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fix(server): git status refresh scans the working tree once unless a fetch ran - #36700
VcsStatusBroadcaster.refreshStatus read local status (git status, untracked listing, numstat, branch totals, merge-base and ref lookups) before the remote read and again after it, so every explicit refresh scanned the working tree twice. The second read exists because the status fetch can move the base ref behind Changes totals (the comment 'Fetch can move the base used for local Changes totals'), but that fetch is throttled to once per 15 s per remote, so most refreshes (window focus, tab switch) run no fetch at all. The git driver now keeps a count of finished status fetches; a failed or interrupted fetch counts too, since it can still have updated some refs. The count is exposed as GitVcsDriver.statusFetchCount and passed through GitWorkflowService. refreshStatus samples it before its first local read and re-reads local status only when it changed during the remote read. This adds no git processes and removes the whole second local pass (about half of the ~38 processes per refresh in the reporter's trace) whenever no fetch ran. The count is one number for all repositories, so a fetch in another repo only costs an extra read, never a missed one. Tradeoff: a commit or terminal fetch made during the remote read itself is picked up by the next poll or refresh instead of this one; changes made before the refresh starts are still seen by the first read. No regex or parser added. Not run on Windows: the double read was shown with a counting test (2 local reads on main, 1 with the fix), and the per-refresh process counts come from the reporter's trace.
Commit 179c032 (origin/main), leased Windows Server 2025, Git for Windows 2.56.1, Node 26.12.1. (1) Per-process cost: a Node script spawning C:\Program Files\Git\ucrt64\bin\git.exe rev-parse HEAD 40 times with windowsHide gave a median of 62.5 ms with a console and 33.9 ms detached. The same command in WSL Ubuntu on the same machine took 3.3 ms. (2) In-app: vp i in a new worktree, then vp run dev --home-dir <fresh home> --no-seed with T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0. Added a depth-1 clone of t3code (32,195 files, origin on GitHub) with bin.ts project add, and played one replayed turn with bin.ts thread start ... --provider devReplay --model multi-turn --wait. Paired headless Chromium (Playwright) through a minted pairing link, opened the thread from the sidebar, dispatched window focus five times 12 s apart, then left it idle for 60 s. From server.trace.ndjson: ws.rpc.vcs.refreshStatus n=5, median 2,965 ms, 38 runGitCommand descendants per refresh (median), median 41.2 ms per git process. In the median refresh every local-status operation ran twice (listUntracked 2 procs / 639 ms, statusDetails.status 2 / 592 ms, statusDetails.numstat 2 / 488 ms, readBranchChangeTotals 2 / 288 ms, currentBranch, merge-base and ref lookups 2 each), and readConfigValue ran 12 processes / 369 ms. getDiffPreview median 879 ms with 12 git procs; listRefs median 204 ms with 5. The idle minute ran 48 git processes (4.4 s of git time). The end-of-turn refreshLocalStatus started 19 git processes.
Evidence
Being captured: before and after in the real app. This section is filled in before the pull request can merge.
Tests
cd apps/server && vp test run src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts: 42 passed. The extended case 'an explicit refresh reads local totals again only after a fetch' fails on main (expected 2 to equal 1) and passes with the fix. vp test run src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts -t 'can read cached remote divergence': passed (real git: the count is unchanged without a fetch and goes up by 1 with one). vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql and typecheck (3 packages) pass; tests 452/453 pass. The one failure, GitVcsDriver.test.ts 'lists the fetch and push URLs of a partial clone remote', fails identically on main (likely this VM's git config) and is unrelated.
The background remote poll (refreshRemoteStatus) still re-reads local status after each remote read; that read is what picks up terminal edits between explicit refreshes, so removing it would change freshness.
readRemoteStatus calls currentBranch twice per remote read.
Per-process spawn cost on Windows (about 35-60 ms against 3 ms on Linux) is a platform cost this change does not address.
Who did the work
Written by Claude Opus 5.5, in Claude Code
Reviewed by GPT-6.1 Sol, in Codex, and by Claude Opus 5.5, each on its own
Proof captured by GPT-6.1 Sol and checked by Claude Opus 5.5
…fetch ran
refreshStatus read local status before and after the remote read, so every
explicit refresh (window focus, tab switch) ran git status, untracked listing,
numstat and the branch-total reads twice. The second read exists because the
status fetch can move the base ref behind Changes totals, but most refreshes
run no fetch (it is throttled to once per 15 s per remote).
The git driver now counts finished status fetches, and refreshStatus reads
local status again only when that count moved during its remote read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough
The Git VCS driver exposes a status-fetch counter through GitWorkflowService. VcsStatusBroadcaster repeats its local-status read only when the counter changes. Tests cover fetch counting and local-status reads with and without a fetch.
The driver increments the counter when a status fetch fails or succeeds with non-whitespace output. The service exposes the count. Tests check that disabling upstream refresh does not increment it, a refresh increments it, and a later cached read leaves it unchanged.
Condition the second local-status read apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts
The broadcaster repeats the local-status read only when the fetch count changes. Tests cover local totals and local-status reads with and without a fetch.
sequenceDiagram
participant VcsStatusBroadcaster
participant GitWorkflowService
participant GitVcsDriver
participant LocalStatusReader
VcsStatusBroadcaster->>GitWorkflowService: Read fetch count before local refresh
VcsStatusBroadcaster->>LocalStatusReader: Read local status
VcsStatusBroadcaster->>GitWorkflowService: Read remote status
GitWorkflowService->>GitVcsDriver: Fetch remote status
GitVcsDriver-->>GitWorkflowService: Return remote status and updated count
VcsStatusBroadcaster->>GitWorkflowService: Read fetch count after remote status
VcsStatusBroadcaster->>LocalStatusReader: Read local status if count changed
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This change skips a redundant local Git status read during explicit refreshes when no fetch ran. It reduces Git process overhead, and no actionable merge risk remains.
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The title names the main change: git status refresh in the server now reads the working tree once unless a status fetch ran. The raw summary shows the VcsStatusBroadcaster.refreshStatus change that sk…
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The description follows the template sections. Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification are all filled in with specific detail. It cites the linked issue #36673 and explains the tradeoff. It also list…
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Issue #36673 has no separate acceptance criteria. Its Cause section names the repeated local-status read in each refresh as one contributor to the Windows cost. The whole-PR summary (merge base 121f0c…
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All changed files serve the objective of skipping the redundant local-status read when no status fetch ran. GitVcsDriverCore.ts adds the fetch counter and captures fetch output. GitVcsDriver.ts and Gi…
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The title names the main change: git status refresh in the server now reads the working tree once unless a status fetch ran. The raw summary shows the VcsStatusBroadcaster.refreshStatus change that skips the second local read when the fetch count is unchanged, and the objectives describe the same change. The title uses the conventional commit form and is specific.
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The description follows the template sections. Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification are all filled in with specific detail. It cites the linked issue #36673 and explains the tradeoff. It also lists tests, the one unrelated failing test, and the Windows caveat. The Evidence section says it is still being captured and must be filled before merge. That is a gap, but the other sections are complete, so the description is mostly complete.
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Issue #36673 has no separate acceptance criteria. Its Cause section names the repeated local-status read in each refresh as one contributor to the Windows cost. The whole-PR summary (merge base 121f0cf to head b584ae4) shows that VcsStatusBroadcaster.refreshStatus records workflow.statusFetchCount before its first local read and re-reads local status after the remote read only when the count changed. Without a status fetch, the second local pass no longer runs. GitVcsDriverCore.fetchRemoteForStatus increments the count, and GitVcsDriver and GitWorkflowService expose it. VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts covers two local reads on main and one read with the change. GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts checks the count with real git. The objectives exclude per-process spawn cost, readConfigValue calls, the background poll read, and the duplicate currentBranch call. Those items are not counted as unmet requirements. Two points remain unverified. First, the current summary says a successful fetch increments the count only when it prints stdout or stderr. The PR description says the count covers finished fetches. This difference does not change the verdict, because the change is still described as covering refs moved by a fetch. Second, the summary does not show that an interrupted fetch increments the count. The full GitVcsDriverCore.ts read was truncated before fetchRemoteForStatus, so this path could not be confirmed from source.
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All changed files serve the objective of skipping the redundant local-status read when no status fetch ran. GitVcsDriverCore.ts adds the fetch counter and captures fetch output. GitVcsDriver.ts and GitWorkflowService.ts expose the counter. VcsStatusBroadcaster.ts makes the second local read conditional. The test files cover this behavior and add the counter to workflow mocks. The GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts change checks the counter with real git. The change since the previous review, from 27d8057, 184120, and 6ce2b9 to b584ae4, adds no unrelated files in the summary. The diff hunks were not read: the changed-blob diff was unavailable, and the full file read was truncated before the relevant function.
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- Around line 1681-1685: Move the statusFetchCount increment from the outer
fetchRemoteForStatus finalizer to the actual fetch fiber’s completion finalizer,
so it runs after the fetch finishes, including on failure or interruption.
Ensure the cooldown early-return path does not increment the counter when no
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…a fetch moved no refs
The status fetch now runs without --quiet, so Git prints a line for each
ref it moves and nothing when every ref was current. Only a fetch that
printed something, failed or was interrupted counts as one that may have
moved refs. Explicit refreshes and remote polls re-read local status only
after such a fetch; polls had re-read on every run since #28600, and with
a 30 s poll and 15 s fetch cache every idle poll fetched.
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🟠 Highvcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.ts:601
Background polls leave cached local status and Changes totals stale after a same-branch working-tree edit whenever the fetch count is unchanged; readRemoteStatus does not refresh local status in that case, and the HEAD watcher does not observe file edits. Keep refreshLocalStatusCore(cwd) unconditional here so polls update working-tree state even when no fetch occurs.
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In file @apps/server/src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.ts around line 601:
Background polls leave cached local status and `Changes` totals stale after a same-branch working-tree edit whenever the fetch count is unchanged; `readRemoteStatus` does not refresh local status in that case, and the HEAD watcher does not observe file edits. Keep `refreshLocalStatusCore(cwd)` unconditional here so polls update working-tree state even when no fetch occurs.
The background poll is what picks up edits made outside the app between
explicit refreshes, so it reads local status on every run again. Explicit
refreshes still skip their second read when no fetch moved refs.
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- Around line 602-607: Preserve periodic local-status reconciliation in the
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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:
in the real app the problem is still there, and the rework changed nothing:
No code change this round; the branch stays at b584ae4, where all 8 required checks passed and the review findings are settled. The PR stops explicit refreshes from scanning the working tree twice: the second local read now runs only after a status fetch that printed moved refs, failed or was interrupted. The report gives no numbers for b584ae4, so I checked each remaining cost against the code. (1) Fetching refreshes: on a busy remote such as pingdotgg/t3code (the reporter's sample repo) nearly every 15 s status fetch moves some branch, so the second scan still runs after most fetches. Only the base ref and the remote's default branch affect Changes totals, but checking only those would need the driver to report the ref it actually compares against (the local result carries only the base ref's name) and to handle a fetch that creates the configured base branch, since that changes which base is picked. That is a new design beyond this PR; the unconditional read after a fetch is what #28600 added to keep Changes totals right. (2) Config reads: a throwaway GitManager test counting readConfigValue calls showed 2 keys per local read and 5 per remote read, mostly distinct (about 2 repeat), so deduplicating saves little; batching them is #30838's redesign. (3) Idle minute: each 30 s poll fetches and reads local status, and that read is how edits made outside the app reach Changes; gating it was rated High by Macroscope and reverted last round. (4) Linux parity: per-process cost on Windows (about 40 ms against 3 ms) is a platform cost; fewer processes narrow the gap but cannot close it. I did not lease a Windows machine to re-measure.
Thanks for this. #29155 makes the same change and is the one being kept.
#29155 removes the same redundant second scan while also detecting ref changes made by terminal fetches or commits during the refresh. That broader detection is the deciding difference: this version only tracks fetches started by the status reader.
The diagnosis and Windows measurements remain useful. The fetch-counter approach avoids extra Git processes, but the retained change covers more ways Changes totals can become stale.
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VcsStatusBroadcaster.refreshStatus read local status (git status, untracked listing, numstat, branch totals, merge-base and ref lookups) before the remote read and again after it, so every explicit refresh scanned the working tree twice. The second read exists because the status fetch can move the base ref behind Changes totals (the comment 'Fetch can move the base used for local Changes totals'), but that fetch is throttled to once per 15 s per remote, so most refreshes (window focus, tab switch) run no fetch at all. The git driver now keeps a count of finished status fetches; a failed or interrupted fetch counts too, since it can still have updated some refs. The count is exposed as GitVcsDriver.statusFetchCount and passed through GitWorkflowService. refreshStatus samples it before its first local read and re-reads local status only when it changed during the remote read. This adds no git processes and removes the whole second local pass (about half of the ~38 processes per refresh in the reporter's trace) whenever no fetch ran. The count is one number for all repositories, so a fetch in another repo only costs an extra read, never a missed one. Tradeoff: a commit or terminal fetch made during the remote read itself is picked up by the next poll or refresh instead of this one; changes made before the refresh starts are still seen by the first read. No regex or parser added. Not run on Windows: the double read was shown with a counting test (2 local reads on main, 1 with the fix), and the per-refresh process counts come from the reporter's trace.
Fixes #36673
Reproduction on main
Commit 179c032 (origin/main), leased Windows Server 2025, Git for Windows 2.56.1, Node 26.12.1. (1) Per-process cost: a Node script spawning
C:\Program Files\Git\ucrt64\bin\git.exe rev-parse HEAD40 times with windowsHide gave a median of 62.5 ms with a console and 33.9 ms detached. The same command in WSL Ubuntu on the same machine took 3.3 ms. (2) In-app:vp iin a new worktree, thenvp run dev --home-dir <fresh home> --no-seedwith T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0. Added a depth-1 clone of t3code (32,195 files, origin on GitHub) withbin.ts project add, and played one replayed turn withbin.ts thread start ... --provider devReplay --model multi-turn --wait. Paired headless Chromium (Playwright) through a minted pairing link, opened the thread from the sidebar, dispatched window focus five times 12 s apart, then left it idle for 60 s. From server.trace.ndjson: ws.rpc.vcs.refreshStatus n=5, median 2,965 ms, 38 runGitCommand descendants per refresh (median), median 41.2 ms per git process. In the median refresh every local-status operation ran twice (listUntracked 2 procs / 639 ms, statusDetails.status 2 / 592 ms, statusDetails.numstat 2 / 488 ms, readBranchChangeTotals 2 / 288 ms, currentBranch, merge-base and ref lookups 2 each), and readConfigValue ran 12 processes / 369 ms. getDiffPreview median 879 ms with 12 git procs; listRefs median 204 ms with 5. The idle minute ran 48 git processes (4.4 s of git time). The end-of-turn refreshLocalStatus started 19 git processes.Evidence
Being captured: before and after in the real app. This section is filled in before the pull request can merge.
Tests
cd apps/server && vp test run src/vcs/VcsStatusBroadcaster.test.ts: 42 passed. The extended case 'an explicit refresh reads local totals again only after a fetch' fails on main (expected 2 to equal 1) and passes with the fix. vp test run src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts -t 'can read cached remote divergence': passed (real git: the count is unchanged without a fetch and goes up by 1 with one). vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql and typecheck (3 packages) pass; tests 452/453 pass. The one failure, GitVcsDriver.test.ts 'lists the fetch and push URLs of a partial clone remote', fails identically on main (likely this VM's git config) and is unrelated.
Not in this change
git config --getper key (about 12 per refresh); open PR perf(server): status refreshes reuse git config until a file changes #30838 caches these but is a large redesign.Who did the work
Run by the t3code factory in T3 Code.