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Title: Initial user prompt lost when Git setup/snapshot command times out #1919

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@ganeshyb

Title: Initial user prompt lost when Git setup/snapshot command times out

Body:
A new Copilot app session lost the user’s initial prompt after a Git command timed out after 300 seconds.

Observed behavior:

The UI showed a Git timeout: git command timed out after 300 seconds.
The prompt did not return.
Stuck Git processes remained running, including git worktree add, git reset --hard --no-recurse-submodules, and git add -A.
After recovery, the persisted chat context did not include the original user request.
The earliest stored user message was only the later follow-up: what happened?.
Expected behavior:
The initial prompt should be persisted before or independently of long-running Git setup/snapshot operations, so it can be recovered even if Git times out or child processes remain stuck.

Impact:
Users can lose their original request and cannot recover the intended task without retyping it


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App version 1.0.21
OS Windows 10.0.26200
Theme GitHub
Path /chat

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