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Problem

Large web/desktop branch and uncommitted diffs load individual file patches after the 120 KB preview limit. Concurrent reads repeat repository discovery, merge-base resolution, untracked discovery, and temporary-index preparation for every file. A 100-file fixture launched 600 Git processes for modified tracked files or 1,000 for new files.

Change

Coalesce pending file reads into batches of at most four inside the Git service. Readers with the same workspace, source, base ref, and whitespace mode share preparation, while each keeps its own patch, size limit, and result. The temporary index stays scoped to the batch; failures and cancellation remain isolated per reader. Each caller signals when it stops waiting: cancelled file reads stop individually, and releasing the last reader interrupts preparation and closes the batch scope. Later reads prepare fresh state.

This fixes the repeated work in the existing service without a protocol or client change. Existing web, desktop, mobile, and remote callers continue using the same RPC. The PR contains 437 changed lines including tests (425 additions, 12 deletions).

Scope and approval

Submitted under the small, focused fix exception in CONTRIBUTING.md: concurrent reads unnecessarily repeat identical Git preparation. This PR addresses only that overhead and preserves the existing diff-loading behavior. No prior maintainer approval is claimed. Searches for existing diff-loading/performance reports did not identify a matching triaged issue.

Verification

• From apps/server: vp test run src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts -t 'review diff previews' — all 43 tests passed. Nine new cases cover the four-file bound, mixed tracked/untracked/renamed literal paths from a nested directory, split-index preservation, fresh reads, comparison/workspace separation, failures, and cancellation. The cancellation cases verify process shutdown and temporary-index removal during both preparation and patch reads, including when another reader has already finished.
• vp run --filter t3 typecheck — passed.
• Targeted lint and formatting passed; lint reported only two existing warnings outside the added code. git diff --check passed.
• Before/after benchmark on Linux aarch64, Node 24.22.0, Git 2.56.0: temporary repositories with 100 TypeScript files, each containing 200 exported constant lines. Change the value text in every line (or add the files untracked); request every file in four concurrent reads per group through getReviewDiffPreview, parsing each returned patch. Three runs per case, comparing unchanged base code against this change:
  • Modified tracked files: 600 → 300 Git processes; median 1,454 → 675 ms.
  • New untracked files: 1,000 → 400 Git processes; median 2,245 → 1,660 ms.
  • Branch comparison: 800 → 350 Git processes; median 1,687 → 1,351 ms.
• A separate loopback WebSocket smoke check dispatched each request through an independent Effect runtime into the real Git service. Eight modified files used 48 → 24 Git processes; eight untracked files used 80 → 32. Returned patch byte totals matched before/after.

The timings measure service loading and patch parsing, not browser rendering. No UI components changed, and no integrated browser/mobile pass was performed. The initial combined preview and existing scroll-triggered loading remain unchanged.

Implemented with GPT-6.1 Sol through the Codex harness.

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🟡 Medium vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts:3068

Cancelling every Effect.request caller does not stop this resolver, so navigation or disconnection still leaves its preparation and per-file Git processes running until completion or timeout, retaining temporary indexes. Once runBatch detaches the batch from the pending map, cancellation cannot interrupt runAll; track active readers, interrupt the batch when none remain, and skip cancelled entries.

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Cancelling every `Effect.request` caller does not stop this resolver, so navigation or disconnection still leaves its preparation and per-file Git processes running until completion or timeout, retaining temporary indexes. Once `runBatch` detaches the batch from the pending map, cancellation cannot interrupt `runAll`; track active readers, interrupt the batch when none remain, and skip cancelled entries.

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Fixed in f95b2e9. Each caller now signals when it stops waiting. Cancelled entries are skipped, in-flight file reads race their release signal, and the whole batch races the release of every reader so preparation and its scoped temporary index are interrupted and cleaned up when nobody remains. Normal completion also releases a reader, covering one reader finishing before the last reader cancels.

Added three deterministic regression cases that block preparation or patch processes, then await actual process-scope shutdown and temporary-index removal. All 43 review-diff tests and the server typecheck pass; the cumulative PR diff remains 437 lines including tests.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The production VCS path now uses a new batched request resolver and shared temporary-index lifecycle, substantially changing concurrency and cancellation behavior for existing diff reads. The unresolved cancellation/resource-cleanup risk and the complexity of the new coordination logic require human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

File-specific review-diff requests are batched by working directory, base reference, whitespace setting, and source kind. Compatible requests share repository, review-base, and temporary-index preparation. Batches contain up to four requests and support independent cancellation and failure handling.

Changes: Review diff preview batching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Prepare shared review diff state apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts	The preview worker accepts prepared repository, review-base, and untracked-index state. Untracked-file preparation accepts a set of paths.
Batch file preview requests apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts	A request resolver batches compatible file previews with a limit of four requests. Tests cover comparison separation, failures, cancellation, cleanup, fresh reads, and repository isolation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PreviewCaller
  participant RequestResolver
  participant readReviewDiffPreview
  PreviewCaller->>RequestResolver: Submit file-specific preview requests
  RequestResolver->>RequestResolver: Group requests by comparison settings
  RequestResolver->>readReviewDiffPreview: Compute previews with shared prepared state
  readReviewDiffPreview-->>RequestResolver: Return each preview result or failure
  RequestResolver-->>PreviewCaller: Complete or interrupt each request

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to caa34

The preview behavior has no established blocking defect, but the new test will fail when run on Windows. Guard that case before relying on the Windows test suite.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to caa34

Concurrent diff reads now share short-lived preparation. Existing access checks and per-file output boundaries appear preserved, and no new security weakness was established. Remaining incomplete coverage limits assurance.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The newly shared failure domain is one compatible batch of up to four file-preview requests. Its shared resources are repository metadata, comparison metadata and a temporary index; response selection remains per request. The inspected change does not establish broader cross-workspace or cross-service exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Workspace authorization still occurs before requests enter shared Git preparation. Sharing an untracked index does not remove individual literal path filters from diff commands. The workspace allowlist is an existing server-level control, not a newly introduced tenant-specific ownership boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Each caller signals when it stops waiting. Released readers are skipped or interrupted independently; all readers releasing interrupts shared preparation and closes its scope. Individual read exits are captured before completing their entries, containing patch failures within the request.
• inferred — Repository, review-base or temporary-index preparation failures occur before per-reader execution and can fail the compatible batch. This is bounded shared-fate behavior rather than complete failure independence; it does not establish a new security vulnerability in the inspected exposure.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: sharing Git preparation across concurrent diff reads.
Description check		The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the behavior, scope exception, tests, benchmarks, limitations, and agent details.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Guard the colon-containing path on Windows.

The test writes :(exclude)new.txt, but Windows does not allow : in a file name. If this test runs on Windows, writeTextFile fails before either assertion executes. Skip this case on win32, or use a Windows-valid path that still tests literal pathspec handling.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts at line 2133:
Guard the test case around the writeTextFile call for the colon-containing path
so it is skipped on win32, while preserving the existing literal pathspec
assertions on supported platforms.

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