NeilandOrca ad13532ab1 Garbage-collect stale worktreeMeta for externally-deleted worktrees (#7107)
* Garbage-collect stale worktreeMeta for externally-deleted worktrees at load

worktreeMeta rows are minted for every worktree Orca ever discovers but
were only deleted by Orca-initiated removal flows. Worktrees deleted
outside Orca (git worktree remove, rm -rf, agent scripts) purge renderer
session state without ever removing the meta, so the map grew
monotonically - 318 of 503 entries (63%, ~110KB) on the reference
machine pointed at long-deleted paths. These entries never reach the
renderer; they only cost disk bytes, parse time, and memory.

GC at load is deliberately narrow: local-host entries only (SSH/runtime
repos, remote meta.hostId, and WSL UNC paths are skipped - a local
existsSync would falsely condemn remote paths), only when the checkout
path no longer exists, only after a 30-day idle grace (preserving
pushTarget cleanup for recently-vanished worktrees and quick
recreations), and never when the entry lacks timestamps to prove
idleness. Lineage rows cascade like removeWorktreeMeta.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* Fix GC false positives: folder-workspace instances, WSL paths on Windows

From adversarial review of the GC commit:
- Folder-project workspace instances are keyed repoId::path::workspace:
  <uuid>; splitting on the first :: made the existence probe test a
  path-with-suffix that never exists, deleting idle folder workspaces -
  whose meta IS the workspace record - and cascading into terminal-
  history deletion. Instance keys are now skipped entirely.
- On Windows, WSL linked worktrees carry Linux-style paths from git
  porcelain that a Windows existsSync cannot probe; skip non-Windows
  paths on win32.
- Idle-grace check now runs before existsSync (skips the stat fan-out
  for active entries and shrinks the slow-NFS startup tail), and a
  null worktreeMeta map in the file is normalized instead of throwing
  outside the parse guard.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

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