Issue for this PR

Closes #33928

Type of change

• Bug fix
• New feature
• Refactor / code improvement
• Documentation

What does this PR do?

When a Git repository contains a large number of untracked files (e.g. 1200+), the VCS layer crashes the application. This typically occurs in two scenarios:

1. A freshly initialized project (\git init) with no initial commit and no .gitignore\ — every single file in the working tree is untracked.
2. A cloned project whose .gitignore\ is missing or incomplete, causing build artifacts (
   ode_modules, \dist/, etc.) to appear as untracked.

Two distinct issues compounded to produce the crash:

Issue A — --untracked-files=all\ enumerates every file individually

\Git.status()\ ran \git status --untracked-files=all, which instructs git to recurse into every untracked directory and list each file individually in the porcelain output. For a repo with a single untracked directory containing 1200 files, this produces 1200 separate ?? path/to/file\ entries.

The downstream code in \Vcs.status()\ and \Vcs.diff()\ then iterates over every entry and, for each untracked file, spawns one or more additional git subprocesses (\git diff --no-index --numstat\ for stats, \git diff --no-index --patch\ for the diff). With 1200+ files, this creates thousands of sequential git subprocesses, overwhelming the system and causing the application to crash or hang indefinitely.

Note that --untracked-files=all\ is actually not git's default behaviour. Since Git 1.7.0 the default has been --untracked-files=normal, which collapses entire untracked directories into a single ?? dir/\ entry instead of expanding them into individual file entries.

Issue B — no upper bound on file count

Even with --untracked-files=normal, a repository with thousands of individually-modified tracked files could still reach the same crash path. There was no safety limit anywhere in the pipeline: the full list was always processed unconditionally.

Fix

Two changes, one for each root cause:

1. *Switch from --untracked-files=all\ to --untracked-files=normal* (\packages/opencode/src/git/index.ts)

   This makes git's status output collapse untracked directories into a single entry. For example, if
   ode_modules/\ is untracked and contains 1200 files, the output will contain one line (?? node_modules/) instead of 1200 individual file entries.

   Directory entries (those ending with /) are then filtered out by the existing \latMap\ callback, since they cannot be processed as individual files — you cannot compute a diff or stats for a directory as a whole.

   In normal day-to-day development, where untracked files appear inside tracked directories (e.g. \src/new-component.ts), --untracked-files=normal\ behaves identically to --untracked-files=all\ — it still lists each file individually. The difference only manifests for entirely untracked directories, which is exactly where the crash occurs.

2. Add \MAX_STATUS_FILES\ safety limit (\packages/opencode/src/project/vcs.ts)

   A new constant \MAX_STATUS_FILES = 2000\ caps the number of items processed by both \Vcs.status()\ and the internal \iles()\ helper (used by \Vcs.diff()). If the list exceeds this threshold, it is silently truncated to the first 2000 entries.

   This is a defence-in-depth measure: even if \git.status()\ were to return more items than expected, the VCS layer will never attempt to spawn subprocesses for all of them.

Impact

• The application no longer crashes on open when the working tree contains many untracked files.
• The review/change panel shows partial results when the number of changed files exceeds \MAX_STATUS_FILES, which is vastly preferable to a hard crash that forces the user to delete all app data.
• The fix is entirely in the backend VCS pipeline; no frontend changes are required.

How did you verify your code works?

• The existing test suite (\�un test\ in \packages/opencode) covers \git.status(), \Vcs.status(), and \Vcs.diff()\ — all of which pass with the change since they operate on individual untracked files, not untracked directories.
• The --untracked-files=normal\ flag is git's default behaviour since 1.7.0, making this a safe and well-tested code path.
• The \MAX_STATUS_FILES\ truncation is a simple slice operation with no side effects.

Screenshots / recordings

N/A — backend change only.

Checklist

• I have tested my changes locally
• I have not included unrelated changes in this PR