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What this changes

--situ and --test-gate now start the caller walk from the changed symbols. Before, they started from every symbol of every changed file.

Why

A small edit in a large shared file gave a very large answer. Field report #302 shows this: a two-function edit in a 37,000-line routes.py gave 117 tests to run.

How it works

1. One git diff -U0 HEAD runs for the whole tree.
2. A function or method is a start symbol when a hunk overlaps its body.
3. A hunk that no function body holds sends its whole file back to the old file-level treatment. Examples: a module-level edit, a deletion, a class or variable edit, a decorator edit.
4. With no hunk evidence, the result equals the old result. Examples: no git, no HEAD, an explicit file list.

The failure direction is always the old, larger answer.

Report changes

• --situ always prints a change_set: line.
• --test-gate XML and JSON add change_granularity=, changed_symbols=, file_symbols=, files_narrowed=, files_file_granular= and diff_hunks*=. They appear only when hunk evidence changed the answer.
• The MCP situational_awareness verb carries the same keys.
• The legend dictionary gains four entries (908 to 912).

Measured

Two public repositories, one edit each. These are not suite-wide figures.

Repository and edit	Symbols	Tests
django, 3 lines in QuerySet.exists()	4,748 to 282	323 to 56
sentry, crashreports_exceeded	11,534 to 3,036	1,333 to 385

Tests

• New gates: test/situhunkcheck.sh and test/testgatehunkcheck.sh. Both are in test/regression.sh (700 to 702).
• listingpagingcheck and testrowruncheck now edit at module level. Their fixtures stay at file level.
• The hunk parser moves from quality.h to diffhunks.h. Both users share it. The per-path git command is unchanged byte for byte.
• I ran the full suite with test/pargates.py -j 6 on GCC 13.3. Four gates fail with and without this change: mapinventorycheck, memguardcheck, readmedriftcheck, regexguardcheck. I checked them against the v0.6.8 binary.

Adversarial review

I tested these cases by hand:

• A staged edit in one function narrows to that function.
• A constant edit keeps the whole file.
• A clean tree with an explicit file list keeps the whole file.
• A fresh repository with no HEAD gives the old result.

Known limits:

• A name-based graph cannot model readers of a constant.
• A new function inside a file has no callers, so it narrows to zero callers. This matches the old graph.
• Untracked files have no hunks. Their treatment is unchanged.

Notes for the reviewer

• This branch is a rebase of an earlier lane onto v0.6.8. Two bugs came from the rebase and are fixed. A std::format string had too few {} fields, which dropped next= without an error. A JSON key sat between a name and its value.
• Style of this text: ASD-STE-200 (short sentences, active voice, one idea each).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • --situ and --test-gate now use symbol-level change analysis when diff hunks identify affected functions or methods.
  • Reports can show change granularity, changed symbols, narrowed files, fallback files, and diff-hunk coverage.
  • MCP situational-awareness responses provide matching change-set details.
  • File-level analysis remains available for module-level, deleted, or unavailable hunk changes.

• Documentation

  • Updated published gate-suite counts and command metadata.
  • Documented the new change-set reporting and its limitations.

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Walkthrough

The change adds shared Git diff-hunk collection and uses hunk evidence to narrow --situ and --test-gate analysis to affected function or method symbols. It adds change-set reporting, integration coverage, and updates gate-count references.

Changes: Symbol-granular change analysis

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared diff-hunk collection src/diffhunks.h, src/quality.h	A shared API parses Git diff hunks and collects them by path. Quality analysis now uses the shared per-path hunk APIs.
Change-set computation and reporting src/situ.h, src/mcpverbs.h, src/compactlegend.h, src/verbs_change.h	Situational-awareness and test-gate analysis use shared change-set computation. Hunk evidence narrows seeds when hunks overlap function or method bodies; otherwise, analysis retains file-level treatment. Reports expose change-set statistics, with test-gate fields and legends conditional on hunk evidence shaping the result.
Integration validation and published counts test/situhunkcheck.sh, test/testgatehunkcheck.sh, test/crashsweepcheck.sh, test/listingpagingcheck.sh, test/regression.sh, test/testrowruncheck.sh, CHANGELOG.md, README.md, docs/COMMANDS.md, docs/EVALS.md, present/deck5_ripwire_build.js	Integration tests cover narrowing, fallback cases, MCP parity, output formats, and determinism. Existing fixtures and the gate roster are updated. Documentation and presentation references report the revised gate count and change-set fields.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: joyful-ii-v-i

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to c0ffc

Symbol-level narrowing can omit callers and tests that a change affects. This happens with explicit file selectors on dirty files, with hunks that mix function-body and module-level edits, and when git diff fails partway. --test-gate can then miss obligations and report success. Fix these before merging.

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- Line 210: Update gitDiffHunksAllVsHead to capture and validate the status
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- Around line 707-713: Update the hunk-location logic around hStart, hEnd, and
any so a hunk is marked located only when every relevant new-side line is
covered by the union of locatable body spans. Read the working-tree file to
ignore blank or comment-only lines outside those spans, while treating any
non-blank, non-comment line outside the union as unlocated so file-granular
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fully covered hunks unchanged.
- Around line 630-632: Update computeSymbolChangeSet and its callers to receive
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[joyful-ii-V-I]

Thank you, @llvm-x86 — good to see you back after #351. Starting the caller walk from the changed symbols is exactly the fix the #302 field report needed, and the design choice that every missing-evidence case falls back to the old, larger answer makes it easy to trust. The django and sentry numbers in the description are a clear way to show it.

We have started a full review today (claims, the fallback cases, the diffhunks.h move under --quality-delta, and a merge check against the other open work in quality.h). We will post the results here, along with notes on CodeRabbit's three comments.

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Thank you @llvm-x86 — this is a well-aimed change and we checked a lot of it. What we verified works the way you describe: the fallback-to-the-old-answer design holds (no git, unborn HEAD, untracked-only, module-level edits, deletions, decorators, pure renames all return the old file-level answer; 42 clean-tree --situ=F / --test-gate=F [--json] argv over 14 repos are byte-identical to main); narrowing is exact in Python, TypeScript, C++, Rust and Go, including at line boundaries with no blank line between functions, nested defs, overloads, renames and staged+unstaged edits; on textual's 4,956-line widget.py a scroll_up edit goes from 2,952 symbols / 269 tests to 3 / 1, which is exactly the field-report shape from #302; the single git diff spawn costs about 0.13 s CPU and is paid back where it narrows; moving the hunk parser to diffhunks.h leaves --quality-delta byte-identical (24/24 argv) and the per-path git command byte-identical; the two new gates pass on main-clang and under ASan (llvm@22); and the rebase fixes you mention are real. Four things are left, all with repros:

1. gitDiffHunksAllVsHead treats any diff line starting +++ as a file header, so an added line whose content starts ++ drops every later hunk of that file and the answer narrows to the first hunk. Consume oldCount+newCount body lines after each @@ header instead.
2. A body edit in a constructor/__init__/property/getter narrows to a symbol with no callers (callers reach the class): Python __init__ and @property, TS constructor, C++ ctors give 0 tests and --test-gate exit 4 -> 0 (Rust new and Go constructors are fine). Seed the enclosing class too, or fall back to the file.
3. CodeRabbit's explicit-list finding is real: with a committed edit in alpha and an unrelated uncommitted edit in beta, --situ=app.py drops alpha's test. Narrow only when the mask came from the working-tree diff.
4. CodeRabbit's partial-overlap finding is real: last body line changed + a new module-level line in the same hunk is reported unlocated=0. Count a hunk as located only when every non-blank new-side line is inside a body span.
   Smaller: the new --test-gate keys ride whenever there are hunks, not only when the answer changed (adjust the wording); --handoff narrows with no disclosure; --quality-delta base..head gates on isHunkLocatableKind duplicating four tiny kind predicates, changeGranularityLabel vs prDirectionAttr, and the computeTestGate signature; and the two gates only cover Python — an arm per language, one on a function boundary, one per item above would pin all of this. We are happy to share the multi-language fixture we used, and we will take care of the CHANGELOG conflict with Extract the --quality-delta=A..B changed-files archive through stdin (Windows drive-colon, follow-up to #402) #422 and the quality-delta acknowledgements at merge time. If you would rather we pick up any of the four items, just say so.

[joyful-ii-V-I]

Thank you, @llvm-x86, for this. Starting the caller walk from the changed symbols instead of the changed files is the right design, and the django and sentry numbers show why it matters. We would like to land it, so we pushed a few commits onto your branch (maintainer edits are on) and merged current main into it. Your commits are untouched.

What we changed, and why. Each point below has a failing arm in your two gates first, and the arm now passes:

• 1acba5d9 (parser). A diff line that is an added ++ x reads as +++ x, and the parser took it for a file header. Every later hunk of that file was dropped, so the answer got narrower for the wrong reason. The parser now consumes the body that each @@ header announces before a +++ line can be a header. The arm has the ++ added line and its -- deleted twin.
• a5263e5f (CodeRabbit on situ.h:632). An explicit --situ=FILES or --test-gate=FILES list is now never narrowed by the working-tree diff. The simplest honest rule: a named file list is the old file-level answer, with no git spawn. The default diff form narrows as before.
• d1386b4e (CodeRabbit on situ.h:713). A hunk counts as located only if every non-blank new-side line sits inside a body. A changed last line plus a module-level line under it now falls back to the file.
• 50039f94 (constructors and properties). Callers reach the class, not __init__, a TS constructor, a C++ constructor or an @property. A hunk there walked zero callers, so --test-gate went from exit 4 to 0. Those hunks now fall back to the file-level answer and say granularity=file. Rust new and Go NewPack are ordinary named functions that callers do name, so they still narrow.
• d6d0751b: a failed git diff now reads as no evidence (CodeRabbit on diffhunks.h:210). Also the changelog entry moved to changelog.d/ and credits you, and the generated figures were regenerated.
• 802189fb, 851c5dcd, 8a77c74f: reuse of the existing function-or-method test, two quality-delta acks, and the accessor probes without a language guard (a repo ratchet counts those).

What the constructor fallback costs: we measured one-line body edits on hono and starlette, four samples per kind. Ordinary methods keep your narrowing (hono: 2.8 tests on average before, 2.2 after, the same as your branch). Constructors and properties go back to the old answer: hono 3.0 and 3.5 tests where your branch said 1.2 and 1.5, starlette constructors 8.0 where your branch said 2.0. The narrower numbers were wrong, because nothing reaches those members by name. The django and sentry figures in your description come from ordinary function bodies, so they should not move; we could not re-run those two repositories here.

Two things we left for later, on purpose: README and --help do not yet say that --situ, --test-gate and --handoff narrow (the report lines do), and computeSymbolChangeSet is still long. Both are follow-ups, not blockers. Thank you again for the careful work and the rebase fixes.

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One more for the record: f73c96e5 is the merge of current main into this branch (textual conflicts only, docs and counts). The three CodeRabbit threads are closed by a5263e5f (situ.h:632, explicit file lists are never narrowed), d1386b4e (situ.h:713, a hunk counts as located only when every non-blank new-side line sits in a body) and d6d0751b (diffhunks.h:210, a failed git diff reads as no evidence). CI is green on 8a77c74f.