From b1db21e10adc396a662259d0116c05db1092abfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: extrawurst <776816+extrawurst@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:38:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix panic when opening submodule (#2896)

this is caused by us dropping the git notify channel and creating a new one when opening the submodule.

closes #2895
---
 CHANGELOG.md           | 1 +
 asyncgit/src/status.rs | 7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7abf7ab6..a7c6ee12 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 * use [tombi](https://github.com/tombi-toml/tombi) for all toml file formatting
 
 ### Fixes
+* crash when opening submodule ([#2895](https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui/issues/2895))
 * when staging the last file in a directory, the first item after the directory is no longer skipped [[@Tillerino](https://github.com/Tillerino)] ([#2748](https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui/issues/2748))
 
 ## [0.28.1] - 2026-03-21
diff --git a/asyncgit/src/status.rs b/asyncgit/src/status.rs
index 2516e8bd..9728c6f3 100644
--- a/asyncgit/src/status.rs
+++ b/asyncgit/src/status.rs
@@ -138,9 +138,10 @@ impl AsyncStatus {
 			arc_generation.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
 			arc_pending.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
 
-			sender
-				.send(AsyncGitNotification::Status)
-				.expect("error sending status");
+			if let Err(e) = sender.send(AsyncGitNotification::Status)
+			{
+				log::error!("send status error: {e}");
+			}
 		});
 
 		Ok(None)