gig-up's "surface grid intact" blocker was NOT the CosmicFest false positive
again — that was the first thing to rule out, because check-drift.sh once
reported "drift" that was really PLN's own in-progress set prep and proposed
`git checkout` on 13 files as the remedy. Checked: check-drift.sh passes, and it
clears all five currently-modified .tidal files individually. None of PLN's open
edits are implicated.
The failure is gig-up's stricter composite (gig-up.sh:343), which also demands
`migrate-columns.py --plan` report zero moves. It reported 10, across four
files that are all COMMITTED and all untouched by b5ad8b6c ("finish the #94
column remap", 2026-08-23) — `git show --stat` has no match for any of them.
Three were last edited 2026-08-21, before that commit; the remap-finish simply
missed them. So the direction is forward onto the authored grid, not a reversion
of anyone's work — a standing migration debt, not a clobber.
Two of the three are SWAPS (^52<->^32 in perfect, ^89<->^57 in vague_de_crime),
which is exactly where a naive rewriter eats itself: renumber ^52->^32 first and
the following ^32->^52 sees the value it just wrote, collapsing both onto one
control. Checked the tool before letting it near the tracks — rewrite() maps each
line in a single `CC_REF.sub` pass, so every match is resolved against the
ORIGINAL text and a swap is atomic. Confirmed in the diff: both directions
flipped, all four occurrences in vague_de_crime, nothing collapsed.
Verified after: pvlint 3 tracks, 0 errors; silent-eval --seeded OK (every
declared orbit still emits events); migrate-columns --plan now reports 0 moves
for these three.
Deliberately NOT applied: something_about_drums.tidal. Its five moves come with
an overflow (d3's ^44 has no slot in the new grid), and the tool's remedy for an
overflow is to COMMENT OUT every live line of that orbit and head it with a
FIXME. That silences part of d3 until it is rewired by hand — a musical
consequence, not a mechanical renumbering, so it is PLN's call and gig-up will
keep flagging the grid until he makes it.
Also noted, not touched: perfect.tidal:61 carries a pre-existing PV010 warning
(d5 gates on ^89, momentary row F, wants ^57 on the latching row E), and the
commented-out alternative at the_revolution_will_be_sampled.tidal:47 still names
^52 — the rewriter deliberately never edits comments, since a commented ^NN is
an alternative PLN may re-enable.
