Bind to root of project

[kapral18]

I want to make neo-tree always open the root of the project instead of cwd.

Sometimes, when I am using https://github.com/folke/persistence.nvim, and restore the session neotree changes the root to the folder of restored file, which is suboptimal. I want to always bind to the root. I want to be able to calculate it like any file with .git or yarn.lock or package-lock etc... How can I achieve that with neo-tree?

I checked the dir option, but the dir option is supposed to be a vim.fn.expand string which only allows to use file modifiers. And I want something that will allow me to use vim.fs.find('.git', {upward: true, type: "directory"...}) kind of stuff.

Thanks

[pysan3]

Neotree should restore the cwd as-is, so I wonder why persistence.nvim does not save the root dir.

If you want to restore with the project root, I advise you to try to make persistence save the root dir in the first place and not try to do something on restore.

We are having discussions on how to restore neo-tree's state when restored with auto-session, so this might give you a hint.

[kapral18]

im afraid it's not only session based, for example now if I open

elastic/kibana in the root explorer shows me the root
and let's say I switch to this file https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/main/x-pack/packages/security-solution/ecs_data_quality_dashboard/impl/data_quality/data_quality_panel/data_quality_summary/errors_viewer/helpers.tsx

first the neo-tree explorer follows the file and shows it with cwd staying at the root of project

but then if I toggle close and open again the explorer it now shows the root starting at

impl/

my config for ref: https://github.com/kapral18/dotfiles/blob/aecb4a64df2cbc2f4550d5083bdd51738f7f36a4/home/dot_config/exact_nvim/exact_lua/exact_plugins/neo-tree.lua

[pysan3]

If that's the case, please raise an issue with reproducible config (not a discussion).

And ping me there.