RECOVERY §4 documents the 14-day / keep-≥3-past policy for system and
Home Manager gens, with dry-run and timer commands. README and
REQUIREMENTS point here so install and day-2 hygiene match the product.
Weekly nomarchy-gen-prune deletes only generations that are both older
than 14 days and beyond the three most recent past gens (current always
kept), for system and Home Manager profiles. Stock nix.gc no longer uses
--delete-older-than. checks.gen-prune covers selection self-test and
unit wiring; doctor points at the new tool when disk is tight.
System is Connectivity / Devices / Recovery / Preferences under the same
six-entry root. Recovery lists desktop (HM), system boot, and BTRFS files
once each with cost labels. Control Center is gone: blur/gaps live in Look
& Feel; update checks and Bluetooth/Printing package toggles in Preferences
(with rebuilds). docs/RECOVERY paths updated.
The machine flake's git-tracked settings file is system state, not
"theme" only — rename it to state.json. CLI becomes nomarchy-state-sync
with a nomarchy-theme-sync symlink for scripts and muscle memory.
Eval (mkFlake, doctor, lifecycle) still accepts theme-state.json; the
next write migrates to state.json and removes the legacy file.
Documented in MIGRATION.md; drop the CLI alias after release notes.
With settings.autoCommit on, only menu/theme mutations were committed
(theme-sync pathspec-limits to theme-state.json by design), so hand
edits to system.nix/home.nix and lock bumps stayed forever-dirty.
New internal nomarchy-autocommit (nomarchy-lifecycle): live-reads the
same flag, commits everything dirty as "nomarchy: auto-commit before
<pull|rebuild|home switch>" with the swept file list in the body,
fallback identity, never fatal (|| true at call sites). Called at the
top of all three lifecycle commands; before the ff-only pull it also
un-dirties the tree. Exposed via passthru.autocommit + package export;
guarded by checks.lifecycle-autocommit (sandbox repos: sweep, no-op on
clean/off/non-repo). Sync sweep: README, RECOVERY, ROADMAP, rofi
toggle, control-center prompt, theme-sync docstring, JOURNAL.
Verified: V1+ — flake check --no-build green; the new check builds;
end-to-end run of the built nomarchy-rebuild (stubbed sudo/rebuild)
against a copy of a real dirty ~/.nomarchy: 4 files → one commit,
clean tree. No VM boot — no session-visible surface.
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Seed theme-state.json and the downstream template from themes/boreal.json
(including border + empty settings). Point eval/schema fallbacks at Boreal
(theme.nix preset, plymouth and live-ISO splash colors, theme-shot, sync
error examples). Docs/TESTING and RECOVERY follow the new default.
Verified: state matches boreal palette; theme-contrast all pass.
preview.png for boreal still missing (picker plain-name; V3 capture).
Undo is one menu away: the new rollback flow lists the last ten Home
Manager generations (the theme/config history is already generations,
newest marked current) and activates the picked one in a terminal —
HM's supported rollback, reversible by re-picking a newer one, so no
typed-yes gate. System-level undo deliberately links out rather than
reimplementing destructive flows in rofi: the Snapshots row opens the
existing gated flow, and 'boot an older generation (how)' fires an
instruction notification pointing at docs/RECOVERY.md §3 (which now
cross-references the menu path).
V1: template-home built, generated menu bash -n clean, row rendering
and pick-parsing verified against fixture generations output. V3
exercise queued.
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Slice (d) of the docs review: docs/RECOVERY.md tells the recovery
story that existed only in pieces, ordered by symptom — bad theme/HM
change (generations, apply-known-good, git-revert the flake), desktop
won't start (TTY, greetd + user journals, VM-GL and preactivate-log
pointers), broken system change (older systemd-boot generation, then
make it stick), lost files (btrfs-assistant / nomarchy-snapshots), and
the ISO + nixos-enter last resort. Commands checked against the tree;
linked from the README file tree and §5.
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