How to change directories within Gemini CLI?

[Zoddmark]

Right now if I have Gemini CLI loaded in a directory and I want to change it to a different directory, I '/quit', use the 'cd change/directory/to/this' command in the console, then load Gemini CLI again. Is there a way to do this without exiting Gemini CLI?

Also I'm guessing there's a reason it can't access things outside its directory? Seems like it would be useful if it could.

[contributorai]

You can save the chat session , quit cli, then switch directories, then load the chat session in the other directory. If task is something complex that requires a lot of context, then save that context info to an .md file that you can make available to Gemini.

If I need to move things or migrate things from one directory to another, I start gemini in target directory and with source directory placed (via unix mv) as a subdirectory of target. Then instruct gemini on what you need to do with source and target directories.