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168 records -> docs/decisions/records/<area>/<topic>.md (163 active, 23 dirs) and docs/decisions/archive/<area>/<topic>.md (5 archived). The filename IS the key, so one-active-record-per-key becomes a filesystem property rather than a validator check, and supersession becomes a `git mv`. WHY: the monolith was a concurrency problem before an aesthetic one. A 3,900-line append target made parallel sessions collide -- PR #605 and PR #614 both hit append-vs-append conflicts during routine rebases, and hand-resolving those inside the corpus is exactly the operation the rationale-rewrite guard exists to police. HOW IT IS VERIFIED: a ~170-file diff cannot be meaningfully read, so correctness does not rest on reading it. The parser was taught BOTH formats first, so the body-diff guard parses the old form at the merge-base and the new form at head -- the migration validates itself, no bypass. The proof is a field-level equivalence harness: 168 records before and after, zero lost, zero gained, zero field mismatches, zero rationale bodies differing. Reviewers should scrutinise the harness; it is the actual evidence. What measuring caught that reading would not have: - ~500 lines sit OUTSIDE any record -- decisions.md's lifecycle schema and each topic file's preamble, mostly the only copy. Source files are kept and stripped, never deleted. They also cannot be filed per-area: topic files hold several areas and 4 of 23 areas span several files. - Archive discovery was a non-recursive glob; after the split it found ZERO archived records, surfacing as four bogus "supersedes points to unknown key" errors rather than an obvious failure. - ~32 live docs point into the corpus BY DATE, which the split dangles. Each stripped file now ends with a generated "Records formerly in this file" index, which also rescues the identical breadcrumbs in old issue comments. - decisions.md's "In this file:" list was 97 same-file anchor bullets that the split makes WRONG, not merely stale. Dropped; the generated index replaces them with links that resolve. The equivalence harness now runs against a checked-in FIXTURE, not the live corpus. The earlier version migrated the real tree, which made it a one-shot: the moment the migration landed there was nothing left to move and the tests failed for reasons unrelated to the code. A fixture keeps them testing the SCRIPT rather than the repo's current state. Keys preserved verbatim, warts included: `sched` (12) and `scheduling` (1) remain two directories for one concept. Renaming a key is not a move -- it changes identity, breaks the equivalence proof, and invalidates MemPalace's per-key drawers. Taxonomy normalisation is separate work. refs #610
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| api.from-lineup-clear-to-none | 2026-07-21 — `from-lineup` advanced overrides express "clear to none" via a typed `clear` enum list (#135) | active | 2026-07-21 | none | none | `POST /api/v1/channels/from-lineup` (and the Auto-Tune per-channel `advanced`, which reuses the same DTO) distinguishes *inherit* from *clear-to-none* with a typed `clear` enum list on `advanced`. A field left null/omitted still inherits the template value (unchanged for every existing client); naming a field in `clear` forces it to none on the new channel even when the template sets one. Sending both a set value and a clear for the same field is a validation error. | clear to none, inherit vs none, advanced override, watermark/filler clear, template-minus-one-setting · paths: `ErsatzTV.Core/Api/Channels/CreateChannelFromLineupClearField.cs`, `ErsatzTV.Application/Channels/Commands/CreateChannelFromLineupHandler.cs`, `ErsatzTV/Controllers/Api/Requests/CreateChannelFromLineupRequest.cs`, `web/src/builder/advancedOptions.tsx` · issues: #135, #89, #385, #386 | `CreateChannelFromLineupHandler.ResolveClearable`/`ValidateClear`; SPA `applyOverridesToRequest`/`collectClears`/`CLEAR` sentinel; api-conventions.md §2, spa-conventions.md |
Why a clear list, not a sentinel or per-field flags. The gap (found in #89 review) was that the handler resolved every advanced override with advanced.X ?? template.X, so a client sending null always inherited. That is correct for the common path but leaves "this channel should have NO watermark / pre-roll filler even though the template has one" inexpressible. The fix had to keep omitted = inherit byte-stable for existing clients (/api/v1 is frozen-additive, #286), so it is a new optional field, not a reshaping of the existing ones. A {set, value} wrapper per field would have rewritten every field's wire type; a reserved 0 sentinel is magic and asymmetric between int ids and strings; parallel clearX bools add one field per clearable. A single typed enum list is additive, self-documenting, type-checked (an invalid value is a 400 at model binding), covers ids and strings with one mechanism, and extends by adding an enum member. The clearable set is the eight template-inheritable fields where "none" is meaningful: watermark, the four fillers, and the preferred audio/subtitle language + audio title.
Set + clear of the same field is rejected, not silently resolved. The SPA never produces that state (a select is inherit, a value, or None), so the check exists to keep hand-crafted / machine-client requests unambiguous rather than picking a winner. A null/empty set value alongside a clear is fine (redundant, not conflicting).
The enum lives in ErsatzTV.Core, not the Application command, on purpose. The OpenAPI string-enum pass (Startup.UseStringEnumSchemas) scans the Core assembly wholesale; an enum defined in ErsatzTV.Application renders as a bare integer in the spec while every sibling advanced-options enum (PlaybackOrder, ChannelSubtitleMode, …) is a string enum. Placing CreateChannelFromLineupClearField in ErsatzTV.Core/Api/Channels/ makes the wire contract a string enum by construction, matching its siblings.
SPA is id-fields-first; the API is complete ahead of the UI. The Channel Builder + Auto-Tune DetailPanel re-add a real "None" option to the five id selects (watermark + fillers) — the pickers #89 had degraded to "Inherit"-only — routed through a CLEAR overrides sentinel folded into advanced.clear at request-build time (applyOverridesToRequest, so the sentinel never leaks as a field value). The three string clear-fields are covered by the backend enum for machine clients (MCP) but the SPA text inputs keep "empty = inherit"; adding a tri-state to those inputs is deferred, not blocked. This is the deliberate "REST API is a real audience" posture (rest-api-purpose-mcp-and-new-ui).