Chapter 09

Git panel

Repository status, diffs, history and history-changing operations, all executed through the real git CLI.

Scope and host

The panel manages one repository at a time, and the host follows the focused terminal: remote repositories run through the SSH exec channel, local ones are spawned directly on the machine.

Remote commands are wrapped as env LC_ALL=C GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 … bash -lc.
Local commands are spawned with HideConsole.
All operations call the real git CLI rather than reimplementing Git internals.

Reading and reviewing

Status from porcelain v2.
Line-by-line diff, capped at 2 MB.
Paginated history with commit-graph lanes.
Blame.
Conflict three-way view, with an operation abort.

Changing the repository

Branch and remote management.
Stage, unstage and discard.
Commit and amend.
fetch, pull and push.
Stash.
clone with progress.
Repository scanning and git init.

Built-in safeguards

pull always uses --ff-only.
Force push is only offered as --force-with-lease and requires a second confirmation.
Conflicts can be viewed three-way and aborted; the force-push confirmation names the target remote and branch.
Path arguments are never concatenated into a shell command. The backend rejects absolute paths, drive letters, backslashes and ...
“Local ignore” writes only to .git/info/exclude, never to a tracked .gitignore.

Chapter 5 — Remote file editing for direct file changes.
Chapter 7 — Docker & host analysis for the same host-selection rule.