string-audit Files

This release introduces a major improvement to Dennis’ diff system.

Until now, directory diffs were purely filesystem-based. In 0.8.3, Dennis becomes repository-aware and deterministic, producing cleaner, more meaningful, and verifiable change artifacts.

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✨ Highlights

🔍 Git-Aware Diff Scope

Dennis now uses git-tracked files as the source of truth (when available), automatically including new files from the target directory.

This removes noise from:

• .git internals
• temporary files
• unrelated artifacts

Result: diffs reflect actual project intent.

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🧠 Deterministic Diff Output

Diff artifacts are now:

• sorted
• normalized
• hash-stable

Same input → same diff → same hash

This enables verification, reproducibility, and auditability.

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🧹 Binary File Filtering

Binary files are now excluded early in the pipeline.

No more decoding errors or meaningless diffs.

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🛠️ Verbose Mode

Added:

dennis diff-dir A B --verbose

Provides full debug visibility for:

• file scope
• filtering decisions
• diff processing

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🧪 Conformance Verified

All diff conformance tests pass, ensuring:

• deterministic behavior
• canonical structure
• protocol-level consistency

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💡 Why This Matters

Diffs are no longer just visual hints.

They are now:

• inspectable
• reproducible
• verifiable artifacts

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🔗 Next Steps

• Wizard (guided workflow)
• Diff preview in UI
• Semantic filtering (optional layer)

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Dennis continues to evolve toward a system where changes are not only applied, but understood and trusted.