feat: support checking out a version on a branch (#3504)

### Description

Stacked on #3490. Adds an optional version to branch checkout across the
Rust core and the Python and TypeScript SDKs, so you can open a specific
version on a branch ("version V of branch B"), not just the branch's
latest version

Rust

```rust
// Open version 3 of branch "exp" (a read-only view): check out from an
// existing table, or open it directly from the connection.
let exp_v3 = table.checkout_branch("exp", Some(3)).await?;
let exp_v3 = db.open_table("items").branch("exp").version(3).execute().await?;
// checkout_latest re-attaches to the branch's writable HEAD.
exp_v3.checkout_latest().await?;

// With no branch, a version opens main at that version.
let main_v3 = db.open_table("items").version(3).execute().await?;
```

Python

```python
# Open version 3 of branch "exp" (a read-only view): check out from an
# existing table, or open it directly from the connection.
branch_v3 = await table.branches.checkout("exp", version=3)
branch_v3 = await db.open_table("items", branch="exp", version=3)
# checkout_latest re-attaches to the branch's writable HEAD.
await branch_v3.checkout_latest()

# With no branch, a version opens main at that version.
main_v3 = await db.open_table("items", version=3)
```

TypeScript

```typescript
// Open version 3 of branch "exp" (a read-only view): check out from an
// existing table, or open it directly from the connection.
const branchV3 = await (await table.branches()).checkout("exp", 3);
const opened = await db.openTable("items", undefined, { branch: "exp", version: 3 });
// checkoutLatest re-attaches to the branch's writable HEAD.
await branchV3.checkoutLatest();

// With no branch, a version opens main at that version.
const mainV3 = await db.openTable("items", undefined, { version: 3 });
```

### Testing
- Added unit tests (Rust, Python sync + async, TypeScript):
branch-scoped resolution at a version number shared with `main` and with
another branch, read-only enforcement on a pinned handle,
`checkout_latest` recovery to the branch's HEAD, fork-point reads, and
the nonexistent-version/branch error paths.
- Ran smoke tests against the Python and TypeScript SDKs on local
machine.
This commit is contained in:
Brendan Clement
2026-06-08 17:36:38 -07:00
committed by GitHub
parent 53517b3aaa
commit d9018067b3
19 changed files with 823 additions and 34 deletions

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@@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ export interface OpenTableOptions {
* Reads and writes on the returned table operate in the branch's context.
*/
branch?: string;
/**
* Open the table pinned to this version, producing a read-only view.
*
* Composes with {@link OpenTableOptions.branch}: when both are set, opens
* that branch at the version; otherwise opens `main` at the version. Call
* `checkoutLatest` to return to a writable state.
*/
version?: number;
/**
* Configuration for object storage.
*
@@ -489,9 +497,18 @@ export class LocalConnection extends Connection {
options?.indexCacheSize,
);
const table = new LocalTable(innerTable);
if (options?.branch != null) {
return (await table.branches()).checkout(options.branch);
let table: Table = new LocalTable(innerTable);
// "main" is the default branch, so treat it as no branch. On a real branch,
// scope and pin in one step (yielding "version V of branch B"); otherwise
// pin the version, if any, against main.
const branch =
options?.branch != null && options.branch !== "main"
? options.branch
: undefined;
if (branch != null) {
table = await (await table.branches()).checkout(branch, options?.version);
} else if (options?.version != null) {
await table.checkout(options.version);
}
return table;
}

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@@ -1290,9 +1290,15 @@ export class Branches {
return new LocalTable(await this.#inner.create(name, fromRef, fromVersion));
}
/** Check out an existing branch and return a handle scoped to it. */
async checkout(name: string): Promise<Table> {
return new LocalTable(await this.#inner.checkout(name));
/**
* Check out an existing branch and return a handle scoped to it.
*
* With `version` set, the returned handle is pinned to that version of the
* branch (a read-only, detached view); otherwise it tracks the branch's
* latest and stays writable.
*/
async checkout(name: string, version?: number): Promise<Table> {
return new LocalTable(await this.#inner.checkout(name, version));
}
/** Delete a branch. */