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Phase 2: a comment is editable, by the person who wrote it
79c88d72d36d8974dca5859125f8f37f0b06c1f7 · Keenan Nemetz · 17d ago · parent 67dd8854
Phase 2: a comment is editable, by the person who wrote it Comment editing was the last open follow-up on Phase 2, and the workaround was "append another comment, or rewrite history and force-push" — a redaction tool used for a typo. An edit is now an ordinary commit that rewrites the comment's file in place: the path stays, so the id, the thread order and one `git log -p -- issues/<id>/comments/<cid>.md` that answers "what did it say" all survive. A delete removes the file and leaves the text in history. No `edited` field, for the same reason `updated` was dropped from issues: it would be a line rewritten on every edit, and the commit that changed the file already carries the time. Editing also does not re-surface anything — the feed question is a timestamp, not a field. Ownership is the interesting part. A comment's author is a name in a file, and a name is not authentication, so `pre-receive` compares the author on the OLD blob against the account the key resolved to. The old blob is the one that was validated when it landed; the new one is whatever the pusher typed, and reading it would let anyone adopt a comment by editing its author line in the same push. Names are never reissued, so a former name still resolves through the roster and an account keeps its own comments across a rename. An admin may override — a thread written by somebody who has left is otherwise unrepairable — and the override is written to data/audit.log, like a force-push or a release rewrite. Two things are deliberately outside the rule: - Adding a comment. A new file's author is a claim, exactly like an issue's `author`, and the boundary has never pretended otherwise. - The issue file itself. `state`, `labels` and `assignees` are shared fields, so closing or assigning somebody else's issue is triage; refusing it would make the fields useless, and it is the same write any writer could already do by hand. A description can therefore be corrected by any writer — unchanged behaviour, now stated. `vole issue edit` (title, body, labels, assignees) covers the issue file, and `issue comment` now prints the comment id it created while `issue show` and the web page print it too — otherwise `edit-comment` would take an id nobody could see. Two comments written in the same millisecond share their ULID timestamp prefix, so a short prefix is ambiguous there; the CLI names both matches instead of guessing. Also fixed on the way: `frontmatter.Value` reads one field without strict decoding. `AuthorOf` first used Decode, whose KnownFields is right for validation but wrong for "who wrote this" — the hook refused every comment edit with `field created not found`. Verified: TestCommentEditsBelongToTheirAuthor pushes as two accounts and drives all four refusals (rewrite, adopt-by-author-line, delete, and the untouched thread afterwards), plus an author editing his own comment, a writer closing someone else's issue, and an admin delete that lands only with its audit line. TestAuthorOfReadsAnyMetadataFile covers the strict-decoder bug directly; TestCommentPathMatchesTheReader pins the writer/validator path agreement; the CLI end-to-end test edits a comment, retitles an issue and deletes the comment through the binary against a real instance. scripts/ci.sh green (gofmt, vet, build, markdown links, go test -race ./...).
internal/web/templates.go +1−1
| @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ labels, then the body as markdown.</p> | |||
| 322 | 322 | <h2>{{len .Comments}} comment(s)</h2> | |
| 323 | 323 | {{range .Comments}} | |
| 324 | 324 | <div class="card"> | |
| 325 | <p class="muted">{{.Author}} · {{since .Created.Unix}}</p> | ||
| 325 | <p class="muted"><span class="sha">{{short .ID}}</span> · {{.Author}} · {{since .Created.Unix}}</p> | ||
| 326 | 326 | <article class="md">{{.Body}}</article> | |
| 327 | 327 | </div> | |
| 328 | 328 | {{else}} | |