A merge waited the whole window even when nothing assembling shared anything
with it. It now joins only a batch it is related to (ADR 0304 §1, read by ADR
0306 §3: repository, a module the cut would move, a graph edge, a group head),
folding the newer into the oldest when it relates to two. A merge related to
none starts a batch whose window is closed at once (PlanBatch.CutAtOnce),
unless its delivery group may still have a member to merge (ADR 0306 §2).
The controller cannot see a group's unmerged members (that is mesh-delivery's
record), so a merge from any head still waits, in a batch of its own: the safe
error is to wait. Walks stay one at a time; a batch cut at once queues behind
an open walk. A stop's merges walked again join a related batch, or their own.
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Every merge opened a walk and the next merge of the branch superseded it: two
catalogue merges 18 s apart left a walk no delivery held, and the operator
started it by hand 58 minutes later. A merge now joins the open batch, kept in
the store (migration 0089), which is cut into one walk when no merge came for
merge-window (90 s) or at merge-window-at-most (10 min): one commit per
repository, the latest of its branch, with every file the batch's merges
changed. One walk at a time; a started walk is never superseded, a waiting one
is folded into the next. The walk names every merge it answers on the wire
(delivery.merges, taken_over_by, batch). A failed walk walks its earlier merges
alone, newest first, until one is delivered. A delivery group's order becomes
tier edges inside the walk. plans shows the batch assembling; S18 and S19
bound its waits; S16 names the merges a waiting walk answers.