fix(server): raise review diff preview limit

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Problem

Review diff previews historically capped tracked patches at 120 KB and fallback untracked files at 80 KB. Large lockfiles, generated changes, or untracked content could hide useful source changes. Simply raising the per-file untracked limit would also allow the fallback path to build an unbounded combined payload.

Current main now builds the primary working-tree review patch as a unified diff (including rename detection), so this PR preserves that newer architecture while raising and bounding its review budget.

Fix

• Raise the tracked/unified review patch budget to the existing 1 MiB review-file budget.
• Raise the fallback per-untracked-file limit to 1 MiB.
• Keep the fallback combined untracked preview bounded to 1 MiB, processed in batches of four and stopped at file boundaries.
• Also cap the final tracked + untracked fallback assembly to 1 MiB when the temporary-index unified path fails.
• Keep truncation UTF-8 safe by retaining streaming decoder state and discarding an incomplete trailing code point instead of emitting U+FFFD.
• Count the actual retained UTF-8 bytes for aggregate accounting.
• Preserve trailing whitespace in fallback patch content by removing only the final line terminator before joining tracked and untracked patches.
• Preserve PATCH_RENDER_PREFIX_ARGS in the fallback path so repository diff-prefix settings do not break client parsing.
• Preserve current main's unified working-tree diff / rename-detection implementation.
• Add regression coverage for multibyte truncation, large tracked/untracked previews below the budget, the combined 1 MiB working-tree cap, the forced fallback path, and trailing whitespace preservation in fallback patches.

Fixes #7431

Validation

• vp test run apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.utf8.test.ts (5 passed)
• vp fmt --check apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.utf8.test.ts
• vp lint --report-unused-disable-directives apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.utf8.test.ts
• vp run --filter t3 typecheck
• git diff --check

All validation above passed after merging current main (2ebc9fa4).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Review diff previews now handle large tracked and untracked changes more reliably.
  • Diff output is safely bounded and truncated without corrupting multibyte characters.
  • Combined working-tree previews include tracked and untracked files within the configured size limit.
  • Fallback previews remain available when temporary diff processing cannot be used.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This production-path change expands the default review-diff payloads and adds new aggregate truncation behavior. An unresolved edge case may omit a per-file-capped diff after UTF-8 re-encoding, so the changed preview semantics require human verification.

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Note: GPT-6 on behalf of shivam (@shivamhwp).

Please preserve truncated UTF-8 output before applying the aggregate untracked limit. A single untracked file containing 日本語のレビュー内容\n repeated 70,000 times returns only \n\n[truncated], with its filename and entire preview missing. Main retains a partial preview of that file.

collectOutput cuts at the byte limit and flushes the decoder. If the cut splits a multibyte character, the replacement character makes the re-encoded string exceed 1 MiB. The new aggregate check then drops the whole first file. Keep truncation on a valid UTF-8 boundary, or otherwise retain a bounded excerpt without losing the file. Add an oversized multibyte-text case alongside the ASCII coverage.

The rebase also needs to preserve current main's PATCH_RENDER_PREFIX_ARGS for untracked diffs, so repository diff-prefix settings cannot break client parsing.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Git VCS driver raises review diff budgets, bounds batched untracked output, unifies tracked and untracked working-tree diffs through temporary indexes, preserves UTF-8 during truncation, and adds coverage for normal and fallback paths.

Changes

Review diff preview

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Diff collection and UTF-8 truncation apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts	Review diff limits increase to 1 MiB. Untracked files use bounded batches and aggregate byte accounting. Streaming decoding and output bounding preserve valid UTF-8 and truncation markers.
Working-tree preview flow apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts	Tracked, unified, and fallback readers use temporary indexes, intent-to-add paths, staged-deletion filtering, separate-diff fallback behavior, and bounded fallback output.
Large multibyte diff validation apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.utf8.test.ts	Tests cover large tracked and untracked diffs, combined working-tree limits, multibyte truncation, replacement-character avoidance, and fallback assembly.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6e1ae

Fallback review previews can misrepresent a final changed line that ends with whitespace. Preserve file content while removing only the joining line terminator.

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #7431 requires a larger bounded review preview that keeps later source changes visible and includes regression coverage. GitVcsDriverCore.ts sets the tracked, per-untracked-file, combined untr…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The reviewed changes are limited to the review diff implementation and its regression tests. The current workflow file listing contains no temporary self-modifying workflow. The implementation changes…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 3…
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2468-2471: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Enforce the 1 MiB cap in the fallback path.

When a filesystem or Git operation in the temporary-index working-tree path fails, the fallback joins independently capped tracked.diff and untracked.diff values. The joined diff can exceed 1 MiB while truncated remains false. Apply UTF-8-safe aggregate truncation after the join and add a forced-fallback regression test.

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In `@apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts` around lines 2468 - 2471, Update the
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UTF-8-safe aggregate truncation after joining the non-empty values, enforcing
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Fixed the latest fallback aggregate-cap finding in ea50a950. The tracked + untracked fallback assembly now applies a UTF-8-safe 1 MiB cap after joining, propagates aggregate truncation, and has a forced-fallback regression test. Validation passed: 4/4 focused tests, format, lint, server typecheck, and git diff --check.

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Superseded by merged PR #10822, which implements complete diff metadata and progressive loading for large diffs: #10822