Nvimtree unexpectedly changes root directory on focus to itself

Question

Nvimtree unexpectedly changes root directory on focus to itself

alfa07 opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

OS
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Datadog Ubuntu Preseed 20.04 v14 customized using Cubic on 2021-09-13 09:52
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

Neovim version
NVIM v0.6.0
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Compiled by linuxbrew@47b333addab8

Features: +acl +iconv +tui
See ":help feature-compile"

system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
fall-back for $VIM: "
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/neovim/0.6.0/share/nvim"

Run :checkhealth for more info

Nvim-tree version
❯ git status
HEAD detached at f408781

Describe the bug

When keyboard focus moves to Nvimtree it unexpectedly changes root directory.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce:

Open file AF in repo A
Show nvimtree with <space>e
Open file BF in repo B
Observe that nvimtree shows file BF and rooted at repo B
Hit <C-h> to get into nvimtree panel
BUG: nvimtree changes root to repo A
Expected behavior nvimtree should stay at repo B

What is happening is that (most likely) this event gets fired when cursor moves to nvimtree buffer:
https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua/blob/65b8b19c8bcea36e37474338c7e2d2fea95553d3/lua/nvim-tree.lua#L399
which for whatever reason has vim.loop.cwd() set to directory which does not match root which is currently displayed.

The workaround is to add this to config.vim:

local nvimtree_lib = require "nvim-tree.lib"
local change_dir = nvimtree_lib.change_dir
local is_file = require "project_nvim.project".is_file
nvimtree_lib.change_dir = function(d)
  if not is_file() then
    return
  end
  change_dir(d)
end

Expected behavior
Nvimtree should not change directory when focus moves to itself or other non-file buffers.

Recording