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A long-lived branch like develop keeps showing an old merged PR as its own after it releases into main and keeps collecting commits. GitManager only dropped a merged or closed PR for the default branch, so any other branch kept the stale badge forever, and threads on it kept settling against that merged PR. Compare the branch against the commit its pull request was opened from instead. GitHub now reports headRefOid on the same gh pr list call, no extra request. A branch still sitting on that commit is still described by it (handles squash and rebase merges); one that moved on was reused for later work. The check is skipped whenever the answer isn't knowable: no head commit from the forge, no ref to compare, or a failed git call, so it can only drop a badge, never wrongly keep or remove one. The lookup alone isn't enough: ThreadPullRequestService restores a thread's saved branchPullRequest whenever a fresh lookup finds nothing and the saved reference is merged or closed, which would put back the very badge the lookup just rejected. It now checks GitManager's new branchSupersededPullRequest first and skips the restore for that case. Ported from dakixr's closed PR #9443 (issue #4970), which targeted V1 orchestration before the V2 rewrite; this rewrites the same approach against GitManager and ThreadPullRequestService on V2. Co-authored-by: dakixr <26521823+dakixr@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first #9443 fix could hide a PR that still matched its branch exactly, because whether the branch had moved past the PR's head commit got cached alongside the (intentionally long-lived) GitHub PR record. That record is cached for up to 5 minutes once a PR is merged or closed, since GitHub-side state rarely changes. But the branch's own commit can move at any time via a plain `git commit` or `git reset` the app never hears about, so once the check moved in, baking it into that cache meant a branch could read as "moved past" its PR for minutes after moving back onto it, or the reverse. GitManager now caches only the GitHub-side half (which PR, if any, this branch currently matches) and re-runs the local commit comparison fresh on every call. That local check is one `git for-each-ref`, so this costs no extra host traffic, only a cheap local git read per status poll. Found by testing the previous fix against a real `pingdotgg/t3code` clone with a branch sitting exactly on a real merged PR's head commit (gh 2.102): the PR badge was missing even though nothing had moved it. Added a regression test that reproduces the cache-staleness shape directly: look up a branch after moving it past a merged PR's head (caching the terminal record for minutes), reset the branch back onto that commit without going through the app, and confirm the PR reappears on the next poll instead of reusing the stale verdict. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses review feedback on the #9443 fix: - Add a focused ThreadPullRequestService test for the restore guard at synchronize's branchPullRequest-restore branch: when GitManager says the branch has outgrown the thread's saved reference (branchSupersededPullRequest = true), the stale reference is cleared, not restored, and PullRequestService.summary is never called. A second test checks the opposite case still restores normally. Verified both fail without the guard (reverted it locally, confirmed the first test fails, restored it). - GitManager.ts's readBranchTipOid used a `refs/remotes/*/<branch>` glob when the branch's remote wasn't already known. A `for-each-ref` glob segment only stands in for one path component, so a remote name that itself contains a slash would never match it, same reasoning already documented on findRemoteTrackingRemote nearby. Reused that approach: list the real remotes and match each one literally. This was a fails-safe gap (a miss reads as "not knowable," so the PR stays shown), not a bug an app user would notice, but it's cheap to close. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 🧰 Additional context used📚 Code guidelines (2)📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGitHub pull-request head commit OIDs now flow into GitManager. GitManager compares them with current branch tips to filter superseded terminal pull requests. ThreadPullRequestService checks this result before restoring saved terminal pull-request references. ChangesTerminal Pull Request Resolution
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- Around line 1192-1202: Update readBranchTipOid to avoid treating the current
repository’s refs/heads/${headBranch} as the fork’s tip for cross-repository
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A local branch with a different name can hide the remote-tracking tip for cross-repository branches.
readBranchTipOid checks refs/heads/${headBranch} after refs/heads/${localBranch}. Suppose a thread's localBranch (for example t3code/pr-5/main) tracks a fork's main, and that local ref is missing. The fallback then returns the user's own refs/heads/main before it checks refs/remotes/<fork>/main. That unrelated tip differs from the fork PR's headRefOid. As a result, a merged fork PR is reported as superseded, and both its badge and the saved reference are dropped. Only fall back to refs/heads/${headBranch} when headContext.isCrossRepository is false, or when localBranch === headBranch.
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const readBranchTipOid = Effect.fn("readBranchTipOid")(function* (
cwd: string,
- headContext: Pick<BranchHeadContext, "headBranch" | "localBranch" | "remoteName">,
+ headContext: Pick<BranchHeadContext, "headBranch" | "localBranch" | "remoteName" | "isCrossRepository">,
) {
const localRefs: string[] = [];
appendUnique(localRefs, `refs/heads/${headContext.localBranch}`);
- appendUnique(localRefs, `refs/heads/${headContext.headBranch}`);
+ if (!headContext.isCrossRepository) {
+ appendUnique(localRefs, `refs/heads/${headContext.headBranch}`);
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts around lines 1192 - 1202:
Update readBranchTipOid to avoid treating the current repository’s
refs/heads/${headBranch} as the fork’s tip for cross-repository branches.
Include isCrossRepository in the headContext fields and only add the headBranch
local ref when the context is not cross-repository or localBranch equals
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A long-lived branch like
developkeeps showing an old merged PR after it moves on. Once a release PR from that branch merges and work continues on it, every thread on the branch keeps the old PR's badge and panel. New threads on the branch can also settle against that merged PR (#4970). Today only the default branch drops terminal PRs.Change
A merged or closed PR stays "the branch's PR" only while the branch tip is still that PR's head commit. Once the tip moves, the PR is dropped.
gh pr listnow also returnsheadRefOidin the call T3 already makes, so there's no extra network request.GitManagercompares that oid with the branch tip, read with one localfor-each-ref. The comparison runs fresh on every lookup. Only GitHub's half of the answer stays in the long-lived PR cache, so a commit or reset the app never hears about can't serve a stale verdict.findRemoteTrackingRemotedoes it.ThreadPullRequestServicedoesn't restore a superseded PR as a thread's saved branch reference. Without this, the old PR came back from the thread's saved state.linkedPullRequestfirst.The rule is head-commit equality. Merge, squash, and rebase all leave the branch's own tip on the PR head until someone commits again. An ancestor check would cost an extra git call per terminal PR, and I couldn't find a case where the two disagree.
This rebuilds #9443 by @dakixr on current main, as suggested in that PR's review. #7394 fixes a different cause (a stale
origin/HEAD) and doesn't overlap.Scope and approval
Closes #4970. That issue has a full diagnosis but no maintainer triage yet. The recordings below show the bug on today's main. It's one problem: a terminal PR outliving its branch head.
Verification
Reproduced in the real web app with a clone of pingdotgg/t3code on
fix/cursor-usage-cache-savings. That branch still exists on GitHub at the head of merged PR #13731. The thread sits on the PR's head commit, then a new commit lands on the branch and a second turn runs.Before (main 1e2ecbd): after the new commit, the thread and panel still show #13731.
9443-before.mp4
After (this PR): #13731 shows while the branch is on its head commit. After the new commit it's gone, and the panel offers Push & create PR.
9443-after.mp4
Focused tests:
vp test run apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts(123 passed) covers:vp test runon GitHubCli, GitHubSourceControlProvider, ThreadPullRequestService, and ThreadSettlementService (68 passed). These include the restore guard: a superseded saved reference is cleared, while an unsuperseded one is still restored.The new tests fail without the fix.
tsc -p apps/serverand lint on the touched files are clean.An earlier version of this branch cached the "moved past" verdict with the PR data. Testing in the real app caught it hiding the PR even while the branch was on its head, and the second commit fixes that.
Not checked: GitLab and other hosts in the real app. They don't report a head oid, so they keep today's behavior.
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