Merge a workspace listing's overlay before paginating it

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Stacked on #901, which is stacked on #900. Review those first; this diff is only the third commit.

The problem

list_directory_with_depth paginated the commit tree's entries and then merged the workspace overlay into whichever page it had just cut. Two consequences:

• Every staged addition was appended to every page.
• total_entries and total_pages counted none of them, so a client was told the listing was shorter than it is.

What changed

Run the overlay against the whole listing, sort the merged set with the request's SortOpts, then paginate. Additions land in sorted position among the committed entries instead of at the end of whatever page came back.

sort_entries and the new sort_workspace_entries share compare_entries, so both sides of the merge order the same way.

One behavior change worth a look

compare_entries breaks a tie on date with the filename. Sorting by date was not a total order before, and pagination needs one: two entries that compare equal must not swap places between the requests for page 1 and page 2, or one entry shows up twice while another is skipped.

This was always latent (every file added in a single commit shares that commit's timestamp), but the overlay makes it reachable: staged additions carry no commit to be dated by, so they all tie with each other, and the order they arrive in comes from a hash map. For a listing with no workspace, the tiebreak only refines what was previously arbitrary within a timestamp group.

Tests

Ten entries at the root, committed and staged alternating by name, paged four at a time:

• total_entries is 10 and total_pages is 3, counting the additions.
• Concatenating the three pages yields each entry exactly once, in interleaved sort order.
• The same walk with sort_by=date, where every staged entry ties, still covers the listing exactly once.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Workspace entries are now merged with committed entries before pagination.
  • Staged additions appear in total counts and are correctly distributed across pages.
  • Entry ordering is consistent for name and date sorting, with deterministic filename tie-breakers.

Walkthrough

Workspace entries are merged with repository entries before sorting and pagination. Shared ordering supports name and date sorting, with filename tie-breaking. A timestamp accessor supports date comparisons. Tests validate totals, ordering, pagination, and duplicate-free results.

Changes

Workspace entry listing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Commit timestamp accessor crates/liboxen/src/view/entries.rs	EMetadataEntry::latest_commit_timestamp returns the latest commit timestamp for either metadata variant.
Merged listing sorting and pagination crates/liboxen/src/core/v_latest/entries.rs	Workspace and repository entries are merged before pagination. Shared sorting preserves directory-first ordering and uses filenames as date-sort tie-breakers.
Merged listing pagination tests crates/liboxen/src/repositories/entries.rs	The workspace directory test validates totals, page counts, sorted interleaving, and duplicate-free results for name and date sorting.

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

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkspaceEntries
  participant SharedComparator
  participant MergedEntryList
  participant Pagination
  WorkspaceEntries->>SharedComparator: compare repository and workspace entries
  SharedComparator->>MergedEntryList: apply name or date ordering
  MergedEntryList->>Pagination: provide fully merged listing
  Pagination-->>WorkspaceEntries: return page and total counts

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a3aa1

This change corrects workspace listing pagination and ordering, but a regression test can fail during setup before validating its behavior. Fix the test setup before merge so the replacement scenario remains covered.

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Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the pagination defect, the overlay merge fix, deterministic sorting, and the added tests.

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1512-1512: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the existing worktree node before changing its type.

create_dir_all returns without changing an existing file, so staging to_dir/in.txt fails. write_to_path cannot create a file where to_file is an existing directory. Remove to_dir first and remove to_file recursively before staging. Otherwise, the test returns an error before its assertions run.

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In `@crates/liboxen/src/repositories/entries.rs` at line 1512, Before staging the
type-changing worktree entries, remove the existing nodes recursively: update
the logic around util::fs::create_dir_all at
crates/liboxen/src/repositories/entries.rs lines 1512-1512 to remove to_dir
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In `@crates/liboxen/src/repositories/entries.rs`:
- Line 1512: Before staging the type-changing worktree entries, remove the
existing nodes recursively: update the logic around util::fs::create_dir_all at
crates/liboxen/src/repositories/entries.rs lines 1512-1512 to remove to_dir
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