feat(ui): autocomplete the worktree dialog's base branch field - #278
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Closes #277. The `w` dialog's New branch field learned to suggest Linear tickets; the Base branch field was still a bare input pre-filled with GetDefaultBranch, so basing a worktree on anything else meant typing the name from memory, exactly. Suggestions now sit under it, on the ticket rows' vocabulary and through the same setSelection highlight. The branch list is fetched ONCE, by fetchWorkspaceListForRepo on the worker goroutine beside the GetDefaultBranch it already ran, so filtering is a synchronous strings.Contains with none of the ticket machinery's debounce or generation guard — those exist only because a lookup is a network round trip. A failed listing leaves the field exactly as it was. Three things the implementation turns on: tab now moves between FIELDS and ↓/↑ walk rows; they used to be one merged case. That was fine while only one field grew rows and stopped being fine once both did — tabbing off a focused base field would have taken six presses to reach the next input. The ↓/↑ walk must retrace itself exactly, which is why ↑ from the New branch field lands on the LAST base row rather than the base input. A suggestion is stored as the exact ref that will be written into the field, so a remote-only branch always comes out origin/-prefixed. `git worktree add <path> -b <new> <base>` resolves <base> as a plain revision with no remote-tracking DWIM, so a bare remote-only name is a row that looks valid and fails on Enter — and the no-`-b` retry silently drops the base entirely. A field already reading origin/… keeps its prefix and matches only branches with a remote: GetDefaultBranch pre-fills origin/<default> precisely so a worktree starts from the remote tip, and swapping that for the local branch would change what gets built without saying so. An at-rest field lists the alternatives rather than itself. Filtering the pre-filled origin/<default> yields exactly one row echoing the field, which answers nothing and no-ops on Enter, so the whole feature was useless on the one screen it matters on. Narrowly gated on exact equality, so a partially typed unique match still filters normally. git.BranchInfo gains HasRemote, which forced ListBranches into two passes: a branch shares its committer date with its origin/ counterpart only when it is level, so a branch you have not pulled has its remote ref sort FIRST — which the single-pass form both missed the flag on and emitted twice. That duplicate was already visible in the `b` key's branch picker. setSelection now guards baseCursor as well, and its AST test scans all three picker files rather than one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QRVcNGs7c98p7JggANsKNg
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| Layer / File(s) | Summary |
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Branch metadata and deduplication internal/git/git.go, internal/git/git_test.go |
BranchInfo now records remote counterparts. ListBranches parses refs before emitting deduplicated branch entries. Tests cover local-only, remote-only, and paired branches. |
Branch data loading and dialog wiring internal/ui/app.go, internal/ui/workspace_picker.go, internal/ui/workspace_picker_layout_test.go, internal/ui/worktree_ticket_e2e_test.go |
The worker loads branches and passes them through workspaceListMsg to WorktreeDialog.Show. Existing call sites and dialog state now use the expanded signature. |
Base field suggestions and validation internal/ui/workspace_picker.go, internal/ui/workspace_picker_branch.go, internal/ui/workspace_picker_branch_test.go, internal/ui/workspace_picker_ticket_test.go, CLAUDE.md, changelog/unreleased/base-branch-autocomplete.md |
The Base field supports filtering, remote prefixes, capped results, keyboard navigation, Enter selection, rendering, footer hints, and selection-state invariants. Tests and documentation cover the new behavior. |
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0e7e1
Base-branch autocomplete may show the current value as a selectable suggestion, so pressing Enter can appear to accept a branch while making no change. The impact is limited to a confusing picker interaction and is suitable for explicit owner follow-up before or after merge.
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participant User
participant fetchWorkspaceListForRepo
participant git.ListBranches
participant WorktreeDialog
User->>fetchWorkspaceListForRepo: open worktree picker
fetchWorkspaceListForRepo->>git.ListBranches: load branches for repoPath
git.ListBranches-->>fetchWorkspaceListForRepo: return branch metadata
fetchWorkspaceListForRepo->>WorktreeDialog: pass branches to Show
User->>WorktreeDialog: filter and select a Base branch
WorktreeDialog-->>User: render selected branch and footer hint
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In `@internal/ui/workspace_picker_branch.go`:
- Around line 66-69: Update the fallback in the branch-matching flow so
matchBranches does not re-add the current text/Base branch to d.branchMatches;
preserve wantRemote while excluding text from the widened suggestions, ensuring
the first suggestion differs from the field value.
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Six threads, all verified by probe before fixing; none was a false positive. git.BranchInfo now carries the LATER of the two refs' dates when a branch has an origin/ counterpart. The dedupe keeps the local ref, but a branch you have not pulled has a local tip older than origin/<name> — and baseRefFor hands the remote form to `git worktree add`, so the row described a commit it did not resolve to. It is also the sort key, so an unpulled master sank below fresher topic branches and fell out of the 5-row suggestion list entirely. Branches are re-sorted after the merge, since for-each-ref's order stops being authoritative once a date is revised. This was a regression from the two-pass dedupe: the old duplicate preserved the newer position by accident. The widened at-rest list no longer offers back the value already in the field — that is the same no-op row the widening exists to remove. The exclusion runs before the branchMaxRows cap, not over its result, which would quietly return four rows where five fit. Widening is now gated on the field having SETTLED (set by Show and pickBaseBranch, cleared by the first typed change) rather than on the text equalling a branch name. Those look equivalent and are not: typing toward `master-fix` passes through `master`, so the equality form widened 1 row to 5 at the `r` and collapsed at the `-` — and the dialog is vertically centred, so that was the whole box jumping four rows mid-word. The CLAUDE.md sentence that claimed this could not happen is now true rather than softened. The existing-worktrees list is hidden while the base field has the highlight. The dialog has no height budget, so at 80x24 with six worktrees the suggestion rows took the box from 21 lines to 26 and pushed the footer off the bottom. Dropping the list reclaims more than the rows add, so the focused dialog is strictly shorter than the resting one. Capping rows against remaining height was rejected: setSelection runs nowhere near View, so the cursor clamp would have started varying with window size. Hidden is not unreachable — shift+tab still cycles onto the list. tab/shift+tab now cycle. "tab no longer walks the worktree list" stands as a documented cost, but a key documented as "next field" doing nothing at all on the last field is a dead key, and wrapping one direction only moves the dead end onto the other. ListBranches and GetDefaultBranch move inside the existing !IsCustom() guard. The custom-provider path returns straight to createWorkspaceDialog and reads neither, so both were subprocesses the user waited on behind the spinner on every `w`, against a directory a shell provider need not keep in git. Three tests here poked SetValue + rebuildBranchMatches directly, which left the field at rest and landed their assertions on the wrong branch while claiming to test filtering. They now type through Update like a user, and typeBase asserts the change detector actually ran. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QRVcNGs7c98p7JggANsKNg
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Closes #277.
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wdialog's New branch field learned to suggest Linear tickets; the Base branch field was still a bare input pre-filled withGetDefaultBranch, so basing a worktree on anything else meant typing the name from memory, exactly.Rows sit under the field, on the ticket rows' vocabulary (
▸+selTitle, dim otherwise, capped at 5) and through the samesetSelectionhighlight. They render only while that field carries the highlight — the field always holds text, so rendering unconditionally would park five rows mid-dialog for everyone who never touches the base branch. The dialog opens exactly as it did before.The branch list is fetched once, by
fetchWorkspaceListForRepoon the worker goroutine beside theGetDefaultBranchit already ran. Filtering is then a synchronousstrings.Containswith none of the ticket machinery's debounce or generation guard — those exist only because a lookup is a network round trip. A failed listing leaves the field exactly as it was.Three things the implementation turns on
tabmoves between fields,↓/↑walk rows — split apart here. They were one merged case, which was fine while only one field grew rows and stopped being fine once both did: tabbing off a focused base field would have taken six presses to reach the next input. The↓/↑walk is the full continuous path (base input → base rows → new-branch input → ticket rows → worktree list) and must retrace itself exactly, which is why↑from the New branch field lands on the last base row, not the base input. Cost:tabno longer walks the worktree list;↓still does.A suggestion is stored as the exact ref that will be written into the field, so a remote-only branch always comes out
origin/-prefixed.git worktree add <path> -b <new> <base>resolves<base>as a plain revision with no remote-tracking DWIM — a bare remote-only name is a row that looks valid and fails on Enter, and the no--bretry silently drops the base entirely. A field already readingorigin/…keeps its prefix and matches only branches with a remote:GetDefaultBranchpre-fillsorigin/<default>precisely so a worktree starts from the remote tip, and quietly swapping that for the local branch would change what gets built without saying so.An at-rest field lists the alternatives, not itself. Filtering the pre-filled
origin/<default>yields exactly one row echoing the field back — a row that answers nothing and no-ops on Enter — so the feature was useless on the one screen it matters on. When the whole match set is that single echo, the list widens (keepingwantRemote: you asked for a remote ref, so the wider list is the other remote refs). Narrowly gated on exact equality, so a partially-typed unique match still filters normally and the list never widens under your cursor mid-word.Drive-by fix
git.BranchInfogainsHasRemote, which forcedListBranchesinto two passes — and that surfaced a latent bug. A branch shares its committer date with itsorigin/counterpart only when it is level, so a branch you have not pulled has its remote ref sort first, which the single-pass form both missed the flag on and emitted twice. That duplicate was already visible in thebkey's branch picker.TestListBranchesRemoteCounterpartspins it; I confirmed it fails against the old logic.Testing
make build,make lint(0 issues) andmake fmtclean;internal/uiandinternal/gitpass under-race.workspace_picker_branch_test.goandgit_test.go, covering theorigin/rule, the remote-only dead-click case, thetab-skips-rows split, the↓/↑retrace, accept-without-create, keeping the keystroke that returns you to the field, at-rest widening, and rendering byte-identically when the listing failed.TestWorktreeSelectionMutatorIsTheOnlyWriternow guardsbaseCursortoo, and scans all three picker files rather than one.TestWorktreeCaretAndHighlightNeverCoexistgains the base-field states, so the ≤1-▸invariant covers the new rows.Two notes for the reviewer:
internal/linear/TestCredentialResolutionOrderfails on my machine, but it does so identically withmaster'sgit.go— it assertscredential()returnsErrNotConnectedwith nothing stored, and this machine has a Linear credential in the keychain. Pre-existing and environment-dependent, untouched here.View()across four states (the block above is its output). I did not drive the live TUI, so actually creating a worktree from a remote-only base is worth a manual pass.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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