Review of task 1.3 found the twin detector stripping every leading comment
line, which in C and C++ swallows include and define directives, and in any
language swallows an ordinary leading comment. Two files whose only difference
was a buffer size on a define hashed equal and were marked unscorable, which
removed a real pair from every denominator: the exact dishonesty this spec
exists to end, running backwards. Measured before the fix: twelve file sides
across six vendored pairs had directives inside the stripped prefix, including
the Juliet stack-overflow pair whose whole point is the buffer size.
The strip is now anchored to the grammar the harvester writes: a leading
comment line counts as header only when it carries one of the provenance keys
followed by a colon, and the scan stops at the first line that is code. Block
and hash comment forms both work. Three regression tests pin the boundary in
both directions, and a fourth asserts no vendored excerpt loses a directive.
The five identical twins, the ten duplicate groups and the nineteen straddling
repositories are unchanged, so the committed hygiene artifact still holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
