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✨ Git branches selector quality of life improvements

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
swift
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start at the existing Git branches selector/dropdown and trace how branches are loaded and rendered. Done means the selector supports filtering and presents slash-separated branch names such as feat/my-branch under a shared feat parent; no specific files or tests are named in the issue.

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Description

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Description

I think two very important features are missing from the existing Git branches selector/dropdown in order to be usable on large repositories.

  1. A search/filter bar
  2. Nested branches, for example feat/my-branch and feat/my-other-branch should both live under a common feat parent folder
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