fix(app): a card's edit builds on what it started from

The composer saved a stored card with the card's current heads as its
parents, so whatever had arrived meanwhile was replaced, not merged:

- another device's change to the side the person left alone was
  overwritten silently;
- an edit made while saving, saved before the card was read back,
  stood beside the first save: a conflict with itself;
- a new card left again before it was read back wasn't written at
  all, while it showed as saved.

A draft now keeps the revisions its content came from (`base`): taken
with the stored content while the person hasn't changed it, and its own
revision after each save. A save replaces exactly those
(`CardRepository.saveEdit`), so what another device wrote meanwhile
stays a head of its own and merges per side (ADR 0003): a side only it
changed comes through, a side both changed is a conflict to settle. A
changed draft takes new conflicts only once it is saved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>

halkyon_learn_flutter/lib/src/feature/card/bloc/card_composer_bloc.dart

@@ -102,8 +102,11 @@ class CardComposerBloc(
 
   /// The state with the stored [cards]: drafts of cards not yet in it are
   /// added, those gone (deleted, here or elsewhere) dropped, and the others
-  /// take the stored version as their baseline, and as their content unless
+  /// take the stored version as their baseline. Those the person hasn't
-  /// the person changed them.
+  /// changed take it whole: content, conflicts, and the revisions it came
+  /// from. A changed one keeps the revisions it started from until it is
+  /// saved, so its save stands beside what another device wrote meanwhile
+  /// and merges with it per side, rather than replacing it unseen.
   CardComposerState _withStored(List<Card> cards) {
     final byId = {for (final draft in state.items) draft.cardId: draft};
     final saved = {
@@ -120,14 +123,19 @@ class CardComposerBloc(
           cardId: card.id,
           content: card.content,
           saved: card.content,
+          base: card.heads,
           tagIds: tagIds,
           savedTagIds: tagIds,
           conflicts: card.conflicts,
         );
       }
+      if (draft.isDirty) {
+        return draft.copyWith(saved: card.content);
+      }
       return draft.copyWith(
         saved: card.content,
-        content: draft.isDirty ? null : card.content,
+        content: card.content,
+        base: card.heads,
         conflicts: card.conflicts,
       );
     }
@@ -263,15 +271,17 @@ class CardComposerBloc(
     _update(emit, draft.id, (d) => d.copyWith(status: CardDraftStatus.saving));
     try {
       final String cardId;
+      var base = draft.base;
       if (draft.cardId case final id?) {
         cardId = id;
-        final card = _stored[id];
+        // On top of the revisions it started from: all heads once the
-        if (card != null &&
+        // person chose a version of every field in conflict.
-            (content != draft.saved.normalized || card.hasConflict)) {
+        if (content != draft.saved.normalized || draft.conflicts.isNotEmpty) {
-          await _cards.save(card, content);
+          base = {await _cards.saveEdit(id, content, basedOn: draft.base)};
         }
       } else {
         cardId = await _cards.create(_studysetId, content);
+        base = await _cards.headsOf(cardId);
       }
       if (!_sameSet(tagIds, draft.savedTagIds)) {
         await _tags.setTagsOf(cardId, tagIds);
@@ -282,6 +292,8 @@ class CardComposerBloc(
         (d) => d.copyWith(
           cardId: cardId,
           saved: content,
+          // What a change made while saving builds on.
+          base: base,
           savedTagIds: tagIds,
           resolved: const {},
           savedHere: true,
@@ -406,6 +418,10 @@ final class const CardDraft({
   /// The content as stored; empty for a new card.
   required final CardContent saved,
 
+  /// The revisions the person's content started from, which its next save
+  /// replaces; empty for a new card.
+  final Set<String> base = const {},
+
   /// The ids of the tags the person gave it.
   required final Set<String> tagIds,
 
@@ -453,6 +469,7 @@ final class const CardDraft({
   CardDraft copyWith({
     CardContent? content,
     CardContent? saved,
+    Set<String>? base,
     Set<String>? tagIds,
     Set<String>? savedTagIds,
     String? cardId,
@@ -464,6 +481,7 @@ final class const CardDraft({
     id: id,
     content: content ?? this.content,
     saved: saved ?? this.saved,
+    base: base ?? this.base,
     tagIds: tagIds ?? this.tagIds,
     savedTagIds: savedTagIds ?? this.savedTagIds,
     cardId: cardId ?? this.cardId,
@@ -478,6 +496,7 @@ final class const CardDraft({
     id,
     content,
     saved,
+    base,
     tagIds,
     savedTagIds,
     cardId,

halkyon_learn_flutter/lib/src/feature/card/data/card_gateway.dart

@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ abstract interface class CardGateway() {
   /// once; returns their ids in the same order. Their positions differ.
   Future<List<String>> insertCards(String studysetId, List<NewCardRow> cards);
 
-  /// Appends a revision to the card [cardId] that replaces [parents].
+  /// Appends a revision to the card [cardId] that replaces [parents];
-  Future<void> insertRevision({
+  /// returns its id.
+  Future<String> insertRevision({
     required String cardId,
     required Set<String> parents,
     required ByteData payload,

halkyon_learn_flutter/lib/src/feature/card/data/card_repository.dart

@@ -184,12 +184,35 @@ class CardRepository(final CardGateway _gateway) {
     if (content == card.content && !card.hasConflict) {
       return;
     }
-    await _gateway.insertRevision(
+    await saveEdit(card.id, content, basedOn: card.heads);
-      cardId: card.id,
+  }
-      parents: card.heads,
+
+  /// Stores [content] as the next revision of the card [cardId], replacing
+  /// [basedOn]: the revisions the edit started from. What another device
+  /// wrote meanwhile stays a head of its own and merges with this one per
+  /// side (ADR 0003), so it is never replaced unseen. Returns the new
+  /// revision's id, for the next edit to build on.
+  Future<String> saveEdit(
+    String cardId,
+    CardContent content, {
+    required Set<String> basedOn,
+  }) async {
+    final id = await _gateway.insertRevision(
+      cardId: cardId,
+      parents: basedOn,
       payload: encodeCardPayload(content),
     );
     _changes.add(null);
+    return id;
+  }
+
+  /// The current heads of the card [cardId]: what an edit of it as it is
+  /// now replaces. Empty for a card not on this device.
+  Future<Set<String>> headsOf(String cardId) async {
+    final revisions = [
+      for (final row in await _gateway.revisionsOf({cardId})) ?_decode(row),
+    ];
+    return mergeRevisions(revisions)?.heads ?? const {};
   }
 
   /// Moves [card] to [toIndex] among the cards of [studysetId].

halkyon_learn_flutter/lib/src/feature/card/data/sync_card_gateway.dart

@@ -117,12 +117,12 @@ class SyncCardGateway(
   }
 
   @override
-  Future<void> insertRevision({
+  Future<String> insertRevision({
     required String cardId,
     required Set<String> parents,
     required ByteData payload,
   }) async {
-    await protocol.CardRevision.db.insertRow(
+    final revision = await protocol.CardRevision.db.insertRow(
       _db,
       protocol.CardRevision(
         cardId: protocol.UuidValue.withValidation(cardId),
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ class SyncCardGateway(
       ),
     );
     _sync.requestSync();
+    return revision.id!.uuid;
   }
 
   @override

halkyon_learn_flutter/test/feature/card/bloc/card_composer_bloc_test.dart

@@ -317,6 +317,116 @@ void main() {
       );
       expect(state.byId(neko)!.status, CardDraftStatus.clean);
     });
+
+    test('keeps what another device changed meanwhile in a side the person '
+        'left alone', () async {
+      final neko = await cards.create('japanese', card('猫', 'cat'));
+      start();
+      await loaded();
+      final stored = (await cards.cardsOf('japanese')).single;
+
+      bloc.add(CardComposerEventChanged(neko, card('ねこ', 'cat')));
+      await until((s) => s.byId(neko)?.status == CardDraftStatus.dirty);
+      gateway.receiveRemoteRevision(
+        id: 'rev-9000',
+        cardId: neko,
+        parents: stored.heads,
+        payload: encodeCardPayload(card('猫', 'kitty')),
+      );
+      await until((s) => s.byId(neko)?.saved == card('猫', 'kitty'));
+      bloc.add(CardComposerEventLeft(neko));
+      await until((s) => s.byId(neko)?.content == card('ねこ', 'kitty'));
+
+      final merged = (await cards.cardsOf('japanese')).single;
+      expect(merged.content, card('ねこ', 'kitty'));
+      expect(merged.hasConflict, isFalse);
+    });
+
+    test('a side both changed meanwhile becomes a conflict, never '
+        'overwritten', () async {
+      final neko = await cards.create('japanese', card('猫', 'cat'));
+      start();
+      await loaded();
+      final stored = (await cards.cardsOf('japanese')).single;
+
+      bloc.add(CardComposerEventChanged(neko, card('猫', 'a cat')));
+      await until((s) => s.byId(neko)?.status == CardDraftStatus.dirty);
+      gateway.receiveRemoteRevision(
+        id: 'rev-9000',
+        cardId: neko,
+        parents: stored.heads,
+        payload: encodeCardPayload(card('猫', 'kitty')),
+      );
+      await until((s) => s.byId(neko)?.saved == card('猫', 'kitty'));
+      bloc.add(CardComposerEventLeft(neko));
+      final conflicted = await until(
+        (s) => s.byId(neko)?.conflicts.isNotEmpty ?? false,
+      );
+
+      expect(conflicted.byId(neko)!.conflicts, {
+        CardField.back: [text('a cat'), text('kitty')],
+      });
+      expect(
+        (await cards.cardsOf('japanese')).single.conflicts[CardField.back],
+        [text('a cat'), text('kitty')],
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('builds an edit made while saving on that save, not beside '
+        'it', () async {
+      final neko = await cards.create('japanese', card('猫', 'cat'));
+      start();
+      await loaded();
+
+      bloc
+        ..add(CardComposerEventChanged(neko, card('猫', 'a cat')))
+        ..add(CardComposerEventLeft(neko))
+        ..add(CardComposerEventChanged(neko, card('猫', 'the cat')));
+      await until(
+        (s) =>
+            s.byId(neko)?.savedHere == true &&
+            s.byId(neko)?.status == CardDraftStatus.dirty,
+      );
+      bloc.add(CardComposerEventLeft(neko));
+      await until(
+        (s) =>
+            s.byId(neko)?.status == CardDraftStatus.saved &&
+            s.byId(neko)?.saved == card('猫', 'the cat'),
+      );
+
+      final stored = (await cards.cardsOf('japanese')).single;
+      expect(stored.hasConflict, isFalse);
+      expect(stored.heads, hasLength(1));
+      expect(stored.content, card('猫', 'the cat'));
+    });
+
+    test('builds an edit made while a new card is created on that '
+        'card', () async {
+      start();
+      await loaded();
+
+      bloc
+        ..add(const CardComposerEventDraftAdded('new'))
+        ..add(CardComposerEventChanged('new', card('犬', 'dog')))
+        ..add(const CardComposerEventLeft('new'))
+        ..add(CardComposerEventChanged('new', card('犬', 'a dog')));
+      await until(
+        (s) =>
+            s.byId('new')?.savedHere == true &&
+            s.byId('new')?.status == CardDraftStatus.dirty,
+      );
+      bloc.add(const CardComposerEventLeft('new'));
+      await until(
+        (s) =>
+            s.byId('new')?.status == CardDraftStatus.saved &&
+            s.byId('new')?.saved == card('犬', 'a dog'),
+      );
+
+      final stored = (await cards.cardsOf('japanese')).single;
+      expect(stored.hasConflict, isFalse);
+      expect(stored.heads, hasLength(1));
+      expect(stored.content, card('犬', 'a dog'));
+    });
   });
 
   test('a duplicate copies content and tags as a new card', () async {

halkyon_learn_flutter/test/feature/card/data/card_repository_test.dart

@@ -150,6 +150,28 @@ void main() {
       expect(gateway.written.last.parents, conflicted.heads);
       expect(conflicted.heads, hasLength(2));
     });
+
+    test('an edit saved on what it started from stands beside what came '
+        'meanwhile, and merges with it', () async {
+      remoteEdit(card('猫', 'a cat'));
+
+      final id = await repository.saveEdit(
+        created.id,
+        card('ねこ', 'cat'),
+        basedOn: created.heads,
+      );
+
+      expect(gateway.written.last.id, id);
+      expect(gateway.written.last.parents, created.heads);
+      final merged = (await repository.cardsOf('japanese')).single;
+      expect(merged.content, card('ねこ', 'a cat'));
+      expect(merged.heads, {id, 'rev-9000'});
+      expect(await repository.headsOf(created.id), {id, 'rev-9000'});
+    });
+  });
+
+  test('a card not on this device has no heads', () async {
+    expect(await repository.headsOf('card-9999'), isEmpty);
   });
 
   test(

halkyon_learn_flutter/test/support/fake_card_gateway.dart

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class FakeCardGateway() implements CardGateway {
   }
 
   @override
-  Future<void> insertRevision({
+  Future<String> insertRevision({
     required String cardId,
     required Set<String> parents,
     required ByteData payload,
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ class FakeCardGateway() implements CardGateway {
     );
     _revisions[revision.id] = revision;
     written.add(revision);
+    return revision.id;
   }
 
   @override