diff --git a/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/inline_status_helper.go b/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/inline_status_helper.go
index f2ca7ec17..814a11406 100644
--- a/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/inline_status_helper.go
+++ b/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/inline_status_helper.go
@@ -139,16 +139,17 @@ func (self *InlineStatusHelper) stop(opts InlineStatusOpts) {
 	self.c.State().ClearItemOperation(opts.Item)
 
 	// Re-render the context to remove the inline status now that the operation
-	// finished. Any refresh it triggered must be synchronous, not async: by the
-	// time we get here a synchronous refresh has already updated the model and
-	// queued its own re-render, and since UI-thread callbacks run in order, the
-	// render we queue here runs after it and draws the up-to-date model without
-	// the inline status. An async refresh might not have updated the model yet,
-	// so this render could briefly show the stale, pre-operation model: when
-	// pushing a branch, for example, it would flash the old ↑3↓7 ahead/behind
-	// counts for a moment before the refresh replaced them with a green
-	// checkmark. (Operations that don't refresh at all are fine too: there's
-	// nothing stale to show, so this just drops the status.)
+	// finished. The operation must trigger its refresh via RefreshFromWorker
+	// before we get here: that call returns only once the refresh's model
+	// updates have been enqueued on the UI thread, and since UI-thread
+	// callbacks run in order, the render we queue here runs after them and
+	// draws the up-to-date model without the inline status. A refresh whose
+	// model updates aren't enqueued yet by this point would make this render
+	// briefly show the stale, pre-operation model: when pushing a branch, for
+	// example, it would flash the old ↑3↓7 ahead/behind counts for a moment
+	// before the refresh replaced them with a green checkmark. (Operations
+	// that don't refresh at all are fine too: there's nothing stale to show,
+	// so this just drops the status.)
 	self.renderContext(opts.ContextKey)
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/refresh_helper.go b/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/refresh_helper.go
index 8ae62d9dd..a85c58cf2 100644
--- a/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/refresh_helper.go
+++ b/pkg/gui/controllers/helpers/refresh_helper.go
@@ -1216,11 +1216,11 @@ func (self *RefreshHelper) onUIThread(background bool, f func() error) {
 // runs on the UI thread (calledFromWorker is false) fn runs inline; when it runs
 // on a worker, fn is dispatched to the UI thread and we block for it.
 //
-// The inline case matters for correctness as much as the hop: a SYNC refresh
-// initiated on the UI thread parks that thread in a wg.Wait while its scope
-// workers run, so a scope worker that tried to hop to the UI thread there would
-// deadlock. Capturing before those workers are spawned — inline, on the UI
-// thread — avoids that entirely.
+// The inline case matters for correctness as much as the hop: OnUIThreadAndWait
+// must not be called from the UI thread itself (it would park the thread
+// waiting for a callback that only it can run), and capturing inline also
+// guarantees the snapshot reflects the state at the moment Refresh was called,
+// before the calling handler regains control and can mutate it.
 func (self *RefreshHelper) captureOnUIThread(calledFromWorker bool, background bool, fn func()) {
 	if !calledFromWorker {
 		fn()
diff --git a/pkg/gui/controllers/remotes_controller.go b/pkg/gui/controllers/remotes_controller.go
index 76bd16bb1..cd05e5ff9 100644
--- a/pkg/gui/controllers/remotes_controller.go
+++ b/pkg/gui/controllers/remotes_controller.go
@@ -159,8 +159,7 @@ func (self *RemotesController) addAndCheckoutRemote(remoteName string, remoteUrl
 	// Refresh the remotes so that we can select the new one. The remotes model
 	// update is bounced onto the UI thread, so the selection (which reads
 	// Model.Remotes) has to run in Then; reading it inline here would see the
-	// previous model. Loading remotes is not expensive, so a sync refresh is
-	// affordable.
+	// previous model.
 	self.c.Refresh(types.RefreshOptions{
 		Scope: []types.RefreshableView{types.REMOTES},
 		Then: func() error {