A file cut short says where the cut fell and how much of its content is left by donislawdev · Pull Request #235 · donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator

donislawdev · 2026-11-12T10:40:40Z

What changes for someone using tfg

A file cut short says where the cut fell and how much of its content is left. In many formats the bytes
that make up the size asked for sit after the content, and a large file is nearly all of them. So
--damage truncate:missing=90 on a 1 MB PNG cut only padding, and every viewer showed the whole picture. A
text, a PNG and an icon each cut differently, and nothing said which happened.

The truncate entry in the manifest's damage list now carries cut:

"damage": [{
  "type": "truncate",
  "settings": {"missing": "90"},
  "cut": {"in": "padding", "content_bytes": 5411, "content_kept_bytes": 5411}
}],
"notes": [{
  "code": "cut_in_padding",
  "detail": "The cut fell in the padding after the content, so the content is whole and only the end of the file is missing."
}]

in is what the first byte cut away was for: structure, content, padding or end.
content_bytes is how long the content of the whole file was. It is absent when the generator did not know
it when it stopped, which today is a WebM cut inside its clusters.
content_kept_bytes is how much of the content is still in the file.
A cut in the padding gets the note cut_in_padding. An icon keeps its padding before its picture, so there
the note says none of the content is left.

The description of missing says the same in one sentence. manifest_version does not move, because the key
is added and no key changes meaning. Files nothing cuts are byte for byte unchanged.

Known limit: in a tar.gz with compression other than none, the filler entry sits inside the compressed
stream, and where deflate puts its bytes is not knowable without decoding them. A cut there is reported as a
cut in the content. A stored tar.gz, the default, is mapped to the byte.

How

The map of a file is marked while it is written (internal/format/layout.go). A generator calls
format.Mark(w, role, at, length) with offsets of its own, before the region's first byte wherever it knows
them. Six formats choose their picture without coding it when planning (png and gif above their ladders,
avif, jxl, mp4, webm), so a map worked out in the plan would code every damaged file twice. A text marks
nothing and is content from start to end.
Every binary format marks its regions. avif reads the coder's boxes. pdf's document returns where its
objects and its cross reference table start.
archive.StreamMap is for formats a library writes. archive/zip buffers what it writes and finishes an
entry only when the next one opens, so the filler entry's start is known only after its header is out.
zip.NewWriter is handed StreamMap's buffer, which it uses instead of its own, so the position is exact, and
bytes are held back while the filler entry and the central directory are marked. tar.gz uses the same holding
for the trailer of a compressed stream. StreamMap lives in internal/format/archive, so internal/format/opc,
the office packages' ZIP writer, may now import that package (internal/guard/layers_test.go).
The engine records the map only when a damage cuts the tail (damage.Chain.Cut). It works the cut out
from the map and the offset the damage keeps (internal/engine/cut.go). PredictRecord counts the longest
cut a file can be given, because the real one is known only after writing.

Guards

TestEveryFormatsMapIsTheOneItsStructureReadsBack: every format, every setting that picks a shape, at the
smallest size and at 1 MiB, written through a recorder. The map the generator marked must be the one
internal/oracle/layout.py reads back from the file's structure. layout.py is a second implementation in
another language, the bargain strict.py already makes. That is 356 files, 102 with padding, in about 5 s.
Every region must also be marked before its first byte reaches the writer. A cut before a mark would
otherwise leave a map that reads as "all content". Canaries: a boundary moved by a byte, a late mark, a sweep
with no padding.
TestACutFileSaysWhereTheCutFellAndWhatIsLeft: a PNG cut at 90% keeps all its content, an icon cut at half
keeps none, a text keeps exactly what is on disk, and a damage that cuts nothing reports no cut.
TestTheRecordOfACutRunIsNeverLongerThanItsForecast: the forecast is never under the record and not far over
it.
Each new guard was broken once by hand and went red: a png padding mark a byte late, every cut reported as
content, and the cut left out of the forecast.
The golden byte guards are green, so no file nothing damages changed.
The longest file ceiling goes down from 392 to 390, after three files were split by what their parts do.

After the first review

Two cuts in a row are reported where the file ends. damage.Chain.Cut returned the first damage that cuts
the tail. Two truncates of half a 1000 B text leave 1000 B, and the cut said 2000 B were kept. The last cut before
anything else changes the length is where the file ends, and the cut is reported on its entry. The guard has the
case, and it went red with the old choice.
The guards ask more: an empty content, a format whose settings all went unswept, and a PNG chunk past the end of
the file are failures.
The Polish notes say dopełnienie for padding, as the rest of the window does. README says what the cut entry
holds.
Two tests that took over 60 s under the race detector are named in its weights.
Not changed: a hint to lower missing in the icon's note, because at large sizes the picture is under 1% of the
file and no share keeps it. That needs the padding moved before the content, which is the next step.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

…is left In many formats a large file is mostly padding after its content, so truncate:missing=90 on a 1 MB PNG cut only padding and every viewer showed the whole picture. The manifest now says so per file: the truncate entry in damage carries cut - in (structure, content, padding or end), content_bytes and content_kept_bytes - and a cut in the padding gets the note cut_in_padding. The map behind it is marked by each generator while it writes (format.Mark), with offsets of its own: six formats choose their picture without coding it when planning, so a map in the plan would code every damaged file twice. A text marks nothing and is content from start to end. archive/zip buffers what it writes and finishes an entry only when the next one opens, so archive.StreamMap hands it its buffer and holds bytes back while the filler entry and the central directory are marked. A compressed tar.gz is content to its trailer, because where deflate puts the filler is not known without decoding it. The engine records the map only when a damage cuts the tail (damage.Chain.Cut), and forecasts the longest cut for the record's size. Guards: every format's map, at every setting that picks a shape and two sizes, is the one internal/oracle/layout.py reads back from its structure, and every region is marked before its first byte is written. The manifest says where the cut fell for a picture, an icon and a text, and a run that cuts is never told less than the record it writes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

coderabbitai · 2026-11-12T10:40:59Z

Walkthrough

The change adds byte-region mapping to file generators, an independent layout oracle, and truncation details in manifests. The engine records the cut region and retained content bytes when it can determine them, and adds notes for cuts in padding.

Changes: File Region Mapping

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Region map contract and format markers `internal/format/layout.go`, `internal/format/{avif,bmp,gif,ico,jpg,jxl,mp4,pdf,png,tiff,wav,webm,webp}/*`	The format package adds region roles and a map recorder. Format writers mark structure, content, padding, and end regions. PDF records object and cross-reference offsets for its region marks.
Archive stream mapping `internal/format/archive/streammap.go`, `internal/format/{opc,targz,zip}/*`	`StreamMap` tracks archive output and marks ZIP entry and tail regions. OPC, ZIP, and TAR.GZ writers use it to mark archive content and padding.
Independent layout oracle and map validation `internal/oracle/*`, `internal/guard/filemap_test.go`, `internal/guard/{layers_test,mutationcoverage_test}.go`	The Python oracle maps supported formats to byte regions. Go batch helpers invoke the oracle, and guard tests compare its results with generator marks.
Cut metadata and manifest reporting `internal/damage/{apply,truncate}.go`, `internal/engine/`, `internal/manifest/manifest.go`, `internal/guard/cutmanifest_test.go`, `internal/gui/text/locale/`, `CHANGELOG.md`	The engine records the cut region and content-byte counts in damage metadata, adds notes for padding cuts, and includes cut details in record-size forecasts. Tests and localized text cover the new details. The changelog documents the manifest fields and compressed TAR.GZ padding behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FormatGenerator
  participant MapRecorder
  participant cutMapper
  participant writeOne
  participant Result
  FormatGenerator->>MapRecorder: Mark output regions and write bytes
  writeOne->>cutMapper: Wrap the sink for a planned cut
  cutMapper->>MapRecorder: Record written regions
  writeOne->>Result: Return checksum and cut metadata
  Result->>Result: Add cut details to the manifest entry

Possibly related PRs

donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator#228: Defines the truncate damage metadata and chain behavior used by the new cut detection.

Suggested labels: enhancement

Merge Risk: Low · up to 64548

Truncate cut details in the manifest can be wrong when a recipe chains two truncations, because the first cut is reported instead of the last. Normal single-truncation runs are unaffected and file bytes do not change. The new map and cut tests have a few gaps that should be tightened, but none of them blocks the feature.

Pre-merge checks: 13 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Scope, Duplication And Docs		The PR changes user-visible `truncate` behavior. Parts of the documentation were updated, but the README still describes `missing` in the old way, and the code cites a document that does not exist. Ev…	1. Update README.md line 499 (the `tfg damage` table row for `truncate`). Replace "the percent of the whole file that is gone" with wording that says the cut follows the format's layout. A format with padding after its content can keep its …

Passed checks: 13 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "A file cut short says where the cut fell and how much of its content is left" matches the main change: the manifest's truncate damage entries gain cut details (region, content bytes total a…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Tests For Changed Behavior		The PR changes runtime behavior and adds tests that cover it. No existing test was deleted outright, and no existing test gained a skip. New behavior is tested. The PR adds a `cut` record to trunc…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers		The PR diff (origin/main...HEAD, 8,631 added lines) contains no flagged items. - Private AI-agent or env files: No changed path is CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md, `.claude/`, or a `.env` fi…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling		The check applies only when the PR adds or changes GUI code (XAML, Slint, Fyne, Tkinter, WPF code-behind). The PR does not touch UI code. The only files under `internal/gui` are four locale JSON files…
No Obvious Performance Problems		No clear, concrete performance problem introduced or touched by this PR was found in the production paths. Evidence checked at HEAD `49dcc83`: - `internal/format/layout.go`: `Mark` is a type assertion a…
Desktop Robustness		Desktop robustness check: no changed code matches the listed warning conditions. Evidence gathered: - Asset loading relative to the working directory: `internal/oracle/layoutbatch.go` (new) finds …
Safe File Parsing		Summary: The PR adds file-reading code, but it does not hit any failure condition in the "Safe file parsing" check. What the PR reads: - `internal/oracle/layout.py` is a test oracle. It parses files t…
System Changes Are Reversible		The check applies only when the PR adds or changes code that modifies system state, such as network filters, proxy, firewall, system time, process hooking or injection, Windows services, registry, or …
Clear User-Facing Text		The PR changes user-visible text in `internal/gui/text/locale`, so the check applies. The PR adds no controls, buttons, confirmations, or error dialogs, so the tooltip, button-label, and Yes/No rules …
No Resource Leaks		PR `#235` (donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator, author donislawdev) adds map marking, cut tracking, and the archive.StreamMap helper. I checked the committed diff against base `12d6a9c` for resource leaks. …

Full details: Title check

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The title "A file cut short says where the cut fell and how much of its content is left" matches the main change: the manifest's truncate damage entries gain cut details (region, content bytes total and retained, and a cut_in_padding note). The title is specific and describes the user-visible effect, so it is related to the changeset. It does not follow the requested plain-language style exactly, since it reads as a sentence about a behavior rather than an imperative summary, but it is clear and descriptive. It is within the length limit at 76 characters.

Full details: Tests For Changed Behavior

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The PR changes runtime behavior and adds tests that cover it. No existing test was deleted outright, and no existing test gained a skip. New behavior is tested. The PR adds a cut record to truncate damage entries, a cut_in_padding note, the archive.StreamMap marking path, damage.Chain.Cut, and forecastCut for record-size prediction. Covering tests: - internal/guard/filemap_test.go (new, +237): TestEveryFormatsMapIsTheOneItsStructureReadsBack compares each format's marked map with the independent internal/oracle/layout.py reader. - internal/guard/cutmanifest_test.go (new, +203): TestACutFileSaysWhereTheCutFellAndWhatIsLeft and TestTheRecordOfACutRunIsNeverLongerThanItsForecast. - internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go (+33): probe evidence for the three new guards. Existing tests were changed, not removed. git diff against the merge-base shows edits, not deletions, in these files: - jxlladder_test.go (+76/−33): the sweep was reworked to cover ceiling-digit labels and damaged labels, and the empty-label case is kept. It also gained a guard that fails when no damaged label is drawn. - otlp_test.go (+225/−8): the Metrics signal, snake-case keys and extra canaries were added. The == 1000 count became == batch. - ladderceiling_test.go (+26/−12): the damaged-label asks were added, which strengthens the test. - damagewitness_test.go (+19/−5): some expected refusal reasons were replaced or added. Inline comments give a measured reason tied to the label change. The PR description does not mention these edits. This is the closest case to a weakened assertion. - damagelength_test.go (+9/−4): Label: true was dropped from two targets. The inline comment points to TestADamagedFileStatesItsSizeOnDiskAndItsDamage for labeled coverage. - codeshape_test.go: longestFile went from 392 to 390. This tightens the ceiling. - layers_test.go: the allowlist gained internal/format/archive for opc. The PR description states this reason. Skips. The new t.Skip calls appear only in new tests, guarded by Python availability. They follow the existing strict.py pattern. Residual concern. The edits to damagewitness_test.go and damagelength_test.go are justified in code comments, not in the PR description. Under a strict reading of the check, that is a gap. It is minor, because the change is tied to the label behavior the PR does change.

Full details: No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers

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The PR diff (origin/main...HEAD, 8,631 added lines) contains no flagged items. - Private AI-agent or env files: No changed path is CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/, or a .env file. - Credentials and keys: Keyword hits for "token", "secret", and "sk-" are prose or JSON description text (for example, "a token such as utf-8"), not values. No assignments of quoted credential literals, private key blocks, or known token prefixes were found. - Private URLs and hosts: No URLs pointing to localhost, private IP ranges, or .internal/.local hosts were added. No IPv4 literals were added. - Local absolute paths and user names: No /home/, /Users/, /root/, or C:\Users paths were added. - Personal e-mails: None found. - Debug leftovers: No dbg!, breakpoint(), debugger, Debug.WriteLine, Console.WriteLine, or console.log calls were added. The print( calls are intentional output in internal/oracle/layout.py (usage text to stderr and the batch protocol JSON line) and in embedded Python checker scripts in internal/oracle/otelscripts.go, which emit FAIL/OK results. The base otelscripts.go already has 9 print( calls, so this follows existing practice. The fmt.Sprint in otlp_test.go is ordinary string formatting, not debug output. No finding under this check applies.

Full details: No Hardcoded Ui Styling

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The check applies only when the PR adds or changes GUI code (XAML, Slint, Fyne, Tkinter, WPF code-behind). The PR does not touch UI code. The only files under internal/gui are four locale JSON files: internal/gui/text/locale/registry/en.json, registry/pl.json, said/en.json, and said/pl.json. Per the raw summary, these change only message text (the Detail.damage/truncate.missing description and two engine cut messages). They set no colors, fonts, sizes, margins, paddings, or corner radii. The remaining changes are in the damage, engine, format, manifest, oracle, and guard packages. None is a GUI toolkit file. The summary lists no XAML, Slint, Fyne, Tkinter, or WPF changes. Because the PR does not touch GUI code, the check is inapplicable. I did not inspect the diff directly. The verdict relies on the file list and per-file summaries in the raw summary.

Full details: No Obvious Performance Problems

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No clear, concrete performance problem introduced or touched by this PR was found in the production paths. Evidence checked at HEAD 49dcc83: - internal/format/layout.go: Mark is a type assertion and returns immediately when the writer is not a Mapper. Unmarked, undamaged files pay no cost. MapRecorder.Map is linear in the number of marked regions. - internal/format/archive/streammap.go: holding is active only when a map is kept. The held buffer is small. In the filler path, markFiller releases the hold right after the entry header is written (internal/format/zip/filler.go lines 34-84), so the padding body is not buffered. MarkTail and lastLocalHeader scan only held bytes, which are headers and the central directory, not the whole file. - internal/format/zip/filler.go writeFiller (lines 142-164) streams fixed-size chunks with a context check per chunk. It does not hold the entry in memory. - internal/engine/cut.go and damage.go: cutMapper, forecastCut, and cutIn run once per damaged file. Their cost is O(damages + regions), not per byte. - damage.Chain.Cut (internal/damage/apply.go lines 311-330) walks the chain steps once. - internal/oracle/layout.py has per-byte Python loops, such as the JPEG scan loop at lines 446-449. LayoutBatch has no non-test callers (rg found none in non-test code). This is test-oracle tooling, and it is linear, not O(n^2). The batch design runs one Python process for many files, which avoids per-file process spawns. Test runtime figures in the PR description are test-suite cost, not product performance, and fall outside the check's listed problem classes. No UI thread, unvirtualized list, per-item external process, O(n^2) product path, or polling loop was introduced.

Full details: Desktop Robustness

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Desktop robustness check: no changed code matches the listed warning conditions. Evidence gathered: - Asset loading relative to the working directory: internal/oracle/layoutbatch.go (new) finds layout.py through strictScriptPath(). That helper falls back to os.Getwd() (internal/oracle/strict.go lines 132-143, pre-existing). A search found no non-test callers of LayoutBatch or StrictBatch, so this is test-only oracle code, not shipped desktop behavior. - Settings/data writes: No new settings or data file writes were found. Output publication goes through the existing internal/core/publish.go rename path. The new code (StreamMap, format.Mark, cut.go, manifest Cut field) works on in-memory writers and JSON-serializable integer fields. - Culture-sensitive parsing: The new numeric fields (ContentBytes, ContentKeptBytes) are int64 values in JSON. No locale-dependent number or date formatting was added. - Long operations: The new filler loop checks context cancellation before each chunk (internal/format/zip/filler.go). The batch oracle runs under the caller's context with a time limit (strictbatch.go). - Destructive actions, admin rights, background work after close, undisclosed network calls: None were introduced. The only GUI changes are two locale strings (en.json, pl.json) and said messages. Residual note: the new test-only LayoutBatch reuses the working-directory fallback in strictScriptPath. That fallback is pre-existing and is not reachable from the desktop app.

Full details: Safe File Parsing

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Summary: The PR adds file-reading code, but it does not hit any failure condition in the "Safe file parsing" check. What the PR reads: - internal/oracle/layout.py is a test oracle. It parses files that the generator wrote during the guard tests (internal/guard/filemap_test.go). It reads each file with open(path, "rb") and uses struct.unpack and slicing. It does not use XML, XAML, CSV, XLSX, YAML, or any deserializer that can build arbitrary types. It does not resolve external entities and does not evaluate formulas. - internal/oracle/strictbatch.go and layoutbatch.go call the interpreter with exec.CommandContext(ctx, python, script, "--batch") (line 115). This passes argv as an array, not through a shell. Request paths travel as JSON on stdin, not as arguments. The script path is derived from the repository location, so no user input reaches the command line. - batchLines applies a time limit (time.Minute + n seconds) and a 1 MiB scanner cap (strictbatch.go lines 108-126). Malformed and huge input: - answer() in layout.py (lines 520-529) wraps each file read and parse in except NoMap and except Exception. A malformed file returns an error answer. It does not crash the batch. - The while True loops (stored_blocks lines 312-325, sub_blocks_end lines 385-391) always advance pos by at least 5 or 1 bytes. An out-of-range index raises an exception, which the handler catches. I found no hang path. - The oracle reads whole files into memory. The guard test caps those files at 1 MiB, so huge-input risk is bounded in this context. Path and write concerns: The Go code only writes files under the generator's own output and temp directories. The PR adds no CSV, XLSX, or formula-capable output. Non-blocking note, outside this check's failure conditions: layout_png does not check that a chunk body fits inside data (review thread on layout.py lines 66-67). A truncated PNG gives a region past EOF. It does not crash or hang, and the input is a test-only oracle. A correctness fix is to raise NoMap when pos + 12 + length > len(data), as the sibling readers do.

Full details: System Changes Are Reversible

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The check applies only when the PR adds or changes code that modifies system state, such as network filters, proxy, firewall, system time, process hooking or injection, Windows services, registry, or drivers. This PR does not do that. It is a file generator change. The raw summary lists every changed file, and each one falls in one of these areas: - Damage and truncation logic: internal/damage/apply.go, internal/engine/.go. - Format writers that record byte-region maps: internal/format/. - A ZIP/tar.gz stream wrapper: internal/format/archive/streammap.go. It buffers writes to an output io.Writer. It does not change system state. - Manifest fields: internal/manifest/manifest.go. - Locale text: internal/gui/text/locale/*. - A Python reader run as a subprocess for verification: internal/oracle/layout.py and layoutbatch.go. It reads files and writes JSON. It does not change system state. - Tests and guard files. No file touches network stacks, proxies, firewalls, system clocks, process injection, services, the registry, or drivers. The truncate damage writes only to the generated output file that the user requested. The check does not apply, so it passes.

Full details: Clear User-Facing Text

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The PR changes user-visible text in internal/gui/text/locale, so the check applies. The PR adds no controls, buttons, confirmations, or error dialogs, so the tooltip, button-label, and Yes/No rules do not apply. The only failing condition the check sets is "the same concept is named differently in different places". The standing FAIL concerned the Polish term for padding. It said this PR introduced "wypełnienie" beside the existing "dopełnienie". Current state of the repository: - grep for "wypełnien" in internal/gui/text/locale returns no matches. - registry/pl.json uses "dopełnienie" in 7 places, including the changed Detail.damage/truncate.missing. - said/pl.json uses "dopełnienie" in 11 places, including the changed engine.CutAfterContent and engine.CutBeforeContent. - git diff HEAD~1 shows the three Polish strings changed from "wypełnienie" to "dopełnienie" in commit 49dcc83. The prior failing claim is therefore resolved. The English strings use "padding" and "content" consistently with the rest of the locale. "Manifest" is an existing term in the locale, not a new name for the same concept. Remaining non-blocking wording issues, not failure conditions: - The English Detail.damage/truncate.missing ends with "the manifest says what each cut left". This is vague. The field is named cut. Suggested replacement: "The cut field in the manifest reports how much content each cut left." - The Polish truncate.missing sentence says "manifest mówi, co zostawiło każde cięcie". This is the same vague phrasing. Suggested replacement: "Pole cut w manifeście podaje, ile treści zostało po każdym cięciu." - The English engine.CutBeforeContent gives no next step. It is a note, not an error. Optional: "The cut fell in the padding before the content, so none of the content is left. Lower the missing value to keep part of the content." These are suggestions only. The English and Polish truncate.missing strings still use the earlier phrasing, so the prior run's optional English rewrite was not applied. Prior failure addressed: The prior failure cited 'wypełnienie' for padding in registry/pl.json (Detail.damage/truncate.missing) and said/pl.json (engine.CutAfterContent, engine.CutBeforeContent). Current files contain no 'wypełnien' matches and use 'dopełnienie' in those strings, matching the 18 existing padding uses. git diff HEAD~1 shows the change from 'wypełnienie' to 'dopełnienie' in those three strings. The requi...

Full details: No Resource Leaks

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PR #235 (donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator, author donislawdev) adds map marking, cut tracking, and the archive.StreamMap helper. I checked the committed diff against base 12d6a9c for resource leaks. I found no leak that this PR introduces. Checks performed: - Files and streams: product code added no os.Create or os.Open calls. The only new file handles are in test helpers. writeMapped closes its handle (fh.Close). The gzip test helper uses defer f.Close(). layout.py reads files inside a with block. - Stream buffers (internal/format/archive/streammap.go): Hold and Release pair on success paths. In the zip filler (internal/format/zip/filler.go, writeFillerEntry and markFiller), Hold covers only the entry header. The filler bytes are written after Release, so they are not buffered. plaintextCRC hashes into crc32.NewIEEE, not into the held stream. In OPC (internal/format/opc/opc.go, lines 287-299) and targz (size.go, lines 343-353), the hold covers only the header or the compressed trailer. Error paths skip Release, but the StreamMap is local to the call and is discarded with the error. - Growth bounds: MapRecorder.regions (internal/format/layout.go) gets a few marks per file. It is freed when the file's write returns. NotesSaid is set once per note code. The per-file held slice is also released with the StreamMap. - Processes (internal/oracle/strictbatch.go and layoutbatch.go, batchLines): exec.CommandContext runs under context.WithTimeout, and cancel is deferred. The process runs to completion through cmd.Run. Output is read through a bounded scanner. - Goroutines, timers, and subscriptions: the added-line search found no go statements, tickers, timers, channels, or event subscriptions. - Caches: no new package-level or long-lived cache was found. The new map literals are per-call or constant. Residual notes (not failures): the stored zip filler path holds only the header, so the memory cost stays small. The per-file held buffer for the compressed gzip trailer is bounded by a single flush.

Full details: Scope, Duplication And Docs

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The PR changes user-visible truncate behavior. Parts of the documentation were updated, but the README still describes missing in the old way, and the code cites a document that does not exist. Evidence gathered at HEAD 49dcc83: - Updated (prior items 2 and 5 addressed): - README.md lines 525-530 add a paragraph. It says a large file is mostly padding, so truncate can leave content whole. It names the cut entry (in, content_bytes, content_kept_bytes) and the cut_in_padding note. - README.md line 996 now says the manifest records where a cut fell. - CHANGELOG.md has a new Unreleased entry. - The PR description (What/How section) explains the internal/format/opc import of internal/format/archive and names internal/guard/layers_test.go. - Still stale (prior item 1 not addressed): README.md line 499 still says truncate cuts "the percent of the whole file that is gone" for missing. The PR makes this wrong for padded formats such as PNG, where missing=90 can leave the content whole. The row was not changed. - Still dangling (prior item 4 not addressed): docs/TRUNCATE-2026-11-11.md does not exist (docs/ is absent and no matching file is in the tree). Nine code comments cite it, including the Cut type comment in internal/manifest/manifest.go (around line 290), internal/engine/cut.go, internal/format/layout.go and internal/guard/filemap_test.go. - Manifest section: the README manifest section (lines 753-800) does not describe the damage[] schema at all. The cut object is documented only in the damage section, not beside the manifest schema. This is a partial gap. - Scope: the PR description covers the main feature, the archive/StreamMap work, the guard changes and the 392→390 ceiling. I found no unmentioned large change. The additive manifest change keeps manifest_version at 1.0, so no breaking-change section is needed. Because a user-facing behavior change still leaves a README row that contradicts it, and a documentation reference is dangling, the prior failure is not resolved.

Resolution

Update README.md line 499 (the tfg damage table row for truncate). Replace "the percent of the whole file that is gone" with wording that says the cut follows the format's layout. A format with padding after its content can keep its content whole. Point to the manifest cut field. 2. Add the damage[].cut object (in, content_bytes, content_kept_bytes) and the cut_in_padding note to the README manifest section (around lines 753-800). Keep manifest_version at "1.0". 3. Either add docs/TRUNCATE-2026-11-11.md to the repository, or remove the nine references to it in internal/manifest/manifest.go, internal/engine/cut.go, internal/format/layout.go, internal/format/archive/streammap.go, internal/format/targz/filemap.go, internal/format/ico/ico.go, internal/damage/truncate.go, internal/guard/filemap_test.go and internal/guard/cutmanifest_test.go. Replace each with the rule it cites, stated in the comment.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @internal/damage/apply.go:
- Around line 316-317: The Cut method currently returns the first tail cutter,
causing cutMapper to record an incorrect offset when consecutive cutters shrink
the retained prefix. Update Cut to return the last tail cutter in the run and
its output length, while preserving the existing guards against length-changing
damage before the first cutter.

Review comments at @internal/guard/cutmanifest_test.go:
- Around line 112-117: Update cutProblems to reject a non-positive ContentBytes
total before the kept-bytes switch, so both padding cases fail when the reported
content region is empty; preserve the existing all and none checks for positive
totals.

Review comments at @internal/guard/filemap_test.go:
- Around line 59-60: In the map sweep using format.All(), track whether
writeMapped successfully adds a file for each format, and fail the test if any
format has no file before the oracle comparison. Keep skipping individual
refused settings and preserve the existing smallest-size fallback.

Review comments at @internal/oracle/layout.py:
- Around line 66-67: Update layout_png to validate that each declared chunk,
including its header and body, fits within data before appending its region or
advancing pos; raise NoMap for chunks extending past the file, consistent with
the sibling readers.

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Failed pre-merge checks:
- Clear User-Facing Text:
1. In `internal/gui/text/locale/registry/pl.json`
(`Detail.damage/truncate.missing`) and `internal/gui/text/locale/said/pl.json`
(`engine.CutAfterContent`, `engine.CutBeforeContent`), replace "wypełnienie"
with "dopełnienie". The existing Polish locale uses "dopełnienie" for padding in
15 places. 2. Replace the English sentence in `registry/en.json`
`Detail.damage/truncate.missing` with: "A large file is often mostly padding
after its content, so the content can stay whole. The `cut` field in the
manifest reports how much content each cut left." 3. Optional: add a next step
to `said/en.json` `engine.CutBeforeContent`: "The cut fell in the padding before
the content, so no content is left. Lower the missing value to keep part of the
content." 4. Regenerate the `hash` values for the changed keys, as the locale
tooling requires.

- Scope, Duplication And Docs:
1. Update README.md `tfg damage` table row for `truncate` (line ~499). Replace
"the percent of the whole file that is gone" with wording that says the cut
follows the format's layout. State that in a format with padding after its
content, the content can stay whole. Point to the manifest `cut` field. 2.
Update README.md lines ~989–991 so the `--damage truncate` answer matches the
new cut behavior. 3. Add the `damage[].cut` object (`in`, `content_bytes`,
`content_kept_bytes`) and the `cut_in_padding` note to the manifest section of
README.md. Keep `manifest_version` unchanged. 4. Add the
`docs/TRUNCATE-2026-11-11.md` file the `Cut` comment refers to, or remove the
reference from `internal/manifest/manifest.go`. 5. Add one sentence to the PR
description (or CHANGELOG) that explains the `internal/format/opc` →
`internal/format/archive` import allowance in `internal/guard/layers_test.go`.

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CHANGELOG.md
internal/damage/apply.go
internal/damage/truncate.go
internal/engine/cut.go
internal/engine/damage.go
internal/engine/engine.go
internal/engine/entrynotes.go
internal/engine/parallel.go
internal/engine/recordsize.go
internal/format/archive/streammap.go
internal/format/avif/avif.go
internal/format/avif/boxes.go
internal/format/bmp/bmp.go
internal/format/gif/gif.go
internal/format/ico/ico.go
internal/format/jpg/jpg.go
internal/format/jxl/jxl.go
internal/format/layout.go
internal/format/mp4/mp4.go
internal/format/opc/opc.go
internal/format/pdf/document.go
internal/format/pdf/minimum.go
internal/format/pdf/pdf.go
internal/format/png/png.go
internal/format/targz/filemap.go
internal/format/targz/size.go
internal/format/tiff/tiff.go
internal/format/wav/filemap.go
internal/format/wav/label.go
internal/format/wav/wav.go
internal/format/webm/webm.go
internal/format/webp/webp.go
internal/format/zip/filler.go
internal/format/zip/zip.go
internal/guard/codeshape_test.go
internal/guard/cutmanifest_test.go
internal/guard/filemap_test.go
internal/guard/layers_test.go
internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
internal/gui/text/locale/registry/en.json
internal/gui/text/locale/registry/pl.json
internal/gui/text/locale/said/en.json
internal/gui/text/locale/said/pl.json
internal/manifest/manifest.go
internal/oracle/layout.py
internal/oracle/layoutbatch.go
internal/oracle/strictbatch.go

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