From 7f494f0293fbdd4448d71034a642b2a5ab35fe9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: weby-homelab <rekvizitor.ua@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 13:27:38 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix(statusline): fall back to local git query when vcs.branch
 is empty

---
 examples/statusline/statusline.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/examples/statusline/statusline.sh b/examples/statusline/statusline.sh
index 390fea1ee..6026ce464 100755
--- a/examples/statusline/statusline.sh
+++ b/examples/statusline/statusline.sh
@@ -72,6 +72,20 @@ case "$STATE" in
 esac
 
 # ─── VCS Branch ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Fallback to local git query if VCS_BRANCH is not provided in the JSON payload
+if [ -z "$VCS_BRANCH" ]; then
+  if git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree &>/dev/null; then
+    VCS_BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+    if [ -n "$VCS_BRANCH" ]; then
+      if git status --porcelain 2>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
+        VCS_DIRTY="true"
+      else
+        VCS_DIRTY="false"
+      fi
+    fi
+  fi
+fi
+
 V=""
 if [ -n "$VCS_BRANCH" ]; then
   if [ "$VCS_DIRTY" = "true" ]; then