metadata-protocol: the package commit timeline sorts by weekday NAME on Postgres/MySQL — rollbackToPackageCommit therefore plans the wrong set of reverts #13995

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@zhuangjianguo

Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

The two sites, one root cause

packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts.

1. listCommits ordering — line 18262:

// Newest-first; tolerate drivers that don't order by returning// insertion order, then sort by the ISO timestamp.mapped.sort((a,b)=>String(b.createdAt??'').localeCompare(String(a.createdAt??'')));

The comment states the assumption in as many words: "sort by the ISO timestamp". createdAt is r.created_at off this.engine.find('sys_metadata_commit', …) — a record read door.

2. rollbackToPackageCommit planning — lines 18843-18845:

consttargetCreatedAt=String(target.created_at??'');consttoRevert=all.filter((c)=>String(c.createdAt??'')>targetCreatedAt&&c.operation==='apply',);

Lexicographic > over the same values, to decide which commits get reverted.

Why it is wrong on the production default driver

created_at is a builtin audit column: not in datetimeFields, and SqlDriver#formatOutput repairs it only inside if (this.isSqlite). Pinned in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts — the live dialects hand it out of the record read door as a JS Date, SQLite as canonical ISO-Z text.

So on Postgres/MySQL both sites compare strings of the form

Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
Mon Aug 31 2026 09:02:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

whose leading token is the weekday name. Lexicographic order over that set is Fri < Mon < Sat < Sun < Thu < Tue < Wed — unrelated to chronology, and stable across the whole file, so the failure is systematic rather than intermittent.

Consequences:

  • listCommits returns the package timeline in an arbitrary weekday-name order while claiming newest-first.
  • rollbackToPackageCommit consumes that ordering and re-derives the same comparison itself, so it reverts a set of apply commits chosen by weekday name: commits older than the target get reverted, commits newer than it get skipped. That is a destructive operation planning off a wrong predicate.

On SQLite both sides are canonical ISO-Z text, lexicographic order equals chronological order, and both sites are correct. Every test they have drives SQLite or memory.

Why this is not a ?? fallback

Per #13973's standing prohibition, the question is which side owes the canonical spelling:

A regression pin needs a Date on the read side. @objectstack/metadata-protocol has no driver dependency and must not grow one (the layering runs the other way), so the pin drives a hand-made Date here — the same split sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts documents for the OCC seam.

Re-run

rg -n 'String\((b?\.)?(target\.)?created_?[Aa]t' packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts

Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape, same file). Neither is addressed here.

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    metadata-protocol: the package commit timeline sorts by weekday NAME on Postgres/MySQL — rollbackToPackageCommit therefore plans the wrong set of reverts #13995

    Description

    @zhuangjianguo

    Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

    The two sites, one root cause

    packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts.

    1. listCommits ordering — line 18262:

    // Newest-first; tolerate drivers that don't order by returning// insertion order, then sort by the ISO timestamp.mapped.sort((a,b)=>String(b.createdAt??'').localeCompare(String(a.createdAt??'')));

    The comment states the assumption in as many words: "sort by the ISO timestamp". createdAt is r.created_at off this.engine.find('sys_metadata_commit', …) — a record read door.

    2. rollbackToPackageCommit planning — lines 18843-18845:

    consttargetCreatedAt=String(target.created_at??'');consttoRevert=all.filter((c)=>String(c.createdAt??'')>targetCreatedAt&&c.operation==='apply',);

    Lexicographic > over the same values, to decide which commits get reverted.

    Why it is wrong on the production default driver

    created_at is a builtin audit column: not in datetimeFields, and SqlDriver#formatOutput repairs it only inside if (this.isSqlite). Pinned in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts — the live dialects hand it out of the record read door as a JS Date, SQLite as canonical ISO-Z text.

    So on Postgres/MySQL both sites compare strings of the form

    Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
    Mon Aug 31 2026 09:02:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
    

    whose leading token is the weekday name. Lexicographic order over that set is Fri < Mon < Sat < Sun < Thu < Tue < Wed — unrelated to chronology, and stable across the whole file, so the failure is systematic rather than intermittent.

    Consequences:

    • listCommits returns the package timeline in an arbitrary weekday-name order while claiming newest-first.
    • rollbackToPackageCommit consumes that ordering and re-derives the same comparison itself, so it reverts a set of apply commits chosen by weekday name: commits older than the target get reverted, commits newer than it get skipped. That is a destructive operation planning off a wrong predicate.

    On SQLite both sides are canonical ISO-Z text, lexicographic order equals chronological order, and both sites are correct. Every test they have drives SQLite or memory.

    Why this is not a ?? fallback

    Per #13973's standing prohibition, the question is which side owes the canonical spelling:

    A regression pin needs a Date on the read side. @objectstack/metadata-protocol has no driver dependency and must not grow one (the layering runs the other way), so the pin drives a hand-made Date here — the same split sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts documents for the OCC seam.

    Re-run

    rg -n 'String\((b?\.)?(target\.)?created_?[Aa]t' packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts
    

    Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape, same file). Neither is addressed here.

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      metadata-protocol: the package commit timeline sorts by weekday NAME on Postgres/MySQL — rollbackToPackageCommit therefore plans the wrong set of reverts #13995

      Description

      @zhuangjianguo

      Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

      The two sites, one root cause

      packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts.

      1. listCommits ordering — line 18262:

      // Newest-first; tolerate drivers that don't order by returning// insertion order, then sort by the ISO timestamp.mapped.sort((a,b)=>String(b.createdAt??'').localeCompare(String(a.createdAt??'')));

      The comment states the assumption in as many words: "sort by the ISO timestamp". createdAt is r.created_at off this.engine.find('sys_metadata_commit', …) — a record read door.

      2. rollbackToPackageCommit planning — lines 18843-18845:

      consttargetCreatedAt=String(target.created_at??'');consttoRevert=all.filter((c)=>String(c.createdAt??'')>targetCreatedAt&&c.operation==='apply',);

      Lexicographic > over the same values, to decide which commits get reverted.

      Why it is wrong on the production default driver

      created_at is a builtin audit column: not in datetimeFields, and SqlDriver#formatOutput repairs it only inside if (this.isSqlite). Pinned in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts — the live dialects hand it out of the record read door as a JS Date, SQLite as canonical ISO-Z text.

      So on Postgres/MySQL both sites compare strings of the form

      Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
      Mon Aug 31 2026 09:02:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
      

      whose leading token is the weekday name. Lexicographic order over that set is Fri < Mon < Sat < Sun < Thu < Tue < Wed — unrelated to chronology, and stable across the whole file, so the failure is systematic rather than intermittent.

      Consequences:

      • listCommits returns the package timeline in an arbitrary weekday-name order while claiming newest-first.
      • rollbackToPackageCommit consumes that ordering and re-derives the same comparison itself, so it reverts a set of apply commits chosen by weekday name: commits older than the target get reverted, commits newer than it get skipped. That is a destructive operation planning off a wrong predicate.

      On SQLite both sides are canonical ISO-Z text, lexicographic order equals chronological order, and both sites are correct. Every test they have drives SQLite or memory.

      Why this is not a ?? fallback

      Per #13973's standing prohibition, the question is which side owes the canonical spelling:

      A regression pin needs a Date on the read side. @objectstack/metadata-protocol has no driver dependency and must not grow one (the layering runs the other way), so the pin drives a hand-made Date here — the same split sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts documents for the OCC seam.

      Re-run

      rg -n 'String\((b?\.)?(target\.)?created_?[Aa]t' packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts
      

      Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape, same file). Neither is addressed here.

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        metadata-protocol: the package commit timeline sorts by weekday NAME on Postgres/MySQL — rollbackToPackageCommit therefore plans the wrong set of reverts #13995

        Description

        @zhuangjianguo

        Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

        The two sites, one root cause

        packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts.

        1. listCommits ordering — line 18262:

        // Newest-first; tolerate drivers that don't order by returning// insertion order, then sort by the ISO timestamp.mapped.sort((a,b)=>String(b.createdAt??'').localeCompare(String(a.createdAt??'')));

        The comment states the assumption in as many words: "sort by the ISO timestamp". createdAt is r.created_at off this.engine.find('sys_metadata_commit', …) — a record read door.

        2. rollbackToPackageCommit planning — lines 18843-18845:

        consttargetCreatedAt=String(target.created_at??'');consttoRevert=all.filter((c)=>String(c.createdAt??'')>targetCreatedAt&&c.operation==='apply',);

        Lexicographic > over the same values, to decide which commits get reverted.

        Why it is wrong on the production default driver

        created_at is a builtin audit column: not in datetimeFields, and SqlDriver#formatOutput repairs it only inside if (this.isSqlite). Pinned in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts — the live dialects hand it out of the record read door as a JS Date, SQLite as canonical ISO-Z text.

        So on Postgres/MySQL both sites compare strings of the form

        Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
        Mon Aug 31 2026 09:02:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
        

        whose leading token is the weekday name. Lexicographic order over that set is Fri < Mon < Sat < Sun < Thu < Tue < Wed — unrelated to chronology, and stable across the whole file, so the failure is systematic rather than intermittent.

        Consequences:

        • listCommits returns the package timeline in an arbitrary weekday-name order while claiming newest-first.
        • rollbackToPackageCommit consumes that ordering and re-derives the same comparison itself, so it reverts a set of apply commits chosen by weekday name: commits older than the target get reverted, commits newer than it get skipped. That is a destructive operation planning off a wrong predicate.

        On SQLite both sides are canonical ISO-Z text, lexicographic order equals chronological order, and both sites are correct. Every test they have drives SQLite or memory.

        Why this is not a ?? fallback

        Per #13973's standing prohibition, the question is which side owes the canonical spelling:

        A regression pin needs a Date on the read side. @objectstack/metadata-protocol has no driver dependency and must not grow one (the layering runs the other way), so the pin drives a hand-made Date here — the same split sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts documents for the OCC seam.

        Re-run

        rg -n 'String\((b?\.)?(target\.)?created_?[Aa]t' packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts
        

        Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape, same file). Neither is addressed here.

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          metadata-protocol: the package commit timeline sorts by weekday NAME on Postgres/MySQL — rollbackToPackageCommit therefore plans the wrong set of reverts #13995

          Description

          @zhuangjianguo

          Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

          The two sites, one root cause

          packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts.

          1. listCommits ordering — line 18262:

          // Newest-first; tolerate drivers that don't order by returning// insertion order, then sort by the ISO timestamp.mapped.sort((a,b)=>String(b.createdAt??'').localeCompare(String(a.createdAt??'')));

          The comment states the assumption in as many words: "sort by the ISO timestamp". createdAt is r.created_at off this.engine.find('sys_metadata_commit', …) — a record read door.

          2. rollbackToPackageCommit planning — lines 18843-18845:

          consttargetCreatedAt=String(target.created_at??'');consttoRevert=all.filter((c)=>String(c.createdAt??'')>targetCreatedAt&&c.operation==='apply',);

          Lexicographic > over the same values, to decide which commits get reverted.

          Why it is wrong on the production default driver

          created_at is a builtin audit column: not in datetimeFields, and SqlDriver#formatOutput repairs it only inside if (this.isSqlite). Pinned in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts — the live dialects hand it out of the record read door as a JS Date, SQLite as canonical ISO-Z text.

          So on Postgres/MySQL both sites compare strings of the form

          Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
          Mon Aug 31 2026 09:02:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
          

          whose leading token is the weekday name. Lexicographic order over that set is Fri < Mon < Sat < Sun < Thu < Tue < Wed — unrelated to chronology, and stable across the whole file, so the failure is systematic rather than intermittent.

          Consequences:

          • listCommits returns the package timeline in an arbitrary weekday-name order while claiming newest-first.
          • rollbackToPackageCommit consumes that ordering and re-derives the same comparison itself, so it reverts a set of apply commits chosen by weekday name: commits older than the target get reverted, commits newer than it get skipped. That is a destructive operation planning off a wrong predicate.

          On SQLite both sides are canonical ISO-Z text, lexicographic order equals chronological order, and both sites are correct. Every test they have drives SQLite or memory.

          Why this is not a ?? fallback

          Per #13973's standing prohibition, the question is which side owes the canonical spelling:

          A regression pin needs a Date on the read side. @objectstack/metadata-protocol has no driver dependency and must not grow one (the layering runs the other way), so the pin drives a hand-made Date here — the same split sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts documents for the OCC seam.

          Re-run

          rg -n 'String\((b?\.)?(target\.)?created_?[Aa]t' packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts
          

          Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape, same file). Neither is addressed here.

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            metadata-protocol: the package commit timeline sorts by weekday NAME on Postgres/MySQL — rollbackToPackageCommit therefore plans the wrong set of reverts #13995

            Description

            @zhuangjianguo

            Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

            The two sites, one root cause

            packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts.

            1. listCommits ordering — line 18262:

            // Newest-first; tolerate drivers that don't order by returning// insertion order, then sort by the ISO timestamp.mapped.sort((a,b)=>String(b.createdAt??'').localeCompare(String(a.createdAt??'')));

            The comment states the assumption in as many words: "sort by the ISO timestamp". createdAt is r.created_at off this.engine.find('sys_metadata_commit', …) — a record read door.

            2. rollbackToPackageCommit planning — lines 18843-18845:

            consttargetCreatedAt=String(target.created_at??'');consttoRevert=all.filter((c)=>String(c.createdAt??'')>targetCreatedAt&&c.operation==='apply',);

            Lexicographic > over the same values, to decide which commits get reverted.

            Why it is wrong on the production default driver

            created_at is a builtin audit column: not in datetimeFields, and SqlDriver#formatOutput repairs it only inside if (this.isSqlite). Pinned in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts — the live dialects hand it out of the record read door as a JS Date, SQLite as canonical ISO-Z text.

            So on Postgres/MySQL both sites compare strings of the form

            Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
            Mon Aug 31 2026 09:02:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
            

            whose leading token is the weekday name. Lexicographic order over that set is Fri < Mon < Sat < Sun < Thu < Tue < Wed — unrelated to chronology, and stable across the whole file, so the failure is systematic rather than intermittent.

            Consequences:

            • listCommits returns the package timeline in an arbitrary weekday-name order while claiming newest-first.
            • rollbackToPackageCommit consumes that ordering and re-derives the same comparison itself, so it reverts a set of apply commits chosen by weekday name: commits older than the target get reverted, commits newer than it get skipped. That is a destructive operation planning off a wrong predicate.

            On SQLite both sides are canonical ISO-Z text, lexicographic order equals chronological order, and both sites are correct. Every test they have drives SQLite or memory.

            Why this is not a ?? fallback

            Per #13973's standing prohibition, the question is which side owes the canonical spelling:

            A regression pin needs a Date on the read side. @objectstack/metadata-protocol has no driver dependency and must not grow one (the layering runs the other way), so the pin drives a hand-made Date here — the same split sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts documents for the OCC seam.

            Re-run

            rg -n 'String\((b?\.)?(target\.)?created_?[Aa]t' packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts
            

            Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape, same file). Neither is addressed here.

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              metadata-protocol: the package commit timeline sorts by weekday NAME on Postgres/MySQL — rollbackToPackageCommit therefore plans the wrong set of reverts #13995

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              @zhuangjianguo

              Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

              The two sites, one root cause

              packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts.

              1. listCommits ordering — line 18262:

              // Newest-first; tolerate drivers that don't order by returning// insertion order, then sort by the ISO timestamp.mapped.sort((a,b)=>String(b.createdAt??'').localeCompare(String(a.createdAt??'')));

              The comment states the assumption in as many words: "sort by the ISO timestamp". createdAt is r.created_at off this.engine.find('sys_metadata_commit', …) — a record read door.

              2. rollbackToPackageCommit planning — lines 18843-18845:

              consttargetCreatedAt=String(target.created_at??'');consttoRevert=all.filter((c)=>String(c.createdAt??'')>targetCreatedAt&&c.operation==='apply',);

              Lexicographic > over the same values, to decide which commits get reverted.

              Why it is wrong on the production default driver

              created_at is a builtin audit column: not in datetimeFields, and SqlDriver#formatOutput repairs it only inside if (this.isSqlite). Pinned in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts — the live dialects hand it out of the record read door as a JS Date, SQLite as canonical ISO-Z text.

              So on Postgres/MySQL both sites compare strings of the form

              Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
              Mon Aug 31 2026 09:02:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
              

              whose leading token is the weekday name. Lexicographic order over that set is Fri < Mon < Sat < Sun < Thu < Tue < Wed — unrelated to chronology, and stable across the whole file, so the failure is systematic rather than intermittent.

              Consequences:

              • listCommits returns the package timeline in an arbitrary weekday-name order while claiming newest-first.
              • rollbackToPackageCommit consumes that ordering and re-derives the same comparison itself, so it reverts a set of apply commits chosen by weekday name: commits older than the target get reverted, commits newer than it get skipped. That is a destructive operation planning off a wrong predicate.

              On SQLite both sides are canonical ISO-Z text, lexicographic order equals chronological order, and both sites are correct. Every test they have drives SQLite or memory.

              Why this is not a ?? fallback

              Per #13973's standing prohibition, the question is which side owes the canonical spelling:

              A regression pin needs a Date on the read side. @objectstack/metadata-protocol has no driver dependency and must not grow one (the layering runs the other way), so the pin drives a hand-made Date here — the same split sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts documents for the OCC seam.

              Re-run

              rg -n 'String\((b?\.)?(target\.)?created_?[Aa]t' packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts
              

              Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape, same file). Neither is addressed here.

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                metadata-protocol: the package commit timeline sorts by weekday NAME on Postgres/MySQL — rollbackToPackageCommit therefore plans the wrong set of reverts #13995

                Description

                @zhuangjianguo

                Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

                The two sites, one root cause

                packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts.

                1. listCommits ordering — line 18262:

                // Newest-first; tolerate drivers that don't order by returning// insertion order, then sort by the ISO timestamp.mapped.sort((a,b)=>String(b.createdAt??'').localeCompare(String(a.createdAt??'')));

                The comment states the assumption in as many words: "sort by the ISO timestamp". createdAt is r.created_at off this.engine.find('sys_metadata_commit', …) — a record read door.

                2. rollbackToPackageCommit planning — lines 18843-18845:

                consttargetCreatedAt=String(target.created_at??'');consttoRevert=all.filter((c)=>String(c.createdAt??'')>targetCreatedAt&&c.operation==='apply',);

                Lexicographic > over the same values, to decide which commits get reverted.

                Why it is wrong on the production default driver

                created_at is a builtin audit column: not in datetimeFields, and SqlDriver#formatOutput repairs it only inside if (this.isSqlite). Pinned in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts — the live dialects hand it out of the record read door as a JS Date, SQLite as canonical ISO-Z text.

                So on Postgres/MySQL both sites compare strings of the form

                Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
                Mon Aug 31 2026 09:02:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)
                

                whose leading token is the weekday name. Lexicographic order over that set is Fri < Mon < Sat < Sun < Thu < Tue < Wed — unrelated to chronology, and stable across the whole file, so the failure is systematic rather than intermittent.

                Consequences:

                • listCommits returns the package timeline in an arbitrary weekday-name order while claiming newest-first.
                • rollbackToPackageCommit consumes that ordering and re-derives the same comparison itself, so it reverts a set of apply commits chosen by weekday name: commits older than the target get reverted, commits newer than it get skipped. That is a destructive operation planning off a wrong predicate.

                On SQLite both sides are canonical ISO-Z text, lexicographic order equals chronological order, and both sites are correct. Every test they have drives SQLite or memory.

                Why this is not a ?? fallback

                Per #13973's standing prohibition, the question is which side owes the canonical spelling:

                A regression pin needs a Date on the read side. @objectstack/metadata-protocol has no driver dependency and must not grow one (the layering runs the other way), so the pin drives a hand-made Date here — the same split sql-driver-13567-audit-stamp-materialisation.test.ts documents for the OCC seam.

                Re-run

                rg -n 'String\((b?\.)?(target\.)?created_?[Aa]t' packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts
                

                Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape, same file). Neither is addressed here.

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