Collision Consolidation
Kind: principle
Layer: Structural Core
Record: architecture:collision-consolidation
Severity: mandatory
Scope: folder, filename
Canonical: Ontology
A design rule that a filename already held by another file is first read as a sign that both files do the same job, and a variant is added only after the code shows that their jobs differ.
Listed in Architecture principles, after Manual Identity Migration and before Mirrored Test Placement.