jesseduffield.lazygit/pkg
Stefan Haller aebf495dce Scroll the selection into view by default
Ever since scrolling the selection into view became opt-in, we have been
fixing the same class of regression by hand, five times so far: a
controller moves the selection somewhere new, doesn't say that it wants
the view to follow, and the selection ends up off screen. The decision
needs facts from two places — whether the selection went somewhere new is
known to the list, whether the scroll position is the caller's to manage
is known to the caller — and asking every caller for both is what keeps
going wrong. The callers that get it wrong are usually not even the ones
that moved the selection: they are pass-throughs like postRefreshUpdate,
which can't know what a refresh did to the selection.

So default to scrolling, and let the two callers that maintain the scroll
position themselves say so.

The one case where scrolling is always wrong is a refresh that no user
action is behind: a background poll, or a reload of state on window
focus, after a subprocess, or after a repo switch. Those must leave the
viewport wherever the user last scrolled it to — that is what made the
scrolling opt-in in the first place. Both are already marked in
RefreshOptions, so the refresh can decide it once, centrally, instead of
each caller judging it.

A user action that ends in a foreground refresh does now yank the view
back to the selection if the user had scrolled away from it. That's a
behaviour change, and there may be actions where it turns out to be
unwelcome; those we can fix individually, and it beats the ones that
don't scroll today.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 08:04:13 +02:00
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app Recognize a repo that has no work tree instead of bailing out 2026-08-08 11:15:01 +02:00
cheatsheet Render every key for a binding in the cheatsheet 2026-05-25 15:18:18 +02:00
commands Get the GitHub token from gh instead of resolving it in-process 2026-08-12 19:13:06 +02:00
common Move NewDummyCommon to pkg/common 2025-05-06 09:43:26 +02:00
config Remove a few unnecessary parentheses 2026-08-13 20:40:11 +02:00
constants Adapt links 2026-07-31 08:42:51 +02:00
env Remember how to get back to a repo we entered a submodule from 2026-08-08 11:15:01 +02:00
fakes Modernize all codes 2025-11-15 10:46:23 +01:00
gocui Remove a few unnecessary parentheses 2026-08-13 20:40:11 +02:00
gui Scroll the selection into view by default 2026-08-14 08:04:13 +02:00
i18n Run the stash operations with a waiting status 2026-08-08 12:26:18 +02:00
integration Add tests for the scroll-into-view regressions we fixed by hand 2026-08-14 08:04:13 +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 Remove a few unnecessary parentheses 2026-08-13 20:40:11 +02:00
tasks Let OnUIThreadAndWait's error be about the wait, not about f 2026-08-12 11:04:53 +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 Make StringStack generic 2026-08-08 11:15:01 +02:00