Let delivery-stop leave merges out and walk the others again, so a group stop ends only its own change (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. delivery-stop now takes without: the walk
ends, every other merge it answered is batched again, and each later merge of
a left-out merge's repository is left out too, since it contains it.

cmd/mesh-controller/delivery.go

@@ -117,28 +117,180 @@ func letGo(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, id, by, why string) (i
 // stopWalk ends a walk on its delivery's word: failed, said as stopped by whom, why. What it asked still
 // builds and registers; nothing further is asked or sent.
 func stopWalk(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, id, by, why string) (inventory.Plan, error) {
+	p, _, err := stopWalkWithout(ctx, inv, id, by, why, nil, time.Now().UTC())
+	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.
+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"`
+}
+
+// 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.
+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}
 	release, err := inv.HoldPlans(ctx, true)
 	if err != nil {
-		return inventory.Plan{}, err
+		return inventory.Plan{}, said, err
 	}
 	defer release()
 	p, err := inv.PlanByID(ctx, id)
 	if err != nil {
-		return inventory.Plan{}, err
+		return inventory.Plan{}, said, err
 	}
 	if !p.Open() {
-		return p, fmt.Errorf("%s is already %s", p.ID, p.State)
+		return p, said, fmt.Errorf("%s is already %s", p.ID, p.State)
+	}
+	var again []inventory.BatchedMerge
+	if len(without) > 0 {
+		merges, err := inv.MergesOf(ctx, p.ID)
+		if 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 err := inv.SavePlan(ctx, &p); err != nil {
-		return p, err
+	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)
+		}
+		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
 	}
-	return p, nil
+	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 {
+		return p, said, err
+	}
+	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,
+	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
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	first := again[0]
+	b := 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, "")
+}
+
+// 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.
+func leaveOut(merges []inventory.BatchedMerge, without []string) ([]inventory.BatchedMerge, []inventory.PlanLeftOut, error) {
+	var stopped []inventory.BatchedMerge
+	for _, w := range without {
+		repository, commit, ok := strings.Cut(strings.TrimSpace(w), "@")
+		if !ok || repository == "" || len(commit) < 7 {
+			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("%q names no merge: <repository>@<commit>", w)
+		}
+		i := slices.IndexFunc(merges, func(m inventory.BatchedMerge) bool {
+			return strings.EqualFold(m.Repository, repository) && strings.HasPrefix(m.Commit, commit)
+		})
+		if i < 0 {
+			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("it answers no merge %s@%s", repository, commit)
+		}
+		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
+		}
+	}
+	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:
+			again = append(again, m)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.SliceStable(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Contains == "" && out[j].Contains != "" })
+	return again, out, nil
+}
+
+// mergesLeftOutWords is the merges a stop left out, as a person reads them: each that contains a stopped one says so.
+func mergesLeftOutWords(out []inventory.PlanLeftOut) string {
+	var words []string
+	for _, o := range out {
+		s := o.Repository + "@" + short(o.Commit)
+		if o.Contains != "" {
+			s += " (which contains " + short(o.Contains) + ")"
+		}
+		words = append(words, s)
+	}
+	return strings.Join(words, ", ")
 }
 
 // orderMember is one member of a group, as mesh-delivery says it.
@@ -466,6 +618,8 @@ func deliveryCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	group := set.String("group", "", "a delivery group's id")
 	by := set.String("by", catalogue.DeliverySeat, "who says it")
 	why := set.String("why", "", "why")
+	without := set.String("without", "", "merges a stop leaves out, <repository>@<commit>, comma-separated: the walk's "+
+		"other merges are walked again without them (novox/hq ADR 0299)")
 	limit := set.Int("n", 50, "how many ended walks to answer beside the open ones")
 	planID := set.String("plan", "", "one walk")
 	positionals, err := parseAround(set, rest)
@@ -552,15 +706,21 @@ func deliveryCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 		return nil
 	case "stop":
 		if len(positionals) != 1 || strings.TrimSpace(*why) == "" {
-			return errors.New("delivery stop <plan> --why <text> [--by <who>]")
+			return errors.New("delivery stop <plan> --why <text> [--by <who>] [--without <repository>@<commit>,…]")
 		}
 		var p inventory.Plan
+		var said stopAnswer
 		if err := sayingOnTheBus(ctx, func() (err error) {
-			p, err = stopWalk(ctx, inv, positionals[0], *by, strings.TrimSpace(*why))
+			p, said, err = stopWalkWithout(ctx, inv, positionals[0], *by, strings.TrimSpace(*why), splitList(*without),
+				time.Now().UTC())
 			return err
 		}); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
+		if *without != "" {
+			// What it left out and what it walks again, as data: the delivery's owner reads it (ADR 0299).
+			return answer(said)
+		}
 		fmt.Printf("%s stopped by %s at tier %d of %d; what was asked still builds and registers, nothing further "+
 			"is asked or sent\n", p.ID, *by, p.Tier, len(p.Tiers))
 		return nil

cmd/mesh-controller/issue459_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"reflect"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+)
+
+// novox/hq issue 459, ADR 0299: since the merge window one walk carries every merge of its batch, so a stop of one
+// group member through `delivery-stop` ended the walk of every other delivery in it. The stop now names the merges
+// to leave out: the walk is ended, and every other merge it answered is walked again in a fresh batch without them
+// — the stopped merge, and each later merge of its repository's branch, which contains it and ends with it.
+
+// leaved is a kept merge of a repository, made at a moment.
+func leaved(repository, commit string, made time.Time) inventory.BatchedMerge {
+	return inventory.BatchedMerge{Repository: repository, Branch: "main", Commit: commit, Merged: made, Heard: made}
+}
+
+// The stopped merge is left out, and so is each later merge of its repository's branch, naming the merge it
+// contains; an earlier merge of that repository and every other repository's merge are walked again.
+func TestLeftOutAreTheStoppedMergeAndTheMergesThatContainIt(t *testing.T) {
+	c1 := leaved("novox/mesh-catalog", "c1aaaaaaaaaa", t0)
+	c2 := leaved("novox/mesh-catalog", "c2bbbbbbbbbb", t0.Add(10*time.Second))
+	c3 := leaved("novox/mesh-catalog", "c3cccccccccc", t0.Add(20*time.Second))
+	o1 := leaved("novox/one", "o1dddddddddd", t0.Add(5*time.Second))
+	again, out, err := leaveOut([]inventory.BatchedMerge{c1, o1, c2, c3}, []string{"novox/Mesh-Catalog@c2bbbbbbbbbb"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var walked []string
+	for _, m := range again {
+		walked = append(walked, m.Commit)
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(walked, []string{c1.Commit, o1.Commit}) {
+		t.Fatalf("walked again: %v; want the earlier catalogue merge and the other repository's", walked)
+	}
+	want := []inventory.PlanLeftOut{{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Commit: c2.Commit},
+		{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Commit: c3.Commit, Contains: c2.Commit}}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(out, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("left out: %+v; want %+v", out, want)
+	}
+	// A merge the walk does not answer is refused, naming it: nothing ends.
+	if _, _, err := leaveOut([]inventory.BatchedMerge{c1, o1}, []string{"novox/mesh-catalog@ffffffffffff"}); err == nil ||
+		!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "ffffffffffff") {
+		t.Fatalf("a merge the walk does not answer was left out: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, _, err := leaveOut([]inventory.BatchedMerge{c1}, []string{"no-commit"}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a merge without its commit was taken")
+	}
+}
+
+// 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",
+		"without": "novox/mesh-lab@b1,novox/mesh-lab@b2"})
+	want := []string{"delivery", "stop", "plan-1", "--why", "w", "--by", "mesh-delivery for jochen",
+		"--without", "novox/mesh-lab@b1,novox/mesh-lab@b2"}
+	if err != nil || !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("delivery-stop with without → %v %v, wanted %v", got, err, want)
+	}
+}
+
+// A walk of the catalogue's merge and another repository's is stopped without the catalogue's: it ends stopped,
+// names the batch that walks the other merge again and the merge it left out, and that batch is cut into a walk
+// that builds the other repository's module alone.
+func TestAStopWithoutAMergeWalksTheOthersAgain(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))
+	cutAt(t, open, t0.Add(2*time.Minute))
+	ws, _ := walks(t, open)
+	if len(ws) != 1 || !ws[0].Open() {
+		t.Fatalf("no open walk to stop: %+v", ws)
+	}
+	stopped := ws[0]
+	p, said, err := stopWalkWithout(ctx, open.inventory, stopped.ID, "mesh-delivery for jochen", "its group stopped",
+		[]string{"novox/mesh-catalog@" + cat.Commit}, t0.Add(3*time.Minute))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if p.State != inventory.PlanFailed || p.Delivery.Stopped == "" || p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy == "" ||
+		!reflect.DeepEqual(p.Delivery.LeftOut, []inventory.PlanLeftOut{{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Commit: cat.Commit}}) {
+		t.Fatalf("the stopped walk reads %s %+v", p.State, p.Delivery)
+	}
+	if said.WalkedAgainBy != p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy || !reflect.DeepEqual(said.WalkedAgain, []string{"novox/one@" + one.Commit}) {
+		t.Fatalf("the stop answered %+v", said)
+	}
+	again, err := open.inventory.MergesOf(ctx, p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy)
+	if err != nil || len(again) != 1 || again[0].Commit != one.Commit {
+		t.Fatalf("the fresh batch answers %+v (%v); want the other repository's merge alone", again, err)
+	}
+	if left, _ := open.inventory.MergesOf(ctx, stopped.ID); len(left) != 1 || left[0].Commit != cat.Commit {
+		t.Fatalf("the stopped walk still answers %+v; want the left-out merge alone", left)
+	}
+	cutAt(t, open, t0.Add(4*time.Minute))
+	fresh, err := open.inventory.PlanByID(ctx, p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy)
+	if err != nil || fresh.Batch() || !fresh.Open() {
+		t.Fatalf("the fresh batch was not cut into a walk: %s %v", fresh.State, err)
+	}
+	if _, in := fresh.Modules["one"]; !in {
+		t.Fatalf("the fresh walk does not build one: %v", fresh.Modules)
+	}
+	if _, in := fresh.Modules["app"]; in {
+		t.Fatalf("the fresh walk builds app, whose merge was left out: %v", fresh.Modules)
+	}
+	if len(fresh.Delivery.Merges) != 1 || fresh.Delivery.Merges[0].Commit != one.Commit {
+		t.Fatalf("the fresh walk answers %+v", fresh.Delivery.Merges)
+	}
+	// A stopped walk starts no search of its own (ADR 0276 decision 3 is for a failed one).
+	cutAt(t, open, t0.Add(5*time.Minute))
+	if alone, _ := open.inventory.AloneMerges(ctx); len(alone) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a merge of the stopped walk waits to be walked alone: %+v", alone)
+	}
+}
+
+// A later merge of the stopped merge's repository contains it: it is left out too, named with the merge it
+// contains, and only the other repository's merge is walked again. With nothing left to walk, the walk is only
+// ended. A merge the walk does not answer is refused, and nothing ends.
+func TestAStopWithoutAMergeEndsTheMergesThatContainIt(t *testing.T) {
+	open := windowed(t)
+	asksRecorded(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	first := catalogueMerge("cat1aaaaaaaa", "app", t0)
+	later := catalogueMerge("cat2cccccccc", "notes", t0.Add(10*time.Second))
+	one := repoMerge("one", "one1bbbbbbbb", t0.Add(5*time.Second))
+	hear(t, open, first, t0.Add(time.Second))
+	hear(t, open, one, t0.Add(6*time.Second))
+	hear(t, open, later, t0.Add(11*time.Second))
+	cutAt(t, open, t0.Add(2*time.Minute))
+	ws, _ := walks(t, open)
+	walk := ws[0]
+
+	if _, _, err := stopWalkWithout(ctx, open.inventory, walk.ID, "mesh-delivery for jochen", "x",
+		[]string{"novox/mesh-catalog@ffffffffffff"}, t0.Add(3*time.Minute)); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a stop leaving out a merge the walk does not answer was taken")
+	}
+	if p, _ := open.inventory.PlanByID(ctx, walk.ID); !p.Open() {
+		t.Fatalf("a refused stop ended the walk: %s", p.State)
+	}
+
+	p, said, err := stopWalkWithout(ctx, open.inventory, walk.ID, "mesh-delivery for jochen", "its group stopped",
+		[]string{"novox/mesh-catalog@" + first.Commit}, t0.Add(3*time.Minute))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	want := []inventory.PlanLeftOut{{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Commit: first.Commit},
+		{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Commit: later.Commit, Contains: first.Commit}}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(p.Delivery.LeftOut, want) || !reflect.DeepEqual(said.LeftOut, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("left out %+v, said %+v; want %+v", p.Delivery.LeftOut, said.LeftOut, want)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(p.Note, later.Commit[:8]) || !strings.Contains(p.Note, p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy) {
+		t.Fatalf("the stopped walk's note does not name the merge ended with it and the fresh batch: %q", p.Note)
+	}
+	again, _ := open.inventory.MergesOf(ctx, p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy)
+	if len(again) != 1 || again[0].Commit != one.Commit {
+		t.Fatalf("walked again: %+v; want the other repository's merge alone", again)
+	}
+
+	// Nothing left once the other repository's merge is left out too: the fresh walk is stopped, and nothing more.
+	cutAt(t, open, t0.Add(4*time.Minute))
+	fresh, _ := open.inventory.PlanByID(ctx, p.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy)
+	q, said, err := stopWalkWithout(ctx, open.inventory, fresh.ID, "mesh-delivery for jochen", "that one too",
+		[]string{"novox/one@" + one.Commit}, t0.Add(5*time.Minute))
+	if err != nil || q.State != inventory.PlanFailed || q.Delivery.WalkedAgainBy != "" || said.WalkedAgainBy != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("a stop leaving nothing to walk: %s %+v %+v %v", q.State, q.Delivery, said, err)
+	}
+	if _, bs := walks(t, open); len(bs) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a batch of nothing was made: %+v", bs)
+	}
+}

cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs.go

@@ -410,6 +410,10 @@ func (a *verbArguments) commandLine() ([]string, error) {
 		if b := str("by"); b != "" {
 			argv = append(argv, "--by", catalogue.DeliverySeat+" for "+b)
 		}
+		// The merges to leave out: the walk's other merges are walked again without them (novox/hq ADR 0299).
+		if w := str("without"); w != "" {
+			argv = append(argv, "--without", w)
+		}
 		return argv, nil
 	case "delivery-walks":
 		argv := []string{"delivery", "walks"}

internal/catalogue/verbs.go

@@ -160,8 +160,12 @@ var ControllerVerbs = []Verb{
 		Input: schema(map[string]string{"plan": "the walk's id", "why": "what lets it go: its turn, a person's release"},
 			[]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.",
-		Input: schema(map[string]string{"plan": "the walk's id", "why": "why", "by": "who stopped the delivery"},
+		"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.",
+		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"})},
 	{Name: "delivery-walks", Description: "The walks the controller keeps (novox/hq ADR 0239): every open one and the " +
 		"last ended ones, each whole — its tiers, each module's state, first machines and first-node gate with its readings, and its " +

internal/inventory/plans.go

@@ -187,6 +187,11 @@ type PlanDelivery struct {
 	// TakenOverBy names the walk a walk folded before it started was taken over by: its merges are that
 	// walk's now.
 	TakenOverBy string `json:"taken_over_by,omitempty"`
+	// WalkedAgainBy names, on a walk stopped without some of its merges, the batch that walks its other merges
+	// again, and LeftOut the merges it left out (novox/hq issue 459, ADR 0299): a delivery of a merge left out
+	// 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"`
 	// 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:
@@ -194,6 +199,16 @@ type PlanDelivery struct {
 	Alone bool `json:"alone,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// PlanLeftOut is a merge a stop left out of the batch that walks a stopped walk's merges again (novox/hq ADR
+// 0299): a merge stopped, or a later merge of its repository's branch, which contains the stopped one and so
+// cannot be walked without delivering it.
+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 string `json:"contains,omitempty"`
+}
+
 // Waiting is whether the walk waits for its delivery's word.
 func (p Plan) Waiting() bool {
 	return p.Delivery != nil && p.Delivery.Awaits != "" && p.Delivery.Go == nil