Merge Leftmost Sink Branch

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A leftward merge whose trunk reaches a leftmost-column sink's LEFT entry: the trunk wraps to rise on the box's far (left) side, with the branch feeders converging on its shared channel, rather than crossing the sink interior to the far-side port.

Mermaid source

%%metro title: Merge Leftmost Sink Branch
%%metro style: dark
%%metro line: a | A | #e63946

%%metro grid: blocker | 1,0
%%metro grid: step_a | 3,0
%%metro grid: step_b | 5,0
%%metro grid: extra | 6,0
%%metro grid: sink | 0,1

graph LR
    subgraph blocker [Blocker]
        bl1[Block Start]
        bl2[Block End]
        bl1 -->|a| bl2
    end

    subgraph step_a [Step A]
        a1[Process A]
        a2[Out A]
        a1 -->|a| a2
    end

    subgraph step_b [Step B]
        b1[Process B]
        b2[Out B]
        b1 -->|a| b2
    end

    subgraph extra [Extra]
        e1[Extra]
        e2[Extra Out]
        e1 -->|a| e2
    end

    subgraph sink [Sink]
        t1[Collect]
        t2[Report]
        t1 -->|a| t2
    end

    bl2 -->|a| a1
    a2 -->|a| b1
    a2 -->|a| t1
    b2 -->|a| e1
    b2 -->|a| t1

CLI command

nf-metro render examples/topologies/merge_leftmost_sink_branch.mmd -o merge_leftmost_sink_branch.svg

Rendered map