fix(git-sync): set upstream tracking on push for new/empty repos [INS-2625]

[fiosman]

Addresses INS-2625. When linking a git sync project to a new empty repo, the repo is set up via isomorphic-git git.init() which does not set upstream tracking branch. When successfully pushing a new design document to the repo via the desktop app, then navigating to git cli, a native git pull fails with There is no tracking information for the current branch.

The fix is to set upstream tracking on the first successful push. It only happens if there is no remote tracking branch configured. This will fix scenarios where this happens in the future as well as existing scenarios where users linked a empty repo when creating a git sync project.

[github-actions]

✅ Circular References Report

Generated at: 2026-06-26T14:10:45.250Z
Status: ✅ NO CHANGE

Summary

Metric	Base (develop)	PR	Change
Total Circular References	9	9	0 (0.00%)

Click to view all circular references in PR (9)

insomnia-inso/src/db/models/types.ts -> insomnia-inso/src/db/types.ts
insomnia/src/main/prompt-bridge.ts -> insomnia/src/main/window-utils.ts -> insomnia/src/main/plugin-window.ts
insomnia/src/main/window-utils.ts -> insomnia/src/main/plugin-window.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/index.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/collection.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/response.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia/src/common/render.ts
insomnia/src/ui/components/settings/import-export.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/modals/export-requests-modal.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/tabs/tab-list.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/tabs/tab.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/templating/tag-editor-arg-sub-form.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/templating/external-vault/external-vault-form.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/viewers/response-viewer.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/viewers/response-multipart-viewer.tsx

Click to view all circular references in base branch (9)

insomnia-inso/src/db/models/types.ts -> insomnia-inso/src/db/types.ts
insomnia/src/main/prompt-bridge.ts -> insomnia/src/main/window-utils.ts -> insomnia/src/main/plugin-window.ts
insomnia/src/main/window-utils.ts -> insomnia/src/main/plugin-window.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/index.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/collection.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/response.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia/src/common/render.ts
insomnia/src/ui/components/settings/import-export.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/modals/export-requests-modal.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/tabs/tab-list.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/tabs/tab.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/templating/tag-editor-arg-sub-form.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/templating/external-vault/external-vault-form.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/viewers/response-viewer.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/viewers/response-multipart-viewer.tsx

Analysis

✅ No Change: This PR does not introduce or remove any circular references.

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR fixes a Git sync interoperability issue where repositories initialized via isomorphic-git (e.g., when linking to an empty remote) can lack upstream tracking configuration, causing native Git CLI operations like git pull to fail due to missing tracking info.

Changes:

• After a successful push, attempts to configure upstream tracking for the current branch when tracking is missing.
• Adds unit tests to validate upstream tracking config is created on first successful push and not overwritten when a non-origin upstream is present.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
packages/insomnia/src/sync/git/git-vcs.ts	Adds post-push logic to set branch.<name>.remote/merge when upstream tracking is missing.
packages/insomnia/src/sync/git/tests/git-vcs.test.ts	Adds push-related tests for upstream tracking setup and non-clobbering behavior.

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