fix: guard the detach path against a second copy, and say what it costs (#234)

Review pass on the detach path. Three changes, none to the write shape itself.

A second detach of the same occurrence is now refused. Reached from a stale
screen still pointing at the parent, it used to succeed twice over: the EXDATE
merge folds the repeated stamp away and the parent update still reports one row
changed, so the save looked fine and left a *second* standalone copy of one
occurrence, this time with neither copy in the series to make it obvious. The
occurrence is already gone from the series at that point, so the write reports
it as gone — and EventEditViewModel now maps NoSuchEventException from the write
to the same "this event no longer exists" answer its pre-check already gives,
instead of a bare "couldn't save" for something that isn't there.

The rollback comment claimed more than the code delivers. ContentResolver.update
returns rows touched, not occurrences excluded, so the zero check catches the
series row vanishing mid-write and nothing else — an EXDATE the provider's
expansion fails to match reports success and leaves the duplicate standing.
Renamed the variable to match, and the catch now mirrors moveEvent's Throwable
idiom rather than inventing a narrower one for the same insert-then-roll-back
shape.

The rest is honesty about what a detached row can't do, since none of it is
recoverable later and the KDoc previously mentioned only the calendar-move case:
a whole-series delete leaves it standing where an exception row would have gone
with the parent; a series-wide *time* edit moves the generated instances but not
the absolute-instant EXDATE hole, so the occurrence returns alongside its copy;
and building the row from the form rather than cloning the parent drops
ORGANIZER, STATUS and the organizer/resource attendee rows, exactly as moveEvent
does. The EXDATE staleness is not new — a #47 delete resurrects the same way —
but a duplicate is a louder symptom than a resurrection, and it wants fixing at
the series-update end, not here.

Also notes why the branch predicate is stricter than deleteOccurrence's: EXDATE
only means something on a row that recurs, so a row without an RRULE keeps the
old path rather than having a recurrence set written onto a one-off event.

Tests: the tautological "detached == copy(rrule = null)" assertion is replaced by
one that pins every edited field through to the inserted columns, and
exdateContains gets its own cases (timed, all-day, absent, a neighbouring
occurrence, and a multi-entry list with whitespace).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+- **"Only this event" now actually saves your edit.** On some calendars —
+  including Google ones that still show as on-device, and any local calendar —
+  editing a single occurrence of a repeating event did nothing at all: the scope
+  dialog closed, the edit screen stayed put, and saving again just repeated it.
+  Android can only attach a single-occurrence change to its series once the
+  calendar has been synced at least once, so on those calendars the change had
+  nowhere to go. Calendula now removes that one occurrence from the series and
+  saves the edit as its own event instead, which is what you see either way. A
+  save that does fail also says so for longer, rather than flashing past
+  ([#234]).
+
 ## [2.19.3] — 2026-08-22
 
 ### Added
@@ -1471,3 +1483,4 @@ automatically, with zero telemetry and no internet permission.
 [#192]: https://codeberg.org/jlmakiola/calendula/issues/192
 [#196]: https://codeberg.org/jlmakiola/calendula/issues/196
 [#214]: https://codeberg.org/jlmakiola/calendula/issues/214
+[#234]: https://codeberg.org/jlmakiola/calendula/issues/234

app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/data/calendar/CalendarDataSource.kt

@@ -232,10 +232,15 @@ interface CalendarDataSource {
     ): Long
 
     /**
-     * Change a single occurrence of a recurring event by inserting a
+     * Change a single occurrence of a recurring event at [beginMillis] (the
-     * modified-occurrence exception at [beginMillis] (the occurrence's
+     * occurrence's `Instances.BEGIN`) to [form]'s values; returns the
-     * `Instances.BEGIN`) carrying [form]'s values; returns the exception
+     * `Events._ID` of the row now holding them.
-     * row's `Events._ID`. [allDayReminderTimeMinutes]: see [insertEvent].
+     *
+     * A series with a `_sync_id` gets a modified-occurrence exception. One
+     * without gets the occurrence excluded from the parent via EXDATE plus a
+     * standalone event carrying the edits — an exception cannot link to its
+     * parent there (Codeberg #234, the same constraint as [deleteOccurrence]).
+     * [allDayReminderTimeMinutes]: see [insertEvent].
      */
     fun updateOccurrence(
         eventId: Long,
@@ -1194,6 +1199,16 @@ class AndroidCalendarDataSource @Inject constructor(
         form: EventForm,
         allDayReminderTimeMinutes: Int,
     ): Long {
+        val row = querySeriesRow(eventId)
+        // Deliberately stricter than deleteOccurrence's bare _sync_id check: the
+        // detach path drops the occurrence with EXDATE, which only means anything
+        // on a row that actually recurs. Without an RRULE there is nothing to
+        // exclude from, so such a row keeps the existing path rather than getting
+        // a recurrence set written onto a one-off event. The UI only offers the
+        // scope choice for a recurring event, so neither case is reachable today.
+        if (row.syncId == null && !row.rrule.isNullOrBlank()) {
+            return detachOccurrence(eventId, beginMillis, row, form, allDayReminderTimeMinutes)
+        }
         // The provider clones the series row and applies these values on top.
         val values = buildOccurrenceExceptionValues(
             form = form,
@@ -1212,6 +1227,116 @@ class AndroidCalendarDataSource @Inject constructor(
         return exceptionId
     }
 
+    /**
+     * "Edit only this event" on a series with **no `_sync_id`**: drop the
+     * occurrence from the parent with EXDATE and insert the edited values as a
+     * standalone event on the same calendar.
+     *
+     * A modified exception attaches to its parent only through `ORIGINAL_SYNC_ID`,
+     * exactly like the cancelled one [deleteOccurrence] documents. With no
+     * `_sync_id` the link never forms: the insert either fails outright or lands
+     * an orphan row, and the parent's expansion collapses — which is why editing
+     * one occurrence of such a series did nothing at all, and occasionally left a
+     * stray copy behind (Codeberg #234). The reporter's calendar was a Google one
+     * that "shows as on-device", i.e. rows the sync adapter had not stamped yet;
+     * Calendula's own local and contact special-date calendars are permanently in
+     * this shape.
+     *
+     * EXDATE + a standalone row needs no parent link, and is what a detached
+     * instance degrades to when there is no `RECURRENCE-ID` to carry it: the user
+     * sees one edited event where the occurrence was, and the rest of the series
+     * untouched.
+     *
+     * What that costs, plainly, because none of it is recoverable later — the
+     * detached row has *no* stored link back to its series, which is the whole
+     * reason this path exists:
+     * - It stops travelling with the series. Moving the series to another
+     *   calendar leaves it behind ([moveEvent] copies the master and its
+     *   `ORIGINAL_ID` children; this is neither), and deleting the whole series
+     *   leaves it standing where an exception row would have gone with the parent.
+     * - Its EXDATE hole is an absolute instant. Editing the series' *time* for all
+     *   events moves the generated instances but not the hole, so the occurrence
+     *   comes back alongside the detached copy. That staleness predates this path
+     *   — a #47 delete resurrects the same way — but a duplicate is a louder
+     *   symptom than a resurrection, and it wants fixing at the series-update end.
+     * - It is built from the form, not cloned from the parent, so columns the form
+     *   doesn't model are dropped rather than inherited: `ORGANIZER`, `STATUS`,
+     *   and the organizer/resource attendee rows [reconcileAttendees] otherwise
+     *   preserves. Same limitation as [moveEvent]. Rare on the calendars that
+     *   reach this path, which are locally authored, but not impossible.
+     *
+     * Order is deliberate. The insert goes first, so a failure there leaves the
+     * series completely untouched (the same discipline as
+     * [updateEventFromOccurrence]). If the EXDATE update then fails, the new row
+     * is a visible duplicate of an occurrence that is still in the series, so it
+     * is rolled back before the failure surfaces — better a save the user can
+     * retry than a silent duplicate. The reverse order would risk the opposite:
+     * an occurrence excluded from the series with no replacement, i.e. an edit
+     * that quietly deletes.
+     */
+    private fun detachOccurrence(
+        eventId: Long,
+        beginMillis: Long,
+        row: SeriesRow,
+        form: EventForm,
+        allDayReminderTimeMinutes: Int,
+    ): Long {
+        // Already detached (or deleted): the series no longer contains this
+        // occurrence, so there is nothing here to edit. Reached from a stale
+        // screen still pointing at the parent — without this the EXDATE merge
+        // would fold the repeat away, the update would still report a changed
+        // row, and the save would quietly leave a *second* standalone copy.
+        if (exdateContains(row.exdate, beginMillis, isAllDay = row.allDay != 0)) {
+            throw NoSuchEventException(eventId)
+        }
+        // Carries the form's reminders, guests and colour like any new event —
+        // and a fresh UID, because the detached row really is a separate event
+        // now: sharing the parent's would collide with it in .ics restore dedup.
+        val detachedId = insertEvent(form.toDetachedOccurrence(), allDayReminderTimeMinutes)
+        val values = buildOccurrenceExdateValues(
+            existingExdate = row.exdate,
+            occurrenceMillis = beginMillis,
+            dtStartMillis = row.dtStartMillis,
+            rrule = row.rrule,
+            duration = row.duration,
+            timezone = row.timezone,
+            allDay = row.allDay,
+        )
+        // Rows touched, not occurrences excluded: this is 1 whenever the series
+        // row still exists. It catches the row disappearing under us, not an
+        // EXDATE the provider's expansion fails to match — that would report
+        // success and leave the duplicate. Same rollback idiom as moveEvent.
+        val updatedRows = try {
+            resolver.update(
+                ContentUris.withAppendedId(CalendarContract.Events.CONTENT_URI, eventId),
+                values.toContentValues(), null, null,
+            )
+        } catch (t: Throwable) {
+            rollBackDetached(detachedId)
+            throw t
+        }
+        if (updatedRows == 0) {
+            rollBackDetached(detachedId)
+            throw WriteFailedException(
+                "exdate occurrence for edit, event id=$eventId begin=$beginMillis",
+            )
+        }
+        return detachedId
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Undo the standalone row [detachOccurrence] inserted before its EXDATE
+     * update failed. Best effort: the caller is already throwing, and a rollback
+     * that itself fails must not replace the real failure with a confusing one.
+     * The worst case is the duplicate we were trying to avoid, which the user can
+     * see and delete — never a lost occurrence.
+     */
+    private fun rollBackDetached(detachedId: Long) {
+        runCatching { deleteEvent(detachedId) }.onFailure {
+            Log.w(TAG, "Failed to roll back detached occurrence $detachedId", it)
+        }
+    }
+
     override fun updateEventFromOccurrence(
         eventId: Long,
         beginMillis: Long,

app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/data/calendar/EventWriteMapper.kt

@@ -243,6 +243,26 @@ internal fun buildOccurrenceExceptionValues(
     putAll(eventColorColumns(form.colorKey, form.color))
 }
 
+/**
+ * The form as a **detached occurrence**: the same edited values, with the
+ * series rule dropped so [buildEventInsertValues] writes a standalone one-off
+ * row (DTSTART + DTEND, no RRULE/DURATION) at the occurrence's own times.
+ *
+ * This is the "edit only this event" shape for a series with **no `_sync_id`**,
+ * where an exception row can't be used at all — see [buildOccurrenceExdateValues]
+ * for why the parent link never forms. The occurrence is dropped from the parent
+ * with EXDATE and re-created as its own event, which is what a detached instance
+ * degrades to without a `RECURRENCE-ID` to carry it.
+ *
+ * Dropping the rule mirrors what the exception path gets for free: the provider
+ * clears the RRULE it cloned from the parent when an exception carries
+ * DTSTART + DURATION ([buildOccurrenceExceptionValues]). Here nothing is cloned,
+ * so the rule has to be stripped by hand — leaving it on would insert a second
+ * *series* overlapping the first, which is the duplication this path exists to
+ * avoid.
+ */
+internal fun EventForm.toDetachedOccurrence(): EventForm = copy(rrule = null)
+
 /**
  * Raw provider snapshot of a master/one-off Events row, enough to re-insert it
  * verbatim on another calendar (a calendar move is copy+delete — `CALENDAR_ID`
@@ -435,6 +455,26 @@ internal fun buildOccurrenceExdateValues(
     )
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether [existingExdate] already excludes the occurrence at [occurrenceMillis]
+ * — i.e. this occurrence has already been dropped from the series (deleted, or
+ * detached into its own event).
+ *
+ * Guards the detach path against running twice for the same occurrence, which a
+ * stale detail screen still pointing at the parent can otherwise reach. The
+ * EXDATE merge folds the repeat away silently and the parent update still
+ * reports one row changed, so without this check the second save would leave a
+ * *second* standalone copy and call it a success.
+ */
+internal fun exdateContains(
+    existingExdate: String?,
+    occurrenceMillis: Long,
+    isAllDay: Boolean,
+): Boolean {
+    val stamp = formatExdateStamp(occurrenceMillis, isAllDay)
+    return existingExdate?.split(',')?.any { it.trim() == stamp } == true
+}
+
 /**
  * One EXDATE entry for the occurrence starting at [occurrenceMillis]. Both forms
  * are UTC: the provider stores an all-day DTSTART at UTC midnight, so its date

app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/edit/EventEditScreen.kt

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ import androidx.compose.material3.Scaffold
 import androidx.compose.material3.SegmentedButton
 import androidx.compose.material3.SegmentedButtonDefaults
 import androidx.compose.material3.SingleChoiceSegmentedButtonRow
+import androidx.compose.material3.SnackbarDuration
 import androidx.compose.material3.SnackbarHost
 import androidx.compose.material3.SnackbarHostState
 import androidx.compose.material3.Surface
@@ -264,13 +265,17 @@ fun EventEditScreen(
                 viewModel.reset()
                 onSaved()
             }
+            // A failed save leaves the user on a form that looks exactly as it
+            // did, so the snackbar is the only sign anything happened — it gets
+            // the long duration rather than the default flash (Codeberg #234:
+            // the failure read as "nothing happens at all").
             SaveUiState.Failed -> {
                 viewModel.consumeSaveResult()
-                snackbarHostState.showSnackbar(saveFailedMessage)
+                snackbarHostState.showSnackbar(saveFailedMessage, duration = SnackbarDuration.Long)
             }
             SaveUiState.NeedsPermission -> {
                 viewModel.consumeSaveResult()
-                snackbarHostState.showSnackbar(writeDeniedMessage)
+                snackbarHostState.showSnackbar(writeDeniedMessage, duration = SnackbarDuration.Long)
             }
             // AwaitingScope/AwaitingConflict/Gone render as dialogs below.
             else -> Unit

app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/edit/EventEditViewModel.kt

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package de.jeanlucmakiola.calendula.ui.edit
 
+import android.util.Log
 import androidx.lifecycle.ViewModel
 import androidx.lifecycle.viewModelScope
 import dagger.hilt.android.lifecycle.HiltViewModel
@@ -56,6 +57,8 @@ import kotlin.time.Duration.Companion.minutes
 import kotlin.time.Instant
 import javax.inject.Inject
 
+private const val TAG = "EventEdit"
+
 /**
  * Where a prefilled [EventEditViewModel.openImported] form came from. The sources
  * want different reminder handling (#49), and differ in whether they own the
@@ -751,7 +754,16 @@ class EventEditViewModel @Inject constructor(
                 throw e
             } catch (e: SecurityException) {
                 SaveUiState.NeedsPermission
+            } catch (e: NoSuchEventException) {
+                // The write found the event (or the occurrence) already gone —
+                // the same answer the pre-check gives, and a far better one than
+                // a bare "couldn't save" for something that no longer exists.
+                SaveUiState.Gone
             } catch (e: Exception) {
+                // The user only gets a generic snackbar, so without this a
+                // failed write leaves no trace at all to report (Codeberg #234).
+                // Scope and event id only — never the form's content.
+                Log.w(TAG, "Save failed (scope=$scope, eventId=${target?.eventId})", e)
                 SaveUiState.Failed
             }
         }

app/src/test/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/data/calendar/EventWriteMapperTest.kt

@@ -558,6 +558,183 @@ class EventWriteMapperTest {
         assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.ALL_DAY]).isEqualTo(1)
     }
 
+    // --- toDetachedOccurrence ("edit only this event", no _sync_id) ---
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a detached occurrence drops the series rule and becomes a one-off row`() {
+        val edited = form().copy(title = "Moved", rrule = "FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=TH")
+        val detached = edited.toDetachedOccurrence()
+
+        val values = buildEventInsertValues(
+            form = detached,
+            uid = "uid@calendula",
+            times = detached.toWriteTimes(berlin),
+        )
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.TITLE]).isEqualTo("Moved")
+        // The rule must not survive: without a _sync_id nothing clears an
+        // inherited RRULE the way the exception path's DTSTART + DURATION does,
+        // so keeping it would insert a second *series* overlapping the first
+        // (Codeberg #234's stray duplicate).
+        assertThat(values).doesNotContainKey(CalendarContract.Events.RRULE)
+        assertThat(values).doesNotContainKey(CalendarContract.Events.DURATION)
+        // A one-off row carries DTEND — the invariant buildEventInsertValues
+        // holds for every non-recurring event.
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.DTSTART]).isEqualTo(1_781_164_800_000L)
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.DTEND]).isEqualTo(1_781_170_200_000L)
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.EVENT_TIMEZONE]).isEqualTo("Europe/Berlin")
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a detached occurrence carries every edited field onto the new row`() {
+        // The detached row is built from the form rather than cloned from the
+        // parent, so anything the user edited has to survive the trip — a field
+        // dropped here is an edit silently lost.
+        val edited = form(timezone = "America/New_York").copy(
+            title = "  Standup  ",
+            location = "Room 2",
+            description = "notes",
+            reminders = listOf(10),
+            availability = Availability.Free,
+            accessLevel = AccessLevel.Private,
+            rrule = "FREQ=DAILY",
+        )
+        val detached = edited.toDetachedOccurrence()
+
+        val values = buildEventInsertValues(
+            form = detached,
+            uid = "uid@calendula",
+            times = detached.toWriteTimes(berlin),
+        )
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.TITLE]).isEqualTo("Standup")
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.EVENT_LOCATION]).isEqualTo("Room 2")
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.DESCRIPTION]).isEqualTo("notes")
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.AVAILABILITY])
+            .isEqualTo(CalendarContract.Events.AVAILABILITY_FREE)
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.ACCESS_LEVEL])
+            .isEqualTo(CalendarContract.Events.ACCESS_PRIVATE)
+        // The pinned zone survives too — a detached occurrence must not be
+        // silently re-anchored to the device.
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.EVENT_TIMEZONE]).isEqualTo("America/New_York")
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.UID_2445]).isEqualTo("uid@calendula")
+        // Reminders and guests aren't columns — the insert path seeds them from
+        // the form, so they only have to survive on the form itself.
+        assertThat(detached.reminders).containsExactly(10)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a detached all-day occurrence stays on UTC midnights`() {
+        val edited = form(
+            isAllDay = true,
+            start = LocalDateTime(LocalDate(2026, 6, 11), LocalTime(0, 0)),
+            end = LocalDateTime(LocalDate(2026, 6, 11), LocalTime(0, 0)),
+        ).copy(title = "Birthday", rrule = "FREQ=YEARLY")
+        val detached = edited.toDetachedOccurrence()
+
+        val values = buildEventInsertValues(
+            form = detached,
+            uid = "uid@calendula",
+            times = detached.toWriteTimes(berlin),
+        )
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.ALL_DAY]).isEqualTo(1)
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.EVENT_TIMEZONE]).isEqualTo("UTC")
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.DTSTART]).isEqualTo(1_781_136_000_000L)
+        // Exclusive DTEND — the next UTC midnight.
+        assertThat(values[CalendarContract.Events.DTEND]).isEqualTo(1_781_222_400_000L)
+        assertThat(values).doesNotContainKey(CalendarContract.Events.RRULE)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the detached row lands exactly where the parent's exdate removes it`() {
+        // The two halves of the no-_sync_id edit have to agree, or the user sees
+        // the occurrence twice or not at all. With the time left untouched, the
+        // EXDATE stamp and the detached row's DTSTART describe the same instant.
+        val edited = form().copy(title = "Renamed", rrule = "FREQ=WEEKLY")
+        val occurrenceMillis = 1_781_164_800_000L
+
+        val parent = buildOccurrenceExdateValues(
+            existingExdate = null,
+            occurrenceMillis = occurrenceMillis,
+            dtStartMillis = 1_780_560_000_000L,
+            rrule = "FREQ=WEEKLY",
+            duration = "P5400S",
+            timezone = "Europe/Berlin",
+            allDay = 0,
+        )
+        val detached = edited.toDetachedOccurrence()
+        val inserted = buildEventInsertValues(
+            form = detached,
+            uid = "uid@calendula",
+            times = detached.toWriteTimes(berlin),
+        )
+        assertThat(parent[CalendarContract.Events.EXDATE]).isEqualTo("20260611T080000Z")
+        assertThat(inserted[CalendarContract.Events.DTSTART]).isEqualTo(occurrenceMillis)
+        // The parent keeps its own anchor and rule — only this occurrence leaves.
+        assertThat(parent[CalendarContract.Events.DTSTART]).isEqualTo(1_780_560_000_000L)
+        assertThat(parent[CalendarContract.Events.RRULE]).isEqualTo("FREQ=WEEKLY")
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a detached all-day occurrence matches its date-only exdate stamp`() {
+        val parent = buildOccurrenceExdateValues(
+            existingExdate = null,
+            occurrenceMillis = 1_781_136_000_000L, // 2026-06-11T00:00:00Z
+            dtStartMillis = 1_749_600_000_000L,
+            rrule = "FREQ=YEARLY",
+            duration = "P1D",
+            timezone = "UTC",
+            allDay = 1,
+        )
+        val detached = form(
+            isAllDay = true,
+            start = LocalDateTime(LocalDate(2026, 6, 11), LocalTime(0, 0)),
+            end = LocalDateTime(LocalDate(2026, 6, 11), LocalTime(0, 0)),
+        ).copy(rrule = "FREQ=YEARLY").toDetachedOccurrence()
+        val inserted = buildEventInsertValues(
+            form = detached,
+            uid = "uid@calendula",
+            times = detached.toWriteTimes(berlin),
+        )
+        assertThat(parent[CalendarContract.Events.EXDATE]).isEqualTo("20260611")
+        assertThat(inserted[CalendarContract.Events.DTSTART]).isEqualTo(1_781_136_000_000L)
+    }
+
+    // --- exdateContains (guards a second detach of the same occurrence) ---
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an occurrence already excluded is recognised, timed and all-day`() {
+        // Detaching twice would fold the repeated EXDATE away and still report a
+        // changed row, leaving a second standalone copy of one occurrence.
+        assertThat(
+            exdateContains("20260611T080000Z", 1_781_164_800_000L, isAllDay = false),
+        ).isTrue()
+        assertThat(
+            exdateContains("20260611", 1_781_136_000_000L, isAllDay = true),
+        ).isTrue()
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an occurrence not in the exdate list is not mistaken for an excluded one`() {
+        assertThat(exdateContains(null, 1_781_164_800_000L, isAllDay = false)).isFalse()
+        assertThat(exdateContains("", 1_781_164_800_000L, isAllDay = false)).isFalse()
+        // A neighbouring occurrence must not match — the guard is per-instant.
+        assertThat(
+            exdateContains("20260610T080000Z", 1_781_164_800_000L, isAllDay = false),
+        ).isFalse()
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an exclusion is found anywhere in a multi-entry exdate list`() {
+        // Whitespace after a comma is legal in the stored column and must not
+        // hide an exclusion — that would let a duplicate through.
+        assertThat(
+            exdateContains(
+                "20260604T080000Z, 20260611T080000Z,20260618T080000Z",
+                1_781_164_800_000L,
+                isAllDay = false,
+            ),
+        ).isTrue()
+    }
+
     // --- per-event colour ---
 
     @Test