A spot is eight numbers, so it goes in the version block as a line rather
than in a block of its own the way a mask does — sixty-four blocks would
bury the rest of the file. A line per spot rather than one line for the
set, because the line is what a diff shows and what a merge resolves.
The parse arm sits ahead of the op.param arm deliberately: without it,
`spot.abc123 = 0.4 0.6 …` reads as an operation called `spot` whose value
will not parse, and the repair is dropped with a warning about a corrupt
number. The prefix is safe precisely because a spot is not an operation,
so no ops/ declaration can claim the name.
Merging is merge_masks by id, one level down, and it is where the derived
ids earn their keep: two devices that removed different marks hold
different ids and both survive, while two that removed the same piece of
dust hold the same id and the merge sees the one repair it is. A spot both
sides dragged resolves whole to the higher revision — eight numbers
describe one disc, and half of each is a repair neither photographer made.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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