Annoyingly making .git as root always

[Nikhil Singh]

Description

if my dir strcuture is like this

now i opened this after changing my current dir to hypr expecting nvim tree going to take hypr as my root dir but it changes to the root of .git
it is annoying most of the times.

Neovim version

NVIM v0.9.5
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1702233742

   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/nvim"

Run :checkhealth for more info

Operating system and version

Arch linux 6.7.4-zen1-1-zen

Windows variant

No response

nvim-tree version

821a7ac

Options

		pickers = {
			find_files = {
				follow = true,
			},
		},
		extensions = {
			fzf = {
				fuzzy = true,
				override_generic_sorter = true,
				override_file_sorter = true,
				case_mode = "smart_case",
			},
			undo = {
				mappings = {
					n = {
						-- IMPORTANT: Note that telescope-undo must be available when telescope is configured if
						-- you want to replicate these defaults and use the following actions. This means
						-- installing as a dependency of telescope in it's `requirements` and loading this
						-- extension from there instead of having the separate plugin definition as outlined
						-- above.
						["y"] = require("telescope-undo.actions").yank_additions,
						["Y"] = require("telescope-undo.actions").yank_deletions,
						["<cr>"] = require("telescope-undo.actions").restore,
					},
				},
				side_by_side = true,
				layout_strategy = "vertical",
				layout_config = {
					preview_height = 0.8,
				},
			},
		},

		defaults = {
			vimgrep_arguments = {
				"rg",
				"-L",
				"--color=never",
				"--no-heading",
				"--with-filename",
				"--line-number",
				"--column",
				"--smart-case",
			},
			prompt_prefix = "   ",
			selection_caret = "  ",
			entry_prefix = "  ",
			initial_mode = "insert",

			mappings = {
				n = {
					q = action.close,
					x = action.select_horizontal,
					v = action.select_vertical,
				},
			},
		},

Steps to reproduce

Go in sub dir of any git projects (for me the dotfiles dir having multiple sub dirs)
and open a file in that sub dir via nvim.
now nvimTree will make the .git location of the parent or super parent as root dir.

Expected behavior

No response

Actual behavior

No response

[Alexander Courtis]

That configuration snippet is not from nvim-tree and I'm not quite sure how I would reproduce this.

Please provide a "Clean Room" Replication as per the bug report instructions.

The above, along with steps to reproduce, will allow us to replicate.

It may be useful to provide the above demonstrated repo in which to reproduce, as it may have its own configuration, submodules etc. etc.

[Nikhil Singh]

it was something that was highjacking it.

[Alexander Courtis]

it was something that was highjacking it.

Great news!

Please tell us what was hijacking, to assist future users with similar issues.

[Nikhil Singh]

the behaviour is

 dir
├──  .git
├──  a
├──  b
└──  c

if this is the structure and a is soft linked to my home path.
a i open neovim like nvim ~/a/somefile the root of nvim-tree will be the dir dir (because it contains .git in it i guess)
expected behaviour is to keep a as the path of the root.
as nvim-tree make .git as root dir below is the workaround now m using.

   ["<leader><cr>"] = {
      function()
        local curdir = vim.fn.expand("%:p:h")
        vim.api.nvim_set_current_dir(curdir)
      end,
      "Change dir",
    },

[Alexander Courtis]

That makes sense. nvim isn't changing its cwd when you open the file directly, rather than ~a.

Glad you found a workaround!