diff --git a/web/src/components/PromiseForm.vue b/web/src/components/PromiseForm.vue
index f7bb8ec..f706a68 100644
--- a/web/src/components/PromiseForm.vue
+++ b/web/src/components/PromiseForm.vue
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <template lang="slm">
-form @submit.prevent="submit" enctype="multipart/form-data"
+form @submit.prevent="submit" enctype="multipart/form-data" ref="form_ref"
 	/ using an invisible fieldset wrapper to group disable attribute for all children (does not work on <form> directly)
 	fieldset.low-key :disabled="disabled || loading" :class="$attrs.class"
 		legend
@@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ export default
 	data: =>
 		loading: false
 	methods:
+		request_submit: ->
+			@$refs.form_ref.requestSubmit()
 		submit: (event) ->
+			if not event
+				throw new Error("Cannot call `submit` on PromiseForm directly. Use `request_submit` instead.")
 			@loading = true
 			@$emit 'submit', event
 
diff --git a/web/src/views/GitInput.coffee b/web/src/views/GitInput.coffee
index 5eb0654..aa15ced 100644
--- a/web/src/views/GitInput.coffee
+++ b/web/src/views/GitInput.coffee
@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ export default defineComponent
 					throw e
 				else
 					console.warn e
+				if props.git_action.ignore_errors
+					emit 'success'
 				return
 			finally
 				emit 'executed'
@@ -133,12 +135,15 @@ export default defineComponent
 				data.value = result
 			emit 'success', result
 
-		do =>
+		# typing doesn't work https://github.com/vuejs/composition-api/issues/402
+		### @type {Ref<InstanceType<import('../components/PromiseForm.vue')>|null>} ###
+		# so we need the ts-ignore below. TODO
+		ref_form = ref null
+		onMounted =>
 			await get_saved()
 			if props.git_action.immediate
-				await execute()
-				if props.git_action.ignore_errors
-					emit 'success'
+				# @ts-ignore
+				await ref_form.value?.request_submit()
 		
 		{
 			command
@@ -153,4 +158,5 @@ export default defineComponent
 			has_unsaved_changes
 			save
 			params_input_refs
+			ref_form
 		}
diff --git a/web/src/views/GitInput.vue b/web/src/views/GitInput.vue
index caf0c5f..b871a4d 100644
--- a/web/src/views/GitInput.vue
+++ b/web/src/views/GitInput.vue
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <template lang="slm">
 div.col.gap-10
-	promise-form.col.gap-5 :action="execute"
+	promise-form.col.gap-5 :action="execute" ref="ref_form"
 		.row.align-center.gap-10
 			code git 
 			input.command.flex-1 v-model="command"
diff --git a/web/src/vue-shims.d.ts b/web/src/vue-shims.d.ts
index 9923fb6..2afba02 100644
--- a/web/src/vue-shims.d.ts
+++ b/web/src/vue-shims.d.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-declare module '*.vue' {
-	import { DefineComponent } from 'vue';
-	const component: DefineComponent<{}, {}, any>;
-	export default component;
-}
+// https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/blob/dev/packages/%40vue/cli-plugin-typescript/generator/template/src/shims-vue.d.ts
+declare module "*.vue" {
+	import Vue from "vue";
+	export default Vue;
+}
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