A probe every ten minutes compares the remote fingerprint to ours and lights
an indicator. It does not pull: adopting on its own while someone is reading
an entry would change it under their eyes. The user decides when.
The body is downloaded anyway - Gitea's contents API cannot answer without it
- but it is thrown away undecrypted: no derivation, no write, just a string
comparison. The cost is network, not time or battery.
It rides the idle timer rather than a second one. That timer already beats
every 15 seconds for auto-lock; counting its beats costs an integer, where
another timer costs an object, a lifecycle, and one more chance to forget it
on shutdown.
Two indicators, two colours, two gestures. Orange: things wait HERE and the
repository does not know. Blue: the repository holds things we do not have.
One dot for both would say "something is wrong" without saying what - and one
is resolved by publishing, the other by fetching.
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