Keep track of provenance in the metadata viewer, and allow user to override values - #2083

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Commits on Sep 8, 2026

Track where each metadata value came from, and keep it there
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Show where a metadata value came from, and let it be changed
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Do not mark a user-supplied value the way unsaved changes are marked
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Open the metadata menu on a plain click, and let an edit be abandoned
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Say which file a metadata value was read out of
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Record who overrode a metadata value, and when
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Do not lose an event's error to a plot that then succeeded
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Keep metadata in the order the block declares it, whatever has a value
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Commits on Sep 11, 2026

Close the ways a metadata value could lie about where it came from
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Commits on Oct 1, 2026

Let a metadata field say where its value comes from
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Resolve metadata from what each field declares
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Let a metadata field be read-only
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Show read-only and hand-entered metadata fields for what they are
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Resolve a metadata model from raw values, without a block
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