Paths relative to cwd instead of repository root in summary window

[Picalines]

Hi there! I wanted to ask if there's a solution to the following issue I sometimes face when working with large monorepos using Fugitive

Before using Fugitive, I would use the plain command line or an IDE viewer when working with git. In those cases, "git status" would show me the changed files relative to my current working directory. However, when using the :Git<CR> command in Fugitive to view the summary, the paths are shown relative to the root of the git repository, which can cause problems when using it in vertical splits (paths are too long)

Is there a way to make Fugitive prefer the current working directory relative paths when displaying the summary?

[cc9cii]

I'm replying to a post several months old so I'm not really expecting a response. Having said that, here is a quick video of a proof-of-concept that kind of does what you have described.

I stress that it is only a proof-of-concept right now. Several system calls are used for each entry and that will most likely make things rather slow on some systems. Currently only a couple of functions have been tested - opening files and toggling inline diff.

YouTube video in action

Now some potential issues:

• As you can see the status screen is not updated. Additional code hacks will be needed. Making the updates "real time" will be even more work. (e.g. if you change to anther file manually without going through the status window)
• Other untested functionality may not be easy to support - won't know until they happen.
• I won't be able to support it going forward, so you'll have to maintain it in your local system. i.e. you'll need to learn a little bit of vimscript if you don't know already.
• Since this involves some code change, future updates to vim-fugitive may break it.
• In some git repos with deep nested file structures it may be a worse experience to have relative paths. Maybe a toggle function could be implemented to switch between the two modes.
• only "Staged" and "Unstaged" show relative paths for now
• Showing relative paths can be confusing since the file names in the status screen will change each time you edit a file from a different directory.

If you are still interested I'll continue working on this (will probably take another couple of weeks) and post a diff patch against the master.

[cc9cii]

Actually, I don't recommend doing this. You quickly end up with a very confusing set of paths such as this example: