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Stacked on #12838 (bootstrap/7-user-services). Adds the history watcher: mise bootstrap dotfiles watch and the history-watch built-in user service, so edits to tracked files are saved automatically, with per-file adaptive scheduling for noisy files and health that mise doctor and dotfiles status read.

What this adds

  • mise bootstrap dotfiles watch [--once] [--json] (src/system/history/watch/): installs filesystem watches for every autosaved tracked entry (a directory recursively, a file through its parent, a path that does not exist yet through its nearest existing ancestor; manual-save entries are never watched) and saves checkpoints through the same attempt entry point as mise bootstrap dotfiles save.
  • Adaptive scheduling (schedule.rs, pure and clock-injected, every threshold a named constant): each path is scheduled on its own. An ordinary edit is saved once the file has been quiet for history.watch.debounce (2s). A save that follows the previous one without the file ever settling (a change within the settle time of the last save, at least two changes since) doubles that file's own interval, up to history.watch.max_interval (24h, a maximum periodic interval, not 24h of silence): the file is still saved at that interval while it keeps changing, its final state is captured promptly once it settles (settle time = interval/8, between the base and 5 minutes), and four quiet intervals (at least 5 minutes) reset it. A busy file never delays another; explicit saves, protective captures, and the shutdown capture always read every file live. Nothing is ever excluded or switched to manual saving automatically. A person saving from an editor every few seconds leaves gaps longer than the settle time, so ordinary editing is never stretched.
  • Held files: a capture triggered by another path, a reconcile, or a configuration change carries a throttled file's last saved version instead of its live content (Draft.held, checkpoint::hold_paths), so whole-set reconciliation cannot defeat the throttling.
  • Persisted schedule (watch-schedule.json): stretched intervals survive a service restart unless the file has been quiet for its reset period; noisy.json feeds mise bootstrap dotfiles paths --noisy (path, effective interval, unsaved changes, last seen).
  • Reconciliation: the whole set is captured at startup, every history.watch.reconcile (10m; 0 disables), after a configuration change (an edit under the global config directory reloads the declarations and replans the watches; history.enabled = false stops the watcher), on a watcher rescan, and at shutdown. --once runs one reconcile and exits, for timers and cron.
  • Coordination: captures try_lock the operation lock; a running bootstrap, rollback, or undo defers the watcher, which retries afterwards. One watcher per store (a second one exits 0). Capture failures back off 1s → 5min and never drop pending changes. --json emits one object per line (started, captured, unchanged, deferred, replan, throttled, settled, degraded, error, stopped).
  • Health (src/system/history/health.rs, health.json): the watcher persists when it started, its last capture and reconcile, the last failure and consecutive failure count, degraded watches, and every throttled path. Pull-based visibility only, no notifications:
    • mise doctor gains a concise dotfiles section (and a dotfiles key in --json): a watcher declared but not running (warning, with mise bootstrap services apply), repeated capture failures or an unusable store (error), heavily throttled files (informational, never a warning), and health older than two reconcile intervals reported as stale. It reads the persisted state only: no sync, no application, no prompt.
    • mise bootstrap dotfiles status prints the detail: watcher state, last capture and reconcile, last failure, and per throttled file the effective interval, last save, and unsaved changes.
  • mise bootstrap dotfiles exclude|include <glob> edit [history] exclude in the global config (the same editor untrack uses for children of tracked directories).
  • Settings: history.watch.debounce, history.watch.max_interval (24h), history.watch.reconcile.
  • Dependencies: notify 8 (macos_fsevent) and notify-debouncer-full 0.7 (500ms coalescing with NoCache; the schedule applies the configured quiet period on top).

Tests

  • Unit: watch plan (recursive/flat anchors, absorption, pending paths); schedule (an ordinary edit saves after the base quiet, churn stretches the interval and keeps periodic saves, a settled file is captured promptly, a busy path never delays an ordinary one, sustained quiet resets but a brief pause does not, an editor cadence is never stretched, pruning between saves keeps what churn detection needs, persisted intervals survive a restart unless quiet long enough).
  • e2e e2e/cli/test_dotfiles_watch (Linux + macOS CI line): capture-health states, --once, a foreground watcher saving a quiet edit, one watcher per store, a configuration change replanning, a rollback deferring the watcher, the shutdown capture, disabled history.
  • e2e e2e/cli/test_dotfiles_watch_throttle: a loop rewrites a file ten times a second; its interval grows and paths --noisy, status, and mise doctor report it (doctor without a warning and without changing anything); the config is never edited; an ordinary edit is still saved promptly and its checkpoint carries the noisy file's last saved version; the final state is captured once the churn stops and nothing else is saved after that; the throttling survives a watcher restart.
  • e2e-win/dotfiles_watch.Tests.ps1: --once and capture health on Windows.

Docs

  • docs/history.md "Automatic saves": adaptive scheduling and its thresholds, reconciliation and failures, and the health section (doctor for a concise view, status for detail, pull-based); rendered CLI docs; settings docs come from settings.toml.

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  • New Features

    • Added automatic dotfiles history watching with debounced saves, reconciliation, retries, throttling, and --once/JSON output.
    • Added exclude and include commands for controlling captured paths.
    • Added adaptive handling for constantly changing files and a --noisy option to identify them.
    • Added watcher health details to history status and mise doctor.
    • Added configurable watcher timing and history exclusion settings.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the new dotfiles history commands, options, configuration, and health reporting.
  • Tests

    • Added end-to-end coverage for watcher behavior across supported platforms.

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Medium Risk
New background capture path touches checkpoint composition, file locking, and filesystem watches; failures are retried and deferred rather than silent, but bugs could miss or duplicate saves.

Overview
Adds automatic dotfiles history capture via mise bootstrap dotfiles watch (foreground, --once, --json) and the history-watch bootstrap user service. The watcher uses notify to watch autosaved tracked paths, debounces per file, reconciles on a timer and on config changes, defers when another history operation holds the lock, and enforces one watcher per store.

Adaptive scheduling stretches save intervals for constantly changing files (without auto-excluding them); other captures can hold throttled paths at their last checkpoint version so reconciliation does not flush live churn. Schedule and health persist under the history store (watch-schedule.json, health.json, noisy.json).

New CLI: exclude / include for [history] exclude, paths --noisy, and settings history.watch.debounce, max_interval, reconcile. mise doctor and dotfiles status surface watcher state, failures, and throttled paths from persisted health.

CI adds macOS e2e for watch/throttle; Windows gets a Pester test for --once.

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Adds a filesystem watcher for automatic dotfiles history checkpoints. The change includes adaptive throttling, health diagnostics, include/exclude commands, configuration settings, documentation, dependency updates, and end-to-end tests.

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History watcher

Layer / File(s) Summary
Watcher planning, scheduling, and persistence
src/system/history/watch/*, src/system/history/health.rs, src/system/history/checkpoint.rs, src/system/history/store.rs, src/system/history/tracked.rs, settings.toml, schema/mise.json, Cargo.toml
Adds watch planning, adaptive scheduling, persisted noise and health records, tracked-path filtering, and throttled-path checkpoint handling.
Watcher runtime and capture loop
src/system/history/watch/runtime.rs
Adds filesystem event handling, reconciliation, capture scheduling, retries, lock deferral, shutdown capture, health updates, persistence, and JSON or log output.
CLI commands and capture health
src/cli/bootstrap.rs, src/cli/dotfiles/*, src/cli/doctor/mod.rs, src/cli/command_effects.rs
Adds exclude, include, and watch commands, noisy-path output, watcher states, health reporting, doctor diagnostics, and command classifications.
Command and feature documentation
docs/*, man/man1/mise.1, mise.usage.kdl, settings.toml, schema/mise.json
Documents watcher operation, scheduling, throttling, reconciliation, service configuration, health output, commands, flags, and settings.
End-to-end watcher validation
e2e/cli/*, e2e-win/*, .github/workflows/test-impl.yml
Tests startup, reconciliation, throttling, persistence, exclusions, rollback coordination, shutdown capture, service health, disabled history, and platform coverage.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ef50f

The new automatic history watcher can miss or indefinitely defer captures, produce inconsistent checkpoints for throttled files, and may weaken protection of credential snapshots. These issues should be resolved before merge because they affect saved history correctness and sensitive dotfile handling.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant DotfilesWatch
  participant WatchRuntime
  participant CheckpointStore
  Operator->>DotfilesWatch: run watch command
  DotfilesWatch->>WatchRuntime: start with WatchOptions
  WatchRuntime->>WatchRuntime: watch, debounce, reconcile, and schedule
  WatchRuntime->>CheckpointStore: capture checkpoint
  CheckpointStore-->>WatchRuntime: return capture result
  WatchRuntime-->>Operator: emit status or JSON events
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A rabbit checks the watcher trail,
Quiet files rest while busy files slow,
Health records mark each checkpoint,
Tests guard paths through rain and snow,
The history garden grows.

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This PR adds automatic dotfiles history watching with per-path adaptive scheduling, persisted watcher health, configuration-driven replanning, and coordination with other history operations.

  • Adds foreground and one-shot watch commands plus a built-in user service.
  • Persists throttling schedules and carries held file states through unrelated captures.
  • Exposes watcher health through dotfiles status, paths, and doctor.
  • Adds exclude/include controls, generated documentation, settings, and cross-platform tests.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The changes since the previous review appear safe to merge, with no accepted new findings and all previous Greptile root threads resolved.

No new actionable issue distinct from existing review feedback was established. The recent fixes preserve retry behavior, pending-path replanning, shutdown visibility, persisted throttling, and repository test conventions; all previous root findings are resolved or withdrawn.

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Filename Overview
src/system/history/watch/runtime.rs Implements watcher lifecycle, retries, reconciliation, persisted scheduling, health updates, and shutdown capture.
src/system/history/watch/schedule.rs Implements independent adaptive scheduling and settling behavior for tracked paths.
src/system/history/watch/plan.rs Plans recursive, flat, and pending-path filesystem watch anchors.
src/system/history/checkpoint.rs Adds held-path and carried-mode handling; the remaining permission concern matches an existing review finding and is not duplicated.
src/system/history/health.rs Defines persisted watcher health and throttled-path reporting.
src/cli/doctor/mod.rs Adds read-only dotfiles watcher diagnostics to text and JSON doctor output.
e2e/cli/test_dotfiles_watch Exercises foreground watching, replanning, operation coordination, shutdown capture, and one-shot behavior.
e2e/cli/test_dotfiles_watch_throttle Exercises throttling, held content, restart persistence, settling, symlink targets, and deferred retries.

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In `@src/system/history/watch/noise.rs`:
- Around line 73-77: Update the prune logic alongside the existing events
retention in prune to also remove entries from warned when their recorded
warning time is older than WARN_INTERVAL, ensuring stale warning records are
released while retaining recent records.

In `@src/system/history/watch/runtime.rs`:
- Line 109: Update the wake-up scheduling around Capture::fail and the flush_at
calculation to include an independent timer derived from Capture::retry_at, even
when the batcher is empty; combine it with the existing batcher.deadline()
wake-up while preserving the earlier applicable deadline.
- Around line 218-222: Update the watch-loop condition around state.reload and
install so it also triggers when an event advances a pending path’s existing
ancestor, not only when a pending path currently exists. Replan via
state.reload().await and reinstall anchors through install whenever this
ancestor transition occurs, preserving the existing behavior for directly
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src/system/history/tracked.rs (1)

306-315: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse exclusion state across the capture operation.

would_capture rebuilds hard_exclusions() and the GlobSet for every path. The replay path checks this predicate for candidate paths. Large change sets will repeat path normalization, glob parsing, and allocations. Build these values once per operation and reuse them.

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In `@src/system/history/tracked.rs` around lines 306 - 315, Update the capture
operation around would_capture to construct hard_exclusions() and the
exclude_set() GlobSet once, then pass or reuse those exclusion values for every
candidate path instead of rebuilding them per path. Preserve the existing
hard-exclusion, .git-component, and glob-matching behavior.
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- Around line 306-315: Update the capture operation around would_capture to
construct hard_exclusions() and the exclude_set() GlobSet once, then pass or
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src/system/history/store.rs (1)

99-101: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Sensitive Data Exposure (CWE-732): Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Exploitability: Difficult

Enforce private ACLs on non-Unix history directories.

MISE_STATE_DIR is configurable, and Windows creation does not restrict inherited ACLs. A shared parent can expose history snapshots to another local identity.

Create the history directory with a user-only DACL, or reject existing directories that grant access to other principals. Add a shared-parent Windows test.

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In `@src/system/history/store.rs` around lines 99 - 101, Update create_private_dir
to enforce a user-only DACL on Windows history directories, including existing
directories, or reject any directory whose ACL grants access to other
principals; preserve the existing directory-creation behavior on other platforms
and add a test covering a shared parent on Windows.
src/cli/bootstrap.rs (1)

2716-2716: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not report absent services as recreated.

When request.state is ServiceState::Absent, bootstrap removes the user-service definition through apply_one and remove_named. The name-only check still prints that the next bootstrap recreates it. Include the state check.

Proposed fix
-            .any(|request| request.name == self.name);
+            .any(|request| {
+                request.name == self.name
+                    && request.state != crate::system::services_common::ServiceState::Absent
+            });
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In `@src/cli/bootstrap.rs` at line 2716, Update the service recreation check in
the closure over requests to require both matching names and a state other than
ServiceState::Absent, so absent services removed by apply_one/remove_named are
not reported as recreated.
mise.usage.kdl (1)

1763-1770: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add the history status description to bootstrap dotfiles status.

The public command has no long_help, while the hidden command contains the management, checkpoint, unfinished-operation, and autosave details. mise run render uses mise.usage.kdl to generate docs/cli and man/man1/mise.1, so users do not see these details. Add the same description to the public command.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@mise.usage.kdl` around lines 1763 - 1770, Add the hidden command’s full
dotfiles status long_help text to the public `bootstrap dotfiles status`
command, preserving the existing management, checkpoint, unfinished-operation,
and autosave details so generated CLI documentation includes them.
docs/history.md (1)

6-9: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the checkpoint guarantee.

The opening statement promises a checkpoint whenever a tracked file changes. This is not true when history.enabled = false, git is unavailable, or a file uses autosave = false. State that checkpoints require enabled, usable history and an autosave-tracked file.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@docs/history.md` around lines 6 - 9, Update the opening checkpoint guarantee
in the history documentation to state that checkpoints occur only when history
is enabled and usable, and the changed file is tracked with autosave enabled.
Preserve the existing descriptions of the watcher, mutating bootstrap commands,
and mise bootstrap dotfiles save.
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src/system/history/watch/runtime.rs (1)

251-255: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Replan when an event creates an ancestor of a pending path.

The reconcile arm replans only when a pending path itself exists. WatchPlan anchors a missing path on its nearest existing ancestor with Mode::Flat, which maps to RecursiveMode::NonRecursive. When an intermediate directory is created, the anchor is stale, and changes below the new directory are not observed. The event arm never replans for this transition either. If history.watch.reconcile is 0, the timer is disabled and the anchor is never refreshed.

Replan and reinstall anchors when a pending path's nearest existing ancestor advances.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@src/system/history/watch/runtime.rs` around lines 251 - 255, Update the
reconciliation and event handling around WatchPlan pending paths so replanning
also occurs when a pending path’s nearest existing ancestor changes, including
creation of an intermediate directory, not only when the pending path itself
exists. Ensure the refreshed plan is reloaded and its anchors reinstalled
through the existing state.reload and install flow, even when
history.watch.reconcile disables the timer.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@docs/cli/bootstrap/dotfiles.md`:
- Line 20: Regenerate the optional history syntax in the generated dotfiles
documentation by running the standard render task, so the DotfilesHistory entry
advertises [SUBCOMMAND] and preserves the None-to-HistoryLs::run() listing
workflow.

In `@src/system/history/checkpoint.rs`:
- Around line 438-454: Update the overlay-building flow in hold_paths to return
the live tree immediately when previous is None, before creating any Overlay
values; retain the existing overlay behavior when a previous tree is available.

In `@src/system/history/watch/runtime.rs`:
- Line 115: Update the timer setup around capture.schedule.deadline() to fall
back to capture.retry_at when no schedule deadline exists, and ensure the
associated timer handler invokes capture.attempt when the retry timer fires even
if due_paths is empty. Preserve the existing scheduled-deadline behavior.
- Around line 251-255: Update the watch-event reconciliation flow around
state.plan.pending and install so that creation or advancement of a pending
missing path reloads State and reinstalls anchors immediately. Ensure newly
created intermediate directories are reconciled without relying on the periodic
reconcile setting, while preserving the existing debouncer and installed-watch
state.

In `@src/system/history/watch/schedule.rs`:
- Around line 296-308: Update Schedule::prune so throttled paths are not
retained solely because schedule.interval exceeds base after reset_after()
expires. For non-pending paths whose recent-save window has expired, reset their
interval to base or remove them before persistence, while preserving retention
for pending paths and recently saved paths.

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In `@docs/history.md`:
- Around line 6-9: Update the opening checkpoint guarantee in the history
documentation to state that checkpoints occur only when history is enabled and
usable, and the changed file is tracked with autosave enabled. Preserve the
existing descriptions of the watcher, mutating bootstrap commands, and mise
bootstrap dotfiles save.

In `@mise.usage.kdl`:
- Around line 1763-1770: Add the hidden command’s full dotfiles status long_help
text to the public `bootstrap dotfiles status` command, preserving the existing
management, checkpoint, unfinished-operation, and autosave details so generated
CLI documentation includes them.

In `@src/cli/bootstrap.rs`:
- Line 2716: Update the service recreation check in the closure over requests to
require both matching names and a state other than ServiceState::Absent, so
absent services removed by apply_one/remove_named are not reported as recreated.

In `@src/system/history/store.rs`:
- Around line 99-101: Update create_private_dir to enforce a user-only DACL on
Windows history directories, including existing directories, or reject any
directory whose ACL grants access to other principals; preserve the existing
directory-creation behavior on other platforms and add a test covering a shared
parent on Windows.

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- Around line 251-255: Update the reconciliation and event handling around
WatchPlan pending paths so replanning also occurs when a pending path’s nearest
existing ancestor changes, including creation of an intermediate directory, not
only when the pending path itself exists. Ensure the refreshed plan is reloaded
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Reviewed the current stack tip at 440d227. This is a static review; I have not run the stack's build/e2e suites.

The revised direction is aligned: commands now live under bootstrap dotfiles; non-file operation journals are removed while file preimages/progress/undo remain; adaptive per-file scheduling and doctor health are present.

The startup/deferred-capture retry finding is already covered by #12843 (comment) and #12843 (comment), so I am not opening another duplicate. Please include a regression with reconciliation disabled and a held operation lock, plus failure reporting for watch --once. Three additional issues are attached inline.

Remaining launch/stack alignment items (not requests to cram all later work into this watcher PR):

  • I currently see foundation #12849, rollback #12835, services #12838, and this watcher PR. Sync/origin, shared publication, machine backups/encryption, and history-enabled local/remote onboarding still need their implementing PRs before the launch story is complete.
  • Reuse landed #12830 for remote bootstrap GitHub access. History-enabled setup must use the single bare-store path; ordinary repositories keep existing onboarding semantics. The relay stays allowlisted, read-only, session-scoped, and is not background push authentication. The watcher must reference durable installed mise, never remote staging.
  • The later product decision adds optional desktop notifications for NEW sync conflicts (off by default, deduplicated, no file contents, graceful failure). This supplements doctor/status; it supersedes the earlier blanket 'no notifications' scope. Current health support is capture/watcher health, not yet sync/conflict health.
  • The configurable description hook/Claude example is still a later deliverable; verify its final setting and stdin contract before publishing.
  • CLI alignment: preserving existing dotfiles diff and using dotfiles history diff for checkpoint comparisons is sensible. The blog currently says 'dotfiles paths exclude'; this PR implements 'dotfiles exclude'. Align the blog/docs with the implemented command rather than adding an alias just to match the draft.
  • Golden-path OS walkthroughs and a real launch-build output transcript remain launch deliverables. Run the final examples end to end, including noisy files, restart, conflict holding, rollback propagation, and private remote onboarding.

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let mut state = State::load().await?;
let mut capture = Capture::new(store, out, intervals.limits.clone());
capture.health.watcher.started_at = Some(store::now_rfc3339());
capture.attempt(&state.tracked, "startup reconcile", &[]);

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[P2] Startup capture bypasses restored per-file throttling

Capture::new restores stretched intervals, but this startup attempt passes an empty held list and reads every autosaved file live. A continuously changing file with a long periodic interval is therefore checkpointed again on every service restart, even when its next save is not due. Restoring only the interval does not enforce the persisted schedule. Preserve enough pending/deadline/last-save state to distinguish overdue or settled content from still-throttled churn, and apply that at startup. Add a regression that checks actual checkpoint contents/counts across repeated restarts, rather than only asserting the interval survives. This is separate from the existing quiet-reset timestamp finding.

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Fixed in 0965720: the persisted schedule carries each throttled path's last save and pending batch (saved_epoch_secs, pending_changes, pending_since_epoch_secs, last_change_epoch_secs), restore places them on the new run's clock, and the startup capture passes the held paths like any other capture; a file rewritten while the watcher was down (mtime after the last save) is noted as pending. Regression in test_dotfiles_watch_throttle: the watcher is restarted while the churn continues and the newest checkpoint's copy of the throttled file equals what was saved before the restart; the unit test a_restart_continues_the_schedule_where_it_stopped checks that the due time and the held state survive a restart and that an overdue save is due at once.

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debug!("history watch: ignoring {}", path.display());
continue;
}
capture.schedule.note(path, now);

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[P2] Persist dirty health independently of checkpoint creation

New events only call schedule.note here. Persisted health/noisy state is refreshed after captures or reconciliation, so after a successful capture writes pending_changes = 0, continued edits to a throttled file can remain reported as zero unsaved changes until the next reconcile (or hours with reconcile disabled). That undermines doctor/status as the visibility mechanism. Persist dirty-state transitions or a bounded health heartbeat independently of file capture, and distinguish an event count from confirmed content differences. Test a stretched file receiving another edit before its next save, with reconcile = 0, and assert status reports pending changes.

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Fixed in 0965720: an event batch that touches a throttled path persists the schedule and health at once, so pending_changes (documented as changes seen since the last save, an event count) is current between saves. Covered in test_dotfiles_watch_throttle with reconciliation off: status reports pending changes while the churn goes on and again right after a restart.

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if config_changed {
match state.reload().await {
Ok(true) => {
installed = install(&mut debouncer, &installed, &state.plan.anchors, &mut capture)?;

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[P2] Reload timing settings along with the watch plan

Intervals::from_settings is called only before entering the loop. This reload rebuilds State and anchors, but neither capture.schedule.limits nor the reconcile interval/deadline is refreshed. Editing history.watch.debounce, max_interval, or reconcile in the live global config therefore has no effect until the service restarts, despite configuration being reported as reloaded. Reconfigure/clamp the scheduler and reset the reconcile timer on accepted settings changes, or explicitly expose restart-required behavior. Test changing both the max interval and reconcile enablement while the watcher stays running.

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Fixed in 0965720: a configuration reload re-reads history.watch.*, clamps every interval into the new limits (Schedule::set_limits), and re-arms the reconcile timer (including turning it on or off). Covered in test_dotfiles_watch_throttle: lowering max_interval in the running watcher's configuration clamps the throttled file's interval.

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fn build_plan(tracked: &TrackedSet) -> WatchPlan {
let paths = tracked
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[P2] Watch derived symlink targets as well as declared entries

TrackedSet::walk discovers targets of symlinks inside tracked directories and adds them to the capture's derived entries, but those entries live in the walk's cloned set. build_plan uses the original tracked.entries, and relevant also filters through that original set. Thus a symlink inside a tracked directory pointing to another file under HOME outside tracked roots gets its target captured initially, but editing that target does not trigger autosave. It waits for reconciliation, or is missed indefinitely with reconcile=0. Include derived targets in both watcher anchors and event eligibility, and refresh them when links change. Test a nested symlink to a target outside all declared roots with reconciliation disabled.

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Fixed in 0965720: the watcher plans and filters by the walked set (declared entries plus derived symlink targets), and a link that appears or changes triggers a replan so the derived entries follow. Covered in test_dotfiles_watch_throttle with reconciliation off: a link inside a tracked directory to a file outside every root, then an edit to that target, is captured.

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Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Trivial

Keep .netrc private outside the config directory.

When a tracked .netrc path is outside config_dir, the current condition does not mark it private. Move .netrc to CREDENTIAL_GLOBS so it receives share = false and backup = false protection at its standard location.

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+const CREDENTIAL_NAMES: &[&str] = &["github_tokens.toml", "hosts.yml", "age.txt"];
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Converge all user services after dotfiles apply. When dotfiles apply adds or changes a requires_tools = false entry, the early request list still uses the pre-dotfiles configuration. The final reload filters out that entry, so bootstrap does not apply it during the same run. Apply the complete post-dotfiles user-service request set, not only requires_tools entries.

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Reuse the exclude set during directory reconciliation.

When replay replaces or removes a directory, directory_contents calls TrackedSet::would_capture for each regular file not already in the plan. Each call rebuilds the full GlobSet through TrackedSet::exclude_set(). Large tracked trees can therefore incur repeated pattern compilation. Build the exclude set once in directory_contents and pass it to the predicate, or cache it on TrackedSet.

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Keep derived symlink targets eligible for capture.

When request.target is an existing symlink into $HOME, normalize_target stores the link path. walk() captures its resolved target only as a derived entry in its local clone. would_capture on the original TrackedSet then returns false for that target because entry_for cannot find it. For a regular target, the gate in src/system/history/replay.rs line 631 can skip an otherwise captured file. Make would_capture evaluate the same derived-link closure as walk().

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Readiness follow-up at 7d38702

The previously reported restart-throttling, dirty-health persistence, timing-reload, and derived-symlink-target issues now have corresponding fixes and added regression coverage. This was a source review, not a fresh local suite run.

Remaining blockers/cleanup are already covered by existing threads:

  • Reconciliation can mark omitted due files as saved: discussion_r3942876206. This is the main remaining correctness blocker.
  • Watch installation failure skips the startup capture: discussion_r3942887002. Preserve a best-effort recovery capture while still reporting/exiting for the watch failure.
  • A successful final capture can clear the watch-backend error: discussion_r3942888220. Doctor/status must retain the actual reason the service stopped.

Please finish these failure paths and get clean CI after restacking. I added supporting replies to the relevant existing threads instead of duplicate findings.

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Add `mise history watch`: filesystem watches for every autosaved tracked
entry, a batcher that saves a changed file once it has been quiet (a file
that keeps changing never delays the others, and is saved after the
maximum interval regardless), reconciliation of the whole set at
startup, periodically, on configuration changes, and at shutdown, and
`--once` for timers. Captures defer to a running history operation,
back off on failure without dropping changes, and one watcher runs per
store. Constantly changing paths are reported with the exclusion to
write and listed by `mise history paths --noisy`; `paths exclude` and
`include` edit `[history] exclude`.

`mise history status` now reports the watcher as running, declared but
not running, or not declared, with the next command for each. The
`history-watch` built-in user service runs the watcher.

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Each tracked file is scheduled on its own: an ordinary edit is saved after
the base quiet period, while a file that never settles has its own interval
doubled on every churn save, up to `history.watch.max_interval` (24h). A
throttled file is still saved periodically, captured promptly once it
settles, reset after sustained quiet, and never delays another file. The
schedule is persisted so a service restart does not reset it, and captures
another path triggers carry a held file's last saved version so whole-set
reconciliation cannot defeat the throttling. Nothing is excluded or switched
to manual saving automatically.

The watcher persists its health; `mise doctor` reports a declared but not
running watcher, capture failures, an unusable store, and heavily throttled
files without starting anything, and `mise bootstrap dotfiles status` and
`paths --noisy` show the detail.

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… retries deferred captures

- the persisted schedule carries each throttled file's last save and
  pending batch; a restart restores them on its own clock, holds a
  throttled file at its saved version during the startup capture, and
  treats a file rewritten while the service was down as pending
- a deferred or failed capture arms its own retry timer, independent of
  the per-file schedule; the shutdown capture ignores the backoff and waits
  for a running operation; `watch --once` exits 1 when nothing was saved
- timing settings are re-read on a configuration reload and clamp the
  schedule; derived symlink targets are watched and refreshed when links
  change; a tracked path appearing replans at once
- a throttled file's unsaved changes are persisted as they happen
- held paths are files matched exactly (never a whole directory), carry
  their previous version, absence, and mode, and nothing is held without
  a previous checkpoint; a throttled path past its reset period is
  forgotten rather than reported
- the stale mr-boxington lock entry is gone and the docs are re-rendered

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… pending after a restart

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…iguous restart change is pending without counting as churn

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…rsists health

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…ure and fails when the watch backend stops

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…s the failure that stopped it in health

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…c under load

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jdx force-pushed the bootstrap/8-watch branch from 5e7b50f to 35dfce9 Compare September 6, 2026 05:29

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.filter(|path| path.starts_with(&config_dir)),
) {
capture.schedule.saved(&path, now);
}

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Exclude leaves noisy files held

High Severity

After a path is excluded or untracked, it can remain pending in the schedule. The next captures still pass it to held, so hold_paths writes the last saved version back into the snapshot instead of dropping it. exclude is the documented fix for constantly rewritten files, and those files are the ones still held, so the exclusion checkpoint does not remove them and later saves keep carrying them until they become due.

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Confirmed in 35dfce9: config reload rebuilds the tracked set, but the held list is still taken from the pre-existing schedule with only the config-directory filter. hold_paths then overlays those paths from the previous snapshot without rechecking current eligibility. Please remove ineligible scheduled paths before constructing any held list, covering exclusion, untracking, and changes to autosave policy. Regression: stretch a file's interval, exclude it while pending, and assert the configuration-change checkpoint immediately drops it and later captures do not resurrect it.

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