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| Phase / Sprint | Timeline | Focus & Rationale | ✦ Key UX Deliverables | △ Engineering artefacts / tasks | Definition of Done |
| --------------------------------------------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ~~**Epic 1 — Scale & Reliability**~~ | ~~2025-Q2~~ | ~~Stay fast @ 100 k files~~ | ~~• `scan --dirty` (re-index touched rows only)~~ | ~~• DP-002 Dirty-flag design + FTS rebuild cadence
• Hyperfine benchmark script committed~~ | ~~Dirty scan vs full ≤ 15 % runtime on 100 k corpus; benchmark job passes~~ |
-| **Epic 2 — Live Mode & Self-Pruning Backups** | 2025-Q2 | “Just works” indexing, DB never explodes | • `marlin watch ` (notify/FSEvents)
• `backup --prune N` & auto-prune | • DP-003 file-watcher life-cycle & debouncing
• Integration test with inotify-sim
• Cron-style GitHub job for nightly prune | 8 h stress-watch alters 10 k files < 1 % misses; backup dir ≤ N |
+| **Epic 2 — Live Mode & Self-Pruning Backups** | 2025-Q2 | “Just works” indexing, DB never explodes | • `marlin watch ` (notify/FSEvents)
• `backup --prune N` & auto-prune
• rename/move tracking keeps paths current | • DP-003 file-watcher life-cycle & debouncing
• Integration test with inotify-sim
• Rename/Move handling spec & tests
• Cron-style GitHub job for nightly prune | 8 h stress-watch alters 10 k files < 1 % misses; backup dir ≤ N |
| **Phase 3 — Content FTS + Annotations** | 2025-Q3 | Search inside files, leave notes | • Grep-style snippet output (`-C3`)
• `marlin annotate add/list` | • DP-004 content-blob strategy (inline vs ext-table)
• Syntax-highlight via `syntect` PoC
• New FTS triggers unit-tested | Indexes 1 GB corpus in ≤ 30 min; snippet CLI passes golden-file tests |
| **Phase 4 — Versioning & Deduplication** | 2025-Q3 | Historic diffs, detect dupes | • `scan --rehash` (SHA-256)
• `version diff ` | • DP-005 hash column + Bloom-de-dupe
• Binary diff adapter research | Diff on 10 MB file ≤ 500 ms; dupes listed via CLI |
| **Phase 5 — Tag Aliases & Semantic Booster** | 2025-Q3 | Tame tag sprawl, start AI hints | • `tag alias add/ls/rm`
• `tag suggest`, `summary` | • DP-006 embeddings size & model choice
• Vector store schema + k-NN index bench | 95 % of “foo/bar~foo” alias look-ups resolve in one hop; suggest CLI returns ≤ 150 ms |
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
| Tarpaulin coverage gate | S0 | — | – |
| Watch mode (FS events) | Epic 1 | `marlin watch .` | DP‑002 |
| Backup auto‑prune | Epic 1 | `backup --prune N` | – |
+| Rename/move tracking | Epic 2 | automatic path update | – |
| Dirty‑scan | Epic 2 | `scan --dirty` | DP‑002 |
| Grep snippets | Phase 3 | `search -C3 …` | DP‑004 |
| Hash / dedupe | Phase 4 | `scan --rehash` | DP‑005 |
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+# Marlin — Rename & Move Handling
+
+**Integration Specification · v0.1 (2025-05-19)**
+
+---
+
+## 0 · Scope
+
+This document outlines how Marlin should respond when files or folders are renamed or moved. It extends the watcher life‑cycle design (DP‑003) so that metadata remains consistent without requiring a full re‑scan.
+
+## 1 · Background
+
+The current watcher maps any `notify::EventKind::Modify(_)` – including renames – to the generic `EventPriority::Modify` and merely logs the event:
+
+```
+415 let prio = match event.kind {
+416 EventKind::Create(_) => EventPriority::Create,
+417 EventKind::Remove(_) => EventPriority::Delete,
+418 EventKind::Modify(_) => EventPriority::Modify,
+419 EventKind::Access(_) => EventPriority::Access,
+420 _ => EventPriority::Modify,
+421 };
+...
+455 for event_item in &evts_to_process {
+456 info!("Processing event (DB available): {:?} for path {:?}",
+457 event_item.kind, event_item.path);
+458 }
+```
+
+No database update occurs, so renamed files keep their old `path` in the `files` table. The schema does have a trigger to propagate `path` updates to the FTS index:
+
+```
+72 -- When a file’s path changes
+73 DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS files_fts_au_file;
+74 CREATE TRIGGER files_fts_au_file
+75 AFTER UPDATE OF path ON files
+76 BEGIN
+77 UPDATE files_fts
+78 SET path = NEW.path
+79 WHERE rowid = NEW.id;
+80 END;
+```
+
+## 2 · Requirements
+
+1. **Detect old and new paths** from `Rename` events provided by the `notify` crate.
+2. **Update the `files` table** with the new absolute path when the target remains inside a scanned root.
+3. **Mark as removed** if the new location is outside all configured roots.
+4. **Batch updates** to avoid excessive writes during large folder moves.
+5. **Integration tests** exercising rename and move scenarios across platforms.
+
+## 3 · Implementation Sketch
+
+* Extend `ProcessedEvent` to carry `old_path` and `new_path` for `Rename` events.
+* Upon flushing events, call `db::mark_dirty` for the affected row, then update the `files.path` column. The existing trigger keeps `files_fts` in sync.
+* For directory renames, update child paths with a single SQL `UPDATE ... WHERE path LIKE 'old/%'` inside a transaction.
+* Emit `Create` and `Remove` events for files crossing watch boundaries so `scan --dirty` can prune or index them accordingly.
+
+## 4 · Edge Cases
+
+* **Atomic cross-filesystem moves** may surface as `Remove` + `Create`; both should be handled.
+* **Concurrent modifications** while moving should result in the newer metadata winning when `scan --dirty` runs.
+
+## 5 · Future Work
+
+Large scale refactors (e.g. moving an entire project) may benefit from a high‑level command that updates tags and links en masse. That is outside the scope of this spec but enabled by accurate rename tracking.
+
+---
+
+*End of document*
+