Using current directory as cwd when opening a file

[kristijanhusak]

Hi,

Recently I started working with monorepo which has a lot of sub-packages.
When I'm in the subpackage folder and I open lazygit + press e to edit a file, it opens up Neovim with CWD being the root directory (git root). Is there a way to edit the file with cwd being the same as the one from where I opened lazygit?

For example, assuming this structure and assuming Vim (Or Neovim) is the editor:

myrepo
  .git
  packages/
  		frontend/
    		readme_frontend.md
  		backend/
    		readme_backend.md

doing this:

1. cd packages/frontend
2. lazygit
3. Inside lazygit, press e to edit readme_frontend.md

In Vim, checking the cwd with :pwd outputs /path/to/myrepo.

And I would like it to actually use the real cwd, where the :pwd would output /path/to/myrepo/packages/frontend

I mostly need this because I have some local configuration scoped to the specific package (local vimrc), and when I open the Neovim from lazygit, it does not pick that up. Also, the general usage with the cwd being git root gives me a lot of results in fuzzy finder, etc.

I tried using this as an edit command but it didn't work:

os:
  edit: 'nvim --cmd "cd `pwd`" -- {{filename}}'

[mark2185]

I tried using this as an edit command but it didn't work:

os:
  edit: 'nvim --cmd "cd `pwd`" -- {{filename}}'

Isn't pwd the wrong argument, though? I'm guessing it returns the root of the clone, but you'd actually want dirname {{ filename }} or something of sorts?

[kristijanhusak]

Yeah pwd is wrong, it returns the git root. dirname {{filename}} would work in this specific example I gave, but I'm actually having more nesting inside the subpackage. Ideally I would be able to use same cwd from where the lazygit was opened.

[mark2185]

"cd $(git -C $(dirname {{ filename }}) rev-parse --show-toplevel)"?

To be honest, it looks like there should be an easier way.

[kristijanhusak]

You mean to use that command instead of "cd pwd" like this:

nvim --cmd "cd `$(git -C $(dirname {{ filename }}) rev-parse --show-toplevel)`" -- {{filename}}

It actually makes my cwd go up some levels. Also, this is passed down to Neovim cmd which cannot interpolate bash with
$() so I wrapped it in backticks to be executed as part of bash command. Anyway, it does not work unfortunately.

To be honest, it looks like there should be an easier way.

Yeah I'm hoping that there is. I wasn't able to find any though.

[mark2185]

Well another workaround that comes to mind is to make the invocation of lazygit a shell function which sets a variable USING_LAZYGIT=1 and then to check in your nvimrc for the existance of said variable and to change the current directory via the git -C incantation.