IDEA Git
An IntelliJ IDEA-style Git workbench for the DeepSeek Harness Web UI. It adds a Git icon to the sidebar and opens a full central panel rather than a small widget.
After installing or updating the bundle, refresh the Harness page once so the browser loads the latest Client half. The Host half activates immediately.
What it brings from IDEA
- Readable commit graph — colored lanes, merge curves, ref labels, HEAD emphasis and virtualized rows.
- Log — branch/remote/tag tree, multi-ref filtering, search, author/path/date filters, first-parent mode and incremental loading.
- Commit details — subject and body, author/committer, parents, refs, first-parent changed files with a collapsible directory tree and per-file diff.
- Diff viewer — side-by-side and unified modes, intra-line word highlighting, ignore-whitespace, file navigation, binary/large-file handling, and selective hunk staging straight from the working-tree and index diffs, with a fine-grained (zero-context) mode that splits nearby changes into separately stageable hunks.
- Local Changes — staged/unstaged/conflicted/untracked groups, per-file and per-hunk staging, discard with confirmation, commit/amend/sign-off, and commit & push.
- File history — rename-following history for any tracked file, with a searchable file tree.
- Annotate (blame) — per-line authors with colors, revision input, "annotate previous revision", and commit details beside the source.
- Stash — create, inspect, apply, pop and drop stashes.
- Branches and refs — checkout (tracking remotes), create from any commit or ref, merge, rebase onto, delete, cherry-pick, revert and reset.
- Compare — "compare with current" between any ref and HEAD, with a changed-file list and per-file range diff.
- Tags — create lightweight or annotated tags from any commit.
- Interactive rebase — a planner over the linear range above the newest merge: reorder, pick, squash, fixup and drop, executed through a generated
rebase -i todo.
- Conflicts — an operation banner with continue/abort, plus per-file accept-ours/accept-theirs resolution.
- Remote workflow — fetch, pull, rebase-pull, push dialog with upstream selection, and ahead/behind counts.
- Console — every host command with duration and exit code.
- AI attribution — commit trailers (
Assisted-by, Co-authored-by, Generated-by, Signed-off-by, …) render as chips in commit details, so a commit that names its model is traceable at a glance; blame a line, open its commit, and the trailer is right there.
- Location quick-copy — click a diff line (shift-click to extend) or a blame row and copy
path:12-30 @ 1f073153; file and commit menus carry the same reference. Paste it straight at the AI to point at one region.
- Persisted layout — selected tab, split width, diff mode, diff context, filters and the local draft commit message survive reloads.
AI attribution: how it works
Git has no concept of "which AI wrote this", so the plugin records it the git-native way — trailers — and displays whatever the repository already carries.
- Display (always on) — every trailer is parsed from the commit and rendered as a chip. Any repo, any tool, any key works, and existing history is visible immediately.
- Agent commits — a registered system-prompt section asks the agent to append
Assisted-by: dsh/<its model> when it creates a commit. This is the common case, because agent commits go through the bash tool rather than this panel.
- Panel commits — the panel stamps
Assisted-by: dsh/<provider>/<model> (session <id>) from the live agents that work in this repository, which carries the model the session actually runs plus its session id. A trailer you wrote yourself is never duplicated, and --amend --no-edit is left untouched. When no agent matches the repository it falls back to the documented agentDefaultModel service and labels the value default-selection rather than pretending to be a per-agent fact.
Both stamping paths are configurable (see below); display cannot be disabled because it only reads what is already in the repository.
The agent field names (id, options.model, options.provider, session.header.cwd) were confirmed against a live Agent object in this Harness (0.2.1-rc.2) with a temporary read-only probe, and every read is guarded so a different shape degrades to the fallback instead of throwing.
Configuration
The bundle row accepts three fields (see cordis.patch.yml); all default to the values shown.
| Field | Default | Meaning |
|---|
stampAttribution | true | Append the Assisted-by trailer to commits this panel creates. |
agentCommitHint | true | Register the prompt section that asks agents to stamp their own commits. |
attributionKey | Assisted-by | Trailer key used when stamping. |
Known limits
IDEA features that need an editor surface (gutter blame, jump-to-source), rebase reword with inline message editing, drag-and-drop rebase ordering, changelists and Local History are intentionally out of scope for this panel.
Two attribution caveats worth knowing: when no live agent is working in the repository the stamp falls back to the default model selection (and says so in the value), and a commit made by the agent in a terminal is only traceable if that agent honoured the prompt-section request.
Safety
- Git is always invoked with an argv array, never through a shell.
- Refs, hashes, branch names and paths are validated before use; path arguments follow
--.
- Interactive prompts, pagers and editors are disabled (
GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0, GIT_PAGER=cat, GIT_EDITOR=:).
- Destructive actions (discard, hard reset, delete branch, drop stash, checkout revision) ask for confirmation.
- The plugin exposes one authenticated Host route; browser requests use the Harness connection trust fence.
Layout
| File | Role |
|---|
index.js | Host plugin: authenticated web route, workspace discovery, RPC dispatch |
git-core.js | Git execution, validation and parsers (plain Node ESM, unit-tested) |
client.js | Browser half: slot registration, locale, graph, diff and all views |
cordis.patch.yml | Bundle patch that inserts the Host row |
locale/*.json | Plugin Manager title and description |
Keyboard
F5 refreshCtrl/Cmd+Enter commit from the message boxUp/Down move through the log; Enter opens the first changed fileEsc closes a diff, menu, popover or dialog
Development checks
The runtime has no dependencies beyond the Harness; every check below uses only Node.js and Git. Three of them run against a demo repository, which is generated rather than committed (a nested .git inside this one would become a gitlink instead of a usable fixture):
node test-make-demo.mjs ..\idea-git-demo # create the fixture: branches, merge, tag, stash, dirty tree
node test-release.mjs # release checklist: manifest, files, locale, icon, patch, syntax
node test-client-load.mjs # bundle syntax + slot/locale registration
node test-host-route.mjs # authenticated route, workspace scan, RPC + real git
node test-smoke.mjs ../idea-git-demo # git engine read/write/rename/binary/stash/conflict/hunk/trailer checks
node test-rebase.mjs # interactive rebase plan (pick/squash/drop)
# Optional UI checks (need the dev-only React test renderer):
# npm install --no-save --prefix .tmp-test react@18.3.1 react-test-renderer@18.3.1
node test-render-hunks.mjs # selective hunk staging in the diff viewer
node test-render-all.mjs # every tab, diff overlay, compare and rebase dialogs
node test-render-location.mjs # diff line selection, blame copy, clipboard text
The Git engine also has a test adapter (test-runner.mjs) that redirects child output to files for sandboxed environments where piped stdio is blocked. The checks that mutate a repository always work on a copy, so the fixture survives a run.
