How to automatically set cwd to submodule ?

[madskjeldgaard]

Hi !

I love neogit, but I have run into a thing that is a big issue for me after having migrated from vim-fugitive.

If I have a git project A which has a submodule registered at include/mysubmodule, then, with neogit, I have to manually (it seems to me, but I could be wrong) run :Neogit cwd=include/msubmodule to be able to commit or work with the git state of the submodule. I would ideally like for it to work semi automatically like in vim-fugitive where, if I open nvim in the root of my project A and then open a file which happens to be in the submodule mentioned before, then when I run :Neogit commit for example while in that file, it will automatically figure out that I want the cwd to be the root of the submodule, and not the project.

Any ideas?

Thanks ! <3

[madskjeldgaard]

I solved it like this for myself. I added the following code to my setup, and that registers the command NeogitRel which is a a drop-in replacement for :Neogit but it always sets cwd to the git root.

        local function find_git_root(filepath)
          local function get_folder_from_filepath(fp)
            return fp:match("(.*/)")
          end

          filepath = get_folder_from_filepath(filepath)

          -- The Git command to find the top-level directory
          local git_cmd = "git -C " .. filepath .. " rev-parse --show-toplevel"

          -- Execute the Git command
          local git_root = vim.fn.system(git_cmd)

          -- Handling errors (if the file is not in a Git repository or other issues)
          if vim.v.shell_error ~= 0 then
            print("NeogitRel: Error finding Git root: " .. git_root)
            return nil
          end

          -- Trim any newlines from the output
          git_root = git_root:gsub("%s+", "")

          return git_root
        end

        local function open_neogit_from_current_file(opts)
          opts = opts or {}
          local gitroot = find_git_root(vim.fn.expand("%:p"))
          if gitroot == nil then
            print("NeogitRel: Not in a git repo")
            return
          end

          -- Prepare options
          opts = vim.tbl_extend("force", { cwd = gitroot }, opts)

          require "neogit".open(opts)
        end

        -- Register excommand that opens Neogit from the current file
        -- The command takes one argument which is passed to Neogit
        vim.api.nvim_create_user_command(
          'NeogitRel', -- Name of the command
          function(opts)
            -- Call the local function with the argument
            open_neogit_from_current_file(opts.args[1])
          end,
          { nargs = '?' } -- Specifies that the command takes one argument
        )

[menash134]

Hi @madskjeldgaard , Iam using the above code for the Neogit to start up based on the repository. But unfortunately, when I press "?" and then go to commit popup or log or push popup, then it shows the error that "not a git repository". Did you faced this kind of problem? Any solutions to it