Manifest: Your Git State at a Glance

The Manifest panel is a dockable tree that lays out the project’s entire git world in one place — the ship’s manifest. Open it with the tree icon in the dock, or run manifest: Toggle Focus from the command palette.

Everything in the panel reads from state PaddleBoard already tracks in the background, so it renders instantly and never runs git commands on the UI thread.

The five sections

Each section is a collapsible header with a count; click the header (or its disclosure arrow) to fold it away.

Repositories

Every repository in the workspace — multi-repo projects and worktree-backed workspaces included — each flying a sailboat. The active repository is highlighted with a check; click any other repo to make it active. The Branches, Commits, and Stashes sections below always describe the active repository, so this row doubles as the panel’s scope switch.

Branches

The active repo’s local and remote branches, sorted current-branch-first, then local before remote, then by recency. Branches with an upstream show ahead/behind counts (↑2 ↓1) so you can see what needs a push or pull without running anything.

Commits

The current branch’s recent history — up to 250 commits. Subjects stream in as commit metadata loads (rows briefly show Loading… on first open). Click any commit to open its full diff in a commit view tab.

For history beyond the overview — the full graph, searching, other branches — use the Git Graph (the Git panel’s History tab); Manifest deliberately stays a summary.

Stashes

Every stash@{n} with its message. Click a stash to open it in the stash view, which shows its diff and offers Apply, Pop, and Drop.

Contributors

Everyone who has committed to the repository, with their commit count, busiest first. Computed locally with git shortlog when the panel loads and refreshed when the branch head changes.

Note: in a collaboration session on a remote project, the Contributors section is empty — the query currently runs only against local repositories.

Tips

• The panel docks left by default; drag it (or use the dock context menu) to move it right.
• Repo switching from the Repositories section is the same operation as the Git panel’s repository selector — the two stay in sync.