jesseduffield.lazygit/pkg/gui
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
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context Convert keybinding fields to Keybinding 2026-05-25 15:32:47 +02:00
controllers Only pass --no-optional-locks for background status refreshes 2026-06-19 18:14:24 +02:00
filetree Make file sort order and case sensitivity configurable 2026-03-30 17:53:25 +02:00
mergeconflicts Fix linter warnings about ignoring errors from bufio.Scanner 2026-05-03 16:57:24 +02:00
modes Make Commit.Hash a getter for an unexported hash field 2025-04-29 14:57:15 +02:00
patch_exploring Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
popup Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
presentation Use more widely-supported Unicode symbols for the commit graph 2026-05-04 13:06:29 +02:00
services/custom_commands Convert custom command Key fields to Keybinding 2026-05-25 15:32:47 +02:00
status Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
style Modernize all codes 2025-11-15 10:46:23 +01:00
types Only pass --no-optional-locks for background status refreshes 2026-06-19 18:14:24 +02:00
background.go Only pass --no-optional-locks for background status refreshes 2026-06-19 18:14:24 +02:00
command_log_panel.go Fold remaining alt bindings into their main fields 2026-05-25 15:32:47 +02:00
context.go Bump gocui (and tcell) 2025-12-23 16:49:16 +01:00
context_config.go Remove some unused code 2025-07-08 15:14:45 +02:00
controllers.go Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
dummies.go Move NewDummyCommon to pkg/common 2025-05-06 09:43:26 +02:00
editors.go Move modifiers into Key 2026-04-30 22:22:53 +02:00
extras_panel.go Rename Key to Keys in Binding, KeybindingsOpts, and MenuItem 2026-05-25 15:18:18 +02:00
global_handlers.go Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
gui.go Detect external ref changes via background polling 2026-06-19 18:07:48 +02:00
gui_common.go Pause background refreshes while driving a git operation 2026-06-19 17:56:48 +02:00
gui_driver.go Move modifiers into Key 2026-04-30 22:22:53 +02:00
information_panel.go Rename ModeStatus.Description to InfoLabel 2025-08-14 17:59:38 +02:00
keybindings.go Fold remaining alt bindings into their main fields 2026-05-25 15:32:47 +02:00
layout.go Fix visual glitch with status bar spinner at very slow spinner rates 2026-05-08 22:42:23 +02:00
main_panels.go Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
menu_panel.go Fold remaining alt bindings into their main fields 2026-05-25 15:32:47 +02:00
options_map.go Cleanup: filter out empty keybindings earlier 2026-05-28 19:26:43 +02:00
pty.go Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
pty_windows.go Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
recent_repos_panel.go Remove unused field gui.IsNewRepo 2024-12-01 10:44:26 +01:00
tasks_adapter.go Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
test_mode.go Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
view_helpers.go Copy gocui files into lazygit repo under pkg/gocui 2026-04-30 14:29:08 +02:00
views.go Convert JumpToBlock to a list of multi-key bindings 2026-05-25 15:32:47 +02:00