fix(source-gen): model equality covers every emitted field; infrastructure refreshes on reference changes

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Summary

Several source-generator models had custom Equals implementations that skipped fields the generator writes into its output. When only a skipped field changed, the incremental pipeline treated the model as unchanged, so the IDE kept showing stale generated code until something else forced a regeneration.

Changes

1. HookModel: Equals compared only 7 fields. It now compares every field, because each one feeds the hint name, the delegate body or the hook object. That includes FilePath, LineNumber, HookExecutorTypeName, MethodInfoExpression, ReturnType/ReturnsVoid/IsAsync, Parameters, the class generic info, HookAttribute and MethodAttributes. Collections were already EquatableArray. GetHashCode now also mixes in location, return type, parameters and attributes.
2. DynamicTestModel: Equals ignored LineNumber and FilePath, even though they feed the hint-name suffix and the generated DynamicTestBuilderContext(...) call. It also ignored MinimalTypeName. All of these are now compared. Namespace, IsAsync and ReturnType were never emitted, so they were removed from the model instead of being compared.
3. Infrastructure generator: PreventCompilationTriggerOnEveryKeystrokeComparer compared only Language and AssemblyName, so adding or removing a reference never refreshed TUnitInfrastructure.g.cs. It now also compares the metadata-reference list item by item:
   • ExternalReferences and DirectiveReferences are compared as arrays: same backing array means equal, then a length check, then each reference by instance. Syntax-only edits keep the same instances, so ordinary keystrokes still skip the reference walk.
   • Every kind of reference, including a CompilationReference (an IDE project reference), is compared by instance. An edit in a referenced project therefore reruns the reference walk. That is deliberate: the edit can rename or remove the public type the walk selects, or change the project's TUnit.Core dependency, and a name-based comparison would leave TUnitInfrastructure.g.cs stale.
   • The pipeline still Selects an equatable AssemblyInfoModel, so a rerun of the walk only re-emits when the list of referenced types actually changes. I strengthened the existing comparer instead of restructuring the pipeline: the reference walk needs the Compilation (GetTypeByMetadataName, ReferencedAssemblySymbols), so it still has to be gated on the compilation. Added WithTrackingName("ExtractAssemblyInfo").
4. Audit of the other models with custom Equals: ParameterModel, ExtractedAttribute, NamedArgumentModel, TypedConstantModel, DataSourceModel, AssemblyInfoModel and every model in PropertyInjectionModel.cs (ClassPropertyInjectionModel, PropertyDataSourceModel, NamedArgModel, AsyncInitializerModel, InitializerPropertyModel, ConcreteGenericTypeModel) already compare every field. No change needed.
5. Tracking names: added WithTrackingName to the four hook pipelines (ExtractBeforeHooks, ExtractAfterHooks, ExtractBeforeEveryHooks, ExtractAfterEveryHooks) so tests can observe them.

Skipped

• Models/Extracted/TestMethodModel.cs has the same incomplete Equals, but it is dead code. It is only built by Analyzers/TestMethodAnalyzer, which nothing references, and the test pipeline uses TestMethodMetadata/ClassTestGroup instead. I left it alone because TestMetadataGenerator belongs to a sibling PR.
• Models/HooksDataModel.cs is also unused and holds Roslyn symbols. Left alone.
• TestMetadataGenerationContext is out of scope (TestMetadataGenerator). It is only used inside the transform and is never cached as a pipeline value.

Tests

New incrementality tests in tests/TUnit.SourceGenerator.IncrementalTests:

• HookMetadataGeneratorIncrementalTests
  • Unrelated type added → Cached.
  • Hook moved down two lines → Modified.
  • void changed to async Task → Modified.
• DynamicTestsGeneratorIncrementalTests.MoveDynamicMethodToDifferentLine_ShouldRegenerate → Modified.
• InfrastructureGeneratorIncrementalTests
  • Unrelated type added, then a method body edited → Cached.
  • Library that references TUnit.Core added as a reference → Modified, and the generated file now references the library's type.
  • EditProjectReference_ShouldRegenerate: an edited project reference reruns extraction, and the output stays cached when the extracted model is unchanged.

Results:

• IncrementalTests: 20/20 pass. With the three source fixes reverted, the new "should regenerate" tests fail with Cached instead of Modified.
  • This project uses VSTest and xunit v2 but has no adapter, so neither dotnet test (global.json requires MTP) nor dotnet vstest can run it. I ran it through a small reflection runner over the [Fact] methods. CI does not appear to run this project today.
• tests/TUnit.Core.SourceGenerator.Tests (net10.0): 156 passed, 1 skipped (pre-existing), 0 failed. No snapshot changes; generated output is unchanged.

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  • Source-generated tests and hooks now refresh when relevant code changes, including edits to method locations or async behavior.
  • Changes to referenced assemblies are handled more accurately during generation.

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  • Unrelated source changes can reuse cached generation results instead of triggering unnecessary work.

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The source generator now compares compilations by their ordered metadata-reference instances and compares extracted models using additional stored fields. It assigns tracking names to assembly-information and hook extraction steps. Incremental tests cover cached and modified run reasons after source, hook, and reference changes.

Changes

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Compilation and extracted-model equality src/TUnit.Core.SourceGenerator/CodeGenerators/Equality/PreventCompilationTriggerOnEveryKeystrokeComparer.cs, src/TUnit.Core.SourceGenerator/Models/Extracted/*, src/TUnit.Core.SourceGenerator/CodeGenerators/DynamicTestsGenerator.cs	The compilation comparer checks ordered metadata-reference instances. Dynamic-test and hook models compare additional fields and include additional values in their hash codes. The dynamic-test initializer no longer assigns Namespace, IsAsync, or ReturnType.
Extraction step tracking names src/TUnit.Core.SourceGenerator/CodeGenerators/InfrastructureGenerator.cs, src/TUnit.Core.SourceGenerator/Generators/HookMetadataGenerator.cs	The assembly-information extraction step and four hook extraction providers now have tracking names.
Incremental run behavior tests tests/TUnit.SourceGenerator.IncrementalTests/*	Tests check cached and modified run reasons after source edits, hook changes, and reference changes. Infrastructure tests also check generated output after reference changes.

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• inferred — An added eligible reference can now be reflected promptly in generated initialization code, which executes selected referenced types' class constructors. That execution mechanism and its selection checks predate this change; control of project references by an untrusted party is not established.

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• observed — The change invalidates a cache when reference identities differ; it does not itself add references or replace the existing assembly-selection controls.

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Review of #6912

Overall this is a solid, well-scoped fix. The Equals/GetHashCode changes on HookModel and DynamicTestModel now cover every field that reaches the generated output. The new incremental tests check both that unrelated edits stay Cached and that real changes are Modified. The tracking names are exposed as constants, so the tests don't depend on string literals. I found no blocking issues.

Points worth considering:

1. CompilationReference is compared by assembly name only. If a project reference gains a new hook or a new test-bearing type, the reference walk is skipped and TUnitInfrastructure.g.cs stays stale. This is the same class of bug the PR fixes, and it only affects IDE project references. It is probably an acceptable tradeoff against re-walking on every keystroke in the referenced project. Please document it in the comment, or add an AssemblyInfoModel-level check if you want it fully correct. A cheap alternative is to also compare Compilation.SyntaxTrees.Count, though that is not exact either.
2. The reference comparison is an allocating walk over References. Compilation.References is already an IEnumerable, so the two enumerators are fine. The comparer is called on every compilation change, so with hundreds of references this is O(n) per keystroke. The fast path (same instances, so ReferenceEquals is true) keeps the cost low. You could add an early check on the References object identity or count. It is minor.
3. GetHashCode on HookModel and DynamicTestModel now calls FilePath.GetHashCode() and ReturnType.GetHashCode(). If either can be null (for example on a default-constructed model), this throws. Please confirm they are non-nullable in practice.
4. Nit: the first-line BOM removal in the comparer file is harmless, but it adds noise to the diff.

Good work on the audit of the other models and on explaining why TestMethodModel was skipped.

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Summary

The PR makes generated hook and dynamic-test output respond to changes in fields previously omitted from model equality, and refreshes infrastructure when references change. The latest revision replaces enumeration of the combined reference list with direct comparisons of the external and directive lists.

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The change fixes a real incremental-generator problem. HookModel, DynamicTestModel and the compilation comparer all skipped fields that reach the generated output. The fix is correct and the tests are targeted: line-move and async-change cases for hooks, a line-move case for dynamic tests, and add-reference and edit-project-reference cases for infrastructure.

I could not run the code-review skill (it errored), so this is a manual read of the diff. I did not build the project or run the tests.

• HookModel: it now compares all fields, and GetHashCode mixes in the new ones.
• DynamicTestModel: I checked that Namespace, IsAsync and ReturnType are unused by DynamicTestsGenerator. They were removed from the model rather than compared, which is fine and avoids needless invalidation. The PR description says these are "now compared", so it should be updated to say they were removed.
• Comparer vs. description: the PR description says a CompilationReference is compared by assembly name plus properties, to avoid rerunning the walk on IDE keystrokes in a referenced project. The code uses ReferenceEquals for every reference. The code comment admits this, and AssemblyInfoModel equality keeps the output cached. Either update the description, or implement the special case for CompilationReference. Without the special case, every edit in a referenced project reruns the reference walk, which is the cost the description says it avoids.
• Minor: ReferencesEqual allocates two enumerators on every comparison. That is negligible, but a ReferenceEquals(x.References, y.References) fast path or an IReadOnlyList index loop would be cheaper.

No blocking issues. Please align the description with the code.

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Follow-up on the github-actions review points:

• Description vs code: the description now matches the code. References are compared by instance, including CompilationReference, and Namespace/IsAsync/ReturnType were removed from DynamicTestModel, not compared.
• ReferencesEqual cost: fixed in 24f8ff6. It now compares ExternalReferences and DirectiveReferences as ImmutableArrays, with a same-array fast path, a length check and an indexed loop, so no enumerators are allocated. Compilation.References is an iterator, so a ReferenceEquals on it would never hit.
• GetHashCode null-safety: no change needed. FilePath and ReturnType are required non-nullable strings. They are always set from ?? ""/?? string.Empty and from GloballyQualified(), so a default-constructed model cannot exist.

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The fix looks correct. I found nothing blocking.

• Equality: HookModel and DynamicTestModel now compare every field that reaches the output. Removing the never-emitted fields (Namespace, IsAsync, ReturnType) from DynamicTestModel is cleaner than comparing them. GetHashCode stays consistent with Equals because it only uses fields that Equals also compares.
• Comparer: the array-identity fast path, then length, then per-instance ReferenceEquals keeps ordinary keystrokes cheap. The AssemblyInfoModel Select still stops the output from re-emitting when the extracted model is unchanged. I confirmed GetHashCode is still consistent, since equal comparers give equal hashes.
• Tests: they cover both directions, cached and should