A way to refresh Git status

[msandrini]

Body

First of all, thanks for you work!

What are you proposing?

Have an option to refresh the shown Git status

Why does this matter?

To keep Git status faithful to what it is and prevent wrong actions

What problem does this solve?

Frequently when I rebase my branch the status shown on the Git dock once I push doesn't reflect the actual Git status. On this occasion for example (picture below) the branch was pulled and the real status was that there was nothing pending, but the dock didn't reflect that.

Are there any examples or context?

Given above

Screenshots, mockups, workflows, or examples from other tools.

Also given above

Possible approach

Either an option on the three dots menu on Git dock to refresh Git status or some automated way to do that from time to time, like as it happens on vscode for example.

[stevenj]

I am seeing this where i have an agent running across multiple repos, and it edits inside one and the zed session in there get thoroughly confused by the external agents edits. Its really frustrating behavior. Probably the most frustrating thing i have encountered with Zed.
I have also seen it where the file browser does not reflect the true state of files for the same reason.
Refresh should force the editor to not only get correct git state, but filesystem state.

[dibenzepin]

i also see this sometimes with jj? after moving around some commits, both jj st and git status report the correct files changed, but the sidebar still has the set of changes from two or three jj edits ago

[dibenzepin]

in this scenario, there's only ~10 changed files, but the git panel still shows 53 from another commit.

(this is Zed Preview 1.2.1 Commit: 082131b Version: 1.2.1+preview.266.082131b0dbcd603ba1989a2292b5de3ee9fbb2ed)

[Arszilla]

Same problem here. My current folder is a bunch of repositories - and if I unzip a .zip in one of my projects (and subsequently delete the folder), it remains in my Git tree panel. I either have to make a new change or restart Zed as there's no way to refresh it like in VS Code.

[spotdemo4]

You can create a task that does this

// tasks.json
[
  {
    "label": "Refresh Git Index",
    "command": "git",
    "args": ["update-index", "--force-write-index"],
    "cwd": "$ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT",
    "use_new_terminal": false,
    "allow_concurrent_runs": false,
    "reveal": "no_focus",
    "hide": "never",
    "show_summary": false,
    "show_command": false,
    "save": "none"
  }
]

And then create a keybind for that task

// keymap.json
[
  {
    "context": "Workspace",
    "bindings": {
      "cmd-alt-g": ["task::Spawn", { "task_name": "Refresh Git Index" }]
    }
  }
]

[risalfajar]

Doesn't work in my case