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Neil 06bf1bc4d3 build(xterm): restore the patch regeneration harness and gate it in CI
docs/reference/ime-architecture.md says "Never hand-edit the bundles in
the patch" and links to docs/reference/xterm-patch-regeneration.md. That
doc does not exist, and neither does the harness it describes.

Both landed in 29117bf776 and were deleted by 17cfc968cf, a revert of
the composition-ownership change, which swept up a build tool and a CI
gate as collateral. The rule survived; its enforcement did not. Every
xterm patch since has had to hand-edit minified bundles to comply with
the surrounding architecture, because everything resolves to
lib/xterm.mjs at runtime and under vitest, so a src-only edit is inert.

The shipped bundles were therefore not the output of any build, and this
restores them to build output. Comparing identifier multisets against a
pristine build of the pinned commit finds hand-written names a minifier
never emits ($rl, $hp, $tid), const in an otherwise let-only esbuild
bundle, !! where the source reads Boolean(), an escaped LRM where esbuild
emits the literal, and a return block esbuild collapses to void(...).
Every remaining token difference is a minifier local reallocating.

The old source patch could not be reused. It described the reverted
composition-ownership architecture, so restoring it would have re-applied
an abandoned design on top of dropping three accumulated fixes. It is
re-derived from the shipped patch instead, and the derivation is a fixed
point.

Two deliberate departures from the deleted version. Sourcemaps are
included rather than deleted, because a live test reads lib/*.map and
asserts the mapped version matches the runtime version. The source-patch
superset carve-out is gone, so a source hunk the shipped patch cannot
name now fails loudly instead of being carved out silently.

The doc's claim that the webgl and serialize addons reproduce byte for
byte was half wrong. Their ESM output does reproduce at the pinned
commit, but both also publish CJS that the root package script never
builds, so folding either in needs a build step this harness lacks.
Recorded as a blocker rather than a confident sentence.

xterm_patch_sync runs the regenerator in --check mode, so a patch that
does not match a rebuild of the pinned upstream now fails PR CI.

The -diff -text attribute is required, not cosmetic: pnpm hashes the
patch byte-for-byte, so a CRLF checkout breaks the install outright.

Not verified: the CI job has not run on a real runner, the addon CJS
bundles are unreproduced, and the generator is untested on Windows and
Linux.
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