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    "Ensure GUI and CLI tools use the same data directory by default when a custom path is chosen in the GUI",
    "Prevent bitcoind and CLI tools from operating on the wrong datadir or downloading duplicate chainstate"
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    "Author explicitly noted the PR is incomplete, struggling with test permutations, and not ready for review",
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    "Concept supported as resolving long-standing issue #8106 (pinheadmz)",
    "Nonblocking implementation concern noted regarding Windows behavior in tests (pinheadmz)",
    "Clarification raised regarding bitcoin.conf placement in GUI datadir (luke-jr)"
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      "P4 because test changes are merely harness updates to adapt to configuration requirements.",
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      "P3 because it makes bitcoin-wallet consistently parse bitcoin.conf like other CLI tools.",
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      "P3 because it unifies datadir and configuration loading between GUI and CLI runtimes.",
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  "summary": "This pull request aligns datadir resolution between the GUI and CLI tools. When a user selects a custom datadir in the GUI intro dialog, a symlink or pointer file is written to the default datadir path so CLI tools and bitcoind automatically resolve the same directory. Additionally, bitcoin-wallet is updated to load bitcoin.conf on initialization.",
  "problem": "Selecting a non-default data directory in the GUI stores the setting in GUI-specific storage (e.g. QSettings) which CLI tools ignore. Users running bitcoind or bitcoin-cli without an explicit -datadir argument end up referencing the default location, leading to duplicate block downloads, missing wallets, or confusing errors.",
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    "Functional test logic around Windows directory retrieval was reported broken by pinheadmz",
    "Author noted difficulty covering all configuration and directory presence permutations in Qt tests"
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    "luke-jr questioned whether bitcoin.conf placement in GUI-selected datadir would break, but clarified it was only an initial reaction to the description and not an identified code issue"
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     "note": "asked if bitcoin.conf in GUI datadir would break, then retracted after noting he hadn't read the code"
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    "pinheadmz: 'This PR probably closes https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8106'",
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