feat: allow using typed branch name directly

[thmsobrmlr]

Problem

the branch dropdown is slow as **** for large repos

Changes

allows using a typed/pasted branch name through a check button, or by pressing enter

How did you test this?

tried locally

[thmsobrmlr]

• feat: allow using typed branch name directly #2195 👈 (View in Graphite)
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[greptile-apps]

Prompt To Fix All With AI

Fix the following 1 code review issue. Work through them one at a time, proposing concise fixes.

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### Issue 1 of 1
apps/code/src/renderer/features/git-interaction/components/BranchSelector.tsx:251-263
**Enter key bypasses highlighted combobox item**

Because `onKeyDownCapture` intercepts Enter and calls `stopPropagation` whenever `canUseInputBranch` is true, the combobox's own keyboard-selection logic is never reached. If a user types a partial name (e.g. `feat`), uses the arrow keys to highlight `feat/my-specific-branch`, and presses Enter, they will check out `feat` (the raw typed text) instead of the highlighted branch. This silently breaks keyboard-driven selection whenever the typed text differs from the highlighted item.

A common fix is to inspect whether any list item currently has the aria-selected / active-descendant focus — or, simpler, only intercept Enter when there are zero filtered list items that exactly match the trimmed input (i.e. the typed name doesn't resolve to anything in the list), so normal selection still wins when an item is highlighted.

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