jesseduffield.lazygit/pkg
Stefan Haller 49eefbcf37 Make the user-event queue unbounded
Update and friends enqueued onto a fixed 256-slot channel with a
non-blocking send that panicked when the channel was full. That guard
was firing in real use:

 - Toggling a directory of several hundred files into a custom patch
   (reliably): the operation runs on a worker behind a waiting status,
   whose spinner enqueues a content-only render on every tick, and over
   the long operation these outrun the UI loop and overflow the buffer.
 - Editing the config in an editor that suspends lazygit: the editor
   subprocess runs on the UI thread, so the loop drains nothing for the
   whole editing session, and the full refresh fired on resume fans out
   across every scope at once — a burst of updates that overflows before
   the just-resumed loop catches up.
 - Any time the UI thread blocks for a long time, the periodic refreshes
   keep enqueuing and eventually overflow.

The 256-slot buffer was chosen deliberately, with the panic as a
"should never happen" guard, to preserve two properties: FIFO ordering
of same-goroutine Update calls (an earlier goroutine-per-Update design
reordered them), and no self-deadlock (a blocking send from the UI
thread would block against the loop that drains it). But a fixed
channel can only offer those by crashing on overflow.

Replace it with an unbounded, order-preserving queue: a mutex-guarded
slice plus a buffered(1) doorbell channel that wakes the main loop's
select. Enqueuing appends and rings the doorbell; the loop drains the
slice to empty on each wake. This keeps FIFO order and never blocks the
caller, so there is no self-deadlock and no overflow to panic on — under
a stall the queue just grows and then drains.

This also removes an inconsistency: updateContentOnly did a plain
blocking send while update panicked, so the two paths disagreed on what
happened when the queue was full. Both now share the same enqueue.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 10:14:05 +02:00
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app Allow overriding the platform used for default keybindings 2026-07-03 19:08:22 +02:00
cheatsheet Render every key for a binding in the cheatsheet 2026-05-25 15:18:18 +02:00
commands Back off exponentially between lock-error retries 2026-07-15 10:08:44 +02:00
common Move NewDummyCommon to pkg/common 2025-05-06 09:43:26 +02:00
config Add gui.shrinkSidePanelsToContent option 2026-07-03 19:25:01 +02:00
constants Make the links in the status panel point to the current version rather than master 2024-03-22 08:13:59 +01:00
env Support bare worktrees where worktree does not have its own .git file 2023-08-07 22:40:53 +10:00
fakes Modernize all codes 2025-11-15 10:46:23 +01:00
gocui Make the user-event queue unbounded 2026-07-15 10:14:05 +02:00
gui Show renamed files in the custom patch builder 2026-07-04 13:05:09 +02:00
i18n Update translations from Crowdin 2026-07-04 14:36:49 +02:00
integration Remove unused function ExpectClipboard 2026-07-04 13:05:09 +02:00
jsonschema Fold legacy quit-alt1 into the multi-key quit binding 2026-05-25 15:32:47 +02:00
logs Fix Windows linter errors 2026-06-16 16:21:13 +02:00
snake Enable intrange linter, and fix warnings 2025-06-30 18:30:11 +02:00
tasks Abstract task command over *exec.Cmd 2026-07-03 18:47:15 +02:00
theme Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
updates Change direct access to Common.UserConfig to a getter 2024-08-18 10:24:52 +02:00
utils Expand a leading ~ in worktree paths to the home directory 2026-07-03 18:53:05 +02:00