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@bobbymannino bobbymannino commented Feb 18, 2026

This PR adds the small UI change of git diff --numstat to the git panel so you can see the number of additions/deletions per file. There is an option in the settings UI for this under git_panel.diff_stats. This option is set to false by default.

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  • Added git diff stats to git panel entries

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thanks @danilo-leal, i will make sure to make the descriptions consistent and punctual in the future, my bad

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I think this is pretty much ready to go! I'd just like @Anthony-Eid to take a look at it before we merge 👍

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While not fully blocking, I think we could improve with an architecture that focuses on catching specific file diff stats when single buffers are saved.

We could also have a queue that refreshes every 50 ms for multiple buffer saves that happen rapidly; that way, we don't have to spawn more than one process when a user saves multiple files at once.

Finally, we might not need to call diff_stat at all; there's a chance BufferDiff has the information we want only stored.

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diff_stats: HashMap<RepoPath, DiffStat>,
diff_stats_task: Task<()>,
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If we want to allow requesting diff_stats for a single file the task should be stored in the diff_stats hash map.

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for buffer in project.read(cx).opened_buffers(cx) {
cx.subscribe(&buffer, |this, _buffer, event, cx| {
if matches!(event, BufferEvent::Saved) {
if GitPanelSettings::get_global(cx).diff_stats {
this.fetch_diff_stats(cx);
}
}
})
.detach();
}

cx.subscribe(&buffer_store, |_this, _store, event, cx| {
if let BufferStoreEvent::BufferAdded(buffer) = event {
cx.subscribe(buffer, |this, _buffer, event, cx| {
if matches!(event, BufferEvent::Saved) {
if GitPanelSettings::get_global(cx).diff_stats {
this.fetch_diff_stats(cx);
}
}
})
.detach();
}
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This could be improved by allowing diff stats to fetch for singular files. IO is slow, and when one buffer is saved, we shouldn't invalidate the diff_stats we have for every other buffer.

Also, starting a process has overhead, which we run into here if a user saves multiple files back-to-back. Because fetch diff stats will be called rapidly in succession.

Finally, you're essentially using the same closure for both Buffer subscriptions. I think this could be a function or inline closure passed to them instead.

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.when(GitPanelSettings::get_global(cx).diff_stats, |el| {
el.when_some(
self.diff_stats.get(&entry.repo_path).copied(),
move |this, stat| {
let id = format!("diff-stat-{}", id_for_diff_stat);
this.child(ui::DiffStat::new(
id,
stat.added as usize,
stat.deleted as usize,
))
},
)
})
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If self.diff_stat doesn't exist for a visible file in the git panel should we fetch its stats?

@Anthony-Eid Anthony-Eid force-pushed the git-diff-count-in-panel branch from 5b77303 to 9b374b8 Compare February 25, 2026 12:27
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Spent some time working on using BufferDiff instead of the git binary and decided not to go down that path because BufferDiff only works for open files, and it shows in memory line stat changes instead of fs line stat. Which goes against everything else the git_panel does

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Auto merging this now, we can refactor it later if we need to for querying single files. Since this is a background thread it's ok if it takes a bit of time since we aren't blocking the UI thread

@Anthony-Eid Anthony-Eid merged commit bbbe723 into zed-industries:main Feb 25, 2026
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tahayvr pushed a commit to tahayvr/zed that referenced this pull request Mar 4, 2026
This PR adds the small UI change of `git diff --numstat` to the git
panel so you can see the number of additions/deletions per file. There
is an option in the settings UI for this under `git_panel`.`diff_stats`.
This option is set to `false` by default.

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Release Notes:

- Added git diff stats to git panel entries

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Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <daniloleal09@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Anthony Eid <anthony@zed.dev>
Anthony-Eid added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 4, 2026
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Follow up on: #49519

This PR reworks how Zed calculates diff num stats by moving the
calculation to the `RepositorySnapshot` layer, instead of the
`GitPanel`. This has a couple of benefits:

1. Snapshot recalculations are already set up to recompute on file
system changes and only update the affected files. This means that diff
stats don't need to manage their own subscription or states anymore like
they did in the original PR.
2. We're able to further separate the data layer from the UI. Before,
the git panel owned all the subscriptions and tasks that refreshed the
diff stat, now the repository does, which is more inline with the code
base.
3. Integration tests are cleaner because `FakeRepository` can handle all
the data and calculations of diff stat and make it accessible to more
tests in the codebase. Because a lot of tests wouldn't initialize the
git panel when they used the git repository.
4. This made implementing remote/collab support for this feature
streamline. Remote clients wouldn't get the same buffer events as local
clients, so they wouldn't know that the diff stat state has been updated
and invalidate their data.
5. File system changes that happened outside of Zed now trigger the diff
stat refresh because we're using the `RepositorySnapshot`.

I added some integration tests as well to make sure collab support is
working this time. Finally, adding the initial diff calculation to
`compute_snapshot` didn't affect performance for me when checking
against chromium's diff with HEAD~1000. So this should be a safe change
to make.

I decided to add diff stats on the status entry struct because it made
updating changed paths and the collab database much simpler than having
two separate SumTrees. Also whenever the UI got a file's status it would
check its diff stat as well, so this change makes that code more
streamlined as well.

Before you mark this PR as ready for review, make sure that you have:
- [x] Added a solid test coverage and/or screenshots from doing manual
testing.
- [x] Done a self-review taking into account security and performance
aspects.

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@bobbymannino bobbymannino deleted the git-diff-count-in-panel branch March 7, 2026 18:04
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FYI the PR description says this is disabled by default, however when I updated Zed this setting was enabled.

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@secondl1ght changed in here → #51215

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I noticed the diff stats get stale pretty quickly, only staging them updates the correct value, but unstaging untracked changes makes it disappear

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