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Keep a ticket's Trac details across a relaunch, and reorganise the ticket card - #696

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Why

After "Read details from Trac", the ticket's summary, facts and attachment list live only in the window's memory. Closing and reopening the app loses them, and the contributor has to read the ticket again, which can mean passing Trac's human-check again (#695).

Testing the fix showed the top of the ticket card was hard to read: the title, a status pill, a run-on line of facts, the read time and the changes sentence were stacked with nothing to tell them apart. So this also reorganises it.

What changes

The last read of a ticket that answered is saved in electron-store, under tracRead:<id>, with the time it was read. When a ticket loads, the card shows that saved read without opening Trac, so the rule from #109 and #292 that Trac opens only when asked still holds.

  • The card says when the details were read: "Read from Trac ", fresh or restored, with a Refresh beside it that reads the ticket again. Before this, the only way to re-read was the attachments section's Refresh, further down the card. Both run the same read.
  • A read that fails (window closed, human-check timed out, error) never replaces a saved one, and shows its failure beside the saved copy, the way the linked pull requests already fall back on their cache.
  • "Opened" now shows the date Trac gives (08/28/2023 11:50:14 PM) instead of "4 weeks ago", which stops being true once the read outlives the session. The relative wording is used only when Trac gives no date.

The card's layout, chosen from mockups:

  • The ticket's title leads, as the heading and the link to Trac, with the number and status badge small above it.
  • Type, Component, Milestone, Opened and Keywords are labelled rows instead of one line.
  • "Read from Trac" is a small line with an icon Refresh.
  • Unsubmitted changes on the ticket are an info notice, titled "1 unsubmitted change for ticket #N", with Review and submit and Discard changes buttons. The same note by the site's buttons, for changes on no ticket, keeps its sentence and inline links.

Not in it: pruning old saved reads (see Risks), and the pull requests and attachments sections, which are unchanged.

How to test this

Platform: either. Build: the current head. Needs a real Trac ticket, so a network connection.

Starting state: a site with a Trac ticket linked, for example 62281, and its details not yet read.

  1. Click Read details from Trac. Pass the human-check if it appears.
    • The ticket's title shows as a heading, with its number and status above it, and Type, Component, Milestone, Opened and Keywords as labelled rows under it.
    • A small line under the rows says "Read from Trac" with today's date and the current time, with a circular-arrows button beside it.
    • "Opened" shows a date and time, not "… ago".
  2. Quit the app and open it again. Open the same site.
    • The summary, facts, attachment list and the same "Read from Trac" time are back.
    • No Trac window opens, and Read details from Trac is not shown.
  3. Click the circular-arrows button at the end of the "Read from Trac" line.
    • Trac opens, and the "Read from Trac" time moves to now.
  4. Click Refresh beside Trac attachments and close the Trac window before it finishes.
    • The section says the window was closed, and the details and attachments from step 3 stay on screen.
  5. Edit any file in the site's src/ folder.
    • Under the ticket's details, an info notice says "1 unsubmitted change for ticket #N", with the reassurance about unlinking under the title, and Review and submit and Discard changes buttons.
  6. Click Discard changes, then Cancel in the question.
    • The question asks "Discard all local changes?" and Cancel leaves your edit in place.
  7. Click Review and submit.
    • The review opens with your edit in it.

What must not have happened: a Trac window opening on its own after the relaunch in step 2. That would break the rule that Trac's human-check only appears when the contributor asked for it.

Covered by the journey the ticket’s details from Trac are still there after a restart, with when they were read in tests/e2e/journeys/ticket-card.spec.js (npm run test:e2e:hidden -- tests/e2e/journeys/ticket-card.spec.js, from the repository root). It fails without the change, and its last step, the Refresh on the "Read from Trac" line, fails without that button. It stands in for Trac, so it cannot reach the real window, the human-check or a real ticket page; those are steps 1, 3 and 4 above. The layout is covered by the first test in the same file (the heading's name, each labelled row) and by i18n.spec.js (the notice's title and buttons, in the pseudo-locale).

Risks and limitations

  • Saved reads are never pruned: one small entry per ticket ever read, the same as the linked pull requests' ticketPatches:* cache. Fine for now; worth an issue only if the settings file grows noticeably.
  • Tickets read before this change have nothing saved, so they show Read details from Trac once more after updating.
  • A saved attachment list can be behind Trac. The "Read from Trac" time says how old it is, and Refresh reads it again.
  • New strings: the labels Type, Component, Milestone, Opened and Keywords, the notice's titles (ticket, issue and pull request, with and without a count), "Review and submit" and "Review changes". The other 14 languages show these in English until translated. "Component: %s", "Milestone: %s", "Opened %s", "Keywords:" and the card's four "You have … unsubmitted …" sentences are no longer used.
  • The card's Discard changes is a neutral outline button: the design system's button has no destructive tone. The question it opens is unchanged.

Related

Fixes #695


Design decisions and alternatives considered
  • One saved read for facts and attachments. Both come from the same visit to the ticket page and were lost the same way, so they are saved and restored together.
  • A separate read-only channel (trac:cached-attachments) rather than reading the store inside trac:list-attachments. The existing handler opens Trac by definition; the new one never does, so loading a site can call it freely.
  • Absolute "Opened" date instead of keeping "4 weeks ago" with a "read on" caveat. The attachment rows already prefer Trac's absolute timestamp for the same reason.
  • Layout: labelled rows over badges or a tidied single line. Three mockups were compared (labelled rows; facts as badges with the read time beside Unlink; today's line split into sections). Rows won because the title and the facts are what a contributor reads first, and rows say what each value is.
  • The heading still says the number first to a screen reader. Under Working on a second ticket means rebuilding the world: tickets should be branches, not sites #108 the number names the branch the site is on. The visible number above the title is hidden from screen readers so it is not read twice, and the heading comes first in the page, drawn below the number and status, so jumping by heading lands before the status.
  • Buttons in the changes notice, at the cost of new strings, chosen over keeping the old sentence with inline links.
Review outcome (required — see AGENTS.md)

First pass: 3 [fix here] · 1 [follow-up], all 🔵 low. All 3 fixed:

  • The saved "Opened 4 weeks ago" went stale after a relaunch → "Opened" now shows Trac's absolute date, relative only as a fallback.
  • trac:cached-attachments had no try/logError and the renderer swallowed its rejection → wrapped and logged like its neighbour; the empty .catch is gone.
  • The "which read wins" rule sat in the hook, out of the suite's reach → moved to tracReadToShow in src/renderer/ticket-card.cjs with a test.
  • Notes also acted on: the key renamed from tracTicket:<id> to tracRead:<id> so it is not confused with the site's tracTicket field, and tests added for saving a no-attachments read and for a failed read with nothing saved.
  • Deferred: saved reads are never pruned. Same as ticketPatches:*, small entries; noted in Risks.

Re-review of the fixes: 1 [fix here] · 2 [follow-up], all 🔵. All earlier findings confirmed resolved except the deferred one.

  • Fixed: leftover tooltip code and docs after "Opened" stopped carrying a title (ticket-card.jsx, the ticketFacts type, the dateLine comment).

  • Deferred: "Opened" shows Trac's raw US-format, zone-less timestamp beside the locale-formatted "Read from Trac" time. Matches what the attachment rows already show; parsing Trac's zone-less string is a separate change.

  • Deferred: pruning, as above.

  • Review: completed — separate read-only agent context (Claude Code /self-review), against .github/instructions/code-review.instructions.md; base 60078fe, uncommitted working tree on top of it; npm run lint clean, npm test 2107 pass / 0 fail, ticket-card.spec.js and i18n.spec.js journeys 37/37 hidden on macOS. Re-review completed by a second fresh agent context on the fixed tree.

  • Since review: after the re-review, its one [fix here] (three lines of tooltip leftovers) was applied and checked by the author, not re-reviewed; lint, npm test (2107/0) and ticket-card.spec.js (5/5) re-run green. Committed as 6ea00b0, which is that tree.

  • After the PR opened: 5f464f6 adds the Refresh on the "Read from Trac" line (one Button in ticket-card.jsx, one journey step), at the reporter's request. Checked by the author, not re-reviewed: lint clean, npm test 2107/0, ticket-card.spec.js and i18n.spec.js 37/37 hidden on macOS, and the new step red without the button.

  • Layout review: completed. Separate read-only agent context, against the same standard; base 5f464f6, the layout change uncommitted on top. 4 [fix here] · 0 [follow-up], all fixed:

    • 🟡 The icon Refresh was named only "Refresh" → named "Refresh Read from Trac " again, like the card's other two.
    • 🔵 The heading's three states and the keywords row were decided in .jsx → ticketHeading and a keywords fact in ticket-card.cjs, with tests.
    • 🔵 index.jsx chose the notice's description → changesNoteParts returns one body.
    • 🔵 The icon Refresh lost its loading state, and the status badge came before the heading in reading order → loading restored; the heading is first in the page and drawn below the number and status.
    • Notes acted on: translator comment on "Keywords", a stale test header, and the pointer resting on the title in one screenshot. Noted, not changed: the discard button's neutral tone (see Risks).
  • Since the layout review: the four fixes, checked by the author, not re-reviewed: lint clean, npm test 2108/0, full journey suite 150/150 hidden on macOS. Committed as a859878.

  • After that: e380067 adds cachedTracAttachments to the packaged smoke's list of bridge functions. Both packaged smoke jobs failed without it; neither review ran the packaged smoke, which needs a full build.

  • CodeRabbit: not yet requested.

Implementation notes
  • src/main.js: trac:list-attachments saves { checkedAt, status, items, ticket } on ok or no-attachments, and on any other status returns the saved items, ticket and checkedAt with the failure. trac:cached-attachments reads the saved copy for a Trac site's linked ticket, logging and returning null on any error. Both write or read a fixed top-level key after their last await, per the store rule in AGENTS.md.
  • src/renderer/hooks/use-apply-patch.jsx: the ticket effect asks for the saved read beside loadTicketPatches(). tracReadToShow in src/renderer/ticket-card.cjs decides whether it is shown: only while the same ticket is linked, and never over a read that already answered.
  • src/renderer/ticket-card.cjs: tracReadAt writes the "Read from Trac" line in the reader's locale; ticketFacts prefers the absolute "Opened" date.
  • New string: Read from Trac %s.
  • Layout: ticketFacts returns { id, label, value | url | links } rows and ticketHeading decides the heading, both in src/renderer/ticket-card.cjs; .ticket-facts and .ticket-heading in src/renderer/shell.css. In the ticket card, changesNoteParts returns { title, body, review } and index.jsx draws a Notice with a UiButton for review and a ReasonedUiButton for discard, under the same gates as the old links (isUpdating, and discardDisabledReason per Disabled ticket-card buttons explain themselves through title, which Chromium hides and assistive tech skips #409).
  • Docs: docs/guide/trac-tickets.md and docs/guide/ticket-branches.md describe the saved details and the new card, with the trac-ticket-panel and carried-work-notice screenshots recaptured. The screenshot script's crop and wait text changed for the taller card, and its fixture now stamps a read time.
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The docs screenshots, recaptured from this branch by npm run shots:

The Trac ticket card: number and status above the title, labelled rows for type, component, milestone, opened and keywords, and the Read from Trac line with its refresh button

The same card with a carried-edits notice and the unsubmitted changes notice, with Review and submit and Discard changes buttons

The restore itself is the absence of a change after a relaunch, so it has no picture.

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The last read of a ticket that answered is saved under tracRead:<id>
and shown when the ticket loads, without opening Trac. The card says
when it was read, a failed read keeps the saved one in view, and
"Opened" shows Trac's date instead of words that go stale.

Fixes #695.
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The app now saves successful Trac reads and restores them for the same linked ticket after relaunch. The ticket card presents labelled Trac details, a read time, and a refresh button. Unsubmitted-work notices now use titles and action buttons in ticket cards, with separate messaging for notices placed by the buttons.

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Retain ticket details after app relaunch [#695] ✅

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Rework unsubmitted-work notice content and placement (src/renderer/changes-note.cjs:74-158; src/renderer/index.jsx:1995-2003) The linked issue asks to retain Trac details after relaunch and does not state objectives for changing unsubmitted-work notices.

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A refresh that throws can temporarily hide previously saved ticket details and attachments. This narrow failure path is worth fixing, but does not otherwise block merging.

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The only way to read the ticket again was the attachments' Refresh,
further down the card. The same read now sits on the "Read from Trac"
line, where the details it updates are.
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Part of the work here includes a UI overhaul for better readabilty:

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trac-read-persists

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changes

The title leads, with the number and status above it, the facts are
labelled rows, "Read from Trac" is a small line with an icon Refresh,
and unsubmitted changes on the ticket are a notice with Review and
submit and Discard changes buttons. Docs and their screenshots follow.
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const saved = s.get(tracReadKey(ticketId));
if (!saved) return { ok: true, ...result };
return { ok: true, ...result, items: saved.items, ticket: saved.ticket, checkedAt: saved.checkedAt };

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Architecture 🔵 low [fix here] — Preserve saved details when a Trac read throws.

If the Trac read throws, the catch at Lines 2544–2547 returns empty items without checking the saved read. A refresh then removes previously displayed details and attachments, although the saved copy remains in the store. Apply the saved-read fallback to the exception path too, while retaining the error status. The PR objective requires failed reads to retain the saved copy and show the failure.

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Update the Trac read catch path to check the saved read using the same lookup as
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This's very difficult to happen. We can ignore this.

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@zaerl Understood. We can leave this rare exception case unchanged.

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It's a great addition, thanks.

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…n the editor (#677)

## Why

After a patch is applied or a pull request is checked out, the app says
how many files changed and nothing more. Unless a contributor already
knows which files to look at, they can't find the change, and their own
edits on top of it aren't listed anywhere. The only way to undo one of
their edits was **Discard all changes**, which also took the patch away.
This is #669 in one PR. It was a stack of five (#677, #678, #679, #682,
#683); they are folded together here because each builds the same
section, and a reviewer was already testing the top of the stack.

## What changes

- The site's details gain a **Changed files** section, last in the
sidebar after **Build watch**, so a long list grows without pushing the
server and the watch out of reach.
- It has up to two groups, each under its own heading and drawn as a
tree of folders:
- **From the patch** / **From PR #N**: the change's own files, each with
a pencil when the contributor has edited it since.
- **Your changes**: every other file changed on the branch, with a plus
when the contributor created it. On a ticket with nothing applied, this
is the only group.
- Each folder starts open, and a chain of folders that hold only one
another shares one row (`tests/phpunit/tests/wp`), as GitHub and VS Code
draw them. A folder row's button, or the Left and Right arrows, close
and open it. Each file shows its name with a page icon and its full path
as a tooltip. Drawn with `__experimentalTreeGrid` from
`@wordpress/components`, which gives the tree roles a screen reader
needs and the arrow keys between rows.
- One click on a file opens it in the first editor the app detects,
inside the site's folder (`open -a App <site> <file>`, `Code.exe <site>
<file>`). With no editor detected, the file is selected in Finder or
Explorer instead. "Choose application…" after a file fails to open opens
that file in the application picked.
- **A revert button** on each file the contributor changed, at the end
of its row. It asks first, and leaves the file as **Discard your
changes** would: a file of theirs back to the base, a new file deleted,
a pull request's file back to the pull request's version, a patch's file
back to how the patch left it with the patch still applied. A patch file
they did not touch, and either end of a rename, have no button. While an
install, build, trunk update or dev server runs, the button is held and
says why.
- **Discard your changes** (renamed from "Discard all changes") now
removes only the contributor's own work. With a patch applied, the tree
goes back to the base and the patch is re-applied from its stored text,
so the patch and **Revert this patch** stay. If the text was not kept,
the patch goes too and the dialog says so first. **Discard this ticket
to its base** still removes the patch. The ticket card's discard button
from #696 calls the same discard, so every "discard your changes"
control keeps the patch.
- How the pencil is decided: a pull request is its branch's base, so any
of its files with changes on top was edited. A patch is an uncommitted
layer, so each file it wrote is fingerprinted when applied (SHA-256,
line endings normalised, `src/change-fingerprint.cjs`) and compared with
the disk.
- The list refreshes when the window regains focus, which is when a
contributor comes back from their editor, and whenever the app itself
changes the tree.
- New IPC `git:revert-file`, which accepts only paths Git reported as
changed. `editor:open` and `dir:show` take an optional file inside the
site, checked by its real path, so a symbolic link that leads out of the
site is refused.

Not in this PR: an editor preference, per-file diffs, marking deleted
files, live updates while the app keeps focus, undo after a revert,
reverting several files at once, and remembering which folders were
closed across a relaunch.

## How to test this

Platforms: macOS and Windows. The launch arguments, path checks and the
revert's writes (`core.autocrlf`) differ per platform.

The journeys cover the flow with stubbed editors and fixture
repositories. Run from the repository root:

```
npm run test:e2e -- tests/e2e/journeys/patch-apply.spec.js tests/e2e/journeys/pr-checkout.spec.js tests/e2e/journeys/i18n.spec.js
```

They check opening a file in the editor or the file manager, "Choose
application…", the groups and their marks, the list during a build,
after a discard, after a refused apply and after a refocus, each kind of
revert, and that a folder closes and opens and the revert button is
reached with the arrow keys. What they can't reach is a real editor, a
real `wordpress-develop` clone and a real pull request, so that part is
by hand.

**Starting state:** a site with a real `wordpress-develop` clone, VS
Code installed, the dev server stopped, and a ticket linked whose Trac
attachment applies cleanly, for example #23602 with
`23602_pr14112_20261008.diff`.

1. Apply the attachment. **Changed files** appears at the bottom of the
sidebar, under **From the patch**, as a tree of two folder rows:
`src/wp-includes` over `class-wp.php`, and `tests/phpunit/tests/wp` over
`queryPosts.php`. No pencil, no revert button.
2. Click the `src/wp-includes` folder. Its file is hidden and its
chevron points right. Click it again. The file is back.
3. Click `class-wp.php`. VS Code opens the site folder with that file
open. Click `queryPosts.php`. It opens in the same VS Code window.
4. In VS Code, change `class-wp.php` and `src/wp-login.php`, and create
`src/new-helper.php`. Switch back to the app. `class-wp.php` has a
pencil; under **Your changes**, `wp-login.php` has none and
`new-helper.php` has a plus. All three have a revert button.
5. Revert `new-helper.php`. The dialog asks "Delete
src/new-helper.php?". Confirm. The file is gone from disk and from the
list.
6. Revert `class-wp.php`. The dialog says it goes back to how the patch
left it. Confirm. The file has the patch's change and not yours, and the
pencil is gone.
7. Change `class-wp.php` again and switch back. Click **Review & submit
changes**, then **Discard your changes**. The dialog says the patch
stays applied. Confirm. `class-wp.php` has the patch's change only,
`wp-login.php` is back to trunk, and **Revert this patch** is still
there.
8. Click **Revert this patch**. The section is gone.
9. Link a ticket with a GitHub pull request and check it out. **Changed
files** lists its files under **From PR #N**, the same files its preview
did.
10. On Windows, repeat steps 1, 3 and 6 with a site whose path has a
space in it.

**What must not have happened:**

- A second VS Code window for the same site.
- Anything opened outside the site folder.
- A file listed in both groups.
- Any patched file with a pencil right after applying, or right after
step 6, before you changed anything. On Windows this would point at line
endings.
- The patch's change missing from `class-wp.php` after step 6 or step 7.
- Any file other than the one reverted changed by a revert.
- After checking out a different pull request, the list from the
previous one.
- A focus ring cut off at either edge of the sidebar, on a folder, a
file or a revert button, after tabbing in or after cancelling a revert.

## Risks and limitations

- Review of the combined branch: 7 [fix here] fixed, 3 [follow-up]
deferred (see the review outcome). CodeRabbit's one finding, on patches
applied before this PR, is fixed.
- Rebased onto trunk after #696 and #697. The ticket card's discard
button that #696 added now keeps an applied patch or pull request, like
the note's link and the review modal's; before the rebase it would have
removed the patch.
- `__experimentalTreeGrid` is not a stable export yet; the window
already uses another `__experimental` control the same way
(`create-site-dialog.jsx`).
- In the tree, the pencil and plus are the file button's description
rather than focusable stops of their own, because only buttons are in
the tree's reach of the arrow keys. A screen reader hears them; a
sighted keyboard user sees the icon but can't open its tooltip.
Follow-up.
- Verified by hand with VS Code on macOS. PhpStorm, Zed, and Windows
generally are untested with a file argument, and the revert and discard
have not been run by hand on a real clone or on Windows.
- A chain of folders shares one row, so deep paths indent less, but a
long merged folder name, like a long file name, can wrap in a narrow
sidebar.
- A move onto trunk that updates the branch and then fails at the
checkout keeps the patch's old text and fingerprints. A pencil can then
mark a file trunk changed, and a discard or revert re-applies text
written for the old trunk. Older than this PR; follow-up.
- Neither a discard nor a revert is held while an apply or pull request
checkout runs. Older than this PR (the discard link had the same gate);
follow-up.
- A pull request checked out before this ships has no list until it is
checked out again. A patch applied before this ships marks every one of
its files as edited, since the app did not record what it wrote:
**Discard your changes** and each revert stay offered, reverting a file
unmarks it, and a discard records the patch afresh. Covered by unit
tests only; staging it by hand needs a site from an older build. A file
the patch or the contributor deleted is still listed, and says it is
missing when clicked.
- The diff is about 3,000 lines across 32 files, well over the size
AGENTS.md flags. It is one feature in five steps; the commits keep each
step apart for reading one at a time, in this order: patches, pull
requests, your changes, discard, per-file revert, then the tree.
- In one of three local runs of the full journey suite, four journeys
failed while the run took three times its usual length; the two runs
either side passed all of them. I read it as load on the machine, not
the branch.

## Related

Part of #669. Replaces #678, #679, #682 and #683, which are folded in
here.

A pull request's list including files trunk changed, when the site's
trunk is behind the pull request, is older than this PR and tracked in
#701.

---

<details>
<summary>Design decisions and alternatives considered</summary>

- **One PR, not a stack of five.** Every step builds one section, and a
reviewer was testing the top of the stack while commenting on the
bottom.
- **Trees, one per group.** A reviewer asked for `TreeGrid` because full
paths filled the sidebar's width. One tree per group keeps the headings.
- **A chain of single folders on one row** (`tests/phpunit/tests/wp`),
as GitHub and VS Code draw them. The first version gave every folder its
own row; a reviewer pointed out it took five rows to show one file.
- **Last in the sidebar**, not first: the list has no fixed height, and
first it pushed the server and the build watch out of view.
- **A revert leaves the file as Discard your changes would,** so the two
never disagree about what "your changes" means. A patch file therefore
goes back to the patch's version, not to trunk.
- **Discard keeps the patch.** One button that always means "remove my
edits, keep the patch or PR" matches what it already did for a PR.
Removing the patch stays **Revert this patch**; re-applying the stored
text is the only way back to "as the patch left it".
- **Renames refused, not modelled.** One change spread over two paths
cannot go back one path at a time.
- **One click, no per-file menu.** There is no editor preference yet, so
the click takes the first detected editor. A preference belongs in the
Settings dialog from #638.
- **The real path, not just the text.** A lexical check let a symbolic
link inside the site point outside it.

</details>

<details>
<summary>Review outcome (required — see AGENTS.md)</summary>

Earlier reviews of each folded PR are recorded on it (#678 at `8ddcb27`,
#679 at `eb7be4f`, #682 at `85b47f9`, #683 at `ff23819`, before the
rebase); every finding there was fixed or deferred, and the deferrals
are in Risks. The reviews below cover this combined branch: reviews 1 to
3 on base `60078fe`, review 4 on trunk `819575a` after the rebase.

- **Review 1:** completed. A separate agent context reviewed
`60078fe..73b47df` (#677 to #679 plus the tree) against
`.github/instructions/code-review.instructions.md`. `npm run lint`
clean, `npm test` 2147 passed. 1 [fix here] · 1 [follow-up].
- Fixed in `eb93d07` (🟡): the file list was walked as soon as an apply,
revert or pull request switch changed the tree, but the status it is
grouped by was read again only after the install and the build, so for
those minutes a patch's files were listed as the contributor's. The
status is now read with the walk. The journey "while the build after an
apply runs, the patch's files are the patch's (#669)" holds the build
open; it fails without the fix.
- Deferred (🔵): the marks and the rule for whether the section shows are
decided in `site-details.jsx` rather than `changedFileGroups`. One
branch each.
- **Review 2:** completed. Separate agent context, the fix above. No
findings; confirmed on every path into the install and build. Its
comment note was taken in `52ecde4`.
- **Review 3:** completed. Separate agent context, `8400845..52ecde4`
(#682, #683 and the tree redrawn over them). 1 [fix here] · 2
[follow-up].
- Fixed in `288b7c8` (🟡): the tree remembers the last button focused in
it and gives every other one no tab stop, so a file that left the list
on a refocus took the whole tree out of the tab order. The tree is now
keyed by its files. The journey "a file that leaves the list does not
take its tree out of the tab order (#669)" fails without the fix.
- Fixed in `288b7c8` (🔵, raised as a follow-up): the treegrid itself had
no accessible name; it now has its group's.
- Deferred (🔵): a sighted keyboard user cannot open a mark's tooltip
(see Risks).
- **Review 4 (rebase onto trunk):** completed. Separate agent context,
`819575a...455d0e8`, on the conflict resolution with #696: the ticket
card's discard button pointed at `discardYourChanges`, `discardLabel` at
its question, and `nothingOfYours` in the shared reason. 1 [fix here] ·
0 [follow-up]. Fixed in `a54b394` (🔵): a unit test still tied the label
to the full-discard question, passing only because both say "Discard
changes". Nothing from #696 or #697 lost; no `discardAllChanges` left.
- **CodeRabbit** reviewed `a54b394`: 1 finding (🟡), fixed in `d55ba08`.
A kept patch applied before fingerprints marked none of its files as
edited, so **Discard your changes** was disabled and no file could be
reverted. Its files still changed now count as possibly edited.
- **Since then:** `c7f4ad9` merges a chain of single folders into one
row, at @zaerl's request; `299bc2d` and `9a28812` give the revert
button's focus ring room at the sidebar's edge.
- **Review 5:** completed. Separate agent context, `a54b394..d55ba08`. 3
[fix here] · 1 [follow-up], all fixed:
- Fixed in `1f93225` (🟡): a folder closed before a file left the list
could stop being a row of its own and still hide everything under it,
leaving an empty tree. Unit test.
- Fixed in `1f93225` (🟡): the window dropped `renamedByChange` from the
reply, so both ends of a rename were offered a revert the handler
refuses. Now carried by `unsubmittedFromReply`, unit-tested.
- Fixed in `0dea62b` (🔵): on a patch from before fingerprints, a
reverted file still looked edited. Its first revert now records a full
set. Unit test.
- Fixed in `4a77c79` (🔵, raised as a follow-up): a first-level folder's
focus ring was clipped at the sidebar's other edge. Every cell now has
room for the ring; the journey checks a folder, a file and a revert
button, and fails without it.
- **On `4a77c79`:** `npm run lint` clean, `npm test` 2193 passed, full
journey suite 163 passed hidden on macOS.

</details>

<details>
<summary>Implementation notes</summary>

- `resolveLaunch(editorPath, sitePath, { platform, file })` appends the
file after the folder in the argument vector. Never a shell.
- `existingSiteFile(sitePath, relPath, { platform, realPath })` runs
realpath on both the site and the file, so a site behind a link (macOS's
`/var`) still holds its files.
- `src/renderer/affected-files.cjs` holds the decisions, unit-tested:
`affectedFiles`, `changedFileGroups` (groups, labels, `canRevert`),
`unsubmittedFromReply` (the reply as the list reads it),
`affectedFileTree` (paths to tree rows, merging single-folder chains),
`visibleAffectedRows` (what a closed folder hides),
`revertFileQuestion`, `revertOutcome` and `fileOpenTarget`.
- `src/git-write.cjs`: `restoreWorktreePaths(dir, source, paths)`,
worktree only, literal pathspecs on stdin. `src/trunk-update.js`:
`discardFile`. `src/patch-apply.js`: `applyPatchToDir({ paths })` keeps
only those files' sections.
- `src/main.js`: `git:revert-file`; `git:discard-to-base(sitePath, {
keepChange })` re-applies the kept patch and fingerprints it again;
`git:unsubmitted-work` adds `entries`, `editedSinceChange` and
`renamedByChange`.
- The tree's indent is read from each row's `aria-level` in CSS
(`attr(aria-level type(<integer>))`), since the repository's lint bans
inline styles. The revert button gets the tree's item props through
`Tooltip.Trigger`'s render prop.
- `forgetChangedFiles` in `src/renderer/index.jsx` bumps the dirty
probe's generation, so an answer still in flight from before a change is
dropped, then clears the list and asks again.

</details>

<details>
<summary>Screenshots or recording</summary>

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</details>

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