeftOut{{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Commit: stopped.Commit},
+		{Repository: "novox/one", Commit: reader.Commit, Contains: stopped.Commit, Shares: []string{"app"}},
+		{Repository: "novox/two", Commit: next.Commit, Contains: stopped.Commit, Shares: []string{"one"}}}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(out, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("left out %+v; want %+v", out, want)
+	}
+}
+
+// A walk withholds a module a stopped merge moved where it would build it only as a dependent; one a merge of its
+// own batch moves is built, and empty tiers go.
+func TestAWalkWithholdsAStoppedMergesDependents(t *testing.T) {
+	plan := inventory.Plan{Tiers: [][]string{{"one"}, {"app"}, {"notes", "app2"}},
+		Modules: map[string]*inventory.PlanModule{"one": {}, "app": {}, "notes": {}, "app2": {}}}
+	got := withhold(&plan, []string{"app", "notes", "absent"}, []string{"notes"})
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(got, []string{"app"}) || !reflect.DeepEqual(plan.Tiers, [][]string{{"one"}, {"notes", "app2"}}) {
+		t.Fatalf("withheld %v, tiers %v", got, plan.Tiers)
+	}
+	if _, in := plan.Modules["app"]; in {
+		t.Fatal("a withheld module is still in the plan")
+	}
+}
+
 // The seat verb passes the merges to leave out to the command.
 func TestDeliveryStopTakesTheMergesToLeaveOut(t *testing.T) {
 	got, err := argvFor("delivery-stop", map[string]any{"plan": "plan-1", "why": "w", "by": "jochen",
@@ -175,3 +221,173 @@ func TestAStopWithoutAMergeEndsTheMergesThatContainIt(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a batch of nothing was made: %+v", bs)
 	}
 }
+
+// A merge heard while the walk ran waits in the open batch, at a later commit of the same repository. The merge
+// walked again joins that batch, never a batch of its own that would walk the older commit after the newer one
+// (review of #232): its window closes, and its walk is at the newer commit, answering both.
+func TestAStopWalksTheOthersAgainInTheOpenBatch(t *testing.T) {
+	open := windowed(t)
+	asksRecorded(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	cat := catalogueMerge("cat1aaaaaaaa", "app", t0)
+	one1 := repoMerge("one", "one1bbbbbbbb", t0.Add(5*time.Second))
+	hear(t, open, cat, t0.Add(time.Second))
+	hear(t, open, one1, t0.Add(6*time.Second))
+	cutAt(t, open, t0.Add(2*time.Minute))
+	ws, _ := walks(t, open)
+	walk := ws[0]
+	one2 := repoMerge("one", "one2cccccccc", t0.Add(3*time.Minute))
+	hear(t, open, one2, t0.Add(3*time.Minute))
+	_, bs := walks(t, open)
+	if len(bs) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("the merge heard while the walk ran is in %d batches", len(bs))
+	}
+	waiting := bs[0]
+	p, said, err := stopWalkWithout(ctx, open.inventory, walk.ID, "mesh-delivery for jochen", "its group stopped",
+		[]string{"novox/mesh-catalog@" + cat.Commit}, t0.Add(3*time.Minute+10*time.Second))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy != waiting.ID || said.WalkedAgainBy != waiting.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("walked again by %q (said %q); want the open batch %s", p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy, said.WalkedAgainBy, waiting.ID)
+	}
+	if _, bs := walks(t, open); len(bs) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d batches; want the open one alone", len(bs))
+	}
+	b, _ := open.inventory.PlanByID(ctx, waiting.ID)
+	if b.Delivery.Batch == nil || !b.Delivery.Batch.Closed || !slices.Contains(b.Delivery.Batch.Withheld, "app") {
+		t.Fatalf("the open batch reads %+v; want its window closed and app withheld", b.Delivery.Batch)
+	}
+	// Its window closed by the stop, not by the clock: cut at once.
+	cutAt(t, open, t0.Add(3*time.Minute+11*time.Second))
+	fresh, _ := open.inventory.PlanByID(ctx, waiting.ID)
+	if fresh.Batch() || fresh.CommitOf("novox/one") != one2.Commit {
+		t.Fatalf("the batch is %s at %q; want it cut, walking the newer commit", fresh.State, fresh.CommitOf("novox/one"))
+	}
+	var answered []string
+	for _, m := range fresh.Delivery.Merges {
+		answered = append(answered, m.Commit+">"+m.Carried)
+	}
+	if !slices.Contains(answered, one1.Commit+">"+one2.Commit) || !slices.Contains(answered, one2.Commit+">") {
+		t.Fatalf("the walk answers %v; want the earlier merge carried by the later", answered)
+	}
+}
+
+// A stop names what the stopped walk already sent and nothing walks again, on which machines; and a later merge of
+// the stopped merge's repository that waits in a batch, which will deliver the stopped change. A stopped walk
+// that walked its merges again is refused a retry, saying why.
+func TestAStopNamesWhatStaysOnTheMachinesAndWhatStillCarriesIt(t *testing.T) {
+	open := windowed(t)
+	asksRecorded(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	cat := catalogueMerge("cat1aaaaaaaa", "app", t0)
+	one1 := repoMerge("one", "one1bbbbbbbb", t0.Add(5*time.Second))
+	hear(t, open, cat, t0.Add(time.Second))
+	hear(t, open, one1, t0.Add(6*time.Second))
+	cutAt(t, open, t0.Add(2*time.Minute))
+	ws, _ := walks(t, open)
+	walk := ws[0]
+	sent := t0.Add(150 * time.Second)
+	for name, m := range walk.Modules {
+		if name == "app" || name == "one" {
+			m.First, m.FirstAt = []string{"anchor"}, &sent
+		}
+	}
+	if err := open.inventory.SavePlan(ctx, &walk); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	cat2 := catalogueMerge("cat2dddddddd", "notes", t0.Add(3*time.Minute))
+	hear(t, open, cat2, t0.Add(3*time.Minute))
+	_, said, err := stopWalkWithout(ctx, open.inventory, walk.ID, "mesh-delivery for jochen", "its group stopped",
+		[]string{"novox/mesh-catalog@" + cat.Commit}, t0.Add(3*time.Minute+10*time.Second))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(said.Kept, []inventory.PlanKept{{Module: "app", Machines: []string{"anchor"}}}) {
+		t.Fatalf("kept %+v; want app on anchor alone (one is walked again)", said.Kept)
+	}
+	p, _ := open.inventory.PlanByID(ctx, walk.ID)
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(p.Delivery.Kept, said.Kept) || !strings.Contains(p.Note, "app on anchor") {
+		t.Fatalf("the stopped walk's record does not name what stays: %+v %q", p.Delivery.Kept, p.Note)
+	}
+	if len(said.StillCarriedBy) != 1 || !strings.Contains(said.StillCarriedBy[0], cat2.Commit) {
+		t.Fatalf("still carried by %v; want the later catalogue merge waiting in the batch", said.StillCarriedBy)
+	}
+	if _, err := retryPlan(ctx, open, walk.ID); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "was stopped without") {
+		t.Fatalf("a walk stopped without some merges was retried, or refused for another reason: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A batch not yet cut is stopped without a merge: the merge goes to a stopped record of its own, the batch goes on
+// with the others and withholds the stopped merge's modules; with every merge left out, the batch is stopped.
+func TestAStopWithoutAMergeLeavesItOutOfABatch(t *testing.T) {
+	open := windowed(t)
+	asksRecorded(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	cat := catalogueMerge("cat1aaaaaaaa", "app", t0)
+	one := repoMerge("one", "one1bbbbbbbb", t0.Add(5*time.Second))
+	hear(t, open, cat, t0.Add(time.Second))
+	hear(t, open, one, t0.Add(6*time.Second))
+	_, bs := walks(t, open)
+	b := bs[0]
+	r, said, err := stopWalkWithout(ctx, open.inventory, b.ID, "mesh-delivery for jochen", "its group stopped",
+		[]string{"novox/mesh-catalog@" + cat.Commit}, t0.Add(10*time.Second))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if said.WalkedAgainBy != b.ID || said.Stopped == b.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("said %+v; want a stopped record of its own, and the batch walking the others", said)
+	}
+	if left, _ := open.inventory.MergesOf(ctx, said.Stopped); len(left) != 1 || left[0].Commit != cat.Commit {
+		t.Fatalf("the stopped record holds %+v", left)
+	}
+	if stopped, _ := open.inventory.PlanByID(ctx, said.Stopped); stopped.State != inventory.PlanFailed ||
+		stopped.Delivery.Stopped == "" || stopped.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy != b.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("the stopped record reads %s %+v", stopped.State, stopped.Delivery)
+	}
+	_ = r
+	cutAt(t, open, t0.Add(3*time.Minute))
+	w, _ := open.inventory.PlanByID(ctx, b.ID)
+	if _, in := w.Modules["app"]; in || w.Batch() {
+		t.Fatalf("the batch's walk is %s and builds %v; want it cut without app", w.State, w.Modules)
+	}
+	// A batch whose every merge is left out is stopped itself.
+	hear(t, open, catalogueMerge("cat3eeeeeeee", "notes", t0.Add(4*time.Minute)), t0.Add(4*time.Minute))
+	_, bs = walks(t, open)
+	last := bs[0]
+	if _, said, err := stopWalkWithout(ctx, open.inventory, last.ID, "mesh-delivery for jochen", "x",
+		[]string{"novox/mesh-catalog@cat3eeeeeeee"}, t0.Add(4*time.Minute+time.Second)); err != nil || said.Stopped != last.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("a batch left with nothing: %+v %v", said, err)
+	}
+	if p, _ := open.inventory.PlanByID(ctx, last.ID); p.State != inventory.PlanFailed || p.Batch() {
+		t.Fatalf("the emptied batch is %s", p.State)
+	}
+}
+
+// The stopped walk, the batch and the merges moved are one act (ADR 0299 decision 7): a plan written by somebody
+// else since it was read refuses all of it, and no merge moves, no plan is written.
+func TestSavingPlansAndMovingMergesIsOneAct(t *testing.T) {
+	open := windowed(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	hear(t, open, catalogueMerge("cat1aaaaaaaa", "app", t0), t0.Add(time.Second))
+	_, bs := walks(t, open)
+	stale := bs[0]
+	moved := stale
+	moved.Note = "written by somebody else"
+	if err := open.inventory.SavePlan(ctx, &moved); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	fresh := inventory.Plan{ID: "plan-fresh", Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Branch: "main", Commit: "x", Created: t0,
+		State: inventory.PlanAssembling, Tiers: [][]string{}, Modules: map[string]*inventory.PlanModule{}}
+	err := open.inventory.SavePlansMoving(ctx, []*inventory.Plan{&fresh, &stale},
+		[]inventory.MergeMove{{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Commit: "cat1aaaaaaaa", Plan: "plan-fresh"}})
+	if !errors.Is(err, inventory.ErrPlanMoved) {
+		t.Fatalf("a stale plan in the act: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := open.inventory.PlanByID(ctx, "plan-fresh"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("the new plan was written though the act was refused")
+	}
+	if m, _, _ := open.inventory.MergeOf(ctx, "novox/mesh-catalog", "cat1aaaaaaaa"); m.Plan != stale.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("the merge moved to %q though the act was refused", m.Plan)
+	}
+}

cmd/mesh-controller/plan_retry.go

@@ -278,6 +278,13 @@ func retryPlan(ctx context.Context, open *stores, id string) (string, error) {
 	plans = append(plans, recent...)
 	// **A failed walk whose earlier merges are walked alone is not retried** (novox/hq ADR 0276): the search for
 	// the merge that brought the failure answers them now, and a retried walk would name them twice.
+	// **A walk stopped without some merges is not retried** (novox/hq ADR 0299): the merges it left out were stopped,
+	// and the others are another walk's now.
+	if p.Delivery != nil && (p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy != "" || len(p.Delivery.LeftOut) > 0) {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s was stopped without %s: those merges were stopped, and %s walks the others; a "+
+			"newer merge, or `rebuild <module>`, builds again", p.ID, mergesLeftOutWords(p.Delivery.LeftOut),
+			orWords(p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy, "nothing"))
+	}
 	if p.Delivery != nil && len(p.Delivery.Merges) > 0 {
 		kept, err := inv.MergesOf(ctx, p.ID)
 		if err != nil {

internal/catalogue/verbs.go

@@ -161,9 +161,11 @@ var ControllerVerbs = []Verb{
 			[]string{"plan"})},
 	{Name: "delivery-stop", Description: "End a walk on its delivery's word (novox/hq ADR 0239): failed, said as stopped " +
 		"by whom and why; what it asked still builds and registers, nothing further is asked or sent. Given merges to " +
-		"leave out, every other merge the walk answered is walked again in a fresh batch without them and without each " +
-		"later merge of their repository, which contains one and is left out too, named (novox/hq ADR 0299); the " +
-		"answer names the batch, the merges walked again and the merges left out.",
+		"leave out, every other merge the walk answered is walked again — in the open batch of its kind, or a new one — " +
+		"without them, without each later merge of their repository, which contains one, and without each merge moving " +
+		"a module one moves, each left out too and named (novox/hq ADR 0299); a batch not yet cut drops the merges. The " +
+		"answer names the batch, the merges walked again, the merges left out, the modules the stopped walk sent that " +
+		"stay on their machines, and the merges elsewhere that will still deliver a stopped change.",
 		Input: schema(map[string]string{"plan": "the walk's id", "why": "why", "by": "who stopped the delivery",
 			"without": "merges to leave out, <repository>@<commit>, comma-separated"},
 			[]string{"plan", "why"})},

internal/inventory/plans.go

@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ type PlanBatch struct {
 	// a merge never shares a batch with one that waits for mesh-delivery's (ADR 0276, decided during the
 	// build, 2026-10-10).
 	Own bool `json:"own,omitempty"`
+	// Closed says the window was closed by a stop that walks a stopped walk's merges again in this batch: they
+	// were heard before, and an older commit never waits behind a newer one (novox/hq ADR 0299). Withheld are
+	// the modules a stopped merge moves: built at the branch, which holds that merge, they would deliver it, so
+	// the batch's walk does not build them.
+	Closed   bool     `json:"closed,omitempty"`
+	Withheld []string `json:"withheld,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // OwnPath says the record is a batch of merges on the controller's own path.
@@ -192,6 +198,9 @@ type PlanDelivery struct {
 	// ends stopped with the walk, one of a merge walked again follows that batch's walk.
 	WalkedAgainBy string        `json:"walked_again_by,omitempty"`
 	LeftOut       []PlanLeftOut `json:"left_out,omitempty"`
+	// Kept are the modules the stopped walk already sent and nothing walks again: the machines named keep running
+	// the stopped walk's build (novox/hq ADR 0299).
+	Kept []PlanKept `json:"kept,omitempty"`
 	// Batch is the window of a batch; nil once it is cut into a walk.
 	Batch *PlanBatch `json:"batch,omitempty"`
 	// Alone says the walk walks one merge on its own commit, after a failed walk carried it in a later one:
@@ -205,8 +214,18 @@ type PlanDelivery struct {
 type PlanLeftOut struct {
 	Repository string `json:"repository"`
 	Commit     string `json:"commit"`
-	// Contains is the stopped merge a later merge contains; empty for a merge stopped itself.
+	// Contains is the stopped merge a later merge contains, or whose modules it shares; empty for a merge
+	// stopped itself.
 	Contains string `json:"contains,omitempty"`
+	// Shares are the modules it moves that a stopped merge moves too: built at the branch, which holds the stopped
+	// merge, they would deliver it.
+	Shares []string `json:"shares,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// PlanKept is a module a stopped walk sent and nothing walks again, and the machines it reached.
+type PlanKept struct {
+	Module   string   `json:"module"`
+	Machines []string `json:"machines"`
 }
 
 // Waiting is whether the walk waits for its delivery's word.
@@ -400,39 +419,28 @@ func (p Plan) Open() bool { return p.State == PlanBuilding || p.State == PlanRol
 // with ErrPlanMoved otherwise; and only by a process that may act (ActsUnder), whose epoch it records.
 // On success p's revision and epoch are the ones written, so the caller may save it again.
 func (i *Inventory) SavePlan(ctx context.Context, p *Plan) error {
+	return i.SavePlansMoving(ctx, []*Plan{p}, nil)
+}
+
+// MergeMove is a merge given to the plan that answers it now (novox/hq ADR 0276).
+type MergeMove struct {
+	Repository, Commit, Plan string
+	Alone                    bool
+}
+
+// SavePlansMoving writes plans, as SavePlan does each, and gives merges to the plans that answer them, all in one
+// transaction: every write and move, or none (novox/hq ADR 0299 decision 7 — a stop that walks merges again never
+// leaves a merge answered by two plans, nor a walk stopped whose merges were not moved). A plan written by
+// somebody else since it was read refuses the whole act with ErrPlanMoved. Each plan is said (PlanSaved) once
+// the transaction is committed, in order.
+func (i *Inventory) SavePlansMoving(ctx context.Context, plans []*Plan, moves []MergeMove) error {
 	epoch, err := i.actingEpoch(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("the plan for %s %s is not written: %w", p.Repository, p.Commit, err)
-	}
-	tiers, err := json.Marshal(p.Tiers)
-	if err != nil {
+		if len(plans) > 0 {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the plan for %s %s is not written: %w", plans[0].Repository, plans[0].Commit, err)
+		}
 		return err
 	}
-	modules, err := json.Marshal(p.Modules)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	var release, delivery, commits, times []byte
-	if p.Times != nil {
-		if times, err = json.Marshal(p.Times); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	if len(p.Commits) > 0 {
-		if commits, err = json.Marshal(p.Commits); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	if p.Release != nil {
-		if release, err = json.Marshal(p.Release); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	if p.Delivery != nil {
-		if delivery, err = json.Marshal(p.Delivery); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
 	// **And how long the tier it left took** (novox/hq to-be 45 Phase 0): measured here, where the
 	// plan moves, in the same transaction as the move, so no save can move a tier unmeasured or
 	// measure one twice.
@@ -441,9 +449,77 @@ func (i *Inventory) SavePlan(ctx context.Context, p *Plan) error {
 		return err
 	}
 	defer func() { _ = tx.Rollback(ctx) }()
+	type written struct {
+		revision int64
+		entered  time.Time
+	}
+	done := make([]written, len(plans))
+	for n, p := range plans {
+		revision, entered, err := writePlan(ctx, tx, p, epoch)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		done[n] = written{revision, entered}
+	}
+	for _, m := range moves {
+		if _, err := tx.Exec(ctx,
+			`update batched_merge set plan_id = nullif($3, ''), alone = $4 where repository = lower($1) and commit_hash = $2`,
+			m.Repository, m.Commit, m.Plan, m.Alone); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	if err := tx.Commit(ctx); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	for n, p := range plans {
+		p.Revision, p.TierEntered = done[n].revision, done[n].entered
+		if epoch != nil {
+			p.Epoch = uint64(*epoch)
+		} else {
+			p.Epoch = 0
+		}
+		if PlanSaved != nil {
+			PlanSaved(*p)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// writePlan writes one plan within a transaction, by compare-and-set on its revision: its new revision, and when
+// it entered its tier.
+func writePlan(ctx context.Context, tx pgx.Tx, p *Plan, epoch *int64) (int64, time.Time, error) {
+	tiers, err := json.Marshal(p.Tiers)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, time.Time{}, err
+	}
+	modules, err := json.Marshal(p.Modules)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, time.Time{}, err
+	}
+	var release, delivery, commits, times []byte
+	if p.Times != nil {
+		if times, err = json.Marshal(p.Times); err != nil {
+			return 0, time.Time{}, err
+		}
+	}
+	if len(p.Commits) > 0 {
+		if commits, err = json.Marshal(p.Commits); err != nil {
+			return 0, time.Time{}, err
+		}
+	}
+	if p.Release != nil {
+		if release, err = json.Marshal(p.Release); err != nil {
+			return 0, time.Time{}, err
+		}
+	}
+	if p.Delivery != nil {
+		if delivery, err = json.Marshal(p.Delivery); err != nil {
+			return 0, time.Time{}, err
+		}
+	}
 	entered, err := planTierLeft(ctx, tx, *p, time.Now())
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return 0, time.Time{}, err
 	}
 	var revision int64
 	err = tx.QueryRow(ctx,
@@ -464,24 +540,9 @@ func (i *Inventory) SavePlan(ctx context.Context, p *Plan) error {
 		// The row is there and at another revision — moved since this was read, or there already
 		// when this one is new: either way not this writer's to overwrite. (A plan saved before plans
 		// had revisions is at zero, and its first save here is from a read at zero.)
-		return fmt.Errorf("the plan for %s %s (%s) is not written: %w", p.Repository, short(p.Commit), p.ID, ErrPlanMoved)
+		return 0, time.Time{}, fmt.Errorf("the plan for %s %s (%s) is not written: %w", p.Repository, short(p.Commit), p.ID, ErrPlanMoved)
 	}
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if err := tx.Commit(ctx); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	p.Revision, p.TierEntered = revision, entered
-	if epoch != nil {
-		p.Epoch = uint64(*epoch)
-	} else {
-		p.Epoch = 0
-	}
-	if PlanSaved != nil {
-		PlanSaved(*p)
-	}
-	return nil
+	return revision, entered, err
 }
 
 // short is a commit as a person reads it.

merge-check.sh

@@ -32,3 +32,18 @@ else
 	echo "NOT RACE-CHECKED: the toolchain holds no C compiler; the suite runs without the race detector"
 	CGO_ENABLED=0 go test -count=1 -timeout 30m ./...
 fi
+
+# **The store tests of novox/hq ADR 0299 ran** (review of #232): a test that needs the store skips without one,
+# and a skip passes unseen. With the store this check is given, each must have run and passed, said by name;
+# without one, that is said.
+adr0299='^(TestAStopWithoutAMergeWalksTheOthersAgain|TestAStopWithoutAMergeEndsTheMergesThatContainIt|TestAStopWalksTheOthersAgainInTheOpenBatch|TestAStopNamesWhatStaysOnTheMachinesAndWhatStillCarriesIt|TestAStopWithoutAMergeLeavesItOutOfABatch|TestSavingPlansAndMovingMergesIsOneAct)$'
+if [ -n "${MESH_TEST_POSTGRES:-}" ]; then
+	ran=$(CGO_ENABLED=0 go test -count=1 -v -run "$adr0299" ./cmd/mesh-controller 2>&1 | grep -E '^--- (PASS|FAIL|SKIP)' || true)
+	printf 'ADR 0299 store tests:\n%s\n' "$ran"
+	if [ "$(printf '%s\n' "$ran" | grep -c '^--- PASS')" -ne 6 ]; then
+		echo "ADR 0299's store tests did not all run and pass against the store"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+else
+	echo "NOT STORE-CHECKED: no MESH_TEST_POSTGRES, so ADR 0299's store tests skipped"
+fi