diff --git a/backend/ee-repo-ref.txt b/backend/ee-repo-ref.txt
index 065d870b24..59bbf7b5f3 100644
--- a/backend/ee-repo-ref.txt
+++ b/backend/ee-repo-ref.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-39791c7861bb00c21045536df5c173856313dad5
+889d277d59d818b9ebe0a936888f84cb112e7245
diff --git a/backend/src/monitor.rs b/backend/src/monitor.rs
index 4320203faf..2e695a5463 100644
--- a/backend/src/monitor.rs
+++ b/backend/src/monitor.rs
@@ -4683,8 +4683,11 @@ async fn maintain_git_credentials_inner(db: &Pool<Postgres>) -> error::Result<()
     // settings row survives, and rotating a token for one would be pure damage.
     // Least-recently-checked first, so a pass that runs out of budget resumes
     // where it stopped instead of re-checking the same head of the list forever.
-    // A repository with no recorded credential sorts first and costs only a
-    // database round trip: it has no token to introspect.
+    // A repository with no recorded credential sorts first and stays there,
+    // which is deliberate: it has no token to introspect, so it costs a few
+    // database queries and nothing else. Tens of thousands of them would have to
+    // exist in one instance before they consumed the pass budget ahead of a
+    // repository that does have a token.
     let rows = sqlx::query!(
         r#"SELECT ws.workspace_id, ws.git_sync
            FROM workspace_settings ws
diff --git a/backend/windmill-worker/src/result_processor.rs b/backend/windmill-worker/src/result_processor.rs
index 82111a7165..77c76a53a3 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-worker/src/result_processor.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-worker/src/result_processor.rs
@@ -824,6 +824,11 @@ struct GitSyncCheck {
     /// carry one; the resource path on the job is what is used now.
     #[serde(default)]
     repo_url: Option<String>,
+    /// Host and path of the repository the check was created on, with no
+    /// credential in it. The resource path is mutable, so this is what proves
+    /// the resource still points where the check lives.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    repo: Option<String>,
     #[serde(default)]
     pr_number: Option<i64>,
     #[serde(default)]
@@ -1406,6 +1411,16 @@ async fn maybe_post_git_sync_check(
             return;
         }
     };
+    // A resource repointed while the diff was running would otherwise close a
+    // check, or post a preview, on a repository that has nothing to do with it.
+    if check.repo.is_some()
+        && windmill_common::git_sync_ee::repo_identity(&repo_url) != check.repo
+    {
+        tracing::warn!(
+            "git sync-check: the repository moved since the check was created; leaving it alone"
+        );
+        return;
+    }
     // "In sync" on a PR that visibly changes files reads as a bug when those
     // files are outside the repo's sync filters — say what the scope is.
     let scope_note = if !is_deploy && success {