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Stefan Haller bc9fafff02 Make the conflict marker size a parameter of our marker matching
Git doesn't always write conflict markers of seven characters: the
conflict-marker-size gitattribute overrides that per file, and it is set
for good reasons — for file types whose regular content tends to contain
marker-looking lines, such as documentation about merging, or test
scripts. We hard-code seven characters everywhere we look for markers,
so none of that works.

Prepare for honoring the attribute by threading the marker size through
everything that recognizes a marker, carried on the file model. Nothing
fills it in yet, so we still use git's default size of seven everywhere,
and matching is unchanged: a marker consists of exactly that many marker
characters, and all but the "=======" one are followed by a space and a
label.
2026-08-08 12:43:42 +02:00
Stefan Haller f8b7bab1ab Decide the commit graph from the loaded list, not the filtering mode
Whether a graph can be drawn was read from the filtering mode, while the
graph itself is drawn over the commit list in the model. Those two only
agree once the list has been reloaded for the new mode, and a filtering
mode change reloads the list in the background, so in between we can be
asked to draw a graph over a list the graph makes no sense for.

That is not just cosmetic. Commits in a filtered list are almost never
each other's parents, so no pipe ever terminates: the pipe set grows by
one per row and every continuing pipe rescans it, which is cubic in the
length of the list. Escaping out of filtering mode with a filtered list
of 13000 commits — as you get once the 300 commit limit has been lifted,
which happens for good as soon as the selection passes COMMIT_THRESHOLD
— wedges the UI thread for around twenty minutes.

Record whether the list was loaded with a filter, right where the list
itself is stored, and decide from that. The graph now also stays up while
the pre-change list is still on display, rather than vanishing a moment
before the list it belongs to.
2026-08-05 17:29:20 +02:00
Stefan Haller 47471c501b Move Github PR cache out of state.yml into a separate file
Having the cache in state.yml causes this file to be rewritten every
60s, which is annoying if you have a lazygit running in the background
somewhere without even realizing it, and it keeps overwriting the
foreground lazygit's newer command shell history and recent repos list
with its stale data. State.yml should only contain things that change in
response to user actions, not periodically.
2026-08-02 19:09:22 +02:00
Stefan Haller ff26f61ffd Carry aggregate check state with GitHub pull requests
GitHub exposes a combined status for the head commit without requiring
individual check contexts. Include that rollup in the existing request
and startup cache so every consumer sees the same state without making a
second network request.
2026-07-31 09:01:44 +02:00
Stefan Haller 3d9318e2a7 Preserve commit clicks during focus refreshes
This fixes the problem described in the previous commit; we no longer
capture the selection at the start of the refresh. There's no reason to
do that (we don't do it for branches either). It is enough to capture
the selection in the final bounce, before we assign the new model slice.
2026-07-24 15:32:19 +02:00
Stefan Haller b96b8a9753 Add RefreshBlockingInput to buffer keypresses until a refresh has landed
A refresh from the UI thread returns immediately and applies its model
and view updates as queued UI-thread callbacks. A key pressed before
those have run is handled against the stale, pre-refresh state. For most
keys that's harmless, but some handlers turn that state into git
commands: pressing space twice in quick succession in the staging panel
builds the second patch from the already-applied diff and fails with
'patch does not apply', because the refresh after the first press is
what moves the selection to the next stageable hunk.

Notably, this is not just a regression of the recent change that made
UI-thread refreshes non-blocking; the window was merely much narrower
before. A blocking refresh parked the UI thread while the scopes'
bounces were queued, and the event loop drains pending keyboard input
with priority over queued user events, so a key pressed during the
blocked window still beat the queued state updates. The guarantee that
the next keypress sees post-refresh state had already ended when the
scopes' state updates moved from worker-side mutex-guarded writes to
UI-thread bounces.

Fix it with the input-blocking mechanism we already use for commit
surgery, exposed as a new RefreshBlockingInput entry point: it begins
blocking events synchronously in the calling handler, and ends the
block from a callback that the finishing step queues behind the
refresh's own updates. Keys pressed while the refresh is in flight are
buffered and replayed, in order, against the fully refreshed state;
since a replayed key's handler re-enters this same path, a burst of
keypresses applies sequentially, each one seeing the previous one's
refresh. Unlike the old blocking refreshes, this doesn't freeze the UI
thread: rendering, spinners, resizing, and mouse scrolling keep working
while input is withheld.

Blocking input is opt-in per call site rather than the default for all
UI-thread refreshes, because most refreshes (the focus-in and startup
refreshes, say) don't produce state that the next keypress depends on,
and blocking on them would delay typing for no reason. It should also be
limited to quick, narrow-scoped refreshes: a full refresh, or any scope
that pulls in COMMITS, can take very long in large repos and should
usually not hold up input.

The staging panel's stage/discard/edit-hunk refreshes use it now.
2026-07-22 08:31:11 +02:00
Stefan Haller 2e653ceeba Update comments that still describe the removed blocking refresh mode
A few comments still reasoned in terms of SYNC vs ASYNC refreshes, a
distinction that no longer exists: sync vs async is now derived from the
calling thread. Restate them in terms of the current mechanisms
(RefreshFromWorker blocking its worker, model updates being enqueued on
the UI thread) without changing any behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 22:23:58 +02:00
Stefan Haller e0b8dbf48c Resolve the refresh's file reads against its repo root
The refresh workers read a few files at paths relative to the process
working directory: the submodule config read of .gitmodules, the files
refresh's check for conflict markers, and the submodule stash's
existence check. Git commands are pinned to the repo their instance was
created for, but these Go file reads still followed the cwd, so a
background refresh crossing a repo switch would read the new repo's
files while computing data for the old one. Join them with the worktree
root of the instance they belong to. (Most git-state file reads —
working tree state, rebase todos, bisect info — already resolve
against RepoPaths and need no change.)

This also fixes the submodule stash's existence check for nested
submodules: it stat'ed submodule.Path, which is relative to the parent
module, against the repo root — now it uses the submodule's full path,
matching the stash command right below it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 17:07:39 +02:00
Stefan Haller ae095f276b Don't refuse a repo switch during a pure refresh
The refreshes on focus-in, right after a repo switch, and after
returning from a subprocess are full foreground refreshes, so their
tasks kept Busy() true for as long as the slowest scope took — and any
switch attempt in that window was refused with the "can't switch"
toast. The focus-in one is particularly annoying: focusing lazygit is
often precisely what the user does in order to switch repos, and right
after regaining focus is when a refresh takes longest.

Blocking the switch bought nothing there. The refusal exists for user
operations, whose follow-up work (e.g. a Then callback reading the
model) isn't covered by the switch-safety guards; but these refreshes
merely reload state, and a refresh by itself is now switch-safe: its
git commands run against the repo it was started for, and the
generation guard drops its updates when the repo changed.

We can't just mark them Background, because that flag also decides
whether the files refresh lets git take optional locks to persist its
refreshed stat cache — worth doing for an attended refresh, and the
focus-in refresh (typically running right after external changes) is
the case that profits most. So split the two meanings: a new
DontBlockRepoSwitch option dispatches the refresh's tasks as background
tasks (excluded from Busy()) while keeping the attended optional-locks
behavior. Combining it with Then panics, since Then is not
generation-guarded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 17:07:39 +02:00
Stefan Haller 8e045653be Don't pop up errors from a refresh worker once the repo was switched
An error returned from a gocui worker is shown to the user in an error
popup. For the branch loader's behind-counts worker that used to be the
"no such ref" popup when a background refresh crossed a repo switch:
the old repo's main branch didn't exist in the new repo. The previous
commits fix that scenario properly — the command now runs against the
repo the refresh was started for — but a stale worker can still fail
legitimately, most plausibly because that repo was deleted after
switching away from it (e.g. removing a worktree). Its results are
dropped anyway, so log the error instead of alarming the user about a
repo they already left.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 17:07:39 +02:00
Stefan Haller 7c0fa9fe33 Run a refresh's git commands through the instance captured at its start
A background refresh's model writes are dropped by the generation guard
when the repo is switched mid-flight, but its git commands kept running
— and because the refresh read the live git instance at each step, any
command issued after the switch ran against the new repo. Now that git
commands are pinned to the directory of the instance they were built
from, capture the instance once when the refresh starts and run every
scope's git work through it, so a switch-crossing refresh keeps
addressing the repo it was started for.

The instance is captured together with the repo generation, on the UI
thread (where repo switches run), so the pair can't straddle a switch:
an old instance paired with the new generation would compute data from
the old repo and write it into the new repo's model unguarded.

This also removes the refresh workers' unsynchronized reads of the live
instance pointer, which raced its reassignment on the UI thread when a
background refresh crossed a repo switch (foreground refreshes can't
cross one: they keep Busy() true, which refuses the switch).

Two reads keyed app-state by the live instance's repo path on a worker
and now use the captured instance, fixing which repo they file under
when crossing a switch: the pull-request cache, and the "user dismissed
the base-remote prompt" flag. The base-remote menu's handlers keep
reading the live instance: a switch dismisses any open popup, so they
can't run against the wrong repo (and the OnPress body runs under a
foreground task, which blocks switching anyway).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 17:07:39 +02:00
Stefan Haller 096a710761 Refresh pull requests through the regular refresh after picking a base remote
When the user picks a base remote in the "select remote repository"
prompt, we called setGithubPullRequests directly, bypassing the refresh
machinery — which meant hand-rolling the refresh env that call needs
(with a comment explaining why), and fetching against the branches
captured when the prompt was created. Issue a PULL_REQUESTS-scoped
refresh instead: it re-reads branches and remotes (both fast even in
large repos), fetches against those fresh values, and gets the refresh
machinery's guarantees without any special-casing. The config write is
re-read by the refresh from git config, so it is guaranteed to be
picked up.

The waiting status now covers the config write and the branches/remotes
reload, while the GitHub request itself continues as a background task
— which is how every other pull-request fetch behaves.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 17:07:39 +02:00
Stefan Haller 5055c4fb65 Fetch GitHub pull requests as a background task
Every full refresh includes the PULL_REQUESTS scope, and the worker it
spawns inherited the refresh's foreground/background flag. Full
foreground refreshes happen at startup, after switching repos or
worktrees, and when the terminal regains focus, so the GitHub API
request ran as a foreground task there, keeping Busy() true until it
completed. On a healthy network that's a few hundred milliseconds and
nobody notices; on a very slow one the request can stall for minutes,
and every attempt to switch repos in that window was refused with
"Can't switch repositories while an operation is in progress" even
though lazygit looked completely idle. (The request has no visible
status; at most, a background fetch hanging on the same bad network was
showing its "Fetching..." spinner, pointing the blame at the wrong
operation.)

The switch-safety guard only needs to wait for operations whose
remaining git commands would run against the wrong repo after a switch.
The pull-request fetch runs no git commands at all, and its model
writes are dropped when the repo generation has changed in the
meantime, so there is no reason for it to block switching.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 13:37:23 +02:00
Stefan Haller 25a3689c01 Refresh the merge conflicts state on the UI thread
The "merge conflicts" refresh scope ran on a worker like the others, but
unlike them it does UI work rather than git work: RefreshMergeState reads
the current context and renders (or escapes) the merge-conflicts view.
Reading the context manager and rendering from a worker races the UI
thread. Bounce it onto the UI thread with onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged,
exactly as the staging and patch-building scopes already do.

Running on the UI thread also lets EscapeMerge push the files context
directly instead of deferring the push to a separate UI task; it only
needs to drop the merge-conflicts mutex first, because the push
renders the newly focused file, which can take the mutex again. The
deferred push could lose a race against the same refresh's prompt to
continue the rebase/merge: if the prompt opened between
RefreshMergeState and the deferred push, the push declined to cover
the popup and was dropped, so closing the prompt landed the user in
the emptied merge conflicts view.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 12:35:54 +02:00
Stefan Haller 2a7b74d3f3 Don't access Model in refreshReflogCommits
This was old code that was supposed to make a race less likely, but now
that we capture model stuff on the UI thread we don't need it any more.
2026-07-17 12:35:54 +02:00
Stefan Haller d48c8174d5 Refresh the patch-building panel on the UI thread
The patch-building scope ran RefreshPatchBuildingPanel directly on the
refresh worker, where it read the commit-files selection and set the patch
view's origin off the UI thread — the latter raced the UI thread's draw.
Bounce it onto the UI thread, exactly as the staging panel just above
already does, guarded on the generation so a repo switch drops it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 12:35:54 +02:00
Stefan Haller 4ff161b48d Don't wait for pull requests to be fetched in refresh
Fetching pull requests can take a long time, and we don't want to delay
the refresh by it; in particular, for a WithWaitingStatusBlockingInput
we want the UI thread to be unblocked again while pull requests are
still fetching in the background. This is similar to how we fetch the
behind values for branches in BranchLoader; this will update the UI
without much flicker when done, and doesn't have to block anything.
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller 2f60280eb6 Log Refresh timing information for both sync/async
For async refreshes (from UI thread) it would only log the time it took
to schedule the refreshXxx calls, which is not useful.
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller 9bb9fc8933 Run all refresh scopes on plain goroutines
The two branches of the `refresh` closure ran the scope function
identically; they differed only in that the UI-thread path registered
each scope as its own gocui task while the worker/demo path used a bare
goroutine (and only the latter logged per-scope timing).

Those per-scope tasks were redundant. performRefresh always runs under a
task that stays busy until the wg.Wait in waitAndFinalize joins every
scope goroutine: the calling worker's own task when called from a worker,
or the waitAndFinalize worker task when called from the UI thread — and
that task is created (busy) before the triggering event's task goes Done,
so there is no window in which nothing is busy. Repo-switch safety and the
integration-test idle signal are therefore already covered without giving
each scope its own task.

Collapsing to the single goroutine path also means the timing log now
fires for UI-thread refreshes too, not just worker ones.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller 88811e6795 Remove the RefreshMode field
With sync vs async now derived from the calling thread, the Mode field
and its SYNC/ASYNC constants no longer carry any information: Refresh is
always async, RefreshFromWorker always sync. Drop the field, the type,
and the Mode argument at every call site, and reduce the debug log's
mode name to a plain sync/async derived from calledFromWorker.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller 8580c78cc0 Derive sync vs async refresh from the calling thread
Whether a refresh should block or run in the background was controlled
by the Mode field, but that always lined up with the calling thread: a
UI-thread Refresh must not block the UI, while a RefreshFromWorker runs
on a worker where blocking is exactly what we want. Now that Then and
BatchUIUpdates work regardless of that choice, drop Mode from the
decision and key it off calledFromWorker instead:

  - Refresh (UI thread) runs its scopes and the finishing step (wait,
    batch flush, Then) on workers, so the caller returns immediately —
    what ASYNC used to mean.
  - RefreshFromWorker runs them on the calling worker, blocking it until
    everything is done — what SYNC used to mean.

Demos keep taking the blocking, inline path so everything still lands in
one deterministic frame.

In practice this flips the handful of RefreshFromWorker calls that
passed ASYNC — they now block their worker until the refresh finishes,
keeping the waiting-status spinner up until the UI actually updates —
and the many UI-thread refreshes that defaulted to SYNC, which no longer
freeze the UI thread while the git work runs. Mode now only feeds the
log line; the next commit removes it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller bfd3b7b47e Allow Then and BatchUIUpdates to work with an async refresh
Then, and BatchUIUpdates, previously only worked for a SYNC refresh: the
calling goroutine blocked in wg.Wait until every scope had finished, and
only then flushed the batch and ran Then. An ASYNC refresh had no such
join point — it dispatched each scope onto its own worker and returned
right away — so Then was forbidden (it would have run before the scopes
finished) and a batch would never be drained.

Give the async path a join of its own. Both paths now register their
scopes in the WaitGroup, and the finishing work — wg.Wait, the batch
flush, and Then — moves into a closure. A SYNC refresh runs it inline as
before; an ASYNC refresh dispatches it to a worker, so the caller still
returns immediately but the batch and Then run once every scope is done.

Besides lifting the restriction, this makes SYNC and ASYNC differ only
in whether the finishing work blocks the caller, which is what lets a
later commit drop the mode entirely and key the choice off the calling
thread instead.
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller f319522d5b Remove fRunsOnUIThread variable; use calledFromWorker directly
There is no f() function any more, so a variable named "f runs on"
doesn't make sense. And we also don't need it any more; it used to be
necessary when its meaning was not exactly the same as
`!calledFromWorker`, but also included the BLOCK_UI case, but that has
changed several commits ago.
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller d70d70aad2 Get rid of pointless f() indirection
This was useful when there was a BLOCK_UI mode where f() was called
differently, but now we no longer need it. I'm making this change as a
separate commit because folding it into the previous one (which would
conceptually have made sense) would have made that diff unreadable
because of the indentation change.

The variable `fRunsOnUIThread` and its comment no longer make sense now;
we'll clean this up next.

The diff is best viewed with --ignore-all-space.
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller 4acfc88065 Replace the BLOCK_UI refresh mode with a BatchUIUpdates flag
BLOCK_UI ran the whole refresh on the UI thread and parked it in a
wg.Wait for the duration, so the UI (and its spinner) froze while the
git work ran. Blocking the UI was never the point — the point was to
apply all the scopes' updates in one frame instead of a per-scope
cascade — and if we genuinely wanted to block input it should span the
whole operation, not just its refresh, which needs a gocui-level
mechanism we don't have.

So drop the mode and add a BatchUIUpdates option that achieves the
"one frame" effect without blocking: each scope's UI-thread bounce is
collected into a shared refreshBounceBatch during the refresh, and once
every scope has finished they're all applied inside a single OnUIThread
task. gocui drains every queued event before it redraws, so one task
means one repaint. The refresh itself now runs SYNC — on a worker when
issued from one (checkout, move-to-new-branch, the rebase-edit result
handling), so the UI thread stays live and the spinner keeps animating.

The batch needs a mutex because the scopes add concurrently from their
worker goroutines, and a closed flag so that any bounces enqueued after
the flush starts — the nested ones a flushed bounce produces in turn,
e.g. scrolling the selection into view — are dispatched immediately as
ordinary follow-ups rather than collected into a batch that nothing
will drain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller 504e5b3f74 Remove the error return value from the onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged lambda
All clients pass a function that returns nil.
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller 36f193a2e8 Remove return value from PromptToContinueRebase
It always returned nil.
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller d786c9d79b Escape the merge conflicts view before prompting to continue the rebase
When the last conflict of a file is resolved, a files refresh both
offers to continue the rebase/merge (if we started it ourselves) and,
via its merge-conflicts scope, escapes from the merge conflicts view
back to the files context. The two race: the prompt is bounced onto
the UI thread by the files worker, while the escape's context push is
queued separately by EscapeMerge, and it deliberately refuses to push
the files context over a popup. So if the prompt opens first, the
escape does nothing, and closing the prompt lands the user in the
stale merge conflicts view — usually already emptied by the escape's
state reset — instead of the files panel. No later refresh rescues
this.

Fix this by escaping from the merge conflicts view right before
opening the prompt. This runs on the UI thread and doesn't hold the
merge conflicts mutex, so it can reset the state and push the files
context synchronously; whichever side runs first, the prompt now
always opens on top of the files context, and EscapeMerge's guarded
push still does nothing only when that's the right thing to do.

This is a timing race with no deterministic regression test; it
showed up as a rare flake in tests that cancel the continue prompt
(e.g. commit/amend_when_there_are_conflicts_and_continue) when
looping the integration tests under the race detector.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 09:11:16 +02:00
Stefan Haller 19b34851ff Guard the view-render and prompt-dismiss bounces on the generation
The model-update bounces already drop themselves when the repo is
switched mid-refresh (onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged), but three bounces
that touch the UI without writing the model did not: refreshView's
render, the staging-panel refresh, and the stale continue-rebase prompt
dismissal. All three ran unconditionally on the UI thread, so a
background refresh in flight across a repo switch could render the old
repo's data (through a context object belonging to the now-replaced
context tree), or pop the new repo's popup based on the old repo's
prompt state.

Route them through onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged too, so they're dropped
alongside the model writes they accompany. This also fixes the dismiss
bounce using the raw foreground OnUIThread, which ignored the background
flag every other bounce in a background refresh respects.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:10:45 +02:00
Stefan Haller 2c3a6acafa Thread a refreshEnv through the refresh scopes
Every refresh scope needs two ambient values to bounce its model and
view updates back to the UI thread safely: the background flag (which
picks the dispatch variant that doesn't count towards lazygit being
busy) and the repo generation that guards the bounce against a repo
switch. These were threaded separately — background as a parameter on
every refreshXxx function, generation re-read from the model inside each
one. Bundle them into a single refreshEnv passed through instead, so the
guard has a home to grow into (the next commit needs the generation in
refreshView, which currently has no access to it).

Capturing the generation once, at the start of the refresh, is also more
correct than the previous per-function re-read. The baseline should
reflect the repo whose inputs the refresh snapshotted (all captured up
front on the UI thread), not whenever each scope's worker happens to
wake. With the per-function read, a background refresh whose worker woke
after a repo switch would read the new generation and let its bounce
through, writing data computed from the old repo's inputs into the new
repo; capturing up front makes that bounce drop instead.

No behavior change for foreground refreshes, where the UI thread is held
for the whole refresh and the generation can't move under it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:10:45 +02:00
Stefan Haller 5162a768eb Guard every refresh's entry point, not just the commits scope
With every scope's worker reads now captured on the UI thread and every
worker caller on RefreshFromWorker, the debug entry-point assertion no longer
needs to be scoped to the commits refresh. Move it to the top of
performRefresh so it guards every refresh regardless of which scopes it
touches, and drop the per-scope gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:10:45 +02:00
Stefan Haller fd6b20847a Capture the files, reflog, branches and stash refresh inputs
The remaining refresh scopes each still read model, context, and mode state
directly on their worker, racing the UI thread — the same class of race the
commits refresh had:

- files reads Model.Files (to detect resolved conflicts and drive the
  auto-stage) and the Files context's ForceShowUntracked;
- reflog reads the existing reflog slices (for the incremental fetch),
  Model.HashPool and the filtering path/author;
- branches reads Model.MainBranches and the previous branches (for the
  BehindBaseBranch carry-over);
- stash reads the filtering path.

Gather each scope's inputs into an immutable snapshot on the UI thread (via
captureOnUIThread) before dispatching the git work, and have the refresh
compute from the snapshot — for branches, threaded through both the immediate
and the recency-sorted startup loads, which share one snapshot (the
BehindBaseBranch carry-over is identical either way). Status, tags and
worktrees read nothing UI-owned, so they're left alone.

For the snapshots to actually run on the UI thread, the worker callers that
reach these scopes must announce themselves: convert the submodule
operations, the submodule stash-and-reset, and the background files poller
to RefreshFromWorker.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:10:45 +02:00
Stefan Haller 56989922e4 Capture the remotes/sub-commits/commit-files/rebase-commits inputs
These four refreshes each read model, context, and mode state directly on
their worker — the same class of race the commits refresh had:

- remotes reads the selected remote (Contexts().Remotes.GetSelected), needed
  to keep the remote-branches selection valid;
- sub-commits reads the SubCommits ref/limit/divergence, the filtering
  path/author, and Model.MainBranches/HashPool;
- commit-files reads the diff endpoints (CommitFiles from/to and the diffing
  args);
- rebase-commits reads Model.HashPool/Commits.

Give each the same treatment as commits: gather its inputs into an
immutable snapshot on the UI thread (via captureOnUIThread, inline for a
UI-thread refresh, hopped for a worker one) before dispatching the git work,
and have the refresh compute from the snapshot. The commit-files re-init
inside the commits refresh captures its endpoints in the bounce, right after
ReInit sets them, before dispatching to the worker.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:10:45 +02:00
Stefan Haller 988d04bda9 Assert a refresh uses the entry point matching its goroutine
Now that every commits-reaching refresh issued from a worker goes through
RefreshFromWorker, guard the choice: in debug builds, panic if a refresh was
issued from the UI thread as RefreshFromWorker or from a worker as Refresh.

The caller's own goroutine is recorded at the top of performRefresh, before
a BLOCK_UI refresh dispatches onto the UI thread, so the check holds for
every mode rather than being fooled by BLOCK_UI. It's scoped to the commits
refresh for now, the only converted scope; once the rest are converted the
guard can move up to cover every refresh unconditionally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:10:45 +02:00
Stefan Haller 080542c9fb Capture the commits refresh's inputs on the UI thread
A commits refresh does its git work on a worker and then reads the model,
the contexts, and the modes for that work directly from there:
LocalCommits.GetSelectionRangeAndMode/GetLimitCommits/GetShowWholeGitGraph,
Model.Commits/MainBranches/HashPool, the filtering path/author. Those are
owned by the UI thread, which is concurrently running the cursor and render
code, so the reads race it — the dominant, confirmed source of the
commits-scope flakes (the startup ClampSelection vs GetSelectionRangeAndMode
race, for one).

Gather them into an immutable capturedCommitState on the UI thread, before
the git work is dispatched, and have refreshCommitsWithLimit compute from
that snapshot. UI-thread callers capture inline; worker callers can't (a
SYNC/BLOCK_UI refresh parks the UI thread at wg.Wait, so hopping from a
scope sub-worker would deadlock), so the capture is lifted out of the scope
worker into the refresh orchestration, and worker callers announce
themselves with a new RefreshFromWorker entry point that hops the capture to
the UI thread and blocks for it (OnUIThreadAndWait). BLOCK_UI runs the whole
refresh on the UI thread regardless of the caller, so it captures inline
too.

Every refresh issued from a worker that reaches the commits (or branches,
which pulls in commits) scope is converted: the fast-forward, branch/tag
delete, worktree remove/detach, push, reword-via-rebase, author edits,
custom-command, hard-reset-with-autostash, reset-to-ref, fetch-and-checkout,
gpg-stream, post-fetch, and external-change-poller refreshes, plus the
branch checkout and move-commits-to-new-branch refreshes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:10:45 +02:00
Stefan Haller f0ea537956 Fetch pull requests using the freshly-loaded branches and remotes
The PR fetch needs the current branches (for their upstreams) and
remotes to know what to query. It read them from Model().Branches /
Model().Remotes on its own worker, after waiting on branchesAndRemotesWg
for the branches and remotes refreshes to finish.

That wait no longer guarantees fresh data: those refreshes now write the
model in a bounce onto the UI thread, and Done() fires before the bounce
has been processed. So the fetch read the pre-refresh lists — most
visibly, checking out a branch that has a PR wouldn't show that PR until
the next refresh, because the fetch queried the old branch set.

Have refreshBranches / refreshReflogAndBranches / refreshRemotes return
what they loaded, stash it in locals in Refresh, and hand it to the
fetch. The wait on branchesAndRemotesWg orders the fetch after both
loads have stored their slices, so it fetches against exactly the
branches and remotes that were just loaded, with no model read on the
worker. The previous commit guarantees both are always in scope when
pull requests are, so no fallback is needed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller 23cfa9b070 Also refresh branches and remotes when refreshing pull requests
The pull-request fetch queries GitHub for the tracking branches'
upstreams against the configured remotes. It therefore depends on the
branches and remotes being up to date; a refresh that asks for pull
requests but not for those (e.g. checking out a branch) would fetch
against a stale branch/remote list — for instance missing the PR of the
branch just checked out.

Expand the scope so pull requests always co-refresh branches and
remotes. This also sets up the next commit to hand the freshly-loaded
branches and remotes straight to the fetch, instead of reading them
back from the model (which, now that those writes are bounced onto the
UI thread, would be stale on the worker).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller bd6081d601 Select the checked-out branch via a refresh intent, not off-thread
Operations that check something out (checkout, create branch, move
commits to a new branch, fetch-and-checkout) selected the newly
checked-out branch by calling SelectFirstBranchAndFirstCommit() before
the refresh and passing KeepBranchSelectionIndex so the refresh wouldn't
override it. That set the selection directly, usually from a worker
goroutine (WithWaitingStatus/WithInlineStatus). Now that the refresh's
own selection write is bounced onto the UI thread, the two writes could
land in either order, and under load the refresh's "restore the
previously-selected branch" write would win — leaving the old branch
selected instead of the new one (flaky
move_commits_to_new_branch_from_base_branch).

Replace it with declarative selection intents applied inside the
refresh's own bounce, so the selection is set on the UI thread and
atomically with the list write (no off-thread write, and no BLOCK_UI
needed to avoid a flicker):

- BranchSelection: SelectCheckedOutBranch selects the checked-out branch
  (top of the list). The default, KeepBranchSelectionByName, restores
  the previously-selected branch by name as before. This replaces the
  KeepBranchSelectionIndex bool.
- CommitSelection: SelectHeadCommit (already existed) for the commit.
- SelectTopReflogCommit selects the top reflog entry, since a checkout
  adds a new entry there (reflog/checkout relies on this).

SelectFirstBranchAndFirstCommit is gone. The previously-selected branch
is now read at the top of the branches bounce, before the list is
overwritten, so that read moves onto the UI thread too.

fetchAndCheckout's refresh changes from ASYNC to SYNC so its
post-refresh focus switch can run in Then on the UI thread; SYNC keeps
the inline fetch spinner spinning (only BLOCK_UI would freeze it).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller d95900ccd0 Tag background routines and their refreshes as background tasks
For the busy query to be usable as a repo-switch guard it has to be
false while the ongoing background routines run, or a switch would be
refused every time a background fetch or files refresh happened to be in
flight. Mark that work as background so it's excluded from the query.

The background routine dispatch in goEvery becomes OnWorkerBackground,
and the auto-fetch waiting status renders its spinner through the
background variants. Within a refresh, the background flag (which
Refresh already carries as options.Background, and which the files path
already threaded) is now threaded through every place that enqueues a
task: the async scope workers, the model-write bounces
(onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged), refreshView, the staging bounce, the
Then dispatch, and the branch-loader's behind-count worker. Two
single-caller chains reached by a background files refresh get the flag
too: MergeConflictsHelper.EscapeMerge and BranchesHelper.
AutoForwardBranches (whose follow-up refresh must stay background when
triggered by the background fetch).

Nothing gates on the busy query yet, so this is behavior-preserving;
background tasks still count as busy for the test idle-listener, which
looks at every task regardless of the background flag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller 3103fe97ea Replace RefreshingBranchesMutex with a branch-load sequence guard
This removes the last refresh mutex. RefreshingBranchesMutex wasn't
guarding a data race (Branch.BehindBaseBranch is atomic, and every model
write is now bounced onto the UI thread); it was serializing the two
branch loads that race at the INITIAL startup stage — an immediate one
sorted without the reflog, and an async one that loads the reflog and
sorts by recency — so that the recency-sorted write landed last and won.
That serialization was never a real guarantee, only "very likely": it
relied on the immediate load acquiring the lock before the async load,
which had to load the reflog first.

Instead, each branch load takes a monotonically increasing sequence
number, and its bounce drops the write if a later-started load has
already applied. Combined with the preceding commit (immediate load runs
before the async one is spawned), this is an actual guarantee: the
immediate non-recency load always has a lower sequence than its recency
async partner, so the highest sequence number is always held by a
recency-sorted load, and highest-wins converges on recency ordering —
even if more refreshes fire during the INITIAL window, since each
refresh's async out-sequences its own immediate.

The guard also subsumes what the mutex gave post-startup: a slow, stale
refresh's bounce can no longer clobber a newer refresh's branches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller 6d8ab1d063 Run the immediate startup branch refresh before spawning the async one
At the INITIAL startup stage two branch refreshes happen: an immediate
one sorted by whatever reflog we have (empty, so not by recency), and an
async one that loads the reflog first and re-sorts by recency. Until now
the async one was spawned first and the immediate one ran afterwards;
this inverts that so the immediate refresh runs before the async one is
spawned.

With RefreshingBranchesMutex still in place this is behavior-preserving
(the mutex serializes the two either way). It's a preparatory step for
replacing that mutex with a branch-load sequence guard: running the
immediate refresh first establishes a happens-before relation between
the two loads' sequence numbers, so the recency-sorted one is guaranteed
the higher sequence.

This also lets refreshReflogCommitsConsideringStartup fold into
refreshReflogAndBranches, whose two-phase logic is now all in one place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller 805738034f Remove refresh mutexes made redundant by bouncing
Now that every refresh scope writes its model updates on the UI thread
via onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged, the per-scope mutexes that used to
serialize concurrent worker-goroutine access are redundant:
Model().Commits, .SubCommits, .Authors, the status view content, and
.PullRequests/.PullRequestsMap are all now written only on the UI
thread, and their readers already ran there. setSubCommits only existed
to take the lock, so it's inlined to match refreshSubCommitsWithLimit,
which writes Model().SubCommits directly.

The worker phases still *read* some of these fields (the commit
selection range, MergeRebasingCommits), but those reads race a
concurrent refresh's bounced write regardless of the mutex — the write
happens in the bounce, outside the locked region — so the mutex never
protected them. That residual read race belongs to the broader -race
effort, not to these locks.

RefreshingBranchesMutex is deliberately kept. It is load-bearing for a
reason unrelated to data races: at the INITIAL startup stage two
refreshBranches run concurrently — an immediate one with an empty
reflog (non-recency order) and an async one with the freshly-loaded
reflog (recency order). The mutex serializes them so the recency write's
bounce is enqueued last and wins. Without it the stale non-recency write
can land last, reordering the branches list (caught by the recency-sort
e2e tests: cherry_pick/*, branch/rebase_*).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller f7a61443fa Bounce BRANCHES model updates onto the UI thread
refreshBranches now loads the branches (and worktrees) on the worker and
writes Model.Branches, the pull-requests map, Model.Worktrees, and the
restored branch selection in an onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged bounce. The
selection restore and rebuildPullRequestsMap run in the bounce so they
see the branches we just wrote; the LocalCommits re-render (for branch
head visualization) moves into the same bounce.

refreshStatus is adjusted to read the checked-out branch and the linked
worktree name inside its bounce rather than on the worker: both derive
from models (Branches, Worktrees) that are now written via bounces, so
reading them on the worker would format the status from stale values —
which showed up as the status line dropping the "(worktree)" suffix right
after entering a submodule or switching worktrees. The git work
(WorkingTreeState) stays on the worker.

Two callers that read the branches model right after a SYNC branches
refresh move their reads into Then:
- BranchesHelper.PostFetchRefresh: AutoForwardBranches reads Model.Branches,
  so it runs in Then (preserving that a fetch error is still returned to
  the caller and that background auto-forward errors aren't surfaced as a
  popup).
- BranchesController rename: the re-select-by-name loop runs in Then.

RefreshingBranchesMutex is left in place for the mutex cleanup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller 549df17279 Bounce COMMITS model updates onto the UI thread
refreshCommitsWithLimit now loads the commits, working-tree state and
bisect info on the worker and writes them all — Model.Commits,
Model.BisectInfo, Model.WorkingTreeStateAtLastCommitRefresh,
Model.CheckedOutBranch, the authors, and the restored commit selection —
in a single onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged bounce. The selection restore
(SelectHeadCommit / KeepCommitSelectionByHash) has to run in the bounce
because it reads the freshly-loaded commits; the FocusLine scroll is
enqueued from within the bounce so it still runs after refreshView's
re-render, as before.

refForLog no longer writes Model.BisectInfo as a side effect; it returns
the bisect info it read, and the bounce writes it, keeping that model
write on the UI thread. No caller reads Model.BisectInfo synchronously
after a refresh (the bisect controller reads Git().Bisect.GetInfo()
directly), so this is safe.

refreshCommitsAndCommitFiles's post-refresh re-init of the commit files
context depends on that restored selection, so it reads the selection in
a bounce and dispatches the commit-files git work back to a worker.

LocalCommitsMutex / AuthorsMutex are left in place for the mutex cleanup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller 4c3f8b51ea Bounce PULL_REQUESTS model updates onto the UI thread
refreshGithubPullRequests and setGithubPullRequests now do their network
work on the worker and write Model.PullRequests / PullRequestsMap in an
onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged bounce (the "no github remotes" and "no base
remote" early-returns clear them the same way). rebuildPullRequestsMap
moves into the bounce so the map is built from Model.Branches and
Model.Remotes as they stand on the UI thread — after those scopes'
refreshes have applied their own bounces — rather than from whatever the
worker happened to see.

The remaining worker-side reads of Model.Branches (to pick which upstream
branches to query) are the same not-yet-addressed worker-read race that
applies to the other bounced scopes.

RefreshingPullRequestsMutex is left in place for the mutex cleanup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller 4c9fdc4221 Bounce STATUS view update onto the UI thread
refreshStatus computes the status line on the calling goroutine (as
before) but now writes it to the status view in an
onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged bounce rather than calling SetViewContent
directly from the worker. RefreshingStatusMutex is left in place for now;
it only guards the compute phase between concurrent callers and comes out
in the mutex cleanup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller 063bba6b45 Bounce REFLOG model updates onto the UI thread
refreshReflogCommits now does the git fetch on the worker and computes
the new ReflogCommits / FilteredReflogCommits values (still reading the
existing slices for the incremental prepend), then writes them in an
onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged bounce. The freshly-computed reflog is still
returned for the branches load, so recency sorting is unaffected by the
write now landing on the UI thread (see the previous commit).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller bd47106d03 Thread reflog commits explicitly into the branches load
BranchLoader.Load reads the reflog commits to sort branches by recency.
Today it reads them straight from Model.ReflogCommits, which works
because in the recency path the reflog refresh writes that field
synchronously just before the branches refresh reads it (same goroutine,
sequential).

An upcoming commit bounces the reflog model write onto the UI thread, at
which point Model.ReflogCommits wouldn't be updated yet when branches
runs — branches would sort by the previous refresh's reflog. To decouple
the branches load from *when* that write lands, pass the reflog commits
to refreshBranches explicitly: refreshReflogCommits now returns the
commits it loaded, and the recency path hands them straight to
refreshBranches. The non-recency path (branches and reflog run
concurrently, as before) keeps passing Model.ReflogCommits.

Pure refactor: behavior is identical, since the value passed is exactly
what Load read from the model before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller db5eb6fd39 Bounce REMOTES model updates onto the UI thread
refreshRemotes now loads the remotes on the worker and writes
Model.Remotes, rebuilds the pull-requests map, and updates the selected
remote's RemoteBranches inside an onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged bounce.

RemotesController.addAndCheckoutRemote read Model.Remotes right after its
SYNC REMOTES refresh to select the newly-added remote; since that write
now bounces, the selection (and the follow-up fetch) move into Then so
they run against the post-refresh model rather than the stale one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller 0f85c2b2b4 Bounce SUB_COMMITS model updates onto the UI thread
refreshSubCommitsWithLimit now loads the sub-commits on the worker and
writes Model.SubCommits (and folds their authors into Model.Authors via
RefreshAuthors) inside an onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged bounce.

SubCommitsMutex and AuthorsMutex are left in place: the former is shared
with setSubCommits, the latter with the commits refresh's RefreshAuthors
call, so both come out only once those other writers are on the UI thread
too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00