git_ui: Improve GitHub avatar display#56755
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We had a problem that became more evident to me in the newly-introduced History tab in the Git panel where the avatars wouldn't show up for a long time. Problem was that we were trying to render the avatar before the GitHub user email came in, and that wouldn't work well because it would 1) skip the fast CDN (which could get rate-limited fast), and 2) cache the
Noneresult. So this improvement works by only attempting to render the avatar when the email is available.Release Notes: