Git leaves the paywall — the pivot ruling lands in the design corpus

12-editions gains the dated PIVOT note: git integration is tier-independent
— every tier composes the git stack on git-mode boards — because the
base/Pro split is being re-decided and git isn't going to be it. The
subscription machinery stays built and tested but dormant; the free-only
postures (inert .git, the Pro pointer, the absent Git tab) are retired.
What the pivot does not change, recorded in 12 and 13: git stays opt-in
per board — creating a local repository is the user's choice, never
auto-initialized — and boards without app-managed git keep conventional
native undo/redo. 06 rescopes to every tier; 03's Git tab reads its
same-day membership ruling through the pivot (the strip still asks the
posture, it just never hears absent).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY

DESIGN/03-board-ui.md

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ One **style editor** component — a background palette grid and a curated symbo
 
 ## Board popover
 
-**The tabbed popover (2026-08-07, restructure complete — all three tab sessions settled).** The symbol/name header stays at the top — the board's glyph with its tint row beside the rename field; below it sit tabs — **Info**, **Theme**, **Git** — each the settings surface for one aspect of board configuration, each settled in its own dedicated session. **Tab membership is the git posture's** (the Git session's ruling): the Git tab joins the strip only when the git section has something true to say — `BoardGitSection` resolves to anything but absent — so a free-tier board with no `.git` shows Info | Theme alone. This carries 12-editions.md's "absent, no placeholder" rule up to the tab strip: a standing Git tab on every free board would be the standing ad for Pro that 12 forbids. **Selection resets to Info on every open** (ruled in the Git session, closing the question the earlier tab sessions deferred): the popover is transient and Info is the board's face — and a remembered tab could strand selection on a tab the next posture doesn't offer.
+**The tabbed popover (2026-08-07, restructure complete — all three tab sessions settled).** The symbol/name header stays at the top — the board's glyph with its tint row beside the rename field; below it sit tabs — **Info**, **Theme**, **Git** — each the settings surface for one aspect of board configuration, each settled in its own dedicated session. **Tab membership is the git posture's** (the Git session's ruling): the Git tab joins the strip only when the git section has something true to say — `BoardGitSection` resolves to anything but absent — so a free-tier board with no `.git` shows Info | Theme alone. This carries 12-editions.md's "absent, no placeholder" rule up to the tab strip: a standing Git tab on every free board would be the standing ad for Pro that 12 forbids. *(Pivot 2026-08-07, same day — 12: git left the paywall, so the absent posture is unreachable and every board carries all three tabs. The membership rule stands structurally — the strip still asks the posture — it just never hears "absent" anymore.)* **Selection resets to Info on every open** (ruled in the Git session, closing the question the earlier tab sessions deferred): the popover is transient and Info is the board's face — and a remembered tab could strand selection on a tab the next posture doesn't offer.
 
 **The Theme tab** (settled 2026-08-07, its dedicated session; reworked same day from the first "Background" cut — the style-editor embed was in, then ruled out): a **preset-only** surface — no palette grid, no "Board" subtitle, no manual controls (the manual surface is Style… with nothing selected; the raw file remains the image escape hatch). One **Solid color / Pattern** segmented choice at the top, then the filters that apply to the chosen kind, then one carousel of the eight wheel hues with tall skinny chevrons flanking it (compact-chevron paging buttons, ~three swatches per press, each disabling at its end of the strip). **Solid color** shows Tone (defaults to the current appearance) and Saturation only; the carousel holds flat swatches — each hue at the selected tonality's base saturation and lightness, exactly the primary color the matching facets recipe would write — and clicking one sets `background.color` and *removes* `background.image` in one write (the generated PNG stays on disk so undo can restore the field that pointed at it). **Pattern** is the faceted-background picker (DESIGN/explorations/board-backgrounds.md ▸ Faceted gallery, the reviewed recipe): four filters — Tone and Saturation shared with Solid, plus Colors mono/duo/trio and Mesh coarse/medium/fine — over rendered previews, one seed per hue, plus a Reroll button that re-mints the seeds (filters change the treatment, Reroll the geometry; preview and file share a seed, so what's clicked is what lands). Clicking a pattern swatch renders the recipe at the 3072 px decode ceiling off-main and lands it in one write: the PNG into the board root as `facets.png` (Finder-ladder rename only when a foreign file owns the name), `background.image` pointed at it, and `background.color` set to the recipe's primary color — the underlay that stands in while the image decodes or if the file ever goes missing. The mode opens on whichever kind the board currently wears (Pattern when `background.image` is the generated file, Solid otherwise). **Backgrounds ship as static pixels, never live-rendered views** (the perf/sync ruling, 2026-08-07): the generator runs at pick time, the render loop only ever composites a decoded bitmap. Native undo restores the two fields, not overwritten bytes — regenerating over our own PNG is destructive, documented, and accepted. The whole tab disables under the read-only lock as one surface.
 
@@ -65,11 +65,10 @@ The board's vital statistics, read-only, in two registers with one honest split:
 
 The pre-tab closing git section rehomed whole — **the daily face, and only that** (the 2026-07-31 popover/sheet split stands; a repository-facts dossier in the Info register was considered this session and declined — the popover's git surface is for operating, and per-item history is the card History section's). The postures (06-history-undo.md ▸ Rules; 12-editions.md) render one tab surface each, with the tab's own label doing the work the section's "Git" header used to:
 
-- **Free + inert `.git`** → the contextual one-line Pro pointer (12-editions.md — still the app's one in-context pointer to Pro, and still shown only where it is true).
-- **Pro, no repository** → one caption stating the fact above the **Board Settings…** door — the header-plus-door posture blessed 2026-08-06, restated for a surface whose header is now the tab label; the door stands exactly where a user looking for git will look.
+- **No repository** → one caption stating the fact above the **Board Settings…** door — the header-plus-door posture blessed 2026-08-06, restated for a surface whose header is now the tab label; the door stands exactly where a user looking for git will look. *(Pivot 2026-08-07 — 12: this is every tier's posture now, and git stays opt-in per board: the door is an offer, never an auto-init.)*
 - **Repo-nested** and **unverifiable** → their settled prose, no door (nothing setup-shaped can apply).
 - **Git mode** → the branch display with the **switch picker**, the abnormal-state notes (paused, unreadable, switch failure — 06), and the **Board Settings…** door; on remote-backed boards, remote tracking (ahead/behind) with **Pull/Push** controls and the status badges (Authentication needed, queued pushes, last error — the badge points at the sheet, capture happens there) join as one more block under the branch controls (07-sync-collab.md's cards, unchanged by the rehome).
-- **Absent** (free, no `.git`) → no tab at all — membership is the posture (the tabbed-popover paragraph above).
+- **Free + inert `.git`** and **absent** — *retired by the 2026-08-07 pivot (12: git left the paywall)*: the Pro pointer described a gate that no longer exists, and with no free-only postures every board resolves one of the three families above, so the tab is always in the strip.
 
 **A single-branch board's picker opens onto a disabled explanatory row** (ruled 2026-08-06, built with the tab): with creation relocated to the sheet, the menu holds only the *other* local branches, and an empty menu reads as broken — a disabled "No other branches" row teaches both why the menu is empty and where creation went. The Board Settings… row remains the popover's one setup affordance, shown only where the sheet is reachable; each control keeps exactly one home across popover and sheet.