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  • Lazygit creates a temp dir at startup, and is supposed to clean it up after itself; however, this only worked for the main executable, not when lazygit was spawned as a helper daemon for interactive rebases, so we would leak a temp dir every time the user pressed e or ctrl-j or other similar commands.
  • All these temp dirs were created at top level in /tmp and thus pollute it; now we create them inside a /tmp/lazygit/ folder. This is no longer quite as important now that the first bug is fixed, but might still be useful when lazygit crashes, or when running many instances at once in different terminal tabs.

Resolves #4781.

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@stefanhaller stefanhaller enabled auto-merge August 1, 2025 08:29
The function that called us has just created a temp dir, and scheduled a defer
to remove it again; by calling os.Exit we short-cut this defer, and don't clean
up the temp dir. There is no reason to exit here, the calling function will
return after having called us.
…el in /tmp

This is no longer as important now that we fixed the stale, left-over temp dirs
caused by daemon mode, but it could still be helpful in case lazygit crashes, or
if you have many instances of lazygit running.
@stefanhaller stefanhaller force-pushed the improve-temp-dir-handling branch from 9212aaa to 3a9dbf7 Compare August 1, 2025 08:30
@stefanhaller stefanhaller merged commit 47afa7e into master Aug 1, 2025
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@stefanhaller stefanhaller deleted the improve-temp-dir-handling branch August 1, 2025 08:32
tmeijn pushed a commit to tmeijn/dotfiles that referenced this pull request Aug 4, 2025
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| Package | Update | Change |
|---|---|---|
| [jesseduffield/lazygit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) | minor | `v0.53.0` -> `v0.54.0` |

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### Release Notes

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### [`v0.54.0`](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/tag/v0.54.0)

[Compare Source](jesseduffield/lazygit@v0.53.0...v0.54.0)

<!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at v0.54.0 -->

Again we don't have any major new features this time (unless you count the support for alt-backspace for deleting words in the commit message editor, which is one of my favorite additions), but lots of smaller quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. The most notable one is probably the fix for the stale index.lock problem, which was a very long-standing bug that seemed to affect some users much more than others for some reason.

#### What's Changed

##### Enhancements 🔥

- Add confirmation for hard reset by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4704
- Provide user config defaults for UI-changeable settings by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4717
- Improve mouse handling of suggestions panel by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4726
- Add new command "Checkout previous branch" by [@&#8203;kyu08](https://github.com/kyu08) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4728
- Add confirmation for nuking the working tree by [@&#8203;DawidPietrykowski](https://github.com/DawidPietrykowski) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4727
- Support Alt+Backspace for word deletion in text areas by [@&#8203;rtzll](https://github.com/rtzll) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4741
- Don't use hunk mode for added or deleted files even when useHunkModeInStagingView config is on by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4758
- Show \[0] keybinding in main view title by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4754
- Draw divergence from base branch right-aligned in branches view by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4785
- Enable hunk staging mode by default by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4780

##### Fixes 🔧

- Fix scrolling hunk into view when selecting next hunk by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4709
- Fix stale main view content when entering/exiting filtering view by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4719
- Detect double-clicks properly by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4725
- Fix commit searching during rebase or in divergence from upstream view by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4730
- Fix amending commits whose commit message is empty by [@&#8203;aidancz](https://github.com/aidancz) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4732
- Several small fixes to filtering mode (by path or author) by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4749
- Show diff for renamed file when filtering by path by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4750
- Allow rewording or dropping commits in filtering mode by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4756
- Fix index out of bounds panic when repository has massive tags by [@&#8203;chojs23](https://github.com/chojs23) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4776
- When pressing `a` to stage all files, don't include untracked files when showing only tracked files by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4779
- Fix commit hash colors when filtering by path or aythor by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4789
- Improve temp dir handling by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4784
- Terminate git processes more gracefully to avoid the stale index.lock problem by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4782

##### Maintenance ⚙️

- Raise sponsors MRs as a draft by [@&#8203;jesseduffield](https://github.com/jesseduffield) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4694
- Update the peter-evans/create-pull-request action to v7 by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4695
- Update release workflow by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4703
- Clean up the .gitignore file by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4706
- Remove unused code and texts by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4715
- Remove deprecated edit configs by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4716
- Bump minimum required git version to 2.32 by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4718
- Use a better way of pinning the version of golangci-lint by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4733
- Make the minimum required git version a placeholder in the error text by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4778
- refactor: use slices.Equal to simplify code by [@&#8203;jishudashu](https://github.com/jishudashu) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4764

##### Docs 📖

- Fix broken markdown in auto-generated keybindings documentation by [@&#8203;KEY60228](https://github.com/KEY60228) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4690
- Remove the homebrew tap from the readme by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4705

##### I18n 🌎

- Update translations from Crowdin by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4791

##### Performance Improvements 📊

- Fix performance regression on startup in repos with many tags by [@&#8203;stefanhaller](https://github.com/stefanhaller) in jesseduffield/lazygit#4777

#### New Contributors

- [@&#8203;KEY60228](https://github.com/KEY60228) made their first contribution in jesseduffield/lazygit#4690
- [@&#8203;DawidPietrykowski](https://github.com/DawidPietrykowski) made their first contribution in jesseduffield/lazygit#4727
- [@&#8203;rtzll](https://github.com/rtzll) made their first contribution in jesseduffield/lazygit#4741
- [@&#8203;chojs23](https://github.com/chojs23) made their first contribution in jesseduffield/lazygit#4776
- [@&#8203;jishudashu](https://github.com/jishudashu) made their first contribution in jesseduffield/lazygit#4764

**Full Changelog**: jesseduffield/lazygit@v0.53.0...v0.54.0

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