Keep folds open when staging about neogit

[RianFuro]

Yeah that's part of the problem. Another challenge we need to solve is that even if we only selectively redrawing the buffer, we still need to potentially update/replace the diffs inside the folds without breaking the fold itself. Well, or restoring the fold status after a redraw i guess.
I'd like to avoid manually updating the buffer to match the operation result, so we'd need some logic to calculate a delta from the new status (after a operation or reload) against the current one and then redrawing parts of the buffer based on that delta. Think shadow dom handling, basically.

I definitely feel the frustration just as much though 😅 Going to have a look at that soon-ish

[akinsho]

Just wanted to bump this issue since it's a little old now and this is a daily frustration for me as a new neogit user. If someone wants to point out what would be needed to fix this I can have a look when I get the time/I'm tipped over the edge by my frustration. Alternatively I can wait for a fix if it's better done by someone with know how about the code base

[TimUntersberger]

This probably is because we redraw the whole buffer after modifying the status.\

@RianFuro What do you think?

[akinsho]

This might be a red herring and I apologise if it is I haven't read through all the code myself, but I think https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim uses nvim extmarks to keep track of items and update each specifically in it's UI as plugins are being updated in parallel, the code is in its display.lua module. That might be a useful insight for what you're describing

[hkupty]

I think using extmark is the way to go, but from what I remember from the code, it might need a refactoring on how things are presented.

I guess the idea would be to keep track of the state between redraws and take in consideration the previously set fold level on the first pass directly.

[hkupty]

Feels like this has been sorted out. I'm fixing it. Thanks!