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  • atmos scaffold generate --update (and atmos init --update, sharing the same engine) with the default --merge-strategy=manual now writes real <<<<<<</=======/>>>>>>> conflict markers plus every non-conflicting change on a real merge conflict, instead of discarding the whole merge and writing nothing.
  • atmos init --update now pins its initial --git commit to .atmos/init/metadata.yaml, the same way atmos scaffold generate already does, and reads it back as the merge base instead of defaulting to live HEAD.
  • --force combined with --update is no longer a silent no-op: an unset --merge-strategy now defaults to theirs in that combination, and an explicitly-passed ours/manual together with --force --update is now a clear validation error instead of silently doing nothing.
  • Re-running --update against a file already left with unresolved conflict markers now fails fast with a specific message instead of an opaque three-way merge failed.
  • Reworded every --force-suggesting error hint across the merge engine to describe what --force actually does now.

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  • The manual-merge-conflict bug is the still-open half of scaffold generate --update: manual merge strategy breaks when hitting conflicts #2912. The issue was closed as resolved by fix(scaffold): pin --update base ref, exclude .git, fix dry-run parity #2989, but that PR fixed a different bug reported in the same thread (silent base-ref pinning) and never touched the manual-merge-strategy code path — confirmed by reproducing the original issue's exact repro steps live on current main before this fix.
  • Field-testing that fix surfaced that atmos init --update has the exact base-ref-pinning bug fix(scaffold): pin --update base ref, exclude .git, fix dry-run parity #2989 fixed for atmos scaffold generate, because the fix lived only in cmd/scaffold and was never ported to cmd/init — the two commands' base-ref resolution had drifted apart. This PR extracts the shared logic into pkg/generator/gitinit.go so it can't drift apart a second time.
  • --force being silently ignored under --update made several existing error hints false, and left users with no way to push through a conflict without hand-editing the file.
  • The unresolved-markers re-run scenario is a new consequence of the conflict-marker fix (previously nothing was ever written on conflict, so it was impossible) — it's fixed in the same PR rather than shipped as a known gap.

See docs/fixes/2026-09-04-scaffold-init-update-merge-fixes.md for full context, the complete list of changed files, and how each fix was validated (unit tests plus live end-to-end verification against a built binary).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • init --update and scaffold generate --update now use the correct target and previously pinned merge base.
    • Merge conflicts are saved with clear conflict markers instead of failing without preserving results.
    • Re-running updates on files with unresolved conflicts now provides a clear error.
    • --force --update defaults to using the template version; incompatible strategies are rejected.
    • Initial Git metadata is now preserved for future updates.
    • Error messages provide clearer guidance for resolving conflicts and overwriting files.
    • Dry-run updates no longer modify files when conflicts occur.

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The update flows resolve target-specific pinned base references and runtime conflict strategies. YAML and text merges now write actionable conflict content, report conflict paths, and reject unresolved markers. Init persists its initial Git base reference.

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Update merge behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Base-reference and strategy resolution
cmd/init/init.go, cmd/init/init_test.go, cmd/scaffold/scaffold.go, cmd/scaffold/scaffold_test.go, pkg/generator/gitinit.go, pkg/generator/merge/merge.go, pkg/generator/storage/metadata.go
Init and scaffold resolve base references from target metadata. Init persists its initial Git reference. Both commands resolve merge strategies from the force and update flags.
Conflict materialization and validation
pkg/generator/merge/*.go, pkg/generator/engine/merge_update.go, pkg/generator/engine/templating.go, pkg/generator/engine/update_test.go
Manual merges write conflict markers and preserve non-conflicting changes. YAML merges reconstruct inline or block markers and report conflict paths. Existing unresolved markers fail fast.
Init UI abstraction and flow validation
cmd/init/interfaces.go, cmd/init/mock_interfaces.go, cmd/init/init.go, cmd/init/init_mock_test.go
Init flow helpers use the InitUI abstraction. Mock tests cover targeted and interactive update resolution, confirmation, retry, and error propagation.
Fix documentation and validation
docs/fixes/2026-09-04-scaffold-init-update-merge-fixes.md
The document records the four update-path changes and their validation results.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f542a

Some flow-style YAML updates with multiple conflicts can write an unresolved internal sentinel instead of actionable conflict content. This is limited to that conflict shape but should be corrected before relying on manual resolution there.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant InitOrScaffold
  participant ResolveDefaultBaseRef
  participant MetadataStorage
  participant ResolveConflictStrategy
  participant ProcessorMergeFile
  participant YAMLMergerOrTextMerger
  participant GeneratedFile
  InitOrScaffold->>ResolveDefaultBaseRef: resolve target base ref
  ResolveDefaultBaseRef->>MetadataStorage: load pinned metadata
  MetadataStorage-->>ResolveDefaultBaseRef: return BaseRef or HEAD
  InitOrScaffold->>ResolveConflictStrategy: resolve strategy from flags
  InitOrScaffold->>ProcessorMergeFile: update existing file
  ProcessorMergeFile->>YAMLMergerOrTextMerger: merge content
  YAMLMergerOrTextMerger-->>ProcessorMergeFile: return merged content and conflicts
  ProcessorMergeFile->>GeneratedFile: write conflict-marked content
  ProcessorMergeFile-->>InitOrScaffold: return ErrMergeConflict
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Suggested reviewers: osterman

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request includes substantial changes not required by issue #2912, including init-specific metadata pinning and target resolution, the InitUI abstraction, and force/update conflict-strategy ru… Split the init --update and force/update strategy changes into separate pull requests with linked issues, or add linked issues that explicitly define those requirements. Keep this pull request focused on manual merge conflict handling for s…
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #2912. Manual YAML and text merges now write conflict markers, preserve non-conflicting changes, report conflict paths when available, and retain actionable error handling. T…
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Split the init --update and force/update strategy changes into separate pull requests with linked issues, or add linked issues that explicitly define those requirements. Keep this pull request focused on manual merge conflict handling for scaffold updates.

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464-464: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve suffix for each selectable alternative.

renderConflictBlock derives suffix from the text after the sentinel. Both inlineConflictBlock and blockConflictBlock append it only to >>>>>>> Theirs. If suffix contains flow syntax such as } or a trailing inline comment, deleting the conflict markers can drop that content from the selected result. Append suffix to each alternative at a syntactically valid location. Add regression cases for flow-style YAML and trailing inline comments.

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…ate, fix --force+--update

atmos scaffold generate --update with the default --merge-strategy=manual discarded the
entire merge on a real conflict instead of leaving diff3 markers to resolve by hand -- the
still-open half of cloudposse#2912 (closed by cloudposse#2989, which fixed a different bug in the same thread).
YAMLMerger and TextMerger now write real <<<<<<</=======/>>>>>>> markers plus every
non-conflicting change, instead of nothing.

Field-testing that fix surfaced three more gaps in the same area, all fixed here too:

- atmos init --update had the exact base-ref-pinning bug cloudposse#2989 fixed for scaffold generate,
  silently discarding committed customizations -- it was never ported to cmd/init.
- --force was silently ignored whenever --update was set. It now flips --merge-strategy's
  default to theirs when unset, and errors on an explicit ours/manual contradiction.
- Re-running --update against a file left with unresolved markers gave an opaque
  "three-way merge failed" instead of naming the real problem.
CI's pre-commit hook (atmos validate --affected, EditorConfig checks) flagged
3-space continuation-line indentation under numbered list items as invalid --
.editorconfig requires markdown indent_size=2, so continuation lines must be a
multiple of 2 (4 spaces here), not 3.
…ntinels

- HasUnresolvedConflictMarkers now requires an exact match on the opening
  <<<<<<< Ours marker instead of a prefix match, so unrelated content that
  merely starts with that text (e.g. a trailing suffix on the same line)
  can't false-positive.
- YAMLMerger's conflict sentinels now include a random hex suffix and are
  checked against the full base/ours/theirs text before use, so a
  pre-existing scalar value that happens to equal a sentinel can no longer
  be mistaken for a real conflict placeholder and corrupted.
Adds tests for PinInitialBaseRefForInit/ResolveDefaultBaseRef, the
--update base-ref guard in cmd/init, resolveInteractiveInitBaseRef's
non-interactive passthrough, and InitMetadataPath, closing patch
coverage gaps left by the manual-merge scaffold fix.
… command state

Use a fresh *cobra.Command with initCmd's flags registered (mirroring the
existing scaffold_coverage_test.go pattern) instead of initCmd.SetArgs/Execute
on the shared package-level initCmd, so --set/--interactive/positional args
can no longer leak into later tests. cmd.NewTestKit can't be used here since
cmd/init can't import cmd (cmd already blank-imports cmd/init, which would
create an import cycle).
…cmd/scaffold

cmd/init previously took the concrete *ui.InitUI type directly, so its
interactive-flow branches (prompt, base-ref-offer/confirm-retry) could
only be exercised end to end with a real TTY. Extract InitUI (the
subset of *ui.InitUI's behavior cmd/init depends on) and a generated
mock, matching cmd/scaffold's existing ScaffoldUI/MockScaffoldUI
pattern, and add mock-based tests covering the offer/confirm/decline
and error-propagation branches of runInitInteractiveFlow,
runInitTargetedFlow, and resolveInteractiveInitBaseRef.
…ct gaps

Add cryptoRandRead (rand.Read indirected through a package-level var)
so tests can force randomSentinelSuffix to fail -- crypto/rand.Reader
never errors on any platform Atmos supports, so this branch (and every
return-err propagation line above it in mergeMappings/mergeSequences/
pickConflictValue) was otherwise unreachable from a test.

Also cover two previously-untested-but-reachable paths: a multi-line
scalar conflict (inlineConflictBlock's per-line loop) and mergeMappings'
kind-mismatch dead-code check is confirmed unreachable (mergeNodes
already intercepts any kind divergence before dispatching to
mergeMappings), documented rather than force-tested.
…te failures

Add newAtomicWriteFS (writeFileSecure's overwrite path indirected
through pkg/filesystem's existing FileSystem interface/mock) so tests
can force WriteFileAtomic to fail. mergeFile's two writeFileSecure
call sites (conflict-markers write and clean-merge write) previously
had no way to reach their ErrFileWrite branches: existingPath must
stay a valid, readable regular file through the earlier os.ReadFile,
then fail specifically at the write step, which the directory-in-place
trick used elsewhere doesn't reach.
New-sentence line started with a lowercase package identifier
(crypto/rand.Reader), which the godot linter flags as not starting
with a capital letter.
…licts

MergeResult gains HasMarkers, distinct from HasConflicts: a
document-stream-level conflict (the user's stream dropped a document the
template changed) has no ours/theirs node pair to splice inline
<<<<<<</=======/>>>>>>> markers from, so the template's version is kept
verbatim instead. mergeFile's conflict hint now checks HasMarkers before
telling the user markers were written to the file.
renderConflictBlock's trailing suffix (whatever followed the sentinel on
the original line -- a flow-style closing `}`/`]`, or an inline comment)
was only appended to the closing >>>>>>> Theirs marker line. Since only
one alternative survives manual conflict resolution, deleting the other
block (or just the marker lines themselves) silently dropped that
trailing content, breaking flow-style YAML or losing a comment.

Append it to each alternative's own last content line instead, guarded
against duplicating a comment addNodeConflict's sentinel already carried
over from ours' own encoding.
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Addressed the out-of-band finding from the earlier review (comment b6ae82e50a06f3114915ace4, "Preserve suffix for each selectable alternative" on pkg/generator/merge/yaml_merger.go): renderConflictBlock's trailing suffix (a flow-style closing }/], or an inline comment) was only appended to the closing >>>>>>> Theirs marker line, so it could be silently dropped no matter which alternative a manual resolution kept. Fixed in the latest push — suffix is now attached to each alternative's own last content line (guarded against duplicating a comment the sentinel already carried over from ours's own encoding), with new regression tests for both the flow-style and inline-comment cases.

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In `@pkg/generator/merge/yaml_merger.go`:
- Around line 414-418: Update findSentinel to scan all entries in bySentinel and
return the sentinel with the lowest byte index in line, using stable tie
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Comment thread pkg/generator/merge/yaml_merger.go
…s two

findSentinel ranged over a Go map, so which sentinel it picked on a line
holding more than one (the documented flow-style case) varied between
runs -- the unselected sentinel then reached the written file as literal
ATMOSMERGECONFLICT... text, non-deterministically. Pick the earliest
sentinel by byte index instead, so the choice no longer depends on map
iteration order.
…behind

The documented multi-sentinel-per-line limitation (flow-style YAML like
{a: 1, b: 2} can put two conflicts on one encoded line) previously left
the second sentinel as literal ATMOSMERGECONFLICT... text, since only
the first match on a line was ever spliced into real markers.

appendTailToLastLine now recurses: when the trailing text after a
sentinel still holds another one, that conflict's own markers are
spliced in as a nested block instead of being left as placeholder text.
Every sentinel on a line is drained, at the cost of harder-to-hand-resolve
nested markers for this already-rare edge case -- never silently dropped
or corrupted content.
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