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What changes

  • detects when every source and the destination are under distinct GVFS mount roots
  • labels those operations as Copying between remote hosts or Moving between remote hosts
  • keeps mixed local/remote batches and same-mount operations under generic progress wording
  • keeps the existing backend, cancellation, partial-file cleanup, and undo behavior unchanged

Why

Remote-to-remote transfers already use Flea's normal backend through their GVFS paths, but the progress line presented them as ordinary local work. The explicit label makes the network path and its likely latency clear without adding a second transfer implementation.

Review fixes

  • require distinct remote roots before applying the remote-to-remote label
  • clear pending transfer classification when a transfer is refused before it starts
  • cover both copy and move wording
  • fail the shell integration test if the move never completes

Verification

  • ./tests/run-all.sh — 10 suites, 0 failed
  • ./tests/js.sh — 1,173 checks, 0 failed
  • ./tests/ops.sh — synthetic SFTP-to-SMB copy and move, including source retention/removal
  • mixed local/remote and same-mount batches are not mislabeled
  • existing failure, no-clobber, cancellation, and undo tests remain green
  • ./tools/flea-qmllint-gate — 0 regressions
  • ./tools/flea-file-budget
  • git diff --check

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  • New Features

    • Added support for identifying transfers between two remote GVFS mounts as remote-to-remote operations.
    • Remote-to-remote copy and move progress now shows the transfer direction, item count, and filename.
    • Transfers between files on the same remote mount are recognized separately.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented failed transfers from leaving stale transfer status that could affect subsequent operations.
    • Improved handling of mixed local and remote file selections.

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The change detects GVFS mount roots, classifies transfer types, carries the classification through QML and transfer state, formats remote-to-remote progress messages, and adds JavaScript and shell coverage.

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Remote transfer support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remote path and transfer classification
ui/js/Remote.js, tests/js/remote.js, tests/js/harness.qml
Adds GVFS mount-root detection and transfer classification. Tests cover mixed batches, same-mount transfers, network actions, MAC validation, and SSH arguments.
Remote transfer state and progress
ui/js/Ops.js, ui/js/Transfer.js, ui/Pane.qml, ui/PaneWire.qml, tests/js/ops.js
Carries the transfer kind from paste operations into transfer state and snapshots. Uses remote-specific progress prefixes and clears stale pending state.
GVFS transfer validation and documentation
tests/ops.sh, README.md
Tests copy and move operations between synthetic GVFS mount roots. Documents the remote-to-remote backend behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e958a

Remote-host progress wording now applies only to transfers between distinct GVFS mount roots, while same-mount and mixed transfers retain their existing wording. No current merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: thisisgm

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OpsPaste as Ops.paste
  participant Remote as Remote.transferKind
  participant Pane
  participant PaneWire as PaneWire.onTransferStarted
  participant Transfer
  participant OpsProgress as Ops.progressLine
  OpsPaste->>Remote: classify source paths and destination
  Remote-->>OpsPaste: return transfer kind
  OpsPaste->>Pane: store pendingTransferKind
  PaneWire->>Transfer: pass transfer kind
  Transfer->>OpsProgress: preserve transfer kind
  OpsProgress-->>PaneWire: render remote-to-remote progress text
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tests/js/ops.js (1)

22-24: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for remote-to-remote moves.

This test covers only moving: false. Ops.progressLine() has a separate moving: true path and must produce "Moving between remote hosts 1 of 2, photo.heic". Add that assertion to detect regressions in remote move wording.

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In `@tests/js/ops.js` around lines 22 - 24, Add a second assertion in the existing
remote-to-remote progress test for Ops.progressLine with moving: true, keeping
the same transfer metadata and expecting “Moving between remote hosts 1 of 2,
photo.heic”; preserve the existing moving: false assertion.
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Inline comments:
In `@tests/ops.sh`:
- Line 157: Update the polling loop around seen and transferdone to set fail=1
after the retry limit when fewer than two completion events have been observed,
while preserving the existing early break once the count reaches two.

In `@ui/js/Ops.js`:
- Line 192: Update paste() so pane.pendingTransferKind does not classify
transfers within the same GVFS mount root as remote-to-remote. Compare the
source and destination mount roots before or within Remote.transferKind(),
return the appropriate same-root transfer kind, and add coverage for same-root
remote transfers while preserving distinct-root remote-to-remote behavior.

In `@ui/js/Remote.js`:
- Line 12: Update the classification logic around isRemotePath in Remote.js to
derive the GVFS mount root for every source and for the destination. Return
"remote-to-remote" only when all sources are remote and each source root differs
from the destination root; otherwise preserve the appropriate mixed/local
classification. Add regression cases covering mixed local/GVFS selections and
source and destination paths within the same GVFS mount.

In `@ui/PaneWire.qml`:
- Around line 149-150: Clear pane.pendingTransferKind when a pre-start transfer
error is received, including errors emitted by Backend.send() before
transferstarted; ensure later non-paste transfers cannot reuse the stale kind
while preserving the normal assignment and transfer-start flow in Ops.started.

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In `@tests/js/ops.js`:
- Around line 22-24: Add a second assertion in the existing remote-to-remote
progress test for Ops.progressLine with moving: true, keeping the same transfer
metadata and expecting “Moving between remote hosts 1 of 2, photo.heic”;
preserve the existing moving: false assertion.

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pane.message("There is nothing to paste; y copies and x cuts.", false)
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pane.pendingTransferKind = Remote.transferKind(clip.paths, pane.path)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not label same-root transfers as remote-to-remote.

Remote.transferKind() returns "remote-to-remote" when the destination and any source are remote. paste() stores that result at Line 192. A transfer within one GVFS mount root can therefore display "between remote hosts" even though both paths use the same remote host. Compare the source and destination GVFS mount roots before returning this kind, and add a same-root test.

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In `@ui/js/Ops.js` at line 192, Update paste() so pane.pendingTransferKind does
not classify transfers within the same GVFS mount root as remote-to-remote.
Compare the source and destination mount roots before or within
Remote.transferKind(), return the appropriate same-root transfer kind, and add
coverage for same-root remote transfers while preserving distinct-root
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26-29: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve kind in Transfer.sampled(). PaneWire.qml passes the classification to Ops.started(), but Transfer.sampled() omits t.kind. Subsequent Ops.progressLine() calls therefore use generic wording instead of the remote-to-remote prefix. Preserve kind and add a test for a sampled remote-to-remote transfer.

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In `@ui/js/Ops.js` around lines 26 - 29, Update Transfer.sampled() to carry t.kind
into the sampled transfer object passed to Ops.progressLine(), preserving
remote-to-remote classification and wording. Add a test covering a sampled
remote-to-remote transfer.
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- Around line 26-29: Update Transfer.sampled() to carry t.kind into the sampled
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Detect copies and moves whose source and destination are separate GVFS mounts, label them explicitly, and prove they retain the existing backend's copy, move, and undo semantics.

LR-T: ./tests/run-all.sh (10 suites, 0 failed); ./tests/ops.sh; ./tools/flea-qmllint-gate; ./tools/flea-file-budget

LR-D: remote transfers already worked but were indistinguishable from local operations in progress feedback

LR-K: ui/js/Remote.js; ui/js/Ops.js; tests/ops.sh
Compare GVFS mount roots and require every source to be remote and different from the destination before saying a batch crosses remote hosts.

LR-T: ./tests/js.sh (1,171 checks, 0 failed); ./tests/ops.sh

LR-D: mixed batches and same-mount copies were described too broadly

LR-K: ui/js/Remote.js; tests/js/remote.js
Reset a pending remote kind when the backend refuses a transfer before transferstarted, fail the backend integration test when the remote move never finishes, and cover move wording.

LR-T: ./tests/js.sh (1,173 checks, 0 failed); ./tests/ops.sh; ./tools/flea-qmllint-gate; ./tools/flea-file-budget

LR-D: a pre-start error could leak remote wording into the next transfer

LR-K: ui/PaneWire.qml; ui/js/Ops.js; tests/ops.sh
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Rebased onto current main — this had gone stale behind 479 commits and was conflicting. Thanks for your patience on it.

Three things needed adapting rather than just replaying, so flagging them rather than letting them pass silently:

  • tests/js/harness.qml — the harness moved to a suites array since I opened this. The remote suite is now registered as ["remote", RemoteSuite] alongside the others instead of the old RemoteSuite.run(check) call.
  • README.md — the section I originally edited has been rewritten. The sentence now hangs off the current File operations bullet instead, saying the same thing in your wording.
  • ui/PaneWire.qml — a genuine overlap: main now clears pane.pendingMenu on a failed listing, and this branch clears a refused transfer's classification at the same point. They do different jobs, so I kept both rather than picking one.

tools/flea-qmllint-gate reports 0 regressions. tools/flea-file-budget exits clean; it flags ui/PaneWire.qml as over the soft 250-line budget, but it was already 373 lines on main before these 4 lines.

I couldn't run tests/ops.sh — it needs a cargo build I don't have set up here — so that one is worth running on your side.

The classification survived `Ops.started` and was gone by the first progress
update, which is the whole feature failing in the ordinary case.

`Transfer.sampled` and `Transfer.itemDone` rebuild the transfer field by field
rather than copying it, so a field they do not name is dropped. `kind` was not
named. The wire calls `sampled` on every byte sample, so a transfer started as
remote-to-remote reverted to "Copying 1 of 2" the moment bytes began arriving —
the only case where the label is visible for more than an instant.

Both now carry `kind`, and the comment above them says why every field has to
be restated, so the next field added is not lost the same way.

Four checks added to tests/js/ops.js: a sampled remote copy, its item line, a
sampled remote move, and a local transfer still worded plainly. Verified they
catch it by reverting the fix and watching exactly the three expected failures
before restoring it.

Found by CodeRabbit on the PR, confirmed against the code rather than taken on
faith. The suite is 59 checks in ops, 1852 across tests/js.sh, 0 failed;
flea-qmllint-gate reports 0 regressions.
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Good catch from the bot, and it was a real one — pushed in e958a6d.

Transfer.sampled() dropping kind was the whole feature failing in the ordinary case. The classification survived Ops.started and was gone by the first progress update. sampled and itemDone rebuild the transfer field by field rather than copying it, so a field they do not name is dropped, and kind was not named. The wire calls sampled on every byte sample, so a transfer that started as remote-to-remote reverted to "Copying 1 of 2" the instant bytes began arriving — which is the only time the label is on screen long enough to read.

Both carry kind now, and the comment above them says why every field has to be restated, so the next field added does not go the same way.

I verified the new tests actually catch it rather than just passing: reverting the one-field fix produces exactly three failures, all of them the generic wording.

FAIL a sample keeps the transfer remote-to-remote: got "Copying 1 of 2, photo.heic"
FAIL and so does the item line that ends it: got "Copying 1 of 2, photo.heic"
FAIL a sampled remote move keeps its verb too: got "Moving 1 of 2, photo.heic"

On the moving: true coverage — that one is already there, as "a remote-to-remote move uses the matching verb". I added a sampled version of it anyway, since that is the path that was actually broken, plus a local transfer to prove the plain wording still works.

59 checks in ops, 1852 across tests/js.sh, 0 failed. tools/flea-qmllint-gate reports 0 regressions.

Still could not run tests/ops.sh here — it needs a cargo build I do not have set up — so that one is worth a run on your side.

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