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Adds nh darwin rollback to activate a retained nix-darwin generation without rebuilding.

By default, selects the nearest retained generation older than the currently selected system profile. Supports selecting a specific generation with --to, previewing with --dry, confirmation with --ask, package diffs, and activation logs.

Validates activation executables before changing the profile and checks for profile changes before proceeding. If activation fails, attempts to restore the original profile; this cannot undo partial activation effects.

Related to #784

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Darwin rollback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rollback CLI contract
crates/nh-darwin/src/args.rs, crates/nh-darwin/src/darwin.rs, crates/nh/src/interface.rs, crates/xtask/src/man.rs
Adds the rollback subcommand, its options, dispatch, parsing tests, and man-page examples.
Activation and elevation handling
crates/nh-darwin/src/darwin.rs
Normalizes elevation, validates build outputs and activation executables, and reuses prepared activation commands.
Generation rollback execution and recovery
crates/nh-darwin/src/rollback.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Resolves retained generations, supports dry runs and confirmation, switches profiles, activates targets, verifies concurrent changes, restores failed activations, and documents the command.

Suggested reviewers: faukah

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f8dd8

A concurrent profile operation could have its newer selection overwritten during rollback. The risk is narrow but should be addressed or explicitly accepted.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 40 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding generation rollback to nh-darwin.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the new nh darwin rollback command, its options, validation, recovery behavior, testing, and related issue.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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In `@crates/nh-darwin/src/rollback.rs`:
- Line 103: Update the rollback flow around ensure_current_generation and select
to acquire one inter-process profile lock before the generation check and retain
it through selection and any recovery path, preventing concurrent profile
operations from changing the profile between validation and mutation.

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