Pager authors reviewing the protocol asked to drop the EMIT_ prefix: the
OSC number already names the protocol, so EMIT_ was redundant. Rename the
handshake variable to OSC1717_METADATA in the spec and in the two places
lazygit advertises it (the pager PTY and the metadata probe).
The secondary pane showed the custom patch with a bespoke in-memory render
(PatchBuilder.RenderAggregatedPatch / FormatView). That had two problems: it
could never be fed to a pager the way the main view's diff is (a stdin pager
might have worked, but an external diff tool like difftastic, which diffs two
files rather than a unified diff, could not), and its hand-rolled hunk/context
handling differed subtly from git's.
Materialize the patch instead as two real file trees under a temp dir — a/ holds
each patched file's "from"-side content, b/ that content with the patch applied —
and render it with `git diff --no-index`, reusing the exact pager wiring the main
view uses (stdin pager, external diff, or git's own colour as the raw fallback).
`--no-index` honors both GIT_PAGER and --ext-diff, so every pager type now renders
the custom patch like any other diff, and git computes the context, fixing the
quirks. Because the secondary is now an async diff task, the post-removal
selection reveal (which rides a task's restore) finally takes effect.
The trees are named a/b so that with --no-prefix the diff shows the real
repo-relative paths; added files are seeded empty in a/ so they pair up and show
their real paths rather than git's directory-comparison "added in b" form. The
patch builder owns the temp dir's lifetime (created on Start, removed on Reset)
and bumps a generation counter on every change, so the trees are rebuilt only
when the patch actually changes — covering the focused-main view and the old
explorer alike, without rebuilding on mere navigation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Prep for extending the focused main view's raw-diff fallback beyond the files
panel. ShowCmdObj, ShowFileDiffCmdObj, ShowStashEntryCmdObj and DiffCmdObj gain
the ignoreExternalDiff arg WorktreeFileDiffCmdObj already has — forcing git's own
coloured diff regardless of a configured external diff command. All callers pass
false, so behaviour is unchanged.
Also lift the pty-vs-command task choice out of the files controller into
types.NewMainViewDiffTask(WithPrefix), so the commit/stash/patch-building panels
(whose diffs are built in the diff helper, which can't reach the staging helper)
can select the same raw-fallback task.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The focused main view is the staging surface, so it has to resolve the diff it
shows to patch-space. A pager that restructures the diff without emitting our
metadata (stock delta-default, plain difftastic, `cat -n`) produces output the
buffer parser can't read, which would leave its diff unstageable.
When such a diff is focused, re-render it raw — git's own colour, no pager — the
same content a no-pager setup shows, which the buffer parser handles. Browsing
keeps the pretty pager output; only focusing to act switches to raw.
Whether the pager is usable is decided by probing it: run it on empty input and
look for the version-only OSC 1717 handshake a metadata-aware pager emits first.
This is a pager-level, content-independent fact (a binary file, which has no
change lines under any pager, can't mislead it) and it's known before we render,
so we never render pretty only to discover mid-flight that we should have rendered
raw. The verdict is cached per pager (reset when the pager changes). No PTY is
needed — git needs a terminal to decide to invoke a pager, but the pager emits the
handshake regardless. A git-config external diff driver (useExternalDiffGitConfig)
is chosen per file via .gitattributes and a single diff can mix drivers, so
there's no one pager to probe; it's treated as unsupported (always raw).
Bypassing the pager needs two things, since a pager reaches the diff by two
routes: an external diff command (suppressed in the cmd via the new
ignoreExternalDiff arg, keeping git's colour, unlike plain) and a stdin pager
(GIT_PAGER, applied by the pty task — so the raw render uses a plain command
task instead).
This wires the files panel; the commit/stash/patch-building panels follow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
For a long time lazygit has used the term "custom pager" to refer to
what's really a "diff renderer". A pager is a program that allows you to
view output page by page (hence the name), e.g. less; lazygit's custom
diff renderers are not pagers. It used the term only because the feature
is implemented using git's GIT_PAGER env var, but that's an
implementation detail.
Rename the 'git.pagers' config to 'git.diffRenderers', and restructure
its elements while we're at it to make things clearer:
- Add a 'type' field to explicitly specify which type of diff renderer
it is (the two fundamentally different ones are 'stdinFilter' and
'extDiff').
- Add a third type, 'rawGit', which has an 'args' field that makes it
easy to use 'git --color-words' as a custom renderer
- Unify the old 'pager' and 'externalDiffCommand' fields to a single
'command' field for both types
Existing config files are migrated automatically.
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.
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.
When toggling the value in the UI we simply overwrite the value in UserConfig;
this would be bad if there was ever a chance that we want to write the user
config back to disk, but it is very unlikely that we can do that, because
currently we have no way to tell which parts of the config come from the global
config file and which ones come from a repo-local one.
It is needed by both call sites of this function. This has the added benefit
that the argument doesn't unnecessarily show up in the status view when diffing
mode is on.
This changes GetRepoPaths() to pull information from `git rev-parse`
instead of effectively reimplementing git's logic for pathfinding. This
change fixes issues with bare repos, esp. versioned homedir use cases,
by aligning lazygit's path handling to what git itself does.
This change also enables lazygit to run from arbitrary subdirectories of
a repository, including correct handling of symlinks, including "deep"
symlinks into a repo, worktree, a repo's submodules, etc.
Integration tests are now resilient against unintended side effects from
the host's environment variables. Of necessity, $PATH and $TERM are the
only env vars allowed through now.
By constructing an arg vector manually, we no longer need to quote arguments
Mandate that args must be passed when building a command
Now you need to provide an args array when building a command.
There are a handful of places where we need to deal with a string,
such as with user-defined custom commands, and for those we now require
that at the callsite they use str.ToArgv to do that. I don't want
to provide a method out of the box for it because I want to discourage its
use.
For some reason we were invoking a command through a shell when amending a
commit, and I don't believe we needed to do that as there was nothing user-
supplied about the command. So I've switched to using a regular command out-
side the shell there
