Switching to selected worktree directory

[voylin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I recently started working with worktrees but when opening LazyVim inside of nvim and go to the worktree section, there is no way to change the current nvim work directory to the one selected. You can press o to open the editor, but then you have a vim instance inside of the lazygit window.

Describe the solution you'd like

When switching to a worktree, it would be nice if the nvim instance would switch to the worktree folder. I do not know in how far this would be possible though and it's not a big issue, it could just save time being able to do it directly inside of lazygit.

[zyriab]

Would love this feature!
For reference, here's how you can do this with the standalone tool.
It works when selecting a repo as well as when changing worktrees.

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit?tab=readme-ov-file#changing-directory-on-exit

[kryshac]

I created this temporary patch

diff --git a/lua/lazygit.lua b/lua/lazygit.lua
index 770e042..3a1760c 100644
--- a/lua/lazygit.lua
+++ b/lua/lazygit.lua
@@ -37,2 +37,19 @@ local function on_exit(job_id, code, event)
   end
+
+  local dir_file = os.getenv("LAZYGIT_NEW_DIR_FILE")
+
+  if dir_file then
+    local file = io.open(dir_file, "r")
+
+    if file then
+      local content = file:read("*all")
+      file:close()
+
+      vim.fn.chdir(content)
+    else
+      print("Failed to open file: " .. file)
+    end
+
+    vim.env.LAZYGIT_NEW_DIR_FILE = nil
+  end
 end
@@ -41,2 +58,4 @@ end
 local function exec_lazygit_command(cmd)
+  vim.env.LAZYGIT_NEW_DIR_FILE = vim.fn.expand("~/.lazygit/newdir")
+
   if LAZYGIT_LOADED == false then