Brennan Benson 0b6f60ac3b fix(worktrees): a listing that predates a create can no longer retire the new workspace (#22311)
* fix(worktrees): a listing that predates a create can no longer retire the new workspace

Creating a workspace while another one was being deleted could land the user on the
empty Landing screen with the new workspace's Claude launch cancelled. A worktree
listing whose scan began before the create finished (the prepared checkout is hidden
from listings while it is still locked) was applied after the create returned, and the
renderer read the new worktree's absence from that authoritative listing as a deletion:
it purged the workspace's tabs, tombstoned the pending structured launch (so the host
session was retired the moment it published) and cleared the active selection.

Renderer: each provider invocation records the local create sequence when it begins
(shared by every caller that coalesces onto it). The merge no longer drops or retires a
worktree this client finished creating after that point, and the change-event diff
purge defers to what the merge actually dropped. Hydrated rows keep being reaped.

Host: a scan a worktree mutation overtook is published as non-authoritative instead of
authoritative, and the create paths invalidate scans as soon as the new worktree is
listable rather than only at the end of the create.

* fix(worktrees): an overtaken scan re-derives the catalog, and the create fence rides every listing

A scan a worktree mutation overtook was published as non-authoritative with a
failure reason, which lit the sidebar's scan-failed indicator, hid external
worktree cards and emptied the visibility dialog after a routine create/delete
overlap, and its early return skipped the abort, currency and dual-owner guards
every other branch honours. The listing now re-scans a bounded number of times
instead (the invalidation already dropped the cache, so it scans afresh or joins
a sibling's scan) and past the bound answers non-authoritative through the same
guard chain, with no failure reason.

The renderer's create-sequence inception is now captured where the provider
invocation starts and released only when it settles, so a waiter released early
cannot reset it for a later joiner, and the direct-SSH scheduler's refresh --
the only listing on hosts with no scan cache -- now carries it too. A re-created
worktree id is re-inserted at the back of the create-record eviction order so
the bound holds.

* fix(worktrees): the host re-runs a scan a worktree change overtook, for cached and SSH listings alike; the renderer create fence is removed

* fix(worktrees): the runtime listing re-runs a scan a worktree change overtook, and a headless host bumps the generation it witnesses

* test(runtime): the change-invalidation suite lists through the public runtime method instead of casting to a protected one

* fix(runtime): the runtime's own worktree change event bumps the scan generation its listing witnesses

A headless host has no window notifier, so a delete (and every other change the runtime announces) never moved the generation the runtime listing re-runs against; a listing the delete overtook published the removed row as authoritative until the next refresh. The bump now rides the runtime's change event, ahead of the send, as the desktop notifier already does.

* fix(worktrees): a listing that spends its re-scan bound logs the churn on the host

Past the bound the listing answered without a trace, so continuous create/delete churn could not be diagnosed from a host log. One warning names the repo and the number of overtaken scans; a caller that withdrew stays silent.
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