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An untracked docs/images/muffin-farro.jpeg in Local Changes showed Binary content · No inline preview in Diff and Binary content in Full file. The diff worker only built the image preview for Review, where both sides are Git blobs. In Local Changes the sides are the index and the working file, so it fell back to the text summary.

Change

• gg_git::working_diff::preview_bytes reads a working comparison's two sides, the same ones the text comparison uses:

  • staged: the base tree blob and the index blob;
  • unstaged: the index blob and the working file;
  • untracked: no earlier side, and the working file.

  The working file is read as it is on disk, within the 16 MiB per-side budget.

• binary_preview::read_working decodes those sides. Local Changes now shows the same Side by side, Swipe, Onion skin and Hex views as Review. Since these sides have no object ID, the header names their source instead: Before HEAD, Before index, After index, After working.

• New acceptance scenario: CHG-75, "An image in Local Changes shows its picture". I also updated architecture.md, verification.md and the docs site.

Tests

an_untracked_and_a_modified_image_show_their_pictures (status_view.rs) checks the header for each kind of change:

Change	Expected header
Untracked image	After working · 5 × 5
Unstaged change	Before index · 3 × 2, After working · 6 × 4
Staged change	Before HEAD · 3 × 2, After index · 6 × 4

The test fails on the old worker.

Checks

fmt, clippy -D warnings, all workspace tests, and the README screenshot --check pass.

This branches from main and is independent of #93 (rename detection).

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CI failed on native (macos-15-intel) in tests::worktrees_window_prunes_missing_and_locks_with_a_reason. The cause is a timing problem in the test, not this change.

The test stopped waiting once the worktree list had loaded. The list can arrive after that frame's window has already been drawn, so on the slower runner the text it checked didn't show the Worktrees window yet. The same test passed on this runner in the two earlier runs.

00aa517 makes the listing and lock steps also wait for a frame that shows Missing and Locked. It passes three runs in a row locally, and Clippy is clean.

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