From 3302a090f9189722e9d25b977c01e2b2c8c42fde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:48:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix race condition when starting several command tasks in
 quick succession

See https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/issues/4507 for an elaborate
description.
---
 pkg/tasks/tasks.go | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkg/tasks/tasks.go b/pkg/tasks/tasks.go
index e20e5804533..bc56c5110eb 100644
--- a/pkg/tasks/tasks.go
+++ b/pkg/tasks/tasks.go
@@ -373,8 +373,6 @@ func (self *ViewBufferManager) NewTask(f func(TaskOpts) error, key string) error
 	go utils.Safe(func() {
 		defer completeGocuiTask()
 
-		self.readLines = nil
-
 		self.taskIDMutex.Lock()
 		self.newTaskID++
 		taskID := self.newTaskID
@@ -400,6 +398,8 @@ func (self *ViewBufferManager) NewTask(f func(TaskOpts) error, key string) error
 			self.stopCurrentTask()
 		}
 
+		self.readLines = nil
+
 		stop := make(chan struct{})
 		notifyStopped := make(chan struct{})