The pane beside a commit's diff showed the patch being built from it by
assembling the text itself. That text could not be handed to a diff
renderer the way a diff can: a stdin filter might have coped, but a tool
that diffs two files could not. Its idea of how much context to show
around a hunk was also its own rather than git's.
Materialize the patch instead: write each of its files as it is before the
patch into one tree and as it is after into another, and let git diff the
two trees. The patch becomes a diff of real files, rendered by whatever
renders the rest of them, with git's own context around it. Its lines can
then be pointed at; taking them back out of the patch will need that.
The trees are named a and b, so that with git's own prefixes suppressed
the paths read like an ordinary diff's over the repo's own paths. They are
written when the patch changes rather than when it is shown, the patch
builder counting its own versions for that, and they go away with the
patch.
A renamed file is materialized under the name the patch expects to find it
under. Where the patch carries the rename, that is the name the file had
before, so the rename comes out as a rename. git names the trees
themselves in the two rename lines, having only the two paths to go by.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two things about a diff command follow from what its output is for: whether
the diff renderer produces it, and whether it is coloured. That was a
`plain` flag, which covers two of the three cases — the diff as configured,
and git's own uncoloured diff for building patches out of — and leaves no
room for the third, which is about to be needed: git's own diff, coloured,
for showing where the renderer's version of it can't be acted on.
So the flag becomes a mode. It also takes over deciding the colour, which
each command spelled out for itself, and it settles a question the flag
couldn't put: whether ignoring whitespace applies. It is about what the user
wants to see, so it holds for anything shown, and not for a diff a patch is
built from, which has to describe every change.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An external diff command rides on the git command as a diff.external
config, which means it is fixed when the command is built. That is
before the layout pass, so the width the renderer is to lay out for
isn't known yet, and the command can't be told about it.
Pass it as GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF from the render instead, where the width
is known and where a stdin filter is already handed to git the same
way. git ranks the variable exactly as it ranks the config, behind a
per-path diff driver from .gitattributes, so a repository that defines
one still gets it (verified on git 2.22.5 and 2.55). An empty command
means the user wants their own git config to apply, so leave the
variable unset for that; git takes it being set at all as an
instruction.
The renderer command leaves the git arguments, so it also leaves the key
that says which diff a render is of. Cycling between two external diff
renderers now keeps the view's place, the way cycling between two stdin
filters already does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The recent repos helper is about to run a git command against each repo
in the menu, and it needs the same treatment of GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE
that everything else pointed at another repo gets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE tell git where our repo is, and every command
we run inherits them — including the ones we point at a submodule or
another worktree. git resolves those against our repo instead, and says
nothing about it: with GIT_DIR set, `git -C mysub log -1` reports the
superproject's commit. So opening lazygit with --git-dir/--work-tree
quietly broke resolving submodule conflicts, stashing and resetting a
submodule, and detaching another worktree; the worktree list came back
claiming every worktree shared our git dir.
Drop the two variables from the commands that address another repo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (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.
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>
I took the set of enabled checks from revive's recommended configuration [1],
and removed some that I didn't like. There might be other useful checks in
revive that we might want to enable, but this is a nice improvement already.
The bulk of the changes here are removing unnecessary else statements after
returns, but there are a few others too.
[1] https://github.com/mgechev/revive?tab=readme-ov-file#recommended-configuration
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
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