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fix(web): expanding a diff whose files changed no longer crashes - #28056
Expanding unchanged lines in a diff can throw DiffHunksRenderer.processDiffResult: deletionLine and additionLine are null, something is wrong or trailing context mismatch. On a working-tree diff in the web app, expanding context while an agent kept editing the files took the whole app to the root error screen within a minute.
The patch was computed earlier, but expanding loads each file as it is now. @pierre/diffs hydrates the partial patch with those contents without checking them. When the file has changed since, the hydrated diff's hunks no longer fit its lines.
Change
createDiffFileContentsLoader (apps/web/src/lib/diffFileContents.ts), shared by the diff panel and the PR loaders, now rejects contents that no longer reproduce the patch it was asked to load. Each hunk must fit in the loaded files with matching lines, and the unchanged tail must be the same length on both sides. Lines are compared ignoring whitespace, because the Changes panel's ignore-whitespace patches print context lines from one side only.
Pierre already catches loader errors, so the file keeps showing its patch, and expanding works again once the diff refreshes.
PR guide excerpts (GuideExcerpt.logic.ts) now load with their source file's diff, so the check runs against the real patch. They then build the excerpt's old side as before. Excerpts of added or deleted files get no expansion loader, because a whole-file addition or deletion has no unchanged context to expand.
vp test run src/lib/diffFileContents.test.ts src/components/pullRequest/guide/GuideExcerpt.logic.test.ts: 7 passed.
On main, three tests fail: contents that end before the hunk (the reported deletionLine and additionLine are null), a line appended after the last hunk (trailing context mismatch), and a hunk line edited in place.
The excerpt test with a length-changing hunk elsewhere in the file fails if excerpts load with their own diff.
The deleted-file excerpt test fails without its guard.
vp run check:changed passes.
Real app (T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0 vp run dev, web): a synthetic git repo with 30 edited TypeScript files, the Diff panel on its working-tree Changes, all files expanded, and a script editing random files every 1.5 s. A 120 s scripted loop with a fixed seed scrolled, clicked expand-context separators, refreshed, and toggled split view and whitespace.
Before, on e5909e5: trailing context mismatch … for src/file01.ts within 2 s; the app hit the root error screen ("Something went wrong") within about a minute.
After, on 44579d9: 365 iterations, 130 expand clicks, zero Pierre errors, app and panel still up; 74 stale loads rejected (logged by Pierre).
Not checked in a real client: the PR review guide changes (covered by the renderer-backed excerpt tests) and the desktop and mobile shells. Mobile does not hydrate diffs.
Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code, T3 Code issue flow), with GPT-6.1 Sol (Codex) reviewing.
No code changes; evidence and verification added below.
Evidence
Before = merge-base 083c903950, after = head d3e3620310, each run from its own checkout with T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0 and the same synthetic repo. D1/D2 are the real web app. G1–G4, P1 and P2 are labelled harnesses that mount the production components with the real shared loader and controlled RPC output, because hosted PR guides cannot be seeded on a VM.
Environment: fs-11, Linux x86_64, Playwright headless Chromium 148.0.7778.96, no device emulation, DPR 1, 100% zoom and font scale, reduced motion, clock frozen at 2026-11-03T12:00:00Z. Recordings 1440 × 1000 light; D2 end state also at 390 wide and in dark. Stills are settled (two identical frames 500 ms apart).
Scripted interaction (D2): show an unhydrated working-tree patch, change the file outside the app (truncate below the hunk, append past the last hunk, edit hunk line 31 in place, then append under Changes vs main), click expand before any refresh, then refresh and expand again. Before: root error screen within 2–8 s of the first stale expansion and again on refresh; after: the patch stays, "This file changed since the diff was loaded" is logged, and expansion works after refresh. Step timestamps are in the full evidence.
D2b appended past last hunk · 1440 light · real app
D2c hunk line edited · 1440 light · real app
D2d Changes vs main, refresh · 1440 light · real app
D2 end state · 390 dark · real app
D1 matching contents, split · 1440 light · real app
G2 stale source outside excerpt · 1440 light · harness
G3 added-file excerpt · 1440 light · harness
G4 deleted-file excerpt · 1440 light · harness
G1 modified-source excerpt · 1440 light · harness
P1 PR Code view · 1440 light · harness
P2 guide “Also in this stop” · 1440 light · harness
What else changed (zero-threshold diffs):
D2: before crashes to the root error screen (D2a/b/d) or hydrates mismatched context (D2c); after keeps the patch and expands after refresh.
G2: before expands an excerpt from stale source; after keeps the compact patch until refresh.
G3/G4: added/deleted-file excerpts lose the expansion controls, as described above; G4 also loses the before side's inline null-line renderer error. Contents requests drop from 1 to 0.
D1, P1, P2, G1: zero changed pixels. G2's recovered pair differs by one RGB level on 12 card-edge pixels.
Both sides log a pre-existing pierre-dark worker theme error, unrelated to this change.
Mode: evidence-only round; no code, tests or review changes on d3e3620310.
Proof audit pass 1 derived 12 rows (8 affected: D1, D2, P1, P2, G1–G4; U1–U4 unchanged branches waived). Pass 2: SUFFICIENT on all 8; 141 stills, 34 recordings and 66 diff images inspected; G3 rebuilt independently from the uploaded scripts with a 0-pixel delta (audit).
Unverified: hosted PR guide sign-in, generation, persistence and routing (harness rows only); desktop and mobile shells (mobile does not hydrate diffs).
CI on d3e3620310: all required checks green.
Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code, T3 Code PR lead) with GPT-6.1 Sol (Codex) for proof audit and capture.
…ches
The diff contents loader resolves file contents read after the patch was
computed, even when they no longer reproduce its hunks. Pierre then
hydrates an inconsistent diff and rendering throws.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Expanding unchanged lines loads the files as they are now, but the partial
patch being hydrated was computed earlier. When an agent had edited the file
since, Pierre built hunks that did not fit the loaded lines and rendering
threw, sometimes taking the whole app down.
The shared diff contents loader now rejects contents that no longer reproduce
the partial patch: every hunk's old and new ranges must fit and match the
loaded lines (whitespace-insensitive, since `git diff -w` prints context from
one side), and the unchanged tail after the last hunk must be the same length
on both sides. Pierre already catches loader errors, so the file keeps showing
its patch until the next diff refresh brings a fresh one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The excerpt loader passed its synthetic excerpt patch to the shared loader,
which now rejects contents that do not reproduce the patch it is given. A
file whose other hunks change its length was then rejected, so excerpt
context stopped expanding. Load with the source file's diff instead, then
build the excerpt-matching old side as before.
Also covers a hunk line edited in place, which keeps bounds and tail lengths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Loading an excerpt with its source diff sent `deleted` as the change type,
which now succeeds where the excerpt's own `change` request failed. The
synthesized excerpt pair then hydrated into Pierre's missing-line invariant.
A whole-file addition or deletion has no unchanged context, so offer no
loader for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The change guards diff expansion against stale file contents and fixes guide-excerpt loading. An unresolved review concern says edits in omitted context can still appear unchanged, which needs resolution because it could mislead code review.
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The diff-content loader now checks loaded file contents against patch hunks. Guide excerpt loading is extracted into its own module, with tests for excerpt expansion and deleted files.
The loader checks loaded contents against patch hunks and rejects mismatches. Tests cover matching contents, mismatches, and whitespace-ignored patches.
pingdotgg/t3code#19787: The loader checks loaded contents against patch hunks and unchanged-tail lengths, addressing the reported trailing context mismatch.
Suggested reviewers:maria-rcks, t3dotgg
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review a7ab0
Expanding a diff can still present a changed line outside the patch as unchanged. Resolve that validation gap before merging.
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The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the stale-diff failure, the implementation, the linked issue, focused tests, real-app veri…
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The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preventing crashes when expanding diffs whose files changed.
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Issue #28025 requires the diff panel to render the file instead of failing during stale-content hydration. diffFileContents.ts now checks every hunk line and the unchanged tail before returning load…
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The changes stay within issue #28025. The loader validation prevents stale diff contents from corrupting rendering. The guide excerpt changes apply the same protection to a related diff expansion path…
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Issue #28025 requires the diff panel to render the file instead of failing during stale-content hydration. diffFileContents.ts now checks every hunk line and the unchanged tail before returning loaded contents. It rejects stale contents with a refresh error, so Pierre can retain the cached patch. The tests cover valid contents, truncated contents, tail-length changes, edited hunk lines, and whitespace-ignored patches. Guide excerpts also use the source diff for this validation, and added or deleted files do not request expansion contents.
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The changes stay within issue #28025. The loader validation prevents stale diff contents from corrupting rendering. The guide excerpt changes apply the same protection to a related diff expansion path. The tests support these behaviors. No unrelated product behavior is shown in the reviewed diff.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/lib/diffFileContents.ts:
- Around line 100-103: Update the validation around hunksMatch to compare
oldLines and newLines in every omitted region before, between, and after the
hunks, rather than checking only the trailing lengths with hunkSideEnd. Reject
the files if omitted lines differ, while preserving git diff -w whitespace
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Reject changes in omitted context, not only changes in its length.
If a line after the final hunk changes from return 1 to return 2, the tail lengths remain equal and this loader accepts the files. Pierre then hydrates that line as unchanged context. The expanded diff can hide the edit instead of rejecting stale contents. Compare the old and new lines in omitted regions before, between, and after hunks. Preserve the intended whitespace tolerance for git diff -w. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/lib/diffFileContents.ts around lines 100 - 103:
Update the validation around hunksMatch to compare oldLines and newLines in
every omitted region before, between, and after the hunks, rather than checking
only the trailing lengths with hunkSideEnd. Reject the files if omitted lines
differ, while preserving git diff -w whitespace tolerance.
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slice(0, 30) ends inside the hunk, so that case fails hunk matching. Add a table row with oldLines: originalLines and newLines: changedLines.slice(0, 33) to test a shorter new-side tail. The existing tail case covers the opposite length difference.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/lib/diffFileContents.test.ts around lines 70 - 72:
Add a test case to the diffFileContents test table that keeps the full originalLines and truncates the changed side to the first 33 lines, verifying a shorter new-side tail after the complete hunk; retain the existing tail case for the opposite length difference.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/lib/diffFileContents.test.ts:
- Around line 70-72: Add a test case to the diffFileContents test table that
keeps the full originalLines and truncates the changed side to the first 33
lines, verifying a shorter new-side tail after the complete hunk; retain the
existing tail case for the opposite length difference.
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Real web app, Chromium on Linux, 1280×800, light theme, fresh synthetic state on each commit. Commit a 100-line file, edit line 30, open Changes with files expanded and unchanged context collapsed, externally truncate to 10 lines, click the top context separator, then Refresh. On base, stale expansion corrupts hydration and Refresh reaches the error screen. On head, the patch survives and refreshed context expands successfully. scenarios:prove exited 0: failsOnBase=true, passesOnHead=true.
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Problem
Expanding unchanged lines in a diff can throw
DiffHunksRenderer.processDiffResult: deletionLine and additionLine are null, something is wrongortrailing context mismatch. On a working-tree diff in the web app, expanding context while an agent kept editing the files took the whole app to the root error screen within a minute.The patch was computed earlier, but expanding loads each file as it is now.
@pierre/diffshydrates the partial patch with those contents without checking them. When the file has changed since, the hydrated diff's hunks no longer fit its lines.Change
createDiffFileContentsLoader(apps/web/src/lib/diffFileContents.ts), shared by the diff panel and the PR loaders, now rejects contents that no longer reproduce the patch it was asked to load. Each hunk must fit in the loaded files with matching lines, and the unchanged tail must be the same length on both sides. Lines are compared ignoring whitespace, because the Changes panel's ignore-whitespace patches print context lines from one side only.GuideExcerpt.logic.ts) now load with their source file's diff, so the check runs against the real patch. They then build the excerpt's old side as before. Excerpts of added or deleted files get no expansion loader, because a whole-file addition or deletion has no unchanged context to expand.Scope and approval
Fixes #28025
Verification
vp test run src/lib/diffFileContents.test.ts src/components/pullRequest/guide/GuideExcerpt.logic.test.ts: 7 passed.deletionLine and additionLine are null), a line appended after the last hunk (trailing context mismatch), and a hunk line edited in place.vp run check:changedpasses.T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0 vp run dev, web): a synthetic git repo with 30 edited TypeScript files, the Diff panel on its working-tree Changes, all files expanded, and a script editing random files every 1.5 s. A 120 s scripted loop with a fixed seed scrolled, clicked expand-context separators, refreshed, and toggled split view and whitespace.trailing context mismatch … for src/file01.tswithin 2 s; the app hit the root error screen ("Something went wrong") within about a minute.Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code, T3 Code issue flow), with GPT-6.1 Sol (Codex) reviewing.
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No code changes; evidence and verification added below.
Evidence
Before = merge-base
083c903950, after = headd3e3620310, each run from its own checkout withT3CODE_DEV_SEED=0and the same synthetic repo. D1/D2 are the real web app. G1–G4, P1 and P2 are labelled harnesses that mount the production components with the real shared loader and controlled RPC output, because hosted PR guides cannot be seeded on a VM.Environment: fs-11, Linux x86_64, Playwright headless Chromium 148.0.7778.96, no device emulation, DPR 1, 100% zoom and font scale, reduced motion, clock frozen at 2026-11-03T12:00:00Z. Recordings 1440 × 1000 light; D2 end state also at 390 wide and in dark. Stills are settled (two identical frames 500 ms apart).
Scripted interaction (D2): show an unhydrated working-tree patch, change the file outside the app (truncate below the hunk, append past the last hunk, edit hunk line 31 in place, then append under Changes vs main), click expand before any refresh, then refresh and expand again. Before: root error screen within 2–8 s of the first stale expansion and again on refresh; after: the patch stays, "This file changed since the diff was loaded" is logged, and expansion works after refresh. Step timestamps are in the full evidence.
083c903950d3e3620310What else changed (zero-threshold diffs):
pierre-darkworker theme error, unrelated to this change.Full evidence (all 30+ pairs, transcripts, raw recordings): evidence.md · fixture matrix · artifact index. Seed and drivers: replay.md · seed.py · capture-app.mjs · capture-harness.mjs · all-driver-scripts.tar.gz.
Verification log
d3e3620310.d3e3620310: all required checks green.