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https://entire.io/gh/jdx/mise/trails/658

mise dot diff now shows the differing hunks for directory copy entries, such as those created by [dotfile_groups.*] with mode = "copy". Previously it only printed the entry's summary line, so you couldn't tell what had drifted.

Before:

$ mise dot diff
dotfile differs: ~
  desired directory contents: ~/.config/dotfiles/home -> ~

After:

$ mise dot diff
dotfile differs: ~
  desired directory contents: ~/.config/dotfiles/home -> ~
  content differs: ~/.config/dotfiles/home/dot-config/app/a.conf -> ~/.config/app/a.conf
--- ~/.config/app/a.conf (current)
+++ ~/.config/dotfiles/home/dot-config/app/a.conf (desired)
@@ -1 +1 @@
-changed
+alpha

A file missing from the target prints missing: <path>, and a symlink or directory in the way prints file type differs. Unchanged files are not listed. Template-mode directories still print only the summary line.

Reported in discussion 14330.

Added e2e/cli/test_dotfiles_diff_directory_copy, which passes. Clippy and the wider e2e suite were not run.

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Changes are confined to dotfile diff/display and directory-copy state checks, with no auth or data-path impact; behavior is covered by a new e2e test.

Overview
mise dot diff now drills into directory copy dotfile entries (e.g. [dotfile_groups.*] with mode = "copy") instead of stopping at the single “desired directory contents” line.

For copy mode when the target is a directory or absent, it walks each mapped file and prints per-file output: unified hunks for content drift (via a refactored print_file_diff), missing: for absent targets, file type differs when a symlink, directory, or file blocks the path, and readable/not-accessible messages instead of hard failures on permission errors. check_copy_dir uses the same permission-denied handling so status checks stay consistent with diff output. Unchanged files are omitted; template directory entries still only show the summary line.

An e2e script test_dotfiles_diff_directory_copy covers drift hunks, missing files, unreadable targets, symlinked target dirs, inaccessible parent directories, and a file blocking a subdirectory path.

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• Bug Fixes
  • mise dot diff now reports directory-copy differences per file when the target is an existing directory or does not exist. Results identify missing files and file-type mismatches, show content changes for readable files, and flag files that cannot be read.
  • Directory comparisons also work through a symlinked target directory.
  • Diff output labels desired content more clearly, including content supplied inline.

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Directory-copy dotfile diffs now report per-file differences for directory targets. The diff handles missing, mismatched, differing, and unreadable files. An end-to-end test checks these cases and a symlinked target directory.

Changes

Directory-copy dotfile diffs

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Per-file directory-copy diff reporting src/system/files.rs	Directory-copy diffs report missing targets, targets of the wrong type, differing readable files, and unreadable files. Identical files are skipped. Content-diff rendering uses source paths when available and the target path otherwise.
End-to-end diff coverage e2e/cli/test_dotfiles_diff_directory_copy	The test checks unchanged and differing files, missing files and directories, unreadable-file reporting when run as non-root, and comparison through a symlinked target directory.

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Change: Bug fix

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mise dot diff now shows per-file differences for directory copy entries. No actionable merge-blocking risk was found in the supplied changes.

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- Around line 5434-5435: Update check_copy_dir so a permission-denied read for
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Summary

mise dot diff shows per-file changes for copy-mode directory entries, including missing files, blocked paths, and content hunks.

• Directory-copy entries show the files that differ.

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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
env	▁▄▃▄▄▄▄▄▂▆█	27,930,131 → 27,963,010	+0.12%	20.07 → 18.94ms	-5.63%
hook-env	▁▇▇█▇▇▇▇▇▇▇	30,239,167 → 30,239,726	+0.00%	21.24 → 20.79ms	-2.13%
ls	▁▄▆▄▆▄▂▇▄▅█	32,122,395 → 32,143,103	+0.06%	22.01 → 21.63ms	-1.72%
registry	▁▄▄▄▂▅▅▅▄▄█	40,161,355 → 40,231,318	+0.17%	17.91 → 17.86ms	-0.26%
startup	▁▇▆▆▆▆▆▆▇▇█	11,084,343 → 11,088,955	+0.04%	12.61 → 12.27ms	-2.70%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

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