Merge branch 'feat/47-G-fix11-a2' into feat/47-G-fix11-a3

# Conflicts:
#	node-tools/internal/console/wait_test.go

node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview.go

@@ -445,6 +445,25 @@ func (w wiring) Drop(owner, state string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// Halves is the catalog half of each followed branch, by branch: its revision, with the seat definitions it was judged
+// with, and its entries; mesh_wait checks an event name's emitter against them (design 34 every-event §14). An error says
+// the half has no first view yet, never that no module exists.
+func (v *Views) Halves() (map[string]meshcatalogclient.Half, error) {
+	if v.branches == nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the tool runner does not follow the catalog half")
+	}
+	if err := v.branches.Ready(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	out := map[string]meshcatalogclient.Half{}
+	for _, branch := range v.branches.Followed() {
+		if c, ok := v.branches.Catalog(branch); ok {
+			out[branch], _ = c.View() // a branch at none-yet is ready and empty (§614)
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
 // Modules is every module the catalog half holds, by name, with its entry: the entries of the watched branches' newest trunk
 // revisions, the branch followed first naming a module more than one hold (design 47 G §196, §594). An error says the half has
 // no first view yet, never that no module exists.