glitter: History tab

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glitter: the History tab

rt glitter gains GitHub Desktop's History tab: the current branch's commits, a single commit or contiguous range, its changed files, and the diff. Built the GHD way: its git methods ported first (verbatim args), then its store sequencing, then the UI.

What changed

git-core (packages/git-core/src/history.ts, vendor/ghd/log-parse.ts)

• Ports GHD's getCommits, getLocalCommits, getChangedFiles, getCommitRangeChangedFiles, getCommitDiff, getCommitRangeDiff (with the empty-tree retry for a root commit) and their log parsers.

Driver (lib/mission/history.ts, history-model.ts, driver.ts)

• HistoryStore loads in pages, drops stale pages and responses, and keeps range selection in history order.
• New intents: mission:tab, mission:history-select, mission:history-file, mission:history-more.
• Commit times use GHD's commit-list RelativeTime rules; rows carry a local-calendar date group.

View (ui/internal/views/mission/history.go)

• Commit list, file column, and diff; shift+arrows and shift+click select a range; e expands the header.
• The list is tuned for long histories: the wheel scrolls the view without moving the selection, paging is an explicit "Load 100 more commits" row, commits sit under date headers, and / filters the loaded commits.
• Readable rows (bold summary, dimmer byline that keeps its time, a rule between commits) and a tab hover centered on its label.

Also

• picker.ViewportAround takes explicit margins; Viewport is unchanged for every existing caller.
• A click resolves against the painted frame before a notice clears (also fixes the Changes commit block).
• The session harness waits for hello rather than a fixed delay.

Docs

• Spec and plan under docs/superpowers/; design boards and ratified deviations in docs/design/mission/.

Verification

Go mission/protocol/picker suites, bun test lib/mission (213), lib/ui (67), tsc, test:pty, and repo purity are green. Each stage and each fix round was reviewed independently, and the list was checked on a live rt glitter frame against a real repo (headers, filter, load-more, cursor look-ahead).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a History tab for browsing commits, filtering and selecting commits, viewing changed files and read-only diffs, and loading more history.
  • Added date-grouped commit listings, commit details, and keyboard and mouse navigation between Changes and History.
• Documentation
  • Updated the design reference and added an approved specification for the History experience.

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• lib/mission/__tests__/history.test.ts
• lib/mission/history.ts

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds Git history operations and a History tab to the mission interface. The tab supports commit and file selection, pagination, filtering, date grouping, and read-only diffs. Driver state, wire models, terminal interactions, tests, and design references are updated to cover the History flow.

Changes

History tab and Git history support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Git history data and operations packages/git-core/src/vendor/ghd/*, packages/git-core/src/types.ts, packages/git-core/src/history.ts, packages/git-core/src/client.ts, packages/git-core/src/index.ts, packages/git-core/src/__tests__/*	Git-core adds commit and file-change types, log parsing, commit and local-commit queries, and commit or range diff methods. Tests cover parsing, pagination, renames, copies, merges, submodules, and other history cases.
History state and model lib/ui/protocol.ts, lib/mission/history.ts, lib/mission/history-model.ts, lib/mission/model.ts, lib/mission/driver.ts, lib/mission/__tests__/*	The mission layer adds history storage and model data, synchronizes history while the History tab is active, handles selection and paging intents, and resets history on worktree changes. History diffs are read-only. Tests cover loading, selection, stale results, date and author formatting, and serialized models.
History terminal interface ui/internal/views/mission/*, ui/internal/views/picker/scroll.go, ui/internal/views/picker/scroll_test.go	The terminal view adds tab switching, History list and file navigation, filtering, date headers, pagination, range selection, and read-only diff behavior. Viewport positioning now supports separate margins above and below the cursor.
History validation and design docs/design/mission/README.md, docs/superpowers/specs/*, e2e/pty/glitter.test.ts, ui/fixtures/*, ui/internal/views/mission/*_test.go	Tests add History interaction, rendering, fixture decoding, and PTY coverage. Design references document History behavior and geometry and list branch comparison, whitespace controls, and commit actions as deferred features.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Mission
  participant MissionDriver
  participant HistoryStore
  participant GitClient
  Mission->>MissionDriver: Send History tab intent
  MissionDriver->>HistoryStore: Synchronize active worktree history
  HistoryStore->>GitClient: Load commits and local commits
  GitClient-->>HistoryStore: Return history data
  HistoryStore-->>MissionDriver: Update history selection and files
  MissionDriver-->>Mission: Push History model

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7be35

The new History tab works, but it keeps showing commits as unpushed after a push until HEAD moves. It also shows one extra "Load 100 more commits" row after the last page. Neither issue affects repository state, and both are small fixes that are worth making before or shortly after merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 59.06% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 127 functions across 29 files. (5 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding the History tab to glitter.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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In `@lib/mission/history.ts`:
- Line 135: Update the hasMore assignment in the history loading flow to remain
true only when localAdditions contains commits or newCommits fills
COMMIT_BATCH_SIZE; a shorter git page with no local additions must clear the
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- Line 56: Update syncTip so an unchanged HEAD still reloads local commits with
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• docs/design/mission/README.md
• docs/design/mission/mission.pen
• docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-22-glitter-history-tab.md
• docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-22-glitter-history-tab-design.md
• e2e/pty/glitter.test.ts
• lib/mission/__tests__/driver.test.ts
• lib/mission/__tests__/history-model.test.ts
• lib/mission/__tests__/history.test.ts
• lib/mission/__tests__/model.test.ts
• lib/mission/driver.ts
• lib/mission/history-model.ts
• lib/mission/history.ts
• lib/mission/model.ts
• lib/ui/protocol.ts
• packages/git-core/src/__tests__/history-changes.test.ts
• packages/git-core/src/__tests__/history-commits.test.ts
• packages/git-core/src/__tests__/log-parse.test.ts
• packages/git-core/src/client.ts
• packages/git-core/src/history.ts
• packages/git-core/src/index.ts
• packages/git-core/src/types.ts
• packages/git-core/src/vendor/ghd/README.md
• packages/git-core/src/vendor/ghd/fatal-error.ts
• packages/git-core/src/vendor/ghd/log-parse.ts
• ui/fixtures/session-model-mission-history.json
• ui/fixtures/session-model-mission.json
• ui/internal/views/mission/changes.go
• ui/internal/views/mission/diff.go
• ui/internal/views/mission/history.go
• ui/internal/views/mission/history_test.go
• ui/internal/views/mission/mission.go
• ui/internal/views/mission/mission_test.go
• ui/internal/views/mission/model.go
• ui/internal/views/mission/model_test.go
• ui/internal/views/mission/render_test.go
• ui/internal/views/picker/scroll.go
• ui/internal/views/picker/scroll_test.go

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Both CodeRabbit findings are fixed in a1e193d, each with a test that failed first:

• Unpushed set on an unchanged tip (lib/mission/history.ts syncTip): an unchanged HEAD now reloads localCommits(branch) behind the same generation check, keeps the set when it is unchanged, and returns true only when it changed. This matches GitHub Desktop's refreshHistorySection, which reloads local commits on every refresh.
• hasMore after a short page (fetchNextBatch): paging continues only when local additions arrived (pushed commits can still follow them) or git returned a full batch.