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Stefan Haller 1fcbc4d5a5 Parse the f/h header records a conforming pager emits
The spec regained file-header (f) and hunk-header (h) records: f never
carries a line number, h always does (the first line of the hunk it
heads). Accept them in the OSC metadata backend, so a conforming pager's
header rows resolve to the same DiffLineFileHeader/DiffLineHunkHeader
identities the buffer parser already reports for raw diffs.

With header rows located, next/previous file navigation and the
jump-to-file menu land on a file's header row, and header rows become
usable scroll-restore anchors. The consumers need a few adjustments:

- File navigation used to reach a file's top by backing up over the
  untagged rows above its first located row. With tagged headers that
  overshoots onto the blank separator row above the file header, so drop
  the back-up (backUpOverHeader) and land on the first located row
  itself: the header for any conforming source, or the first content
  line under a pager that leaves its headers untagged — an accepted
  degradation for non-conforming pagers, now that the spec makes f/h
  mandatory.

- SamePatchLine now requires headers to match headers of the same kind.
  A hunk header shares its line number with the hunk's first content
  line (and a file header shares "0" with a deleted file's hunk header),
  so without this a position restore aiming at one could land on the
  other. This also applied to raw diffs before, but headers used to be
  unlikely restore targets; now that navigation deliberately lands on
  them, the ambiguity would bite.

- Editing a file-header row opens the file without jumping to a line,
  like pressing edit on a whole file in a side panel. (It used to open
  at line 1 for raw diffs, where headers resolved already.)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:59:00 +02:00
Stefan Haller 97b1b4cf7f Offer commit and find-fixup-base in the focused main view
The focused main view now plays the role the staging panel used to,
so the working-tree commands the staging panel offered — commit (and
its variants) and find-base-commit-for-fixup — need to be reachable
there as well.

Gate them to when the focused main view actually shows the working-tree
diff (DiffMainViewTypeStaging), which is exactly the role the staging
panel filled. Over a commit's or stash's diff these commands would
operate on the working tree, unrelated to what's on screen, so the keys
are a no-op there and the bindings don't clutter its keybinding menu.

The gate is re-checked on each press rather than captured at
registration time, since one keybinding set serves the main view over
every panel. That requires reading the panel beneath the main view from
GetKeybindings (to decide whether to show the descriptions), which runs
for off-stack contexts too — at startup and during cheatsheet
generation — so a panic-safe IsInStack guards the NextInStack lookup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:59:00 +02:00
Stefan Haller f7e26fec4e Make the patch-building secondary pane's space remove the right lines, disable its discard
The focused-main-view rework made the secondary pane actionable, but the old
patch-building explorer's secondary was inert, so its actions were never thought
through. Pressing space there routed through the same toggle handler as the main
pane, resolving the selection against the secondary's diff and mapping it to
patch-builder indices by line number. But the secondary shows the *aggregated*
custom patch, which renumbers included additions whenever an earlier addition in
the same hunk is excluded (Transform recomputes each hunk's +start). So the
shifted number resolved to the wrong line in the original diff — often adding an
unrelated line instead of removing the selected one.

Resolve the secondary selection by its *ordinal* among the change lines shown
instead: the custom-patch view renders exactly the included change lines in
order, so the k-th change line of a file is that file's k-th included change line
(PatchBuilder.IncludedChangeLineIndices), independent of the renumbering. Space
in the secondary now only ever removes, mirroring how space in the staging view's
staged pane unstages.

Discarding from the commit (the remove key) makes no sense in the custom-patch
preview — it would act on lines shown only as the patch, and space already
removes them — so it's disabled there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:59:00 +02:00
Stefan Haller 10f41bed50 Thread ignoreExternalDiff through the remaining diff-cmd builders
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>
2026-08-08 12:59:00 +02:00
Stefan Haller e9c4425df6 Discard the selected diff line(s) from the focused main view
Wire the focused main view's `d` binding to a DiscardSelection action on the
side panel beneath, the discard counterpart of the primary action. As with
stage/toggle, what discard means is the panel's business:

- the files panel discards from the working tree, mirroring the staging
  view's `d` — reverse-apply not cached on the unstaged side (destructive, so
  confirmed), reverse-apply cached on the staged side (i.e. unstage);
- the commit panels (commit files, and the whole-commit diff of the local
  commits / sub-commits / stash panels) remove the selected lines from the
  commit via a rebase, mirroring the patch builder's "discard lines from
  commit" — building a one-off patch from the selection and deleting it.

The commit-discard backend and its guard are shared free functions in
patch_building_from_main_view.go, paralleling the patch toggle. Discarding
from a commit is only possible on a local branch, so DiscardSelection grows a
disabled-reason companion on the FocusedMainViewActions interface: the `d`
binding is greyed with a reason on stash and other-branch sub-commits (never
rebaseable) and while a rebase is in progress, exactly as the patch builder
greys it. The files panel is always available (a zero-context diff is the one
error it reports inline, matching the staging view).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:59:00 +02:00
Stefan Haller 88dae2f2c6 Collapse the focused-main-view handler channels into one
Each command a side panel handles in the focused main view needed its own
delegation channel: a HasKeybindings getter, an IBaseContext Add method, a
BaseContext field + getter, a baseController nil default, and an attach.go
registration — roughly five touch points per command. With three commands
(click, stage, toggle-patch) that was already a lot of boilerplate, and it
doesn't scale to the discard / copy commands coming next.

Replace the three channels with one: a side panel exposes a single
FocusedMainViewActions interface via GetFocusedMainViewActions (nil when its
diff offers no actions), and the controllers implement that interface
directly. The stage and toggle-patch handlers, already unified to a plain
error return, become one PrimaryAction method whose meaning is the panel's
business (stage for the files panel, patch toggle for the commit panels);
the click handler becomes OnClick. MainViewController is now a thin
dispatcher: fetch the actions from the panel beneath, call the method.
Adding a command is now one interface method, an implementation in the two
or three controllers, and a keybinding — no plumbing.

The toggle-patch channel did double duty as the "this panel builds a custom
patch" signal for the inclusion gutter (shown only beneath a patch-building
panel, not the staging files panel). Collapsing the channels removes that
proxy, so make the classification explicit on DiffMainViewContext, whose
marker method now returns a DiffMainViewType (none / staging / patch-building)
instead of being a bare marker. The gutter shows only beneath a panel whose
type is patch-building (commit files, local commits, sub-commits, stash).

Behavior-preserving.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:59:00 +02:00
Stefan Haller 96b09bb41d Push the staging focus-follow into the side-panel handler
The focused main view's space binding delegates to the side panel beneath
it, but the two handlers were asymmetric: the patch-toggle handler did its
own re-render and re-established the selection itself, while the staging
handler returned a focusViewName so the dispatcher (stageRange) could do the
reveal-and-focus dance on its behalf. That split blocks collapsing the
per-command handler channels into one, since the two have different return
types.

Make staging match the toggle: GetOnStageFocusedMainView returns plain
error, and the FilesController handler does the post-staging reveal and pane
focus itself. The reveal/select-mode logic the two handlers shared (collapse
a range to a line, preserve the change-line ordinal across the re-render,
re-expand a hunk) is extracted into revealSelectionAfterPrimaryAction, with
mainContextForViewName resolving a main view name to its context. The
dispatcher is now uniform: read the selected range, hand it to whichever
handler the panel registered.

Behavior-preserving.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:59:00 +02:00
Stefan Haller 67ba1899b4 Build a custom patch from the focused main view of a commit's files
Pressing space in the commit-files focused main view now toggles the
selected line(s)/hunk into or out of the custom patch, instead of being a
no-op. It's the patch-building counterpart of working-tree staging from
the main view: the selection is resolved to change-line identities the
same way (ChangeLinesInViewRange), then mapped to the patch builder's
per-file line indices and added or removed.

The crux is that the commit's diff is unchanged by a toggle — only the
inclusion set changes — so unlike staging there's no async re-render to
ride. Membership is shown by an on-demand inclusion gutter: a reserved
left column painted with a marker on every change line currently in the
patch, recomputed synchronously after each toggle and on focusing the
main view, over the existing pager output. This is what lets patch
building work over a restructuring pager at all, where the old green
first-char overlay (which rewrites the rendered bytes) can't.

space routes to staging or patch building based on which handler the
panel beneath registers, via a new onTogglePatchFocusedMainView channel
(kept separate from staging because the post-action differs: sync gutter
repaint vs async reveal). Scoped to the commit-files panel for now;
commits/sub-commits/stash and the whole-commit multi-file diff follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:59:00 +02:00
Stefan Haller 05c7b82a84 Follow the acted-on side to the right pane after staging from the main view
After staging or unstaging from the focused main view, focus stayed on the
pane the user acted in even when the side they were acting on moved to the
other pane. Two cases got it wrong:

- Unstaging the first hunk of an only-staged file splits the diff: the main
  half flips to show the just-unstaged change, and the staged remainder jumps
  to the secondary half — but focus stayed on the main half, away from the
  staged content the user was working through.
- Unstaging the last staged hunk from the secondary half empties the staged
  side and collapses the split, hiding the secondary half — leaving focus
  stranded on a hidden pane.

The rule is the same in both: focus the staged side while it survives. The
stage handler now reports which focused-main pane should hold focus —
the secondary half when unstaging leaves the file split, the main half
otherwise — and the controller re-selects the revealed change in that pane
and focuses it. The split is read from the model, which Refresh has already
updated synchronously by the time the handler returns; the re-render it
queues is what the reveal rides.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:59:00 +02:00
Stefan Haller a2e1254a96 Let the post-stage reveal target a different pane than the one acted on
Staging or unstaging can move the acted-on side to the other half of the
focused main view — unstaging the first hunk of an only-staged file splits
it, pushing the staged remainder to the secondary pane. The reveal that
re-selects the nearest surviving change after the op then has to ride the
re-render of that other pane, not the one the user acted in.

Split RevealSelectionAfterStaging's single view into a source (where the
candidate lines are read) and a target (where they're found again and
re-selected), and get-or-create the target's buffer manager so the restore
can be installed on a pane that hasn't rendered yet. Behavior-preserving:
the sole caller passes the same view for both, as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:59:00 +02:00
Stefan Haller 4b57cc9efe Select and stage ranges and hunks from the focused main view
Step 1 made the focused main view a staging surface for a single line. This
adds the range and hunk selection the staging view has, so you can stage (or
unstage) a range or a whole hunk in place — `v` starts a range, shift-up/down
extend one, `a` toggles hunk selection — without diving into the staging view.

The selection mode (line / range / hunk, plus sticky-range and "the user turned
hunk mode on themselves") lives on MainContext rather than the controller,
because three places need a pane's mode: the main view controller that drives
it, the focus controller that resets it when you focus the view, and togglePanel
which sets it on the *other* pane. The selected line and the range anchor stay
in the gocui view itself (its cursor and rangeSelectStartY), so the existing
native range-select rendering draws the highlight — no new highlight machinery.
Hunk bounds come from the diff-line metadata (the isChange run around the
cursor, via ChangeBlockBounds), not from a parsed patch, so they work over any
conforming rendering. The up/down keys are mode-aware: hunk mode steps hunk to
hunk, a non-sticky range collapses on a plain move, a sticky range extends.

GetOnStageFocusedMainView now takes the selected view-line range instead of one
line; the files handler collects the change lines in the range and applies a
single patch. It identifies each change line's patch line by scanning the parsed
patch and matching (file line number, deletion?) identities, rather than looking
each number up with PatchLineForLineNumber. That lookup can't tell an addition at
the very start of a hunk from the deletion above it, nor an addition from the
deletion it replaces on a modified line — both of which a range routinely spans.
As a side effect this also fixes staging a change on the first line of a file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:58:59 +02:00
Stefan Haller 494b9ce7cf Stage the selected diff line from the focused main view
The focused main view already lets you point at a diff line and act on it
(dive into staging, edit it, open it in a PR). This makes it a staging surface
in its own right: press space to stage — or unstage — the selected line without
diving into the separate staging view.

To make that usable, the selection is now shown automatically whenever the main
view holds a diff, anchored on the first change line already visible (so the
view doesn't jump), rather than being toggled on demand from the middle of the
view. That frees space for staging and means there's always a line to act on.
Which contexts show a diff is marked by a new types.DiffMainViewContext, because
"shows a diff" is the right signal, not "is stageable": reflog shows a diff (its
selection drives edit/PR/navigation) but can't be staged, while a branch's log
or the status dashboard show no diff and get no selection at all.

Staging is delegated to the side panel beneath via a GetOnStageFocusedMainView
handler mirroring GetOnClickFocusedMainView, so what "stage" means stays the
panel's concern (the working tree stages/unstages; commits will later add to a
custom patch). The files handler resolves the line's patch identity from the
diff-line metadata, maps it to a patch line, and applies a one-line patch,
choosing stage vs unstage from whether the shown diff is the unstaged or staged
side (diffSplitState).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:58:59 +02:00
Stefan Haller 3b6568cf9f Preserve the diff scroll and selection when the context size changes
Increasing or decreasing the diff context size (the `{`/`}` keybindings)
re-renders the diff with a different `git diff -U<n>` command. Because the
command key changes, the render reset the main view to the top — losing the
spot the user was reading, which is exactly the spot the context change is
about.

Preserve it instead, reusing the identity-based restore built for the escape
path. This is its sibling consumer: capture the lines around the anchor (the
selection, or the top visible line when there's none) as restore candidates,
and after the re-render land on the nearest one that survived, put back at the
same screen row. Prefer the anchor line itself, falling back outward only when
it didn't survive: a context line vanishes when the context size shrinks,
whereas additions and deletions always survive, so expansion stops at the
first change line in each direction and the candidate list always contains a
survivor. Landing on the nearest survivor keeps scrolling to a minimum, and a
context line that is still in the patch stays put (or stays selected).

This generalizes the shared restore helper to take a prioritized candidate
list (the escape path passes a single candidate). It covers the focused main
view and every side panel's diff, since they all render into the same "main"
view through the same path. A showing selection is re-established on the landed
line; otherwise the view stays in scroll mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:58:59 +02:00
Stefan Haller d3bf88c52c Restore the focused main view by patch identity on escape
Escaping a patch explorer (staging / patch building) back to the focused main
view it was entered from used to replay a numeric scroll position and selection
index captured on the way in. But the reason to escape after staging or dropping
a hunk is that the content changed, so a saved index points at the wrong line —
and the host auto-advances the explorer's selection to a still-valid line anyway,
which is the line the user actually cares about returning to.

Restore by *patch identity* instead. On escape, read the (file, type, source
line) the explorer currently has selected, then have the main view's re-render
land on the row that matches it: scan the incoming content as it loads (the
inverse of the diff-line primitive), and once the matching row plus a screenful
below it have loaded, swap the off-screen render in and scroll to / select that
row in one step. FocusPoint with scrollIntoView centres the row only if it's
off-screen, so the common unchanged-content escape — where the row is already
where it was — doesn't move at all. If the line is gone (the content really
changed), nothing is forced.

This generalizes the scroll restore from a fixed origin to a predicate
(RenderRestore: FirstPaintReady decides when the saved position is reachable,
Apply re-establishes it), folding the separate selection restore into the same
first paint — so it no longer rides a post-load callback that could fire early.

The restore also now survives task replacement, which the numeric version did
not: a periodic refresh can stop the escape's re-render before it first-paints.
The pending restore is held on the buffer manager and is *not* cleared when a
task starts, so the replacement task picks it up. It is not gated on the command
key — staging the last unstaged hunk re-renders `git diff` as `git diff --cached`,
a different command, yet the line to land on is still in the new content — but
validates itself: the scan finds the target line only when the content still
contains it, so applying it to a different item is a harmless no-op. A task
clears it once it has applied it (found or not), so it lives for exactly one
re-render. Because the restore is anchored on content identity and is idempotent,
"survive replacement" and "restore by identity" are one mechanism, not two.

With the identity in hand the snapshot no longer needs the captured scroll/index;
they're derived from the explorer's live selection.
2026-08-08 12:58:59 +02:00
Stefan Haller cf8e5fd27e Recover diff-line identity by parsing the buffer, behind a swappable seam
The focused main view's click/enter/e/G handlers all need the same thing: given
a rendered diff row, the patch-space line it corresponds to. Until now that came
solely from delta's lazygit-edit:// hyperlinks, which only carry a path and a
single line number — no side. That's lossy: for a deletion the number is the old
line, but the consumers fed it into new-file lookups, and two consecutive
deletions (which share a new-file line number) couldn't be told apart at all.

Replace GetFileAndLineForClickedDiffLine with GetDiffLineInfo, returning the
fuller (file, type, new-line, old-line) record from diff-line-metadata-notes.md.
This is mechanism #1: parse the decolorized view buffer — walk up to the file's
"diff --git" section, reuse patch.Parse on it (splitting multi-file commit diffs
on the "diff --git" boundaries), and read the type and line numbers off the patch
arithmetic. It serves the structure-preserving renderings — no pager, git diff
--color, and delta --color-only without line numbers — with no external
dependency.

To avoid trusting a mis-parse, the parser bails when a hunk's body no longer
matches its header (Patch.IsWellFormed). That's what happens when a pager keeps
the diff/hunk headers but restructures the body: delta's line-number gutters push
the +/- marker off the start of each line, so every body line reads as context.
Such renderings fall through to the next backend rather than yielding a confident
wrong answer. (diff-so-fancy goes further and rewrites the headers too, so it
fails even earlier, on the missing "diff --git".)

GetDiffLineInfo is a seam with swappable backends: the buffer parser first, then
the old hyperlink reader as a fallback for renderings the parser can't handle
(delta's default mode, or delta with line-number gutters). The future #2 OSC
per-cell metadata reader plugs in ahead of both, behind the same record shape.

Wire the consumers to the record per that doc's field mapping:
- dive into staging/patch building lands on the exact patch line, looking a
  deletion up by its old-file line number (PatchLineForOldLineNumber) so the
  two-deletions case resolves correctly;
- `e` edits at the new-file line;
- `G` anchors the PR link on the left (old) side for a deletion, the right (new)
  side otherwise.

The hyperlink fallback can't convey the side, so it reports DiffLineOther, which
the consumers treat as a non-deletion — i.e. exactly today's behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:58:59 +02:00
Stefan Haller 0b11400a9d Use the default select mode when diving into a patch explorer from a focused main view
Diving into staging or patch building from a focused main view (by
double-clicking a line, or pressing enter on the selected line) always
landed on a single-line selection. Entering the same views through the
side panel honours the UseHunkModeInStagingView config and selects the
whole hunk by default. The two ways in should agree, so that diving in
from the main view feels like the established flow.

A non-negative line index in NewState was overloaded for two intents:
clicking directly on the patch explorer view (where a single-line range
is the start of a drag) and diving in from the main view (where we want
the default select mode). Distinguish them with SelectLineInDefaultMode
on OnFocusOpts: the main-view entry points set it; the click-to-drag
path does not.

In hunk mode the selection covers the block of changes around the
clicked line. A context line has no surrounding changes, so we snap to
the next change line (as toggling hunk mode does); the clicked context
line itself is then not part of the selection.

This is a separate commit only because the branch is a throwaway
prototype; in a real history it would be folded into the commit that
introduces the focused-main-view enter behavior rather than landing on
top of it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:58:59 +02:00
Stefan Haller e8388a998d WIP FocusedMainViewSnapshot approach 2026-08-08 12:58:59 +02:00
Stefan Haller a32ed507d3 Press enter in main view of files/commitFiles to enter staging/patch-building
This was already possible, but only when a file was selected, and it woudln't
always land on the right line when a pager was used. Now it's also possible to
do this for directories, and it jumps to the right line.

At the moment this is a hack that relies on delta's hyperlinks, so it only works
on lines that have hyperlinks (added and context).

The implementation is very hacky for other reasons too (e.g. the addition of the
weirdly named ClickedViewRealLineIdx to OnFocusOpts).
2026-08-08 12:58:58 +02:00
Stefan Haller 06b421ad0c Remember how to get back to a repo we entered a submodule from
Entering a submodule clears GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE, as it must: they
say where the superproject is. But the stack we push the superproject
onto so that escape brings us back only held its path, and for a repo
opened with --git-dir/--work-tree the path leads nowhere — git can't
find a repo there. Escaping out of a submodule of a dotfile repo failed
with "not a git repository", or, if some unrelated repo happened to lie
above the work tree, quietly switched to that one instead.

Push the environment onto the stack along with the path, taken from the
repo paths rather than from the process env, so that it also covers a
repo we worked the location out for ourselves.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 11:15:01 +02:00
Stefan Haller 9b1078a2ca Make StringStack generic
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 11:15:01 +02:00
Stefan Haller e54cb4bf42 Decouple hiding the working tree state from blocking input
Blocking keyboard input and hiding the working tree state mode are two
separate concerns; they were fused into one helper because every caller
so far wanted both. A caller that blocks input for something other than a
rebase would then hide the "Rebasing" indicator for the duration of its
operation, which has nothing to do with it.

Make it an explicit option instead, so blocking input on its own doesn't
imply anything about the modes on display.
2026-08-05 17:29:20 +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 8731d8a51b Rework the custom pager config (rename to diff renderer)
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.
2026-07-31 08:42:51 +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 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 9f2886f96f Hold the file-path suggestions trie outside the model
The file-path suggestions trie is rebuilt asynchronously and then read by
the suggestions search, which runs on an AsyncHandler worker. It lived in
Model().FilesTrie, so that worker read the (UI-thread-only) model. Move
it to an atomic pointer on the SuggestionsHelper instead: it's the only
place that uses it, the helper is recreated per repo (so the cache still
resets on a repo switch), and an atomic pointer is safe to store from the
build and load from the search worker.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 12:35:54 +02:00
Stefan Haller 435e02efa8 Remove the now-dead PopupMutex
PopupMutex guarded CurrentPopupOpts against a popup being created on a
worker goroutine while the UI thread deactivated it, or reset it on a
repo switch. Now that popup and menu creation is bounced onto the UI
thread, every access to CurrentPopupOpts — create, deactivate, and the
reset-on-switch (which already runs on the UI thread) — happens on the
one goroutine, so the mutex protects nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 12:35:54 +02:00
Stefan Haller a247dfd76d Retire WithWaitingStatusSync
Nothing calls it anymore now that the commit-surgery operations run on a
worker with input blocked. Remove the helper, its bespoke synchronous
spinner loop (renderAppStatusSync/setAppStatusContent), the popup-handler
plumbing, and the interface method.

That loop was also the only thing suppressing the yellow "Rebasing" mode
indicator (and its reset button) while lazygit drives a rebase itself.
Move that suppression to WithWaitingStatusBlockingInput so it applies to
every input-blocking commit-surgery op — including the ones that already
ran on a worker (edit, drop, and so on) and previously let the indicator
flash on mid-operation. It's cleared after the refresh, so an operation
that legitimately leaves a rebase in progress still shows the mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
Stefan Haller 707b04a8c2 Add a WithWaitingStatusBlockingInput helper
Bracket gocui's BeginBlockingEvents/EndBlockingEvents around a
worker operation that shows a waiting status. The block is begun
synchronously on the UI thread, before the operation is dispatched to a
worker, so no keypress can slip through in between; it ends via
OnUIThread once the operation and its refresh have applied their UI
updates, so the replayed keys act on the refreshed state.

This composes what the retiring WithWaitingStatusSync did — show a
status and block input — but on a worker, so the UI keeps rendering
(spinner animates, model updates land) instead of freezing. Callers
follow in subsequent commits.

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 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 cbf220c497 Read lines based on scroll position instead of a fixed per-notch delta
When scrolling a lazy-loaded view (a diff in the main view, the command
log, etc.), we top up the view's line buffer by reading more lines from
the still-running task. This was driven by asking the task to read a
fixed number of *additional* lines on every scroll event, which had two
problems:

- It was decoupled from the scroll position. Scrolling down, back up,
  and down again re-read lines that had already been read, so the buffer
  crept towards the end of the input regardless of where the user
  actually scrolled.

- A single wheel notch only bought a single notch worth of runway, so
  fast scrolling constantly outran the reader and had to wait for the
  next read (and re-render) on every notch.

Make ReadLines take an absolute target total instead of a delta: the
task tracks how many lines it has read and only reads the shortfall, so
requests are idempotent. Callers now ask to fill the viewport at the
current scroll position plus a few screenfuls of read-ahead, which gives
scrolling enough runway to stay smooth.

The four call sites all wanted the same "fill this view" computation, so
consolidate them into a single ReadLinesToFillView helper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 09:32:35 +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 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 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 e352cafd43 Add background tasks and a synchronous busy query to gocui
Repo-switch safety needs to answer, synchronously on the UI thread,
"is any foreground work in flight right now?" so it can refuse a switch
that would run against a repo about to be swapped out. gocui already
tracks a task per OnWorker/Update for the test idle-listener; extend
that.

Tasks gain a background flag: background tasks (the ongoing routines
like auto-fetch, and the refreshes they trigger) don't count towards
busy, because their model writes are already guarded against a
concurrent switch by the repo generation. Add OnWorkerBackground,
UpdateBackground and UpdateContentOnlyBackground (plus the gui-layer
OnUIThreadBackground / OnUIThreadContentOnlyBackground / OnWorkerBackground
on IGuiCommon) so the few background call sites can opt in without
touching the hundreds of foreground callers.

TaskManager.hasBusyForegroundTaskExcept answers the query; Gui.Busy()
wraps it, excluding the event currently being processed (recorded as
currentTask) so a handler asking the question doesn't count itself.

Nothing gates on Busy() yet; this is the mechanism only.

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 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 2c139b6ac1 Remove RefreshingFilesMutex/FileTreeViewModel.RWMutex, dead code
FileTreeViewModel.RWMutex is removed along with the
withFileTreeViewModelMutex wrapper in FilesController that RLocked it:
every writer (the bounce closure, previous commit) and every reader (key
handlers, disabled-reason callbacks) now runs on the UI thread, so the
mutex is redundant.

RefreshingFilesMutex is removed entirely, including its last use in
repos_helper's DispatchSwitchTo. That use predates the bounce and was
never about FilesController's optimistic-rendering concern; it serialized
a repo switch's onNewRepo() against an in-flight FILES refresh for the
repo being switched away from, so that a slow refresh from the old repo
couldn't write into the freshly-reset model for the new one. Bouncing the
write already broke that guarantee on its own terms — the mutex's critical
section never covered the bounced closure's actual execution, only the
(now-removed) code that enqueued it — so by this point it was only still
locked here without protecting anything real; the previous commit's
repo-generation guard is what now actually closes that race, making this
lock fully redundant rather than just relocated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller be897ce55e Bounce FILES model updates onto the UI thread
refreshStateFiles now does its git work on the worker and enqueues a
single OnUIThread closure that writes Model.Submodules, Model.Files, and
the FileTreeViewModel state together, instead of writing them directly
from the worker goroutine. refreshStateSubmoduleConfigs becomes a pure
getter (returns the configs; no model write) so the result can be
threaded into that same bounce.

The STAGING handler wraps RefreshStagingPanel in OnUIThread after
fileWg.Wait() so it sees the post-bounce file model rather than the stale
pre-refresh one — without this it would race the files bounce queued just
above it.

Bouncing the write opens a hazard the old synchronous write didn't have:
if the user switches repos while this refresh is in flight, the queued
closure would fire after resetState has replaced the model with a fresh
one for the new repo, silently overwriting it with the previous repo's
files. Guard against this with a repo generation: resetState bumps a
counter on every switch, refreshStateFiles captures it before its git
work, and onUIThreadUnlessRepoChanged drops the bounce if the generation
has moved on. This one helper is the general mechanism the remaining
scopes' bounces will use too; the same guard covers the rebase-continue
prompt, which reads Model.Files right after.

A generation counter, not a comparison of the *Model pointer: switching
away from and back to a repo reuses that repo's cached state (the same
Model pointer), which a pointer comparison would wrongly accept even
though the in-flight data is stale.

PromptToContinueRebase's Then callback (previous commit) now gets an
explanatory comment, since this is the commit that makes it necessary.

The explicit locking around these writes (RefreshingFilesMutex in
refreshFilesAndSubmodules, FileTreeViewModel.RWMutex around the write in
refreshStateFiles) is left in place for now even though it's becoming
redundant, to keep this commit focused on the bounce itself; it's removed
next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller 717448f105 Make RefreshOptions.Then a func() error, queue it via OnUIThread
This is preparation for upcoming commits that will bounce refresh-scope
model updates (e.g. Model.Files) onto the UI thread by enqueuing the
write via OnUIThread instead of applying it directly on the worker
goroutine. Once that lands, a Then callback that reads the model must
run after that queued write has been processed, not synchronously at
wg.Wait() time — at that point the workers have returned, but a bounce
they queued may not have been processed yet.

Queuing Then via OnUIThread here, ahead of that change, guarantees the
right ordering once it lands: a bounce queued earlier in the same
refresh is already sitting in the channel by the time wg.Wait()
returns, so Then enqueued after it will always be processed after, and
see the post-refresh model.

The signature change to func() error lets Then propagate errors
through gocui's normal error handler (the same path key-handler errors
take).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller b54d4c369b Remove unused IsRefreshingFiles state
GetIsRefreshingFiles() is never called anywhere in the codebase, so the
flag serves no purpose. Remove it from Gui, StateAccessor, and
IStateAccessor, and drop the two SetIsRefreshingFiles calls in
refreshFilesAndSubmodules that maintained it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 18:09:33 +02:00
Stefan Haller ad507d67f4 Only prompt to continue a rebase/merge if we started it
When conflicts of an in-progress rebase/merge/cherry-pick/revert are
resolved, lazygit pops up a prompt offering to continue it. This is
helpful when you started the operation in lazygit and resolved the
conflicts in your editor. But it's confusing when the operation was
started outside lazygit — e.g. by a coding agent in another terminal
that resolves the conflicts but hasn't continued yet because it's still
running tests or fixing the build. lazygit would then prompt unbidden.

Track whether the in-progress operation was started from within lazygit,
and only show the prompt in that case. We record this right after running
a merge/rebase step (in CheckMergeOrRebaseWithRefreshOptions, the
subprocess branch of genericMergeCommand, and the custom-command
conflict path), and clear it whenever a refresh observes that no
operation is in progress — which also handles an operation that was
finished or aborted externally.

The conflict-resolution tests start their operation by running git
directly (not through lazygit's UI), so they call the new test helper
Common.PretendMergeOrRebaseStartedInLazygit to have lazygit treat the
operation as its own and still get the prompt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-03 18:28:07 +02:00
Stefan Haller ccaa96b29d Suppress optional locks by default again, except foreground refresh
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>
2026-07-02 16:05:08 +02:00
Stefan Haller c15ab5db5d Keep selected commits stable across refreshes
With the recently added external change detection, it happens more often
now that we refresh the commits list because an agent made a commit in
the background. In this case, if we keep the selection index the same,
it now points at a different commit, making the main view show a
different commit too, which is confusing and annoying. To fix this,
track the selected commit and range anchor by hash before reloading,
then restore those rows if both hashes still exist. This also allows us
to get rid of some bespoke code that did this for the specific cases of
reverting a commit or cherry-picking commits, because those are now
handled by the generic mechanism.
2026-06-23 09:20:05 +02:00
Stefan Haller d94f2f05ac Only pass --no-optional-locks for background status refreshes
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>
2026-06-19 18:14:24 +02:00
Stefan Haller 3cf890b7d7 Pause background refreshes while driving a git operation
Several commands (rewording or amending an earlier commit, custom patch
operations, etc.) are implemented by starting an interactive rebase that stops
at a commit, amending it, and continuing. When no conflict occurs, the user
isn't meant to notice a rebase happened at all.

But a background file refresh can fire while the rebase is mid-flight and render
a dirty working copy of whatever the behind-the-scenes rebase is doing (e.g.
applying a custom patch).

To fix this, we pause the background routines for the duration of any
waiting-status operation — exactly the window in which lazygit is driving the
git operation itself and will refresh once at the end. The boundary is also
right for the conflict case: when a rebase stops on a conflict the operation
returns, the pause releases, and background refreshes resume for the interactive
resolution that follows.
2026-06-19 17:56:48 +02:00
Stefan Haller 5748d82073 Convert keybinding fields to Keybinding
Until now every keybinding config field was a plain string. That meant a user
couldn't ask for two keys to invoke a command — the config silently accepted
only one form.

Convert every string-typed field across all 13 KeybindingXxxConfig structs to
Keybinding so the union type extends to every command. Defaults wrap their
single-key value in Keybinding{...} so the generated Config.md still renders one
scalar key per binding.

The alt fields keep their separate Binding registrations for now: this commit
does not yet introduce the merge mechanism that folds them into the main field —
that comes in a follow-up. Consumers previously calling opts.GetKeys on a string
field now call opts.GetKeys on the Keybinding, or take .String() / Keys[0] where
a single value is needed.

Adds a Keybinding.String helper for rendering, schema-generator work that
inlines the Keybinding union into each consuming property, and a unit test
covering the user-facing scalar/sequence YAML forms for quit.
2026-05-25 15:32:47 +02:00
Stefan Haller 26366641c0 Rename Key to Keys in Binding, KeybindingsOpts, and MenuItem
This is a straight rename with no other code changes. Doing it in a separate
commit to keep the diff of the previous one somewhat readable.
2026-05-25 15:18:18 +02:00
Stefan Haller 3d18ee8f91 Use a slice of keys for each binding
This is a pure refactor in preparation for letting users configure multiple
alternate bindings for a single command. Every Binding still has exactly one
key, so nothing changes visibly: the cheatsheet, the on-screen options bar,
and the keybindings menu all render identically.

When a Binding ends up with multiple keys, the on-screen options bar will
show only the first (to avoid clutter); the cheatsheet will show all of them (in
a later commit). For now both paths take Key[0].

MenuItem.Key is changed in the same way, it also has a slice of keys now.

In this commit we keep the name `Key` in Binding, KeybindingOpts and MenuItem,
instead of renaming them to `Keys` right away, in order to keep the diff a bit
more readable. We'll do the rename separately in the next commit.
2026-05-25 15:18:18 +02:00