Prebuild status indicator on "Branches" can be misleading

[geropl]

Situation: Th status indicator for the branch says "Ready" (because a prebuild for a former commit exists), but the current HEAD has none (yet). Because the branch details contain a commit (short) hash I as a user assume the commit and prebuild are connected (and wonder why I can a workspace build on the wrong commit), while they aren't.

Possible solutions:

• shows status indicator for latest commit only (incl. none if for whatever reasons there is no prebuild for the latest commit, yet)
• remove commit details, and make the view about branches only
• somehow make transparent that here possibly is are a lot of prebuilds, one for each commit (no idea how to display that)

[JanKoehnlein]

@gtsiolis What do you think?

[gtsiolis]

Thanks @geropl! Going with the first proposal to show status indicator for latest commit only sounds a good step forward.

FWIW, We do have design specs most prebuild status phases including PENDING, RUNNING, etc. and I can see the RUNNING state popping up when a new prebuild is triggered.

❓ question: Are we not surfacing a prebuild phase here?

Branches with prebuilds status

This will be also needed in the branches details page being added in #5903.

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[laushinka]

@geropl I tested this and couldn't reproduce it. I committed to both a new and an existing branch, and the prebuild statuses were consistent in both the "Branches" and "Prebuilds" tabs. I can show you sync or create a Loom, to make sure I understand the supposed bug.

[geropl]

@laushinka The problem here is that on the "Branches" view, the "Prebuild" column is filled if we have any prebuild for the respective branch. But the "Commit" column always shows the latest commit.

Not sure how to reproduce, though. But should be fairly straight forward to find in the code. Happy to sync after the meeting! 👍