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2026-10-16 — Refines dcn-2610161412283450 on the blob a hand-back is judged by when origin's default branch could not be refreshed (facilitator-on-delegation, drain-many-accounts review round): a stale branch reads the record at the blob it held when last fetched, so it can err either way: a hand-back made over a newer blob than that reads as changed though no one edited the record since (a drain may then take the issue), and a person's edit this copy has not fetched reads as unchanged until it is (a drain keeps backing off). Neither is bounded by the act; each lasts until this copy's next fetch of that branch succeeds, which every drain move and reservation act tries first. The earlier record's claim that a stale blob only reads as changed sooner was wrong. A release asked to hand back while the branch could not be read at all (this checkout names none, or its tree would not read) says so, rather than that the branch holds no one record of the issue (grounds: dcn-2610161412283450; spc-2610161044461448 step 3; the review of steps 1 to 18).
2026-10-16 — Refines dcn-2610161412283450 on the blob a hand-back is judged by when origin's default branch could not be refreshed (facilitator-on-delegation, drain-many-accounts review round): a stale branch reads the record at the blob it held when last fetched, so it can err either way: a hand-back made over a newer blob than that reads as changed though no one edited the record since (a drain may then take the issue), and a person's edit this copy has not fetched reads as unchanged until it is (a drain keeps backing off). Neither is bounded by the act; each lasts until this copy's next fetch of that branch succeeds, which every drain move and reservation act tries first. The earlier record's claim that a stale blob only reads as changed sooner was wrong. A release asked to hand back while the branch could not be read at all (this checkout names none, or its tree would not read) says so, rather than that the branch holds no one record of the issue (grounds: dcn-2610161412283450; spc-2610161044461448 step 3; the review of steps 1 to 18).
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| id | dcn-2610161837009957 |
|---|---|
| type | decision |
| date | 2026-10-16 |
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- dcn-26101614122834502026-10-16 — A hand-back stands while origin's default branch holds the record at the blob its tombstone names (facilitator-on-delegation, drain-many-accounts): the claim package reads that blob from origin's default branch as last fetched, as an entity tag names the version a conditional request was made against; only a blob read there that differs lifts the hand-back, never an unreadable branch or a record held in no file or in several; a blob read from a branch the act's fetch could not refresh can only read as changed sooner than a fresh one; and a release asked to hand back a record the branch does not hold in exactly one file pushes a plain tombstone and says why rather than refusing, so the reservation never outlives the hand-back (grounds: entity tags and If-Match in RFC 9110 sections 8.8.3 and 13.1.1, and git's content-addressed object model; spc-2610161044461448 step 3; iss-2610161015370582).
- dcn-26101619311309112026-10-16 — Refines dcn-2610161826443524 on when a pending hand-back ends (facilitator-on-delegation, drain-many-accounts review round 2): it ends only when a release publishes it, or when it is no longer due: a tip already marking a hand-back, a record finished or changed on origin's default branch since the yes was judged, a record origin holds in no one file, or a tombstone the hand-back would take past its cap. A move that ends it unpublished says in its next step and in the route that it was dropped, and why, and never that it was published. A release that could not read origin's default branch at all (this checkout names none, or its tree would not read) keeps it pending, whether the release pushed a plain tombstone or found one already there, since that failure says nothing about the record and passes; the next move's release publishes it once the branch reads (grounds: dcn-2610161826443524, dcn-2610161837009957; spc-2610161044461448 steps 2 and 3; the re-review of the fix round).
- spc-2610161044461448drain-many-accounts