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Stefan Haller 104fdf34a9 Keep the destination visible while commits move
Moving commits runs a rebase, which can take a while. Instead of
letting the drop indicator vanish the moment the button is released,
keep it in place and turn it into a "moving commits here" spinner once
the move takes longer than a short grace period, so that quick moves
stay free of flicker. The indicator is cleared when the post-move
refresh lands.
2026-07-31 08:37:28 +02:00
Stefan Haller cefec1c5c9 Cancel commit drags with escape
While a commit drag is in progress, escape now aborts it: the drag
state and the drop indicator are discarded and the mouse capture is
released, so nothing happens when the button is eventually released.
Otherwise escape keeps its normal meaning.
2026-07-31 08:37:28 +02:00
Stefan Haller 0738d55551 Keep scrolling while commits are dragged at an edge
Reuse the drag autoscroller for commit drags. Scrolling stops once the
insertion point reaches the end of the allowed range in the scroll
direction, so during a rebase the view doesn't keep scrolling once the
last insertion position among the todos has been reached.
2026-07-31 08:37:28 +02:00
Stefan Haller eda4ad1192 Drag selected commits to a new position
Pressing the left button on the current selection now starts a drag
that moves the selected commits, both in the normal commits view and
for todos during an interactive rebase. A press anywhere else falls
through to the usual click handling, so dragging from an unselected
line still creates a range selection, and releasing without having
moved collapses the selection to the pressed commit like a plain click
would.

While dragging, the insertion point follows the pointer: rows below
the dragged block insert after the pointed-at commit, rows above it
insert before it, and during a rebase the destination is limited to
the contiguous block of movable todos around the selection. gocui
moves the view cursor along with the pointer, so each drag event moves
it back to keep the original selection highlighted.

The move happens on release. The model may have been refreshed during
the drag, so the dragged commits are located again by their identity
(hash, subject, todo action); if they no longer form a unique
contiguous block, the drop is ignored rather than guessing.
2026-07-31 08:37:28 +02:00
Stefan Haller b055d28fb1 Show commit insertion points during a drag
Render the insertion point of a commit drag as a non-model item in the
commits list. It must be inserted at the right position relative to
the section headers, because the list renderer assumes non-model items
are ordered by their model index.

Not used yet, we'll hook it up to the drag gesture in the next commit.
2026-07-31 08:37:28 +02:00
Stefan Haller e756511042 Move dragged commits in one rebase
Let the todo-move primitives take a distance instead of hardcoding a
single row, by iterating the one-row move in memory. Dropping a commit
several rows away thus rewrites the todo file once and, outside of an
interactive rebase, runs a single rebase rather than one per row.
2026-07-31 08:37:28 +02:00
Stefan Haller b85483ecc0 Unify commit movement before adding drag destinations
Merge the up/down variants of the move commands into one
direction-parameterized implementation. Dragging commits is about to
need moves over arbitrary distances, which we don't want to build twice.
2026-07-31 08:37:28 +02:00
Stefan Haller 14434015c7 Keep range drags moving at panel edges
Give the list views the same edge autoscroll during drag selection
that the staging view already has; the new mouse-release binding stops
the autoscroll when the drag ends.
2026-07-31 08:32:43 +02:00
Stefan Haller e7998356be Create a range selection by dragging with the mouse in list views
Dragging with the left button held now extends the selection from the
pressed line, exactly like moving with shift+up/down does. We use the
non-sticky flavor so that the range collapses on the next plain cursor
movement, again matching the keyboard behavior.

The binding is only registered for contexts that support range selection
in the first place; dragging in other lists continues to do nothing.
2026-07-31 08:32:43 +02:00
Stefan Haller b682fb7635 Auto-scroll when dragging to create range selection in staging view
When the pointer reaches the edge of the view during a drag (or leaves
the view entirely, which mouse capture makes possible), keep scrolling
and extending the selection: slowly on the innermost edge row, faster
on the outermost row, and very fast beyond. Scrolling starts after a
short delay so that a drag merely passing near the edge doesn't scroll.

When the view loses focus mid-drag (e.g. because a popup appeared),
cancel the autoscroll and the mouse capture.
2026-07-31 08:26:35 +02:00
Stefan Haller f5a069342b Add DragAutoScroller helper
It can be used to auto-scroll a view during drag gestures when the
cursor reaches the edge of the view.
2026-07-31 08:26:35 +02:00
Stefan Haller ba024ed6c9 Add ViewDriver methods for mouse drag gestures in integration tests
Add press/move/release primitives next to the existing Click. The test
driver remembers the last reported position so a release doesn't have
to repeat the coordinates, and RepeatMouseMove lets a test verify that
a held-button motion event within the same cell has no effect.
2026-07-31 08:26:35 +02:00
Stefan Haller 98613957ae Refactor: extract replayMouseEvent helper method 2026-07-31 08:26:35 +02:00
Stefan Haller 4609985029 Route mouse events to their originating view during a drag gesture
Route all mouse events to the view that was under the pointer when the
left button was pressed, until the button is released. Previously each
event went to whatever view was under the pointer at the time, so a
drag that left the view's bounds started acting on neighboring views.

Since events can now carry positions outside the view, clamp the view
cursor to the view's bounds in that case (handlers still receive the
unclamped position), and require an actual click for tab activation so
that a captured drag crossing the tab row doesn't switch tabs.
2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
Stefan Haller 44a2bbeb7c Deliver mouse release after a drag
Releasing a mouse button was delivered as a plain mouse-move (hover)
event: the release processing resets dragState to NOT_DRAGGING, after
which the event fell into the NOT_DRAGGING branch. Views therefore had
no way of telling that a drag gesture ended, which the upcoming
drag-based features (range selection, commit reordering) need.

Deliver the release as a real mouse event with the MouseRelease key
and normalize its modifiers to ModNone, so release bindings also match
modified drags. Make recordClickInfo ignore it: a release is the end of
a click, not a click of its own, and must not break double-click
detection.
2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
Stefan Haller 38d2293a10 Add test for double-click detection
Add a test pinning down that a press/release/press sequence at the
same position is detected as a double click. An upcoming commit starts
delivering the release as a real mouse event to the click-recording
code, which must not mistake it for a click of its own.
2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
Stefan Haller a965db2a7d Demonstrate that drag release becomes hover 2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
Stefan Haller ff53a3ed8c Preserve the first mouse movement of a drag
When the left button is pressed and the pointer then moves, the event
that made the MAYBE_DRAGGING -> DRAGGING transition fell through the
switch without being assigned a key or modifier, so the first cell of
every drag arrived at handlers as a MouseRelease event without the
motion modifier and was effectively lost. Give it the same
MouseLeft/ModMotion identity as all subsequent drag events.

Held-button motion events that stay within the pressed cell carry no
information at all; swallow them instead of letting them through as
further release-shaped events (which used to clobber the double-click
state when the pointer jittered within a cell between two clicks).
2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
Stefan Haller 31cbabe48f Change list section headers to a slightly more elegant design
I'm not a skilled UI designer, so I suspect there may be even better
options, but it's definitely already better than the raw ASCII "---" we
had before.

Put the line only at the beginning because it looks bad if the line
after the label is misaligned when labels don't have the same width
(e.g. "Remote" vs. "Local" in the divergence view).
2026-07-31 08:03:40 +02:00
Stefan Haller 22db808a01 Add a helper function for formatting list section headers
We want to change their design, and we want to do it only in one place.
2026-07-31 08:03:40 +02:00
Stefan Haller 67c81c5b14 Change default spinner frames and rate
I find that this looks a little nicer, and it reduces CPU load by not
spinning so fast.
2026-07-31 08:03:40 +02:00
Stefan Haller f15f713c68 Support absolute paths when detecting edit preset from EDITOR env var 2026-07-30 17:31:56 +02:00
Stefan Haller 1d107721f2 Fix multi-selection of files with common prefix not working in commit files panel
Equivalent to the change that was made to isDescendentOfSelectedNodes in
files_controller.go in a5eec48b4b.
2026-07-28 18:14:58 +02:00
Stefan Haller c7acf38399 Make isDescendentOfSelectedCommitFileNodes work for the root item
The root item's path is ".", and the path of a file at top level is
"./file". When using GetPath, this gives us "." and "file",
respectively, and isDescendentOfSelectedCommitFileNodes would return
false for these.

Working with the internal paths (i.e. without stripping the leading
"./") fixes this.

There is no known breakage that is caused by this, that's why I'm not
adding an integration test that demonstrates a bug.

Equivalent to the change that was made to isDescendentOfSelectedNodes in
files_controller.go in 302b621b68.
2026-07-28 18:14:58 +02:00
Stefan Haller 8fefe2b933 Cleanup: move variable assignment out of the loop
It never changes inside this function, so there's no need to recompute
it with every loop iteration.

Equivalent to the change that was made to isDescendentOfSelectedNodes in
files_controller.go in d0c6e27fee.
2026-07-28 18:04:35 +02:00
Stefan Haller 6a022241d2 Add test to demonstrate a problem with custom patches and directories sharing a prefix
We had the same bug in the files panel, and fixed it in a5eec48b4b, but
forgot to make the equivalent change to the commit files panel.
2026-07-28 18:04:35 +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 5aa003612c Demonstrate stale focus refresh overwriting a click
When clicking in the commits view of lazygit running in an unfocused VS
Code window, VS Code first sends us the focus-in event and then the
mouse-click. The focus-in refresh captures the selection when it starts,
then we handle the mouse click and you briefly see the clicked row
getting selected, but then the selection flashes back to the original
row as the refresh restores it when done.
2026-07-24 15:30:29 +02:00
Stefan Haller 02c8ba3073 Clamp ConPTY sizes to the 1x1 minimum that Windows accepts
CreatePseudoConsole and ResizePseudoConsole reject zero dimensions with
E_INVALIDARG, but we legitimately request them: the pty is sized after
the main view, and that view is zero-sized while hidden, e.g. in
full-screen mode with a side panel focused. Entering that mode while a
custom pager is configured therefore made StartPty fail (degrading to
unpaged output now that the fallback works), and resizing a live pty
from onResize would fail layout. The Unix pty accepts zero sizes, so
the clamp lives in the Windows implementation only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-23 17:31:26 +02:00
Stefan Haller c217084c90 Add test showing StartPty fails on Windows when given a zero size
CreatePseudoConsole rejects zero dimensions with E_INVALIDARG, so
starting a pty sized after a hidden (and thus zero-sized) view fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-23 17:31:26 +02:00
Stefan Haller f000ce9f1c Never hand NewCmdTask a nil reader when a command fails to start
NewCmdTask feeds the reader returned by its start func into a
bufio.Scanner, and Scanner.Scan panics with a nil pointer dereference
when that reader is nil. Two start funcs could produce one:

- newPtyTask's fallback for a failed StartPty returned a literal nil
  reader, alongside an ExecCmd that was never started, so the intended
  "fall back to a plain cmd task" never worked. This crashed lazygit on
  Windows when using a custom pager with the main view zero-sized, e.g.
  after pressing + twice to enter full-screen mode with a side panel
  focused: ConPTY rejects zero dimensions, making StartPty fail.

- startCmdWithPipe returned nil when the pipe couldn't be created,
  which the Unix pty fallback path can trigger, since a failed pty
  start can leave the tty assigned to the command's stdout.

Make startCmdWithPipe never return a nil reader: when the pipe can't be
created, don't start the command at all and return an empty reader so
the task shuts down cleanly with the error in the log. Then route
newPtyTask's fallback through it, so a StartPty failure degrades to
running the command without a pty: the pager is lost, but the command's
output still renders.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-23 17:31:26 +02:00
Stefan Haller 400faea60c Add test showing startCmdWithPipe returns a nil reader on pipe failure
NewCmdTask feeds the reader returned by its start func straight into a
bufio.Scanner, whose Scan panics on a nil reader with a nil pointer
dereference. startCmdWithPipe returns exactly that when the pipe cannot
be created.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-23 17:31:26 +02:00
Stefan Haller 5209294a56 Extract helper for starting a command with piped output
The fallback path in newPtyTask (taken when StartPty fails) needs the
same start-the-command-with-a-pipe logic that newCmdTask uses, so pull
it out into a helper that both can share. No behavior change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-23 17:31:26 +02:00
Stefan Haller 87d9537de9 Support a {{diffContext}} template variable in external diff command
Useful for passing the context size to external diff commands like
difftastic.
2026-07-23 17:13:02 +02:00
Stefan Haller 975da9b8a9 Block input and batch UI updates when switching repos
On startup we don't want to block input during the initial refresh (it
should be possible to press, say, `4` to jump to the commits panel right
after startup without a delay), and we also want panels to show their
contents as soon as possible; it doesn't matter so much that it's not in
sync, we go from empty to populated here. However, when switching repos
it can be confusing that some panels that are slow to update still show
the old repo's data while others already show the new one's data, so
update the UI only when everything is ready, and also block input to
prevent accidentally trying to act on the old, stale data.
2026-07-22 08:31:11 +02:00
Stefan Haller fc975f32a8 Block input while the refresh after a stash operation is in flight
Popping or dropping a stash shifts the indices of the entries below it,
and renaming re-creates the stash at the top, shifting all the others.
The stash model is only rebuilt by the refresh, which finishes in the
background, so acting on the next entry in quick succession — pressing
the key, confirming the popup, and pressing again right away — reads the
stale pre-operation indices and targets the wrong stash. Note that the
confirmation popup is no protection here: the race starts when the
confirm handler runs, and the next keypress can easily beat the refresh.

Use RefreshBlockingInput so a quick follow-up keypress is buffered and
replayed once the refreshed stash list is in place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 08:31:11 +02:00
Stefan Haller 055184f997 Block input while the refresh after moving a rebase todo is in flight
Moving a todo rewrites the todo file and advances the selection
synchronously, but the commits model is only rebuilt by the refresh. A
second press arriving before that grabs the swapped-with todo from the
stale model at the advanced index and moves it back, so holding the key
to move a todo several slots misbehaved. Use RefreshBlockingInput so the
second press is buffered and replayed once the moved todo list is in
place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 08:31:11 +02:00
Stefan Haller 200042a57c Add test showing that rapidly moving a rebase todo twice moves the wrong todo
Moving a todo up or down rewrites the todo file and advances the
selection synchronously, but the commits model is only rebuilt by the
refresh, which finishes in the background. A second keypress arriving
before that reads the pre-move model at the advanced selection index —
that's the todo the first move swapped with, so the second press moves
that one back instead of moving the selected todo further. Two rapid
presses (e.g. from holding the key down) thus amount to a net no-op.

The two presses also spawn two racing refreshes whose model updates can
land in either order, so the todo list can even end up disagreeing with
the todo file. That's why the test continues the rebase and asserts the
resulting commit order instead of the displayed list: the rebase replays
the file, which is deterministic.

The test documents this currently broken behavior; the fix comes next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 08:31:11 +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 963db76ab6 Add test showing that a rapid second keypress acts on a stale staging panel
Pressing space twice in quick succession in the staging panel is supposed
to stage two hunks: the refresh triggered by the first press rebuilds the
panel's diff and moves the selection to the next stageable hunk, and the
second press stages that.

Since we made UI-thread refreshes non-blocking, the second press is
handled as soon as it arrives, while that refresh is still in flight. It
then reads the stale pre-refresh diff, builds the first hunk's patch
again, and git apply fails with 'patch does not apply' because those
lines are already in the index.

The test documents this currently broken behavior; the fix comes next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 22:23:58 +02:00
Stefan Haller 7a902b56cc Add a way for integration tests to press keys in rapid succession
The test driver waits for lazygit to become idle after every keypress, so
tests could never exercise what happens when a key arrives while the
previous key's processing is still in flight — for example while the
refresh triggered by the previous key hasn't updated the model yet. Real
users type faster than that all the time.

PressRapidly injects all its keys back to back and waits for idle only
once at the end, so the second and later keys are queued before the first
one's processing has finished. The next commit uses this to demonstrate a
bug in exactly that scenario.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 22:23:58 +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 00cef799ce Show the inline status again when checking out a newly created remote branch
Checking out a remote branch that has no local counterpart creates the
local branch, refreshes, and then checks it out. The refresh exists so
that CheckoutRef finds the new branch in the model and attaches an inline
status to the branch item instead of showing a global waiting status. But
since UI-thread refreshes stopped blocking, the checkout started before
the refreshed branches had landed in the model, so the lookup failed and
we always got the waiting status. Run the checkout from the refresh's
Then, which is queued behind the model update.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 22:23:57 +02:00
Stefan Haller 5fc678dde6 Read the gui's per-repo pointers on the UI thread in background routines
gui.git, gui.helpers and gui.State are all replaced on a repo switch,
which runs on the UI thread. The background fetch and the external-
change poller read them from their own goroutines, racing the
reassignment. This race can't show up in the integration suite, which
doesn't enable the background routines, so no -race run will ever flag
it; it can only bite real users who switch repos while a background
fetch or poll is in flight.

Capture the objects a routine iteration needs in a single blocking
UI-thread hop before using them, the same pattern the refresh's input
capture uses. For the fetch this has two welcome side effects: the
fetch, the post-fetch refresh's generation baseline, and the recorded
fetch time now all refer to the same repo (the old comment documented
the timestamp's mismatch as a known, unguarded race), and the git
instance the fetch runs through is pinned to that repo's directory, so
a switch mid-fetch can no longer direct in-flight work at the new repo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 17:07:39 +02:00
Stefan Haller efed9d0407 Don't auto-forward branches when the repo was switched during the fetch
PostFetchRefresh's refresh is the only background refresh carrying a
Then callback, and Then callbacks are not generation-guarded: when the
background fetch's refresh crossed a repo switch, the callback still
ran — in the new repo — and auto-forwarded the new repo's branches
because the old repo's fetch had completed. That was harmless in
practice (the update-ref call compares against the expected old value,
and it only does what the next fetch's auto-forward would do anyway),
but mutating refs in a repo whose fetch never happened is not an action
the user took. Skip the auto-forward when the repo generation changed
since the fetch started.

The generation is captured by the fetch's callers before the fetch
runs, not by PostFetchRefresh itself: the background fetch doesn't
block repo switching and is a network call, so by the time
PostFetchRefresh runs a switch may already have happened — a capture
there (or the one the refresh itself takes) would compare against the
new repo's generation and let the auto-forward through. For the manual
fetch the capture point makes no difference, since a foreground
operation blocks repo switching for its entire duration.

This deliberately guards only this call site rather than making Then
callbacks generation-guarded in general: a Then is an arbitrary
callback, and whether it is safe to skip on a repo switch is a decision
for the author of the call site.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 17:07:39 +02:00
Stefan Haller 568a4276d7 Pin the cached git config's commands to the repo directory
The cached git config runs its `git config` reads through raw
exec.Command calls, outside the pinned git command builder, so they
followed the process working directory. A cache miss on a stale
instance — one still in use by a refresh that crossed a repo switch —
would therefore read the new repo's local config while computing data
for the old one. Give the cache a directory, set once by NewGitCommand
right after it determines the repo paths (the object is created fresh
for every repo switch, so no cross-repo cache invalidation is needed),
and run every config command there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 17:07:39 +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