Replace the StartPty stub with a real ConPTY implementation:
CreatePipe + CreatePseudoConsole + PROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_PSEUDOCONSOLE
+ CreateProcess. Pagers and external diff tools now get real terminal
behavior instead of being handed pipes.
One Windows-specific quirk worth flagging: ConPTY does not EOF the
output pipe when the child exits; conhost keeps it alive until
ClosePseudoConsole is called explicitly. A background waiter goroutine
calls ClosePseudoConsole as soon as proc.Wait returns, so callers see
EOF on outRead — restoring the Unix master-fd-EOFs-when-slave-closes
semantics they depend on.
The ErrPtyUnsupported sentinel and the no-pty fallback in newPtyTask
are gone now that both platforms have a real implementation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the pty master behind a small interface (Read/Write/Close/Resize),
and push the actual startup into a platform-specific StartPty function
in pkg/commands/oscommands. The Unix implementation still uses
creack/pty; the Windows implementation is a stub that returns
ErrPtyUnsupported, at which point newPtyTask falls back to a plain cmd
task — matching the existing Windows behavior.
The primitive lives in oscommands rather than pkg/gui because the
cmd_obj_runner pty handler (also in oscommands) is going to consume it
too, and tasks → oscommands is the existing dependency direction.
Same observable behavior on every platform; this just carves out a seam
for a real ConPTY implementation on Windows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Windows ConPTY can't attach a child process to a pseudoconsole via
os/exec — Go's stdlib doesn't expose PROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_PSEUDOCONSOLE
(golang/go#62708). The ConPTY path has to call CreateProcess directly,
so it can't hand an *exec.Cmd back to the task runner.
Widen NewCmdTask to accept a small Cmd interface satisfied by both
*exec.Cmd (via the ExecCmd adapter) and the Windows ConPTY command type
we're about to add. Change TerminateProcessGracefully to take
*os.Process, which both cmd shapes can provide.
Behavior is unchanged on every platform.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Commit d94f2f05 dropped the GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0 env var that we used
to set on every git command, and re-added lock suppression only as a
--no-optional-locks flag on the background files refresh. The intent
was sound — a foreground `git status` should persist git's refreshed
stat-cache — but the change was too broad: it stopped suppressing
optional locks for every other command too.
The one that bites is the main-view diff. When a folder containing
submodules is selected, we render `git diff --submodule -- <dir>`, and
`--submodule` makes git run `git status` inside each submodule to
describe its "modified" state. That status now grabs the submodule's
index.lock. It runs as a PTY task on its own goroutine, so it races
any submodule-mutating action the user triggers — e.g. resetting a
submodule runs `git -C <submodule> stash`, which then fails with
"index.lock: File exists". This is what made submodule/reset_folder
flaky. `git status` is in fact the only command that takes the
optional lock, but the env var also covered its use inside `git diff
--submodule`, inside PTY-run commands, and inside git's own submodule
child processes — none of which a per-command flag reaches cleanly.
Invert the polarity to match how it worked before d94f2f05: the git
command builder disables optional locks on every command by default,
and the single command that benefits from taking the lock — the
foreground files refresh — opts back in. This restores the original
contention avoidance (including against the user's terminal git) while
keeping d94f2f05's stat-cache-persistence win for the foreground
refresh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This reverts commit eb988395e6, which removed the wrapper on the
grounds that it no longer had anything to do but delegate. We're about
to give it a job again: hosting a git-specific default environment
variable on every command. Restore the scaffolding first, as a pure
behaviour-preserving step, so the behaviour change that follows is
minimal.
When a conflicted submodule is selected, the main view shows the commits
each side added relative to their common ancestor as two indented logs,
labelled current and incoming, so it's clear which commit each side would
resolve to.
The logs aren't truncated (the view scrolls). If a side added no commits
of its own (e.g. it was rewound to an ancestor of the other), its head
commit is shown instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When both sides of a merge moved a submodule's gitlink, git reports it as "UU".
Pressing space used to fall into the submodule no-op guard and pop the confusing
"Nothing to stage..." error, and enter just entered the submodule, which does
nothing to resolve the superproject conflict.
Treat a conflicted submodule like the other non-textual conflicts: both space
and enter now open a picker offering the two candidate commits, "current" and
"incoming", each labelled with its summary. `git checkout --ours/--theirs` is a
no-op on gitlinks, so we resolve by checking the submodule out at the chosen
commit and staging it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The unit tests only assert the arguments lazygit constructs; they can't
catch cmd.exe's own quote-stripping, which is where #5560 actually
manifested. This test builds a small editor executable, places it and
the file it opens at paths containing spaces, runs it through real
cmd.exe via NewShell, and checks the editor received the intended args.
It runs only on Windows.
Co-Authored-By: Antoine Gaudreau Simard <a.simard@multidev.net>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
lazygit builds a shell command by interpolating Quote'd arguments into a
template and running the result via `cmd /c`. Several things were wrong
on Windows:
- Quote emitted bash-style `\"…\"` quoting, which cmd.exe doesn't
understand. Making it usable at all previously required a fragile
round-trip through str.ToArgv and re-escaping.
- The assembled command line was handed to `cmd /c` without `/s`, so
cmd's default rules stripped the wrong quotes once the line contained
more than two of them (e.g. a quoted editor path at a location with
spaces, plus a quoted filename that also contains spaces).
- Shell metacharacters were escaped with `^` (`&` → `^&`, etc.), which
neutralised command chaining, pipes, redirection and `%VAR%` expansion
in custom commands.
Quote now emits the standard Windows convention directly, and NewShell
hands cmd.exe the fully-assembled line verbatim via SysProcAttr.CmdLine,
wrapped as `cmd /s /c "<command>"`. The /s flag strips exactly the outer
quote pair we add, leaving each argument's own quoting intact. With the
`^` escaping gone, metacharacters in a custom command reach cmd as the
author intended; this also removes the spurious `^` reported in #3092.
Fixes#5560Fixes#2427Fixes#4147
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On Windows, NewShell escapes shell metacharacters (`&`, `|`, `<`, `>`,
`%`) with `^` and splits the command into separate arguments. The
operators in a custom command therefore never reach cmd as operators,
so command chaining (`&&`), pipes, redirection and `%VAR%` expansion all
silently break (#2427, #4147, #5113; the stray `^` is also what #3092
reports).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On Windows, Quote wraps arguments in bash-style `\"…\"` and rewrites
embedded double quotes as `"'"'"`. Neither convention is understood by
cmd.exe or CommandLineToArgvW, so commands built from quoted arguments
are mis-parsed once they contain quotes or spaces (#5560).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The wrapper existed to add a git-specific env var to every command. Now
that that's gone, its New/NewShell/Quote methods just delegated to the
inner builder. The only remaining git-specific behavior — the command
runner — is attached in the constructor via CloneWithNewRunner, which
already returns a complete builder, so we can return that directly and
drop the wrapper struct.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
We set GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0 for every git command we run. That env var
only affects `git status`: it tells git not to take the optional lock it
would otherwise use to write the index back after refreshing the cached
stat information. The intent was to avoid contending for index.lock with
git commands the user runs in a terminal.
The downside is that our `git status` never persists the refreshed
stat-cache. So whenever the working tree's cached stat info goes stale
(e.g. editing files and discarding the changes, or a checkout), every
subsequent status re-hashes the affected files to confirm they're clean,
and stays slow until something else writes the index (such as the user
running `git status` in a terminal).
Fix this by only suppressing optional locks for refreshes that run
unattended in the background; foreground refreshes triggered by a user
action now run a plain `git status` that writes the refreshed index back,
just like the command line does. Background refreshes keep passing
--no-optional-locks so they still can't cause lock contention.
RefreshOptions gains a Background flag that the background routines set,
threaded down to the status command.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A cheap fingerprint of local branches and HEAD that future code can poll to
detect when refs have moved externally.
Branches come from a porcelain for-each-ref. HEAD is read directly from
.git/HEAD: that avoids spawning a child process and captures the symref-or-hash
distinction we need to tell "detached at X" apart from "on a branch pointing at
X" — they share a commit hash, which is exactly the situation at the end of a
rebase when HEAD reattaches to the branch. The reftable backend doesn't keep a
real .git/HEAD (it writes a fixed stub), so when we see that stub or the file is
unreadable we fall back to porcelain commands, which are backend-agnostic.
Uses DontLog so a future polling caller won't spam the command log. Not yet
wired up to any caller.
A submodule that only has dirty or untracked content (no new commit) can't
be staged from the parent repo, but it still shows up as having unstaged
changes. Pressing stage on it therefore briefly flashed as staged and then
reverted, without explaining why nothing was staged.
Detect this case (via `git submodule status`, where a '+' prefix marks a
stageable commit change) in the shared stage/unstage decision: if the only
thing that looks stageable is such a submodule, don't try to stage it.
Instead unstage if there's anything staged to unstage, so the toggle stays
symmetric; otherwise show an error explaining that there's nothing to stage.
Because the decision is shared, this covers both the stage (space) and
stage-all (a) keybindings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a user switches into a repo whose .envrc hasn't been approved with
`direnv allow`, the previous behavior was to drop a "blocked" error
popup and leave the user to fix it externally. That meant opening a
terminal, running `direnv allow`, and then either restarting lazygit or
switching repos and back to refresh the env — easy to get wrong, easy
to forget.
When `direnv export json` exits non-zero, follow up with `direnv status
--json` to ask direnv whether the current directory has a not-yet-
allowed .envrc, and if so, get its path. Then show a confirmation popup
with the .envrc contents inline so the user can read what they're
approving. Confirming runs `direnv allow <path>` and re-runs the load
so the new env reaches subprocesses immediately; cancelling leaves the
env unloaded (the same state as before this commit when direnv refused
to load the .envrc).
Using `direnv status --json` instead of parsing the "is blocked"
stderr line means we rely on direnv's structured output rather than
its human-readable error format, which is more stable across versions
and avoids assumptions about output formatting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a user opens a repo from the recent-repos menu or jumps between
worktrees inside lazygit, only the env vars present at process startup
reach subprocesses. That breaks pre-commit hooks and other tools whose
dependencies are pulled in by a per-repo .envrc — users were left with
read-only operations because the env their shell would normally load via
direnv never made it into lazygit's git invocations.
Shell out to `direnv export json` after each chdir and apply the JSON
delta via os.Setenv/Unsetenv. direnv tracks the previous load in its own
DIRENV_DIFF env var, so the delta also unloads vars from the old repo
when entering one without a matching .envrc. If direnv isn't on PATH the
call is a no-op, so users who don't use direnv pay nothing and users who
do need no config to opt in. Any stderr direnv emits (loading messages,
"blocked .envrc" errors, etc.) goes to the command log.
The integration test puts a fake direnv on PATH and asserts that a value
it exports reaches a custom command after switching repos. Wiring this
up needed runner.go to support `{{actualPath}}` placeholders in
ExtraEnvVars, mirroring the existing support for ExtraCmdArgs, so the
test can prepend a fixture-relative directory to PATH.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
git-flow-next (https://github.com/gittower/git-flow-next) uses a
different config schema than legacy git-flow:
gitflow.branch.<type>.prefix instead of gitflow.prefix.<type>.
Recognize both schemas in GetGitFlowPrefixMap by querying each and
merging into a single prefix → branchType map. GitFlowEnabled now
consults the merged map so a next-only setup counts as enabled.
When both schemas configure the same prefix, the legacy entry wins.
In normal usage both schemas agree, so the rule mainly matters as a
deterministic tie-breaker.
Lift the inline parsing in FinishCmdObj into parseGitFlowPrefixMap on
ConfigCommands. The caller now does a direct map lookup against the
parsed prefix → branchType map instead of iterating the raw config
output and suffix-matching. This is preparation for adding git-flow-next
support, which needs to merge a second config schema into the same map.
One incidental change: a branch name without a slash now returns
NotAGitFlowBranch immediately, rather than falling through the
line loop with an empty suffix. Previously a configured
gitflow.prefix.X whose value happened to equal the entire branch
name could match — never a useful outcome.
Compile them only once at startup. I didn't measure if this makes a difference,
but it's easy to do, and now that we potentially need to check them more often,
it might be worth it.
The branches-panel PR icons only worked for github.com remotes. There was no
fundamental reason — the auth library we already vendor (cli/go-gh) supports
enterprise tokens out of the box (GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN, gh auth's keyring),
and the user-facing 'services' config has long been the documented way to
tell lazygit "this domain is a github service" for the View-PR-URL feature.
The fetcher just hardcoded github.com in three places:
- a substring check on the remote URL to decide we're "in a github repo",
- the GraphQL endpoint (always api.github.com/graphql), and
- the auth lookup (always against the default host).
Plumb the resolved web domain through instead. Detection now goes through
the hosting_service ("is this remote's provider 'github'?"), which means a
user with services: { 'git.acme.com': 'github:git.acme.com' } configured
gets PR icons on their GHE remotes too.
Replacing the substring check with a provider check also tightens a latent
bug in getGithubRemotes: it previously accepted any remote whose URL parsed
with the default regex, including gitlab and bitbucket — masked today only
by the InGithubRepo gate, but exposed once the gate goes away.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The github pull-request fetcher needs to know whether a given remote is a
github-type service, which host its API lives on, and which owner/repo to
query against. Today the fetcher hardcodes the first two ("does the URL
contain github.com" and "https://api.github.com/graphql") and re-derives
owner/repo from the remote, which precludes GitHub Enterprise and makes
the fetch entry point take more arguments than it needs.
Add an accessor on the hosting service manager that exposes the already-
resolved service domain together with the parsed owner/repo, so callers
can answer all of these questions without reaching into the manager's
internals.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Windows cannot remove files while handles are still open. In
TestOSCommandFileType we created files and immediately called RemoveAll without
closing handles, which left untracked artifacts (e.g. "testFile" and "file with
spaces") in the working tree. Close the handles and assert RemoveAll succeeds so
cleanup failures are visible.
I copied all files except dot files (.github and .gitignore), the _examples
folder, and go.mod/go.sum.
At some point we may want to copy the files back to the gocui repo when other
clients (e.g. lazydocker) want to use the newer versions of them.
Callers currently hand this function a trimmed description, so the output is
always clean. An upcoming change to the commit-panel getters will stop trimming
at the callsite (so that whitespace typed by the user round-trips through the
preservation file exactly), at which point the description can end with one or
more newlines. Without this change, a user who presses Enter after their
description body and then invokes "Add co-author" would end up with two blank
lines between the body and the trailer instead of the expected one.
Extends the existing retry logic to handle transient lock-related errors beyond just .git/index.lock. This now also retries when encountering "cannot lock ref" or "cannot update ref" errors, which can occur intermittently during fetch/pull operations in large repositories.
Related to #5124
Signed-off-by: majiayu000 <1835304752@qq.com>
Normalizes the repository owner to lowercase during the PR
mapping.
This ensures that PR icons and integration features work correctly even
when the local git remote URL casing differs from the official
repository casing on GitHub.
Add GitHubCommands struct with GraphQL-based PR fetching, and
GithubPullRequest model. Wire HostingService and GitHub command
structs into GitCommand.
Co-authored-by: Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de>
Extract parseRemoteUrl helper to avoid duplication between
getRepoURLFromRemoteURL and new getRepoNameFromRemoteURL.
Add repoNameTemplate to ServiceDefinition and GetRepoName() to
HostingServiceMgr. Add GetRepoInfoFromURL for callers that need
owner/repo without a full service lookup.
This is probably the less severe case, but it could still be an issue for people
who have many modified top-level files they want to discard, and have
showRootItemInFileTree set to false; they could select all those files by
pressing 'v' and '>'.
Previously it would iterate over all changed files and call git checkout or git
reset for each one, which can take forever if there are hundreds or thousands of
files. Now it batches these into a single command if possible (taking care of
still passing the individual path names to the git call rather than just the
directory, which is necessary for making it work correctly when filtering --
this was actually broken for the "Discard unstaged changes" command, which is
fixed here).
We have integration tests for this functionality, but those only test the
behavior, not the performance. In these unit tests you can see that we make
individual calls to git checkout and git reset for each file, which is very slow
when there are lots of files.
Previously it would only check that *if* removeFile was called, the passed
argument was the expected one; but it didn't check whether it was called at all.
Improve this by recording the file names that are removed, and checking them at
the end of each scenario.
This is going to be even more important for the tests that we are about to add
in the next commit, because for those there can be several calls to removeFile
in a single scenario.
This fixes the problem; a consequence of this change is that given the following
scenario:
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
1
-2
+2b
3
staging only the line `+2b` will put it *before* the unchanged `2` line, rather
than after it as you might expect (the changed unit tests demonstrate this).
Since this should be a pretty uncommon scenario, I guess it is an ok compromise.
As you can see in the changed tests, while the behavior of what gets staged is
fixed now, it doesn't always correctly select the next line to stage. We'll
address this in the next commit.
This commit implements the ability to cycle backward through different
all branches log visualization modes, complementing the existing forward
cycling functionality. Users can now press 'A' (Shift+a) to cycle in
reverse through the available log graph views, improving navigation
efficiency when they overshoot their desired view.
Changes:
- Added RotateAllBranchesLogIdxBackward() method to BranchCommands for
backward rotation through log command candidates
- Introduced AllBranchesLogGraphReverse keybinding configuration with
default key 'A' (uppercase)
- Implemented switchToOrRotateAllBranchesLogsBackward() handler in
StatusController that mirrors forward cycling logic
- Added English translation for "Show/cycle all branch logs (reverse)"
The implementation uses modulo arithmetic with proper handling of
negative indices to ensure seamless backward cycling through the
available log visualization options.
When .git/info directory does not exist (can happen with bare clones
or manual deletion), the Exclude function failed with 'no such file
or directory'. Added os.MkdirAll to create the directory before
opening the exclude file.
Added integration test exclude_without_info_dir that removes .git/info
before attempting to exclude a file.
The worktrees tab now displays the checked-out branch (or detached HEAD
state) for each worktree, making it much easier to see which worktree
holds which branch.
This is useful when you need to "unlock" a branch that's occupied by
another worktree: you can now clearly see which worktrees are on a
branch vs detached, without having to select each one individually.
Also rename the "(main)" label to "(main worktree)" to avoid confusion
with the common "main" branch name, and move it after the branch column.
Change working tree files and commit files panels to use filtering
(reducing the list) instead of search (highlighting matches). This
matches the behavior of other filterable views.
The text filter matches against the full file path, not just the
filename, which is more useful for navigating large directory trees.
When toggling a directory for a custom patch while a text filter is
active, only the visible filtered files in the directory are affected,
consistent with how staging a directory in the files panel works.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Paths added to ignore/exclude files need to be prefixed with a forward
slash to point to a specific file in the directory tree.
Without that prefix a file at root called `file` (added to `.gitignore`
as `file`) would match with `./file` and `./src/file`.
Not used yet, we pass an empty string everywhere, to match the previous
behavior. Just extracting this into a separate commit to make the next one
smaller.
Co-authored-by: Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de>
When marking commits as good or bad during a bisect, a "git rev-list" call would
appear in the Command log. This is confusing, it's an internal detail that is
not interesting for the user to see.
When opening a PR, a "git ls-remote" call would appear in the Command log. This
is confusing, it's an internal detail that is not interesting for the user to
see.
Codeberg is a Gitea-based git hosting service that uses the same URL
patterns for pull requests and commits. This adds native support so
users don't need to manually configure it.
However, show it when there was an error. This is important for the case that a
fork that you have as a remote was deleted, in which case the command log is the
only way to get notified about that.
This allows for having extra slashes in git urls, for example to avoid
warnings with older bitbake fetcher implementations in yocto. Which
warns about a missing / in git urls
This will put whatever git's default merge variant is as the first menu item,
and add a second item which is the opposite (no-ff if the default is ff, and
vice versa).
If users prefer to always have the same option first no matter whether it's
applicable, they can make ff always appear first by setting git's "merge.ff"
config to "true" or "only", or by setting lazygit's "git.merging.args" config to
"--ff" or "--ff-only"; if they want no-ff to appear first, they can do that by
setting git's "merge.ff" config to "false", or by setting lazygit's
"git.merging.args" config to "--no-ff". Which of these they choose depends on
whether they want the config to also apply to other git clients including the
cli, or only to lazygit.
- Squash and FastForwardOnly are mutually exclusive, and instead of asserting
this at runtime, model the API so that they can't be passed together.
- FastForwardOnly is unused, so remove it; however, we are going to need --ff
and --no-ff in the next commit, so add those instead.
- Instead of putting the enum into the MergeOpts struct, replace the struct by
the enum. We can reintroduce the struct when we add more arguments, but for
now it's an unnecessary indirection.
This is an object that is owned by Gui, is accessible through GuiCommon.State(),
and also passed down to GitCommand, where it is mostly needed. Right now it
simply wraps access to the Git.Paging config, which isn't very exciting, but
we'll extend it in the next commit to handle a slice of pagers (and maintain the
currently selected pager index), and doing this refactoring up front allows us
to make that change without having to touch clients.
Fixes#4890
When Git is configured with status.renames=copies, it can produce
status codes starting with "C" (copy) in addition to "R" (rename).
The file loader was only checking for "R" prefixes, causing copy
operations to be parsed incorrectly and breaking file staging.
This fix extends the status parser to handle both "R" and "C"
prefixes, ensuring proper support for Git's copy detection feature.
Fixes file staging issues when using status.renames=copies configuration.
Our logic to decide if a file needs to be checked out from the previous commit
or deleted because it didn't exist in the previous commit didn't work for
submodules. We were using `git cat-file -e` to ask whether the file existed, but
this returns an error for submodules, so we were always deleting those instead
of reverting them back to their previous state.
Switch to using `git ls-tree -- file` instead, which works for both files and
submodules.
When cycling to the last branch log command, and then editing the config to
remove one or more log commands, lazygit would crash with an out of bounds panic
when returning to it. Fix this by resetting the log index to 0 when it is out of
bounds. (I think resetting to 0 is better than clamping, although it doesn't
matter much.)
I know that uint was chosen to document that it can't be negative (not sure why
the "8" was chosen, though). That's pointless in languages that don't enforce
this though: you can subtract 1 from uint8(0) and you'll get something that
doesn't make sense; that's not any better than getting -1. I'm not a fan of
using unsigned types in general (at least in languages like go or C++), and they
usually just make the code more cumbersome without real benefits.
Some users reported that en_US.UTF-8 is not available on their systems, leading
to warnings in the command log. "C" also forces the language to English, and is
guaranteed to be available everywhere.
Replace merge-tool with merge options menu that allows resolving all
conflicts for selected files as ours, theirs, or union, while still
providing access to the merge tool.
Previously, the feedback you got when pressing "-" was just a "Checking out..."
status in the bottom line. This was both easy to miss if you are used to looking
for an inline status in the branches panel, and it didn't provide information
about which branch was being checked out, which can be annoying in very large
repos where checking out takes a while, and you only see at the end if you are
now on the right branch.
Improve this by trying to figure out which branch was the previously checked out
one, and then checking it out normally so that you get an inline status next to
it (as if you had pressed space on it). There are cases where this fails, e.g.
when the previously checked out ref was a detached head, in which case we fall
back to the previous behavior.
When you delete a branch, we call this function to determine whether we need to
ask for confirmation of not. We don't want to log this, because it's not a
command that a user would normally use as part of this operation.
This is similar to using lazygit's Git.Paging.ExternalDiffCommand config, except
that the command is configured in git. This can be done either with git's
`diff.external` config, or through .gitattributes, so it gives a bit more
flexibility.
Many people don't understand what this means, which is apparent from the amount
of issues that got filed because of this. Let's get rid of it to avoid this
confusion. People will have to configure their pager twice if they want to use
it both on the command line and in lazygit, which I think is not a big deal.
