diff --git a/routers/web/repo/view.go b/routers/web/repo/view.go
index 36d6ed022..27984e762 100644
--- a/routers/web/repo/view.go
+++ b/routers/web/repo/view.go
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ import (
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/actions"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/base"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/charset"
-	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/container"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/git"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/highlight"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/lfs"
@@ -881,25 +880,18 @@ func renderDirectoryFiles(ctx *context.Context, timeout time.Duration) git.Entri
 		defer cancel()
 	}
 
-	selected := make(container.Set[string])
-	selected.AddMultiple(ctx.FormStrings("f[]")...)
-
-	entries := allEntries
-	if len(selected) > 0 {
-		entries = make(git.Entries, 0, len(selected))
-		for _, entry := range allEntries {
-			if selected.Contains(entry.Name()) {
-				entries = append(entries, entry)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
-	var latestCommit *git.Commit
-	ctx.Data["Files"], latestCommit, err = entries.GetCommitsInfo(commitInfoCtx, ctx.Repo.Commit, ctx.Repo.TreePath)
+	files, latestCommit, err := allEntries.GetCommitsInfo(commitInfoCtx, ctx.Repo.Commit, ctx.Repo.TreePath)
 	if err != nil {
 		ctx.ServerError("GetCommitsInfo", err)
 		return nil
 	}
+	ctx.Data["Files"] = files
+	for _, f := range files {
+		if f.Commit == nil {
+			ctx.Data["HasFilesWithoutLatestCommit"] = true
+			break
+		}
+	}
 
 	if !loadLatestCommitData(ctx, latestCommit) {
 		return nil
diff --git a/templates/repo/view_list.tmpl b/templates/repo/view_list.tmpl
index c1ef4ff4c..988a5ddd5 100644
--- a/templates/repo/view_list.tmpl
+++ b/templates/repo/view_list.tmpl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-<table id="repo-files-table" class="ui single line table gt-mt-0" data-last-commit-loader-url="{{.LastCommitLoaderURL}}">
+<table id="repo-files-table" class="ui single line table gt-mt-0" {{if .HasFilesWithoutLatestCommit}}hx-indicator="tr.notready td.message span" hx-trigger="load" hx-swap="morph" hx-post="{{.LastCommitLoaderURL}}"{{end}}>
 	<thead>
 		<tr class="commit-list">
-			<th colspan="2" {{if not .LatestCommit}}class="notready"{{end}}>
+			<th colspan="2">
 				{{template "repo/latest_commit" .}}
 			</th>
 			<th class="text grey right age">{{if .LatestCommit}}{{if .LatestCommit.Committer}}{{TimeSince .LatestCommit.Committer.When ctx.Locale}}{{end}}{{end}}</th>
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 							{{$commitLink := printf "%s/commit/%s" $.RepoLink (PathEscape $commit.ID.String)}}
 							{{RenderCommitMessageLinkSubject $.Context $commit.Message $commitLink ($.Repository.ComposeMetas ctx)}}
 						{{else}}
-							<div class="ui active tiny slow centered inline">…</div>
+							<div class="ui active tiny slow centered inline"></div>
 						{{end}}
 					</span>
 				</td>
diff --git a/web_src/js/features/repo-commit.js b/web_src/js/features/repo-commit.js
index 7e2f6fa58..f61ea08a4 100644
--- a/web_src/js/features/repo-commit.js
+++ b/web_src/js/features/repo-commit.js
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 import {createTippy} from '../modules/tippy.js';
 import {toggleElem} from '../utils/dom.js';
-import {parseDom} from '../utils.js';
-import {POST} from '../modules/fetch.js';
 
 export function initRepoEllipsisButton() {
   for (const button of document.querySelectorAll('.js-toggle-commit-body')) {
@@ -14,47 +12,6 @@ export function initRepoEllipsisButton() {
   }
 }
 
-export async function initRepoCommitLastCommitLoader() {
-  const entryMap = {};
-
-  const entries = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('table#repo-files-table tr.notready'), (el) => {
-    const entryName = el.getAttribute('data-entryname');
-    entryMap[entryName] = el;
-    return entryName;
-  });
-
-  if (entries.length === 0) {
-    return;
-  }
-
-  const lastCommitLoaderURL = document.querySelector('table#repo-files-table').getAttribute('data-last-commit-loader-url');
-
-  if (entries.length > 200) {
-    // For more than 200 entries, replace the entire table
-    const response = await POST(lastCommitLoaderURL);
-    const data = await response.text();
-    document.querySelector('table#repo-files-table').outerHTML = data;
-    return;
-  }
-
-  // For fewer entries, update individual rows
-  const response = await POST(lastCommitLoaderURL, {data: {'f': entries}});
-  const data = await response.text();
-  const doc = parseDom(data, 'text/html');
-  for (const row of doc.querySelectorAll('tr')) {
-    if (row.className === 'commit-list') {
-      document.querySelector('table#repo-files-table .commit-list')?.replaceWith(row);
-      continue;
-    }
-    // there are other <tr> rows in response (eg: <tr class="has-parent">)
-    // at the moment only the "data-entryname" rows should be processed
-    const entryName = row.getAttribute('data-entryname');
-    if (entryName) {
-      entryMap[entryName]?.replaceWith(row);
-    }
-  }
-}
-
 export function initCommitStatuses() {
   for (const element of document.querySelectorAll('[data-tippy="commit-statuses"]')) {
     const top = document.querySelector('.repository.file.list') || document.querySelector('.repository.diff');
diff --git a/web_src/js/index.js b/web_src/js/index.js
index b7f3ba99a..c7eac9d24 100644
--- a/web_src/js/index.js
+++ b/web_src/js/index.js
@@ -33,11 +33,7 @@ import {
   initRepoPullRequestAllowMaintainerEdit,
   initRepoPullRequestReview, initRepoIssueSidebarList, initArchivedLabelHandler,
 } from './features/repo-issue.js';
-import {
-  initRepoEllipsisButton,
-  initRepoCommitLastCommitLoader,
-  initCommitStatuses,
-} from './features/repo-commit.js';
+import {initRepoEllipsisButton, initCommitStatuses} from './features/repo-commit.js';
 import {
   initFootLanguageMenu,
   initGlobalButtonClickOnEnter,
@@ -148,7 +144,6 @@ onDomReady(() => {
   initRepoCommentForm();
   initRepoEllipsisButton();
   initRepoDiffCommitBranchesAndTags();
-  initRepoCommitLastCommitLoader();
   initRepoEditor();
   initRepoGraphGit();
   initRepoIssueContentHistory();