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Staging PR — never merge; promoted to sillsdev when polished (see FORK.md).

OrderPicker could return an order a sibling already held. Found on a production project: 13 entries carrying tied sense orders, all minted inside a single sync run.

A tie is not permanent — the equal-orders branch returns previous + 1, stepping above the tied pair, so the sync walks an item out over one or two runs. The cost is how it gets there: while walking out, the crdt disagrees with fwdata, so pass 2 writes that disagreement into fwdata. On this project that reordered two senses in a live FLEx project and had to be restored by hand. Measured across two syncs, 13 tied groups healed down to 5 — one of them at the cost of that visible reorder. And where the wanted position is genuinely between two tied senses, stepping above them can converge on the wrong order rather than the right one.

  • every PickOrder branch now lands in a gap that is actually free, instead of striding ±1 or bisecting blind
  • moves pass their own id, so an item isn't its own neighbour (that would bisect against its own order and churn a new value every sync)
  • CreateSensePictureChange keeps the old algorithm under an explicit name — it picks during change replay, which must produce identical values across app versions
  • RepairDuplicateOrders renumbers already-tied groups before each fwdata sync

Those tied groups would eventually walk themselves out, so the repair isn't rescuing unrecoverable data — it does the same job silently, instead of pushing a wrong order through fwdata on the way. It follows the existing read order, so nothing a user sees moves.

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  • OrderPickerTests — collision scenarios (occupied slot above/below, interloper inside the window), a movingId no-op case, and a blanket invariant that no result ever equals an existing sibling order
  • RepairDuplicateOrdersTests — repair breaks ties without changing read order, is idempotent, and leaves untied groups alone
  • UpdateEntryTestsBase "swap" row now expects 1.5 not 1: taking 1 tied the moved sense with the one being swapped out, and only came right because that sense later moved away. The ordering assertion is unchanged.
  • LcmCrdt.Tests full suite green (658); FwDataMiniLcmBridge.Tests reorder tests green (24), since the expectations live in a shared base

Follow-ups, not in this PR

  • picture ordering is still picked at apply time while every other path picks in the api layer — inconsistent, being made consistent separately
  • concurrent offline clients can still pick the same value for the same gap; nothing here defends against that
  • a test pinning how many times a gap can be subdivided before double precision gives out

Considered and rejected: LexoRank-style string indices (Order is a persisted double across five entity types and eight-plus serialized change classes that must replay forever); renumbering inline in PickOrder (moves siblings while DiffOrderable is placing items against them); tolerating duplicates and hardening the sync instead (leaves the visible fwdata churn in place).

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved item reordering to prevent duplicate positions when moving or appending entries.
    • Preserved existing positions when items are already correctly placed.
    • Applied safer midpoint-based ordering across senses, examples, components, writing systems, and pictures.
    • Repaired duplicate sibling positions during synchronization without changing the displayed order.
  • Reliability

    • Added deterministic repair for conflicting item positions.
    • Added warnings when duplicate positions are automatically repaired.

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The change revises CRDT order selection for moves and replay, adds duplicate sibling-order repair for supported entities, invokes repair before synchronization, and updates order and repair tests.

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CRDT order integrity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Order selection algorithms
backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt/OrderPicker.cs, backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt.Tests/OrderPickerTests.cs, backend/FwLite/MiniLcm.Tests/UpdateEntryTestsBase.cs
OrderPicker excludes moving items and selects available gaps or midpoints. The previous replay algorithm remains available through PickOrderV1ForChangeReplay. Tests cover midpoint placement, collision avoidance, and order preservation.
Move and replay integration
backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt/CrdtMiniLcmApi.cs, backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt/Changes/CreateSensePictureChange.cs
Move operations exclude the moved item for supported ordered entities. Picture change replay uses the version-pinned picker.
Duplicate-order repair API
backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt/CrdtMiniLcmApi.cs, backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt.Tests/RepairDuplicateOrdersTests.cs
RepairDuplicateOrders renumbers duplicate sibling orders for senses, example sentences, components, and writing systems. Tests verify unique orders, preserved read order, idempotence, and no-op behavior for distinct orders.
Pre-synchronization repair wiring
backend/FwLite/FwLiteProjectSync/FwLiteProjectSyncService.cs
Synchronization invokes duplicate-order repair before full synchronization and logs the repair count and project name.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 58ecb

The PR prevents duplicate sort orders and repairs existing ties before synchronization while preserving visible ordering. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CrdtFwdataProjectSyncService
  participant CrdtMiniLcmApi
  participant CRDT project data
  participant SetOrderChange
  CrdtFwdataProjectSyncService->>CrdtMiniLcmApi: RepairDuplicateOrders()
  CrdtMiniLcmApi->>CRDT project data: Read ordered siblings
  CrdtMiniLcmApi->>SetOrderChange: Submit corrective order changes
  SetOrderChange-->>CrdtMiniLcmApi: Return repair count
  CrdtMiniLcmApi-->>CrdtFwdataProjectSyncService: Continue synchronization
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OrderPicker could return an order a sibling already held: three of its four
branches strode by +/-1 or bisected without looking at the sibling list they
had already fetched. Observed on a production project: 13 entries carrying
tied sense orders, all minted inside a single sync run.

A tie is not permanent - the equal-orders branch returns previous + 1, which
steps above the tied pair, so the sync walks an item out of the tie over one
or two runs. The cost is how it gets there. While walking out, the crdt's
order disagrees with fwdata, so pass 2 writes the disagreement into fwdata:
on this project that reordered two senses in a live FLEx project and had to
be restored by hand. Measured over two syncs, 13 tied groups healed down to
5, one of them at the cost of that reorder. Where the wanted position is
genuinely between two tied senses, stepping above them can also converge on
the wrong order rather than the right one.

Every branch now places the item in a gap that is actually free. Moves also
pass their own id so an item is not treated as its own neighbour, which would
bisect against its own order and churn a fresh value every sync.

CreateSensePictureChange picks its order while changes are being applied, so
that call site keeps the old algorithm under an explicit name: replay must
produce identical values across app versions or projected state diverges.

RepairDuplicateOrders renumbers already-tied sibling groups to 1..n before
each fwdata sync. Those groups would eventually walk themselves out, but only
by pushing a wrong order through fwdata first; the repair does the same job
silently, following the existing read order so nothing visible moves.

The reorder tests' "swap" row now expects 1.5 rather than 1 for the first
sense: taking 1 tied it with the sense being swapped out, and only came right
because that sense later moved away.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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myieye force-pushed the claude/duplicate-sort-orders branch from f329c94 to 0312123 Compare August 18, 2026 16:08
PickOrder's max-order shortcut skipped the movingId exclusion, so a move
with no reference neighbours handed the item a fresh order on every sync,
which is the churn the rest of this change removes. Also strips two stray
BOMs and fixes a branch comment that promised a +1 stride.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt.Tests/RepairDuplicateOrdersTests.cs (1)

41-80: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add repair cases for each supported ordered entity.

These tests exercise only Sense rows. RepairDuplicateOrders also repairs ExampleSentence, ComplexFormComponent, and WritingSystem rows. Add a case for each type and a separate sibling group. Include WritingSystem, because it uses the distinct pre-sorted read-order path.

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In `@backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt.Tests/RepairDuplicateOrdersTests.cs` around lines 41 -
80, Extend the repair test coverage beyond Sense by adding cases for
ExampleSentence, ComplexFormComponent, and WritingSystem, including a separate
sibling group for each supported ordered entity. Reuse the existing assertions
for distinct repaired orders, preserved read order, idempotence, and untouched
untied groups, while ensuring WritingSystem exercises its pre-sorted read-order
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In `@backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt.Tests/RepairDuplicateOrdersTests.cs`:
- Around line 41-80: Extend the repair test coverage beyond Sense by adding
cases for ExampleSentence, ComplexFormComponent, and WritingSystem, including a
separate sibling group for each supported ordered entity. Reuse the existing
assertions for distinct repaired orders, preserved read order, idempotence, and
untouched untied groups, while ensuring WritingSystem exercises its pre-sorted
read-order path.

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RepairDuplicateOrders also renumbers example sentences, complex form components
and writing systems, and writing systems take a different path: they group by
Type rather than a parent Guid and tie-break in SQL, so the test reads them back
through WritingSystemsOrdered instead of re-sorting in .NET.

Verified the new cases guard something: dropping the three non-sense collectors
fails exactly their six tie cases.

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backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt.Tests/RepairDuplicateOrdersTests.cs (1)

50-59: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Test an untied sibling group during the same repair call.

This test creates only the tied group. It cannot detect an implementation that renumbers unrelated groups after it finds a tie.

Create a second untied group for each Ordered case. Force a tie only in the first group. After repair, assert that the second group's persisted (Id, Order) sequence is unchanged.

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In `@backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt.Tests/RepairDuplicateOrdersTests.cs` around lines 50 -
59, Update RepairIsIdempotentAndLeavesUntiedGroupsAlone to create a second
sibling group for each Ordered case, force a duplicate order only in the first
group, and capture the second group’s persisted (Id, Order) sequence before
repair. After RepairDuplicateOrders, assert the untied group’s sequence is
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In `@backend/FwLite/LcmCrdt.Tests/RepairDuplicateOrdersTests.cs`:
- Around line 50-59: Update RepairIsIdempotentAndLeavesUntiedGroupsAlone to
create a second sibling group for each Ordered case, force a duplicate order
only in the first group, and capture the second group’s persisted (Id, Order)
sequence before repair. After RepairDuplicateOrders, assert the untied group’s
sequence is unchanged while preserving the existing idempotence assertions.

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RepairIsIdempotentAndLeavesUntiedGroupsAlone only ever built the tied group, so
nothing stopped an implementation from renumbering every group once it found one
tie. Each case now builds a second, untied group and asserts it comes out
untouched.

Its orders are 10, 20, 30 rather than 1, 2, 3 on purpose: renumbering
already-consecutive siblings is a no-op, so a consecutive control group would
have made the assertion pass either way.

Verified it bites: dropping the "skip groups without duplicates" guard fails 8 of
the 12 cases, and none of the old ones.

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Devin raises one finding here on every review, and it does not hold. Recording that so it isn't re-litigated.

"Moving an item with no reference neighbours still bumps its position number" — false positive. It describes the state after this PR's first commit; the second one (a57b5de11, "Keep the append shortcut from bumping an item that is already last") is precisely that fix. At the current HEAD the MaxAsync shortcut does exclude the moving item:

var others = movingId is { } id ? siblings.Where(s => s.Id != id) : siblings;

It also says the tests don't cover it. PickOrder_AppendingAnItemThatIsAlreadyLastKeepsItsOrder does, with between: null so it goes through the shortcut, and in both the List and Async variants — the Async one being the path the finding is about.

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