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Problem

On a large GitHub repository, branch status took about 5 s to find the pull request for a fork's default branch, or to report that there is none. On pingdotgg/t3code the median was 5,450 ms for a fork main with an open PR and 4,739 ms for main with none. Any other branch looked up in the same batch waited just as long.

Change

Cause: GitHub's GraphQL pullRequests(headRefName:) cannot filter heads by owner. A bare main matches hundreds of fork PRs, so GitHubSourceControlProvider read 100 rows (about 48 KB) and GitManager kept the rows from the branch's own owner. That slow query shares a document with every other head lookup in its batch, so they all waited for it.

• headBranchProbe gets an optional defaultBranchHeadSelector (owner:branch). GitManager.findLatestPrForHeadContext sets it only when the head is the default branch and the head owner is known. Otherwise the lookup is today's bare lookup.
• The GitHub probe sends only that selector when it is set. listByHead reads owner:branch selectors through REST repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls?head=owner:branch, so GitHub filters by owner upstream. Rows are reshaped into the GraphQL node, so the existing decoder and its per-row isolation are reused. REST has no merged state, so closed and merged requests ask for REST closed and filter afterwards.
• Every explicit owner:branch selector through listByHead now uses REST, including references from readPullRequest. This also finds a fork's own PR that the old first-100-then-filter scan could miss.
• Unchanged: ordinary branches stay on batched GraphQL, and so does findOpenPr. Also unchanged: repository scope, authentication, reserve quota, newest-first order, the 100-row cap, and owner matching with open-preferred selection in GitManager.
• Providers: Azure DevOps has the same bare-branch scan but no owner filter in its API, so it ignores the field. The open Bitbucket, GitLab and Forgejo probe PRs (fix(bitbucket): a fork's pull request from a same-named branch no longer hides the branch's own #29751, fix(gitlab): a fork's same-named branch no longer hides the branch's own merge request #29791, fix(forgejo): a fork's same-named branch no longer hides the branch's own pull request #33704) are unaffected because the field is optional.

Costs and limits:

• Each default-branch lookup is now its own REST call against the core quota instead of one alias in a GraphQL batch.
• Other common head names such as patch-1 still use the bare scan.
• A PR whose fork was deleted has no head repository and is probably not matched by the REST filter.

Scope and approval

I searched upstream issues and discussions and found no matching issue or approval, so approval is outstanding. It changes one provider's query path and adds one optional field to the provider contract.

#32796 changes the same function (findLatestPrForHeadContext) but different lines, so whichever lands second has at most a trivial conflict. For the default-branch case on GitHub, this change also finds closed and merged PRs, which #32796 leaves out.

Verification

Live, read-only reads of pingdotgg/t3code through GitHubSourceControlProvider.listChangeRequests (state: "all", limit: 100, the status path). Before is the bare head upstream's probe sends; after is the owner-qualified head. There were 5 interleaved pairs per case, alternating which went first. Before includes the 500 ms background batch window that status lookups pay. Times are in ms.

Case	Before samples	Before median	After samples	After median	Speedup	Rows	Selected PR, every pair
Fork main with a PR (dazbot-ooh:main)	6919, 5450, 4863, 8095, 4628	5,450	645, 853, 881, 718, 841	841	6.5x	100 → 1	#31793 / #31793
main with no PR (pingdotgg:main)	6101, 4219, 4739, 6136, 4590	4,739	494, 569, 883, 529, 484	529	9.0x	100 → 0	none / none
Ordinary branch (GraphQL both times)	1005, 1080, 1116, 1180, 1133	1,116	1098, 1076, 1092, 1077, 1072	1,077	1.0x	1 → 1	#33305 / #33305
All three together	4638, 4640, 4539, 6207, 4828	4,640	1501, 1026, 1050, 1125, 1108	1,108	4.2x	—	same three in every pair

Re-run on current main (facd190640, the PR cherry-picked cleanly), 7 interleaved pairs per case:

What was timed	main	this branch	Speedup
Provider lookup, fork main (dazbot-ooh:main)	4,678	623	7.5x
Provider lookup, main with no PR	4,814	544	8.9x
Provider lookup, ordinary branch	1,085	1,085	1.0x
Full vcs.refreshStatus over WebSocket, fork clone with main tracking the fork, refreshes 16 s apart so each one fetches	7,826	3,168	2.5x
Same, back to back (the 15 s fetch cache skips about half the fetches)	6,979	2,662	2.6x

A refresh saves about the same time with or without the rest of the refresh around it, roughly 4.3 s here: the 500 ms batch window and the 4 to 5 s GraphQL scan become one REST call of about 0.65 s. The REST lookup never waited for the batch window in any sample. The rest of a refresh is local git work this change doesn't touch, which both builds pay: local status read twice (about 0.68 s each) and git fetch (about 0.83 s). That shared cost is why the full-refresh ratio is lower than the lookup's. Maria measured the same refresh at 5,234 → 1,363 ms (3.8x) on a machine where that git work is faster. Another benchmark was running on this machine during the re-run, which probably made the local git steps slower.

Tests:

• vp test run src/git/GitManager.test.ts (apps/server): 130/130 pass.
• vp test run --config ../../vite.config.ts src/server/GitHubSourceControlProvider.test.ts (packages/source-control-github): 38/38 pass.
• These fail on main and pass here:
  • status preserves a fork PR whose head is named after the default branch, which now expects a contributor:main lookup. On main: expected null to deeply equal { number: 777, … }.
  • filters an owner:branch selector by owner through REST, which checks the probe, the REST path and state, the merged filter, and that no GraphQL call is made. On main: expected [['main'],['main']] to deeply equal [['main'],['me:main']].
• vp run typecheck for source-control-core, source-control-github and apps/server, and targeted vp lint and vp fmt --check on the five files, are clean.

Not checked: no real-client status refresh was run. The measurements are against one public repository from one machine.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 4a67ea2

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Owner-qualified GitHub PR lookups now use server-side REST filtering, avoiding broad scans for common default-branch names. The change is limited to read-only PR discovery and retains existing result matching and request safeguards.

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Walkthrough

GitManager now supplies an owner-qualified selector for a known default-branch head. The GitHub provider uses REST for owner-qualified selectors, decodes REST responses, and filters results by requested state and limit.

Changes: GitHub head lookup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Default-branch selector wiring packages/source-control-core/src/server/SourceControlProvider.ts, apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts, apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts	The provider input accepts an optional default-branch selector. GitManager supplies an owner-qualified selector when the head matches the known default branch and an owner is available. Fake-provider behavior and fork fixtures use the owner-qualified selector.
GitHub owner-qualified lookup packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubSourceControlProvider.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubSourceControlProvider.test.ts	Owner-qualified selectors use REST with a head filter and a 100-result scan. The provider decodes responses, filters by requested state, and applies the caller’s limit. Tests cover selector probing and open and merged results.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitManager
  participant GitHubSourceControlProvider
  participant GitHubREST
  GitManager->>GitHubSourceControlProvider: Pass owner-qualified default-branch selector
  GitHubSourceControlProvider->>GitHubREST: List pull requests with owner:branch head filter
  GitHubREST-->>GitHubSourceControlProvider: Return matching pull requests
  GitHubSourceControlProvider-->>GitManager: Return decoded results filtered by state and limit

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Low · up to b2754

Status lookups for a fork's default branch can miss a merged or closed PR when 100 or more newer PRs of the opposite closed state exist for the same head. The common open-PR path is unaffected, so this can be merged with the pagination gap tracked as a follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: a performance fix that speeds up status refresh on a fork's default branch, with the measured before and after medians. The changeset adds an owner-qualified REST look…
Description check		The description follows the template sections (Problem, Change, Scope, Verification). It explains the cause, the fix, and the affected providers. It states that no matching issue or approval was found…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The title names the main change: a performance fix that speeds up status refresh on a fork's default branch, with the measured before and after medians. The changeset adds an owner-qualified REST lookup for a fork's default-branch PR, which is the change the title describes. The title is a single line, but it is long (97 characters) and includes numbers that a reader may not need in history.

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Explanation

The description follows the template sections (Problem, Change, Scope, Verification). It explains the cause, the fix, and the affected providers. It states that no matching issue or approval was found, which is the kind of Scope justification the template asks for. Verification is detailed, with tests, live measurements, and items not checked. The template's opening comment asks for a conventional commit title, which the PR title satisfies. The description does not use the template's HTML comments as headings, but the required content is present.

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Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified as-is at 4a67ea29de284449a36c63f350d8b5498bcf07f4, against github/main at 17a6a01d84. no source changes were needed.

ran isolated dev servers sequentially on this linux vm. used playwright from the repo with /usr/bin/google-chrome. created a project through the app for a real clone of dazbot-ooh/t3code-contributions, with upstream pingdotgg/t3code and main tracking the fork's main. real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns completed on both servers and confirmed the branch and clean checkout. no mocks, fixtures, or replay data.

opened thread details > git action options, which dispatches vcs.refreshStatus and invalidates the pr lookup cache. measured the actual browser websocket request through its matching successful response, three refreshes per server:

main:    5234 / 5670 / 4766 ms; median 5234 ms
pr head: 1259 / 1363 / 2051 ms; median 1363 ms
all six responses: open fork PR #31793, head main, base main

the median client round trip was 3.84x faster in these sequential samples. this includes the full status refresh, rather than only github request time. the git menu renders immediately on both builds; the measured improvement is the remote lookup response.

nearby behavior also passed through the ui branch picker and status refresh: the ordinary perf/github-head-owner-lookup branch found open pr #33954 and displayed its card; upstream main returned pr: null and cleared that card.

blacksmith passed the 168 focused tests. vp run check:changed 20c3dd3689782bfcb1a04332086d08017028c718 passed format, lint, knip, graphql generation checks, typechecks of 19 affected packages, and 176 tests across four files. the explicit parent ref was needed because the worker initially had shallow history. github checks on this head are green, with platform-inapplicable jobs skipped.

runtime command and response transcript

main, with the completed real provider turn and git menu:

pr head, with the same project, checkout, and conversation:

Not verified

native desktop and mobile shells, github enterprise, deleted forks, closed/merged prs through the live app, and simultaneous multi-project contention. closed/merged decoding has automated coverage, but was not exercised against a live closed/merged pr here. these timings are three sequential samples from one vm, not a general latency guarantee.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Fetch additional pages when exact-state filtering removes results.

For an owner-qualified lookup with state: "merged" and limit: 1, 100 newer unmerged closed PRs cause this code to return [], even when the next page contains a merged PR. The inverse applies to state: "closed". The REST request fetches only one page, then this filter removes the opposite state. GitHub exposes pagination for this endpoint. (docs.github.com)

Continue fetching until enough exact-state records remain or no pages remain. Add this boundary case to the existing state-filter tests.

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Review comment at @packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubSourceControlProvider.ts around lines 649 - 650:
Update the owner-qualified state-filtering lookup so it continues fetching REST pages until it has the requested number of exact-state records or no pages remain, then apply the limit; preserve the existing behavior for state "all". Add a state-filter test covering a full first page of opposite-state records followed by a matching record on the next page.

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Evidence

Refreshed a clean fork's main through Thread details > Git actions in the real web app. The options button is disabled in this state; hovering its group triggers the same vcs.refreshStatus command. Both sides used fresh databases, identical replay history, Chromium at 1280×800, light theme, and live GitHub. Refreshes were spaced more than 15 seconds apart.

Before	After
Before recording — 7,980 ms	After recording — 1,690 ms
5cff012416	b27546bf7e

Four successful post-reset refreshes per side: base 7,089 / 7,980 / 6,292 / 6,006 ms; head 1,295 / 1,690 / 1,104 / 1,576 ms. Median: 6,691 → 1,436 ms, approximately 4.7× faster. Both returned pr: null. Initial quota-limited results were excluded.

The recordings have captions derived from actual socket timestamps; private labels are redacted. The idle UI alone does not reveal request latency. Both recordings were inspected before upload.

Controls through the real-server RPC: upstream main returned no PR on both sides (13,041 / 1,748 ms); the feature branch found #33954 on both sides (7,814 / 8,798 ms). Each control has one sample, so these are functional controls rather than statistical latency comparisons.

Measurements · RPC driver · Seed script · Browser instrumentation · Socket timestamps · Video annotation script

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

• Finding a fork default-branch PR beyond the first 100 same-named results was not exercised: the selected fork's main returned no PR on both commits.
• Isolation from other concurrently batched branch lookups was not exercised.
• Controls were captured as real-server RPC results, without separate browser recordings.