fix(server): reuse the checkpoint index so unchanged untracked files are not rehashed every turn - #13543
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…are not rehashed every turn Checkpoint capture staged from a copy of the user's index, which has no stat data for untracked files, so `git add -A` rehashed every untracked file on every capture. In a workspace with 83,524 untracked files that took 39 minutes, while listing them took 10 s, and every capture hit the 30 s process timeout. A capture of a whole, non-sparse worktree now saves its private index in the worktree's Git directory and starts the next capture from it, so `add -A` only rehashes files whose stat data changed. Ignored entries are reconciled against the user's index so the tree matches a fresh capture, and a saved index Git rejects is deleted and the capture starts over. Staging gets its own 5-minute bound instead of the 30 s default. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Medium vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts:859
For a repository whose ignored tracked paths exceed WORKSPACE_FILES_MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES (16 MiB), listIgnored fails during syncIgnoredEntries, so every warm capture deletes the saved checkpoint index and falls back to a cold capture. The replacement index is saved again, causing every subsequent capture to repeat the fallback and potentially hit the staging timeout. Process the full ignored-path output without this bounded result limit so index reuse remains effective.
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For a repository whose ignored tracked paths exceed `WORKSPACE_FILES_MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES` (16 MiB), `listIgnored` fails during `syncIgnoredEntries`, so every warm capture deletes the saved checkpoint index and falls back to a cold capture. The replacement index is saved again, causing every subsequent capture to repeat the fallback and potentially hit the staging timeout. Process the full ignored-path output without this bounded result limit so index reuse remains effective.
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes the existing checkpoint-capture path with persistent index reuse, ignored-entry reconciliation, fallback recovery, and a longer staging timeout, introducing meaningful state and runtime behavior changes. An unresolved medium-severity finding also indicates that large ignored-path sets can defeat reuse and repeatedly trigger slow cold captures. Not approved because:
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In `@apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts`:
- Around line 395-400: Update stageFiles to use a longer timeout for cold
captures when no saved checkpoint index exists, while retaining
CHECKPOINT_STAGE_TIMEOUT_MS for captures reusing an index. Ensure the cold
timeout allows the initial add to finish and create the index for later
captures.
- Around line 862-863: Update syncIgnoredEntries so tracked ignored entries are
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…erflows Reusing the saved checkpoint index depends on listing its ignored entries and the user's, and both listings are capped at 16 MiB. Past the cap the capture fell back to a cold capture, which then saved a new index, so every later capture repeated the overflow and the cold rehash. When either listing hits the cap, the server now stops saving the index for that worktree. The failed capture still deletes the saved index and finishes cold, and later captures run cold, as they did before index reuse. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Addressed the Macroscope finding in 8ef57d3: an ignored-path listing that hits the 16 MiB cap now turns index reuse off for that worktree (the overflowing capture still deletes the saved index and finishes cold; later captures run cold and do not save), so there is no delete/cold/save loop. Listings stay bounded. Details are in the new |
…nst HEAD A reused checkpoint index kept or added ignored files based on the user's index, but a fresh capture starts from HEAD, so staged changes never reach it. A force-added but uncommitted ignored file entered only the reused checkpoint, an ignored file removed with `git rm --cached` left only the reused one, and with no commits a staged ignored file did the same. Diffs and restores then depended on whether the index had been reused. The ignored entries are now compared against a scratch index read from HEAD, or against nothing when there is no commit. The listing keeps the same output cap and the same cold fallback on overflow. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Addressed the ignored-entry baseline finding in 07dfc2d: the kept set is now derived from a scratch index read from HEAD (empty when there is no commit) instead of the user's staged index, so a reused capture keeps exactly what a cold capture keeps. The extended test force-adds an ignored file without committing and runs |
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🟡 Minor · Do not retry after a reused-index staging timeout. · GitVcsDriver.ts:1161-1174
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDo not retry after a reused-index staging timeout.
A timed-out
git add -Ais surfaced asGitCommandError, notVcsProcessTimeoutError. WhenreusedCheckpointIndexis true, the predicate therefore matches and callscapture(false). This starts a second cold capture after the five-minute timeout, contrary to the timeout no-retry behavior.Exclude the timeout condition using the actual error type, or preserve the timeout error when wrapping
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- Around line 1161-1174: Update the Effect.catchIf predicate in the
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A capture that reuses the saved checkpoint index starts over from the user's index when Git rejects the reused index, but not when staging times out, since a fresh index would only repeat the same work. Nothing tested that exclusion. The new test times out `git add -A` on a reused capture and checks that the capture fails with the timeout, that staging ran once with no cold `read-tree --reset`, and that the saved index is left unchanged. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff minor at 07dfc2d ("Do not retry after a reused-index staging timeout"): this does not hold for the checkpoint path, so the predicate is unchanged.
Since there was no test for the no-retry rule, 58b8c13 adds one: after a first capture saves the index, the second capture's |
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Checkpoint capture keeps its private index between captures, so
git add -Aonly rehashes files whose stat data changed instead of every untracked file.t3-checkpoint-indexin the worktree's own Git directory (git rev-parse --git-path, so each linked worktree has its own). The next capture copies it instead of the user's index and skipsread-tree --reset HEAD.add -A -- .already resyncs the whole index with the working tree (adds new and changed files, drops deleted ones), so the result does not depend on where the index started. The copy is backdated one second below the saved file, as the user-index copy already is, so same-second edits are still rehashed.--show-prefixis empty) and the checkout is not sparse. A nested workspace stages only its own subtree, and the checkpoint diff compares whole trees, so a reused index would carry stale content from the rest of the repo into it. Nested and sparse captures run exactly as before.add -Anever drops an ignored entry and never adds an ignored file. A reused index would therefore keep a file captured while untracked that has since been ignored, and miss an ignored file that has since been force-added. After staging, the capture lists the ignored entries in its own index and in a scratch index read from HEAD (ls-files -z --cached --ignored --exclude-standardagainst each), removes the ones HEAD does not track (update-index --force-remove), and adds HEAD-tracked ones it lacks (update-index --add --remove). This is the same set a fresh capture keeps, because a fresh capture starts from HEAD, not from the user's staged changes. Both update commands are skipped when their lists are empty.git prunehas since removed), the saved file is deleted and the capture starts over from the user index. The pruned case matters because Git only treats the real index as a gc root, and in Git 2.53write-treereturns the cached root tree id without checking it exists;commit-treeis what refuses it, so the retry covers the whole capture. A timeout does not trigger the retry, since the working tree itself is the slow part and a fresh index would only repeat it.ls-files -vcheck for assume-unchanged and skip-worktree entries is not run on the reused index. It is not needed: a capture only stages from an index that passed that check or was rebuilt fromread-tree HEAD, andadd -Aandupdate-index --add/--force-removenever set those flags. Sparse checkouts, where skip-worktree is expected, never save or reuse the index.git add -Agets its own 5-minute timeout (CHECKPOINT_STAGE_TIMEOUT_MS) instead of the generic 30 sVcsProcessdefault.Tests (real temp repos, next to the existing checkpoint tests):
read-treeis never called, and modified, deleted and new files are all reflected. Its tree is identical to a cold capture of the same working tree.Why
On a real workspace with 14 tracked files and 83,524 untracked, non-ignored files, listing the untracked files (
git ls-files --others --exclude-standard) takes 10 s, but capture'sgit add -Atakes 39 minutes. It starts from a copy of the user's index, which has no stat data for untracked files, so every untracked file is rehashed on every capture. Every Git call in the driver used the 30 sVcsProcessdefault, so capture failed with aVcsProcessTimeoutErroron every turn, and the user only saw a checkpoint failure activity. With the stat cache kept, a later capture should cost roughly that 10 s stat scan plus hashing whatever actually changed. I have not re-measured that workspace with this change.Timeout decision: I checked whether a longer bound would slow down the user's turn. It does not.
CheckpointReactortakes turn-start and turn-completion events from the domain and provider streams and handles them on its own worker.ProviderCommandReactor, which starts the provider turn, never waits on checkpoints, and nothing outside tests waits oncheckpoint.baseline.captured. The pre-turn baseline only runs when the previous turn's checkpoint is missing, which is usually the first turn of a thread. So one constant for the staging step covers both the baseline and the post-turn capture, with no need to pass per-caller timeouts throughCheckpointStore. The cost of a long bound is that the reactor's worker is sequential across all threads, so a slow capture delays other checkpoint work and reverts. Five minutes gives a cold capture of a large workspace room without letting one capture hold that queue indefinitely. The 39-minute cold capture measured above would still exceed it. That workspace needs the large-file follow-up below (or ignore rules) before its first capture can complete and seed the saved index.Companion to #13538, which adds
-c core.longpaths=trueto the working-tree checkpoint commands on Windows. The two touch different lines and merge cleanly in either order.Left out on purpose:
.dbfiles). A changed large file is still rehashed and stored on every capture, and this change does nothing about that.core.longpathsfor theGitVcsDriverCorecommands (status, branches, worktrees), as noted in fix(server): checkpoints work in Windows workspaces with paths over 260 characters #13538.Checklist
Follow-up: ignored-path listing overflow (8ef57d3)
Macroscope was right that an ignored-entry listing over the 16 MiB cap would loop: the capture treated the overflow as a bad saved index, deleted it and fell back to a cold capture, but that cold capture then saved a new index, so every later capture repeated the overflow and the cold rehash. The listings stay bounded. When either
ls-files --cached --ignoredlisting hits the cap, the driver stops saving the checkpoint index for that worktree. The capture that overflowed still deletes the saved index and finishes cold with a correct tree, and later captures run cold, exactly as onmain. The flag lives in memory, so after a server restart that worktree gets one cold capture that saves an index and one reuse attempt before it goes cold again. Corrupt and pruned indexes are still retried as before, and timeouts still do not retry. I kept the 16 MiB cap (WORKSPACE_FILES_MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES, the same cap as the other path listings in this driver) because no tighter constant exists for index-only listings. A new test caps the listing at one byte through the process layer and checks that the capture succeeds with the same tree, that no saved index is left, and that the next capture runs cold without the listing and without saving.Follow-up: ignored entries are compared against HEAD (07dfc2d)
CodeRabbit was right that the ignored-entry step compared against the wrong baseline. It kept an ignored path when the user's index tracked it, but a cold capture never uses the user's staged changes. With a commit it resets its copy to HEAD, and with no commits it starts empty. So a force-added but uncommitted ignored file got into a reused checkpoint and not a cold one, and an ignored file that HEAD tracks but the user removed with
git rm --cachedwas dropped from a reused checkpoint but kept in a cold one. The step now builds a scratch index from HEAD (read-tree HEADinto<private index>-head, which the existing cleanup removes) and lists its ignored entries. With no commit, the list is empty. The listing keeps the same 16 MiB cap and the same cold fallback on overflow. This replaces "the user's index" with HEAD in the ignore-rules bullet above. The ignore-rules test now also force-adds an uncommitted ignored file and runsgit rm --cachedon a committed ignored file, and checks that the reused and cold trees still match. Pointed back at the user's index, that test fails on exactly those two files.Made with Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) in Claude Code.
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