fix(core): skip only the binary file, not the rest of its bigram chunk

[kevin9327]

The defect

build_bigram_index walks each BIGRAM_CHUNK_FILES (256) chunk in a
for_each closure, and the per-file skip is a return:

.for_each(|(chunk_idx, chunk)| {
    let base_idx = chunk_idx * BIGRAM_CHUNK_FILES;
    for (offset, file) in chunk.iter().enumerate() {
        let file_idx = base_idx + offset;

        if file.is_binary() || file.size == 0 {
            return;              // leaves the closure, not the iteration
        }

return exits the whole closure, so the first binary or zero-byte file in a
chunk takes every file behind it in that chunk out of the content index —
up to 255 of them. The guard is written per file (it re-reads file each
iteration and computes file_idx for it), so continue is what it means.

Those files then carry no bits in any bigram column. prefilter_files walks
the candidate bitset, so while a bigram prefilter is active they are never
selected: plain grep reports no match in them, silently, until the next full
rescan rebuilds the index.

Reachability

run_post_scan passes files[..indexable_count], and collect_files
partitions binary/empty/oversized files out of that prefix — so on a quiet tree
the guard does not fire. The prefix is not stable, though: run_post_scan
reads a PostScanUnsafeSnapshot that the watcher mutates while the index is
being built, which its own doc comment spells out ("it can only WRITE
information using single instructions").

The watcher writes both fields the guard reads. handle_file_modify calls
file.update_metadata(.., Some(size)), which assigns self.size = size
unconditionally — including the 0 an editor leaves behind when it truncates
before writing — and re-runs detect_binary_per_byte, which can flip
is_binary on a file that is already inside the indexable prefix.

On a rescan the watcher is live throughout: rescubscribe_watcher_post_scan
runs immediately before run_post_scan in the same function. So one save
landing during a rescan can cost a 256-file chunk its content index.

The reproduction below drives the closure behaviour directly; the watcher race
itself is not reproduced here.

Verification (Windows, default ripgrep features)

RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN was pinned to 1.98.0-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc because
rust-toolchain.toml's stable channel could not update on this machine.

New test a_skipped_file_does_not_drop_the_rest_of_its_chunk builds an index
over ten files where index 0 is empty and two of the nine behind it contain a
needle.

Before, cargo test -p fff-search --lib -- a_skipped_file:

test index::bigram_filter::tests::a_skipped_file_does_not_drop_the_rest_of_its_chunk ... FAILED

---- index::bigram_filter::tests::a_skipped_file_does_not_drop_the_rest_of_its_chunk stdout ----

thread '...' (40876) panicked at crates\fff-core\src\index\bigram_filter.rs:1267:14:
the text files must be in the index

test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 1 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 159 filtered out

index.query returns None because nothing at all was indexed: the empty file
at index 0 ended the chunk before any of the nine were read.

After:

test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 159 filtered out

The same test pins that filtering still filters — file 5 has no needle and must
not be a candidate — which holds after the fix and is what makes this a fix and
not a widening.

• cargo test -p fff-search --lib — 160 passed, 0 failed.
• cargo test -p fff-search --test bigram_overlay_integration --test bigram_overlay_coherence_test --test dir_index_consistency_test — 4, 7 and 17 passed, 0 failed.
• cargo test -p fff-search --test grep_integration — 68 passed. Note
  large_binary_with_nuls_past_header_is_classified is flaky on this machine
  independently of this change: 1 failure in 11 runs on unmodified main,
  2 in 15 with the patch. Its readiness gate is bigram_index().is_some(),
  which run_post_scan satisfies before sniff_binary_for_non_indexable has
  classified the file it asserts on. That file is >2 MiB, so it is in the
  non-indexable region and never reaches the loop this PR touches.
• cargo fmt --all -- --check — clean.
• cargo clippy -p fff-search --lib --tests — no new warnings.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

build_bigram_index now skips binary or empty files without stopping the current chunk. A regression test verifies that later text files remain indexed and files without the search needle remain filtered.

Changes

Bigram indexing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Continue indexing after skipped files crates/fff-core/src/index/bigram_filter.rs	build_bigram_index uses continue for binary or empty files. The test verifies that later files in the same chunk remain queryable candidates.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to bb031

Bigram indexing now continues past empty or binary files so later files in the same chunk remain searchable. The regression coverage confirms the intended behavior without leaving a material merge-readiness risk.

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Remove this doc comment.

a_skipped_file_does_not_drop_the_rest_of_its_chunk is private. The test name already states the behavior.

As per coding guidelines: "Do not add doc comments to the private structs and functions."

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In `@crates/fff-core/src/index/bigram_filter.rs` around lines 1229 - 1230, Remove
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a_skipped_file_does_not_drop_the_rest_of_its_chunk; leave the test
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