[juliusmarminge]

Review item confirmed: useAtomCommand returns a new closure on every render, so listing refreshStatus as a dependency of the clone-done effect re-ran the refresh after each render it caused (its settlement invalidates refs and re-renders the selector). The refresh call now lives in a useEffectEvent (refreshClonedBranchStatus) that receives environmentId and cwd as arguments. The effect depends only on [branchCwd, environmentId, isProjectCloneDone], so it fires once when the project's clone reaches done, or when the target changes. Lint requires environmentId to be passed into the event, since the effect body no longer reads it directly. The original fix is unchanged: refs are refetched once the clone lands, and the base is still seeded only from listed refs, never from the unborn HEAD.

Fixes #25719

Reproduction on main

On origin/main dbfbe39 with T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0 vp run dev: (1) created a repo in the mid-clone state (git -c init.defaultBranch=main init + remote add origin; unborn HEAD on main, no refs, no origin/HEAD), with a bare remote whose only branch and HEAD is staging; (2) added it as a project via Add project > Local folder, opened a new thread and switched Workspace to 'New worktree' — the base picker showed 'From main'; (3) completed the clone by hand (fetch origin '+refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/', remote set-head origin staging, checkout -b staging --track origin/staging); (4) the draft still showed 'From main' in both the composer and the thread details panel, and opening the picker listed only staging (current) while main stayed selected. Cause: BranchToolbarBranchSelector computes worktreeBaseBranchCandidate = defaultBranchName ?? currentGitBranch, where currentGitBranch is statusDetails' unborn refName main; the one-shot effect persists it with setThreadBranch(..., true) and skips once activeThreadBranch is set, so the stale seed never updates after the clone finishes.

Evidence

Being captured: before and after in the real app. This section is filled in before the pull request can merge.

Tests

vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (2 packages), tests (BranchToolbar.logic.test.ts) and react compiler all pass. An earlier run failed lint on react(exhaustive-effect-dependencies), which flagged environmentId as an extra dependency; fixed by passing it into the event. No runtime or browser reproduction of the loop was run.

Not in this change

• The toolbar label (resolveBranchToolbarValue) still falls back to the status branch, so 'From main' can show briefly during a clone without being saved.
• No prompt asking the user to pick a base when the repository has no refs at all (e.g. a freshly git init'd repo with no commits); the base just stays unset.
• Invalidating refs globally on clone completion (for example in ProjectCloneToastCoordinator or the projectClones subscription) instead of per selector; kept local to the selector to keep the change minimal.
• useAtomCommand returns an unmemoized closure for every caller; other effects that depend on its result may have the same issue, but changing the hook is beyond this item.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This refreshes refs after cloning and changes automatic worktree-base selection. The new lint suppression and fallback behavior require human review; a separate unresolved finding reports that an existing saved base can be overwritten.

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Walkthrough

The branch selector refreshes local branch status after a project clone completes. It resolves the automatic worktree base branch from the active thread branch and listed refs.

Changes: Worktree base branch selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Refresh branch status after clone apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx	When a clone completes and a branch working directory is available, the selector requests a local-only branch status refresh.
Resolve the base branch from refs apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbar.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbar.logic.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx	The new helper suppresses seeding when the active thread branch is listed or its listing status is unknown. Otherwise, it prefers the first default ref, then the first current ref, and returns null if neither exists. The selector uses this seed for automatic assignment. Tests cover these conditions.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#22017: The change avoids seeding from an unlisted active branch when refs are empty, but it returns null in that case and does not resolve the reported no-commits failure.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#29506: Adds another base-branch seed helper and changes the same selector logic.
• pingdotgg/t3code#25721: Addresses unborn-HEAD seeding through a competing helper and selector change.
• pingdotgg/t3code#25942: Changes the worktree base-selection path and overlaps with this selector update.

Suggested reviewers: macroscopeapp, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Low · up to 32b0d

In a narrow case, a user's selected worktree base branch can be silently replaced by the default branch. This happens only when the branch name matches many other refs. The fix is a one-line change that treats a truncated query page as unknown. The clone-completion fix itself looks sound.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the fix and its scope: a new worktree base no longer stays on an unborn branch while a project clones. This matches the main change in BranchToolbarBranchSelector and resolveWorktreeBa…
Description check		The description follows the template's sections: Problem, Change, Scope, Verification, and an agent attribution line. It names the root cause and links issue #25719. It also lists the verification com…
Linked Issues check		Issue #25719 requires the New worktree base picker to settle on the repository default branch after the clone, not on the unborn HEAD branch (main). At the reviewed head, BranchToolbarBranchSelector.t…
Out of Scope Changes check		All changes relate to the issue #25719 fix. BranchToolbar.logic.ts adds resolveWorktreeBaseBranchSeed, which selects the base from listed refs and replaces an unlisted active branch. BranchToolbarBran…

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Explanation

The title names the fix and its scope: a new worktree base no longer stays on an unborn branch while a project clones. This matches the main change in BranchToolbarBranchSelector and resolveWorktreeBaseBranchSeed, and it follows the conventional commit form the template asks for.

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Explanation

The description follows the template's sections: Problem, Change, Scope, Verification, and an agent attribution line. It names the root cause and links issue #25719. It also lists the verification commands and explains a lint fix and the limits of the testing. Two gaps remain. The Evidence section is a placeholder that says before/after captures are still pending, and the Scope section does not state why no separate issue is needed beyond the link. The template also asks for the model and harness used, and the description says only 'AI-assisted'.

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Before merge, the author should: (1) attach the before/after evidence described in the Evidence section, since the UI change needs screenshots under the template; (2) name the model and harness used, as the template requests for agent-assisted work.

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Explanation

Issue #25719 requires the New worktree base picker to settle on the repository default branch after the clone, not on the unborn HEAD branch (main). At the reviewed head, BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx derives worktreeBaseBranchSeed from resolveWorktreeBaseBranchSeed(), which uses only listed refs (default first, then current). An empty ref list yields null, so the unborn HEAD is not saved as a base. The new effect calls refreshClonedBranchStatus(environmentId, branchCwd) with localOnly: true when useProjectClone reports phase 'done'. Its dependencies are [branchCwd, environmentId, isProjectCloneDone], and the refresh runs through useEffectEvent, so it does not re-run on every render. Since the previous review, the auto-seed logic changed. It no longer skips when activeThreadBranch is set. It now replaces an active branch only when activeThreadBranchListed is false, so a stale unborn 'main' seed is replaced by the listed default ('staging') after refs refresh. Unit tests in BranchToolbar.logic.test.ts cover default-over-current, current fallback, and null for empty refs. Limits: no runtime or browser reproduction was run. I did not verify that activeBranchRefQuery returns a non-null result for an unlisted branch during the clone, so the replacement path is established from code only. The PR description still describes the earlier seed rule and does not mention the unlisted-branch replacement. The Evidence section is a placeholder. These are process items, not coding requirements.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

All changes relate to the issue #25719 fix. BranchToolbar.logic.ts adds resolveWorktreeBaseBranchSeed, which selects the base from listed refs and replaces an unlisted active branch. BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx adds the useProjectClone import, the clone-done refresh through useEffectEvent, the activeThreadBranchListed computation, and the switch from defaultBranchName/currentGitBranch to the new seed. The defaultBranchName variable is removed because it is no longer used. BranchToolbar.logic.test.ts covers the new function. The replacement of an unlisted active branch is part of the stale-seed fix. It is not an unrelated behavior change, but it does alter how a previously set unlisted base is handled, and the PR description does not describe it. No unrelated file or hunk appears in the reviewed incremental diff.

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🟠 High components/BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx:556

A saved worktree base is overwritten with the default branch when it is absent from the first activeBranchRefQuery page, even if the ref still exists. That query uses a substring match with a limit of 10, so activeBranchRefQuery.data !== null does not establish that the ref was deleted; only mark it missing after an exact existence check or exhaustive lookup.

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In file @apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx around line 556:

A saved worktree base is overwritten with the default branch when it is absent from the first `activeBranchRefQuery` page, even if the ref still exists. That query uses a substring match with a limit of 10, so `activeBranchRefQuery.data !== null` does not establish that the ref was deleted; only mark it missing after an exact existence check or exhaustive lookup.

[juliusmarminge]

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the reviewers still had findings after 3 rounds (the work is on main...factory/issue-25719):

1. [major] apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx:556: Worse than main: absence from a paginated substring search is treated as proof that the selected branch does not exist. This silently overwrites a valid saved worktree base with the default/current branch. The search requests only 10 results; a non-null nextCursor means the exact branch can still be on another page.
   Fails with: Web or desktop: repository checked out on main, with release and 110 branches named a-release-000 through a-release-109, all pointing to the same commit. Reopen an unsent New worktree draft whose selected base is release. The initial 100-ref page excludes release, and listRefs(query='release', limit=10) also excludes it while returning nextCursor=10. Confirmed using the real Git driver and executing both revisions' actual seeding-effect source against those results: origin/main performs no write; this head writes main.
2. [major] apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx:551: Worse than main: activeThreadBranchListed becomes false whenever the branch is missing from the first refs page (100 refs, newest first) and from activeBranchRefQuery. That query is a substring search (GitVcsDriverCore.ts:258) capped at limit 10 and sorted by recency, not by exact match, so a branch that exists can read as 'not listed'. The seeding effect no longer skips threads that already have a branch, so it overwrites the user's chosen worktree base with the default branch. On origin/main a set branch was never replaced.
   Fails with: Repo with more than 100 branches and at least 10 newer branches containing 'release' (release-1.2, fix/release-notes...). In New worktree mode, search the picker and pick the older exact branch 'release' as base. The picker closes and its query clears; 'release' is not in the first 100 refs; listRefs(query='release', limit=10) returns only the newer matches, so listed=false and the seed silently resets the base to the default branch. Hits users of large monorepos who pick an older non-default base. Fix: only treat the branch as missing when activeBranchRefQuery.data.nextCursor === null (the search returned every match), or use an exact-name lookup.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx:
- Around line 556-557: Update the active-branch presence logic so it returns
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Treat a truncated active-branch query as unknown, not absent.

The active-branch query requests only 10 refs. listRefs does not put an exact match first. It orders current and default refs first, then keeps other substring matches in listing order. If at least 10 other matches precede the active branch, the page omits it. queriedActiveBranch is then undefined, and line 556 returns false. resolveWorktreeBaseBranchSeed then returns the default branch, and the auto-assignment can replace the selected base.

Return false only when the query page is complete, which nextCursor === null establishes. Otherwise return null, which keeps the listed state unknown.

Suggested fix

         : listedActiveBranch !== null || queriedActiveBranch !== undefined
           ? true
-        : activeBranchRefQuery.data !== null
+        : activeBranchRefQuery.data?.nextCursor === null
           ? false
           : null;

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	: activeBranchRefQuery.data !== null
	? false
	: activeBranchRefQuery.data?.nextCursor === null
	? false

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/BranchToolbarBranchSelector.tsx around lines 556 - 557:
Update the active-branch presence logic so it returns false only when activeBranchRefQuery.data.nextCursor is null, indicating the query page is complete; when more refs may remain, return null to preserve the unknown state. Keep the existing listedActiveBranch and queriedActiveBranch checks unchanged.

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[juliusmarminge]

Three rounds of review did not settle this fix, so it is closed and written again from main. The new pull request will link here.