A clean repository, and a new name

Written 2026-08-19. This repository begins with one commit, and that is deliberate. It replaces a private predecessor whose history is not carried over.

Why the history is not here

The predecessor had 260 commits. It contained no credential material: no tokens, no keys, no committed .env, and that was checked rather than assumed. What it did contain, across both file contents and commit messages, was a detailed picture of one developer's machine:

	occurrences in that history
a WSL/Podman private address	27
Windows user paths	14
a Linux home directory	2

None of it was secret. The address is RFC1918, unroutable, and changes whenever the Podman machine is recreated. But the exposure was never really the strings: it was that the commit messages and docs/notes/ describe, at length, how one laptop is configured. Scrubbing strings does not fix prose, and rewriting 260 commit messages is worse work than starting once, cleanly.

So the tree came across and the history did not. docs/notes/ is kept in full, because the record of what was tried and what it cost is the most useful thing this project has; it simply no longer names the machine.

The name

lane-hub became Laneward. The rename is total rather than cosmetic: the product name, the package name, the systemd units, the Quadlet container, the database role and database name, the LANEWARD_* environment prefix, and the .laneward/ manifest directory a driven repository declares.

It is total because this is v0.1.0 with no installed users. A half rename would have left the old name in every operator's configuration forever, and there is exactly one moment when that costs nothing.

The vocabulary the code is built on (lane, lane_id, owned_paths, new-lane) is untouched, which is most of why this name was chosen over the alternatives: it keeps the word the whole design already turns on.

Links that did not survive

The predecessor's GitHub issues and Actions runs are referenced throughout docs/. Those threads did not move, and pointing a link at this repository would fabricate a destination that never existed here. Every such link is now plain text: issue #12, CI run 31891261576, so the reference survives and the dead link does not.

Older notes also cite commit SHAs: measured at 3088e79 and the like. Those belong to the predecessor and do not resolve here either. They are left in place because they say when something was measured relative to the work around it, which is the part that still reads; rewriting 38 of them would damage the notes to fix a link nobody could follow either way.

What was thrown away with the history

docs/ came across at 50 files and 67,000 words and left at 28 and 35,000. What went was spent input rather than record: fourteen lane briefs for work that has shipped (two of them for a different project entirely), three phase designs from 2026-08-01 that docs/architecture/workflow-v1/ supersedes, one note whose own header declared it superseded, and an archived gaps list that its successor already absorbed.

Three overlapping planning documents (a remaining-work list, a shipping plan and a stage plan, 7,500 words between them describing mostly finished work) became one: what is left. Anyone who wanted the open items previously had to reconcile all three.

The evidence notes were not touched. The record of what was run, what it found and what it did not establish is the most useful thing this project has.

What was verified before the first commit

bun install --frozen-lockfile, bun run typecheck, bun run db/migrate.ts against a fresh database, and the full suite: 299 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail. A case-insensitive sweep of the whole tree finds no occurrence of the old name.

The development database was migrated too. Its nine lanes were all completed and pointed at worktrees under the predecessor's path, so nothing was in flight and nothing was carried over: a fresh laneward container and volume replaced the old one, and a full dump of the old databases was kept outside the repository first.