fix(changes): a huge line no longer cuts the diff short; preview pages up to 64 MB

A page that inlines a video as base64 has rows of megabytes. Its patch was read
at the 200 KB per-file cap, so the first such row used the whole budget and
every hunk after it was lost ("Diff cut short"). The patch is now read up to
16 M characters, rows over 4,000 characters are cut to 1,000 with an `elided`
count the diff shows, and only then is the cap applied. Hunk actions re-read
git's own diff by header and are unchanged.

The HTML preview refused a page over 10 MB and showed only the file icon; a
self-contained 18 MB slide deck now opens (limit 64 MB).

client/src/components/HtmlFrame.tsx

@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ import { FileText, Loader2 } from "lucide-react";
 import { artifactDocument, frameSandbox } from "../lib/artifactView";
 import { blobText, inlineHtml, type FetchFile } from "../lib/htmlInline";
 
-/** A page read by `fetchFile` is shown up to this size. */
-const HTML_MAX = 10 * 1024 * 1024;
+/** A page read by `fetchFile` is shown up to this size. A self-contained
+ *  page (a slide deck with its video and images inlined as base64) is easily
+ *  past 10 MB; the iframe renders far larger documents than this. */
+const HTML_MAX = 64 * 1024 * 1024;
 
 export function HtmlFrame({
   path,

client/src/components/lanes/LaneDiffView.tsx

@@ -179,6 +179,18 @@ export function langFor(filePath: string) {
 }
 
 /** Tokenized line text. `emph` marks the span that actually changed. */
+/** The tail of a row the server cut down (`LaneDiffLine.elided`). */
+function Elided({ n }: { n?: number }) {
+  const { t, i18n } = useTranslation("lanes");
+  if (!n) return null;
+  const size = new Intl.NumberFormat(i18n.language, { notation: "compact" }).format(n);
+  return (
+    <span className="ml-1 select-none rounded bg-surface-3 px-1 font-sans text-[10px] text-fg-muted">
+      {t("changes.lineElided", { size })}
+    </span>
+  );
+}
+
 function Code({ text, lang, emph }: { text: string; lang: string; emph?: [number, number] }) {
   if (emph) {
     const [from, to] = emph;
@@ -544,6 +556,7 @@ function UnifiedLine({
           {line.type === "add" ? "+" : line.type === "del" ? "-" : " "}
         </span>
         <Code text={line.text} lang={lang} emph={emph} />
+        <Elided n={line.elided} />
       </span>
       {bar && <HunkBar change={bar} />}
     </Row>
@@ -621,6 +634,7 @@ function SplitLine({
       />
       <span className="whitespace-pre px-1">
         {line ? <Code text={line.text} lang={lang} emph={e} /> : null}
+        {line ? <Elided n={line.elided} /> : null}
       </span>
       {bar && <HunkBar change={bar} />}
     </Row>

client/src/components/lanes/__tests__/LaneDiffView.test.tsx

@@ -609,3 +609,26 @@ describe("LaneDiffView — line comments", () => {
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("diff-comment-line-1")).toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+describe("LaneDiffView — a row the server cut down", () => {
+  const CUT: LaneChangeFile = {
+    ...FILE,
+    hunks: [
+      {
+        ...FILE.hunks[0]!,
+        lines: [
+          { type: "del", oldLine: 1, newLine: null, text: '<video src="AAAA', elided: 3_000_000 },
+          { type: "add", oldLine: null, newLine: 1, text: '<video src="BBBB', elided: 3_000_000 },
+        ],
+      },
+    ],
+  };
+
+  it("says how much of the row it hides, in both layouts", () => {
+    const { unmount } = render(<LaneDiffView file={CUT} layout="unified" />);
+    expect(screen.getAllByText(/3M more characters on this line/)).toHaveLength(2);
+    unmount();
+    render(<LaneDiffView file={CUT} layout="split" />);
+    expect(screen.getAllByText(/3M more characters on this line/)).toHaveLength(2);
+  });
+});

client/src/i18n/locales/en/lanes.json

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
   "changes.expandFile": "Expand {{path}}",
   "changes.fileGone": "That file no longer has changes in this range.",
   "changes.fileTruncated": "Diff cut short — open the file in an editor for the rest.",
+  "changes.lineElided": "… {{size}} more characters on this line",
   "changes.commentLine": "Comment on line {{n}} — pasted into this workspace's pane",
   "changes.commentOn": "Comment on {{at}} — pasted into the pane you used last; nothing is sent until you press Enter there",
   "changes.commentSend": "Paste into pane",

client/src/i18n/locales/vi/lanes.json

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
   "changes.expandFile": "Mở {{path}}",
   "changes.fileGone": "File này không còn thay đổi nào trong phạm vi đang xem.",
   "changes.fileTruncated": "Diff bị cắt bớt — mở file trong editor để xem phần còn lại.",
+  "changes.lineElided": "… còn {{size}} ký tự trên dòng này",
   "changes.commentLine": "Comment dòng {{n}} — dán vào pane của workspace này",
   "changes.commentOn": "Comment {{at}} — dán vào pane bạn dùng gần nhất; chưa gửi gì cho tới khi bạn nhấn Enter ở đó",
   "changes.commentSend": "Dán vào pane",

client/src/lib/types.ts

@@ -2974,6 +2974,9 @@ export interface LaneDiffLine {
   /** Line number on the right (after) side; null on a removed line. */
   newLine: number | null;
   text: string;
+  /** Characters cut off the end of a very long row (a base64 blob, a minified
+   *  bundle): `text` holds only its start. Absent on a whole row. */
+  elided?: number;
 }
 
 /** `GET /api/lanes/:id/git/blame` — Annotate: who last changed each line of

docs/API.md

@@ -817,6 +817,11 @@ that file.
 - Three caps guard the response: **300** files listed, **200 KB** of patch per
   file, **1 MB** of patch in a `full` read. A cap that bit sets `truncated` on
   the response and on the file it cut.
+- A row longer than **4,000** characters (an inlined base64 image or video, a
+  minified bundle) comes back cut to its first 1,000 with `elided: <characters
+  hidden>`, BEFORE the per-file cap is applied, so one huge line no longer eats
+  the hunks after it. Each file's raw patch is read up to 16 M characters; past
+  that it is still `truncated`.
 - Read-only, no same-origin guard. `available: false` (HTTP **200**) for a cwd
   git cannot read; `range=branch` compares against the workspace's base branch,
   else the repo's default branch (what `origin/HEAD` names, else `main`/`master`)

server/__tests__/git-diff-ops-hardening.test.js

@@ -473,6 +473,55 @@ describe("reads larger than the git() buffer report truncated, not missing", ()
   });
 });
 
+describe("a page with megabyte-long lines (inlined base64) keeps every hunk", () => {
+  const blob = (c) => c.repeat(3 * 1024 * 1024); // one 3 MB line
+
+  it("cuts the long rows down and still shows the hunks after them", async () => {
+    const body = (mid, end) =>
+      [
+        "<h1>title</h1>",
+        ...Array.from({ length: 40 }, (_, i) => `row ${i}`),
+        mid,
+        ...Array.from({ length: 40 }, (_, i) => `tail ${i}`),
+        end,
+        "",
+      ].join("\n");
+    write(LANE, "deck.html", body(`<video src="${blob("A")}">`, "<p>old end</p>"));
+    g(LANE, "add", "-A");
+    g(LANE, "commit", "-qm", "deck");
+    write(
+      LANE,
+      "deck.html",
+      body(`<video src="${blob("B")}">`, "<p>new end</p>").replace(
+        "<h1>title</h1>",
+        "<h1>new title</h1>"
+      )
+    );
+    const out = await collectChanges(LANE, { range: "work", file: "deck.html" });
+    const f = out.files[0];
+    assert.equal(f.truncated, undefined);
+    assert.equal(out.truncated, false);
+    const lines = f.hunks.flatMap((h) => h.lines);
+    const long = lines.filter((l) => l.elided);
+    assert.equal(long.length, 2);
+    for (const l of long) {
+      assert.ok(l.text.length < 2000);
+      assert.equal(l.text.length + l.elided, '<video src="'.length + 3 * 1024 * 1024 + 2);
+    }
+    // The change AFTER the 3 MB rows survives: the cap no longer eats it.
+    assert.ok(lines.some((l) => l.type === "add" && l.text === "<p>new end</p>"));
+    assert.ok(lines.some((l) => l.type === "add" && l.text === "<h1>new title</h1>"));
+  });
+
+  it("leaves ordinary rows whole", async () => {
+    write(LANE, "a.txt", "one\nTWO\n");
+    const out = await collectChanges(LANE, { range: "work", file: "a.txt" });
+    const lines = out.files[0].hunks.flatMap((h) => h.lines);
+    assert.ok(lines.every((l) => l.elided === undefined));
+    assert.ok(lines.some((l) => l.text === "TWO"));
+  });
+});
+
 describe("loop 2: secret file at any depth, symlinked .claude", () => {
   const KEY = '{"env":{"ANTHROPIC_API_KEY":"sk-deep"}}';
 

server/__tests__/git-diff-ops.test.js

@@ -203,18 +203,21 @@ describe("collectChanges — work range", () => {
     });
   });
 
-  it("still returns content when a huge file has no newline to cut on", async () => {
-    // A minified bundle is ONE line. Cutting the patch at the last newline
-    // inside the cap would land at index -1 here and hand back an empty
-    // patch — a file changed by a megabyte rendering as "no textual change".
+  it("still returns content when a huge file is one line", async () => {
+    // A minified bundle is ONE line. It used to be cut at the per-file cap
+    // (and, cut at the last newline, could come back empty — a file changed
+    // by a megabyte rendering as "no textual change"); now the row itself is
+    // cut down and says how much it hides, and nothing is truncated.
     const { MAX_FILE_BYTES } = require("../lib/git-diff");
     write(LANE, "min.js", `${"x".repeat(MAX_FILE_BYTES + 5000)}\n`);
     const out = await collectChanges(LANE, { range: "work", file: "min.js" });
     const entry = out.files[0];
-    assert.equal(entry.truncated, true);
-    assert.equal(out.truncated, true);
-    assert.ok(entry.hunks.length > 0, "a truncated patch still carries its hunk");
-    assert.ok(entry.hunks[0].lines[0].text.startsWith("xxx"));
+    assert.equal(entry.truncated, undefined);
+    assert.equal(out.truncated, false);
+    assert.ok(entry.hunks.length > 0, "the patch still carries its hunk");
+    const row = entry.hunks[0].lines.find((l) => l.type === "add");
+    assert.ok(row.text.startsWith("xxx"));
+    assert.equal(row.text.length + row.elided, MAX_FILE_BYTES + 5000);
   });
 
   it("reports a binary file without trying to diff it", async () => {

server/lib/git-diff.js

@@ -61,6 +61,19 @@ async function readCapped(dir, args, capChars) {
 const MAX_FILES = 300;
 /** Most patch bytes read for ONE file before its hunks are cut short. */
 const MAX_FILE_BYTES = 200_000;
+/** Characters of one file's raw patch read before its long lines are cut down
+ *  (`elideLongLines`) and `MAX_FILE_BYTES` applied. A page that embeds a video
+ *  or a font as base64 is a few lines of megabytes each: read at
+ *  `MAX_FILE_BYTES`, its first such line used the whole budget and every hunk
+ *  after it was lost. Past this the patch is still truncated. */
+const MAX_PATCH_READ_CHARS = 16 * 1024 * 1024;
+/** A diff row longer than this is shown cut down to `LONG_LINE_KEEP`
+ *  characters, with how many it hides (`elided` on the parsed line). */
+const LONG_LINE_CHARS = 4000;
+const LONG_LINE_KEEP = 1000;
+/** Ends a cut-down row in the raw patch: a private-use character, then the
+ *  count of characters hidden. `parseUnifiedDiff` turns it into `elided`. */
+const ELIDED_MARK = "\uE000";
 /** Most patch bytes across all files in a `full` (review-mode) response. */
 const MAX_TOTAL_BYTES = 1_000_000;
 /** An untracked file larger than this is reported without content. */
@@ -259,15 +272,23 @@ function parseUnifiedDiff(patch) {
     // row of its own and carries no line number.
     if (raw.startsWith("\\")) continue;
     const marker = raw[0];
-    const text = raw.slice(1);
+    let text = raw.slice(1);
+    // A row `elideLongLines` cut down: the text it kept, and how much it hid.
+    let elided = 0;
+    const cut = text.lastIndexOf(ELIDED_MARK);
+    if (cut >= 0 && /^\d+$/.test(text.slice(cut + 1))) {
+      elided = Number(text.slice(cut + 1));
+      text = text.slice(0, cut);
+    }
+    const extra = elided ? { elided } : {};
     if (marker === "+") {
-      current.lines.push({ type: "add", oldLine: null, newLine: newLine++, text });
+      current.lines.push({ type: "add", oldLine: null, newLine: newLine++, text, ...extra });
     } else if (marker === "-") {
-      current.lines.push({ type: "del", oldLine: oldLine++, newLine: null, text });
+      current.lines.push({ type: "del", oldLine: oldLine++, newLine: null, text, ...extra });
     } else if (marker === " ") {
       // An unchanged EMPTY line is " " — one space, no text. A truly empty
       // string is the tail of the final "\n", not a row.
-      current.lines.push({ type: "ctx", oldLine: oldLine++, newLine: newLine++, text });
+      current.lines.push({ type: "ctx", oldLine: oldLine++, newLine: newLine++, text, ...extra });
     }
   }
   return hunks;
@@ -532,7 +553,27 @@ async function patchFor(dir, { range, baseRef, sha, file, untracked, context })
       : range === "branch"
         ? ["diff", u, `${baseRef}...HEAD`, "--", file]
         : ["diff", u, "HEAD", "--", file];
-  return readCapped(dir, [...args, "--no-color", "--no-ext-diff"], MAX_FILE_BYTES).catch(() => "");
+  return readCapped(dir, [...args, "--no-color", "--no-ext-diff"], MAX_PATCH_READ_CHARS).catch(
+    () => ""
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * The patch with every row longer than `LONG_LINE_CHARS` cut down to its first
+ * `LONG_LINE_KEEP` characters plus `ELIDED_MARK` and the count it hides. Only
+ * what the panel SHOWS is cut: the hunk actions (`hunkPatch`, `selectionPatch`)
+ * re-read git's own diff and match hunks by header, which this never changes.
+ */
+function elideLongLines(patch) {
+  if (patch.length <= LONG_LINE_CHARS) return patch;
+  return patch
+    .split("\n")
+    .map((row) =>
+      row.length > LONG_LINE_CHARS && !row.startsWith("@@")
+        ? `${row.slice(0, LONG_LINE_KEEP + 1)}${ELIDED_MARK}${row.length - LONG_LINE_KEEP - 1}`
+        : row
+    )
+    .join("\n");
 }
 
 /**
@@ -648,7 +689,15 @@ async function collectChanges(
         untracked: entry.untracked,
         context: ctx,
       });
+      // A read that hit its own ceiling came back partial: still cut short,
+      // however small eliding its long rows makes it.
+      const partial = patch.length >= MAX_PATCH_READ_CHARS;
+      patch = elideLongLines(patch);
       const cap = Math.min(MAX_FILE_BYTES, budget);
+      if (partial) {
+        entry.truncated = true;
+        truncated = true;
+      }
       if (patch.length > cap) {
         // Cut on a line boundary so the last row is a whole line — but only
         // when that boundary is near the cap. A minified file is one enormous
@@ -1334,6 +1383,7 @@ async function plainTreeAll(dir) {
 }
 
 module.exports = {
+  elideLongLines,
   collectChanges,
   CONFLICT_CODES,
   contentSha,