How do I live_grep all files in a repo?

[pinpox]

I often am in inside the subfolder of a git repository and would like to use live_grep to find something inside the repository, but it only searches files inside the current subfolder.

How would I make it search all files in the repository? I'm basically searching for something like git grep "something" as live-grep and with FzfLua. Anyone got a solution?

[ibhagwan]

You can use git rev-parse to figure out the top of the repo and pass that as cwd = … to live grep at the git root or use git grep directly with live_grep, see #1927, you can even include glob separators: #1927 (comment)

[pinpox]

II saw git rev-parse is already being used here:

fzf-lua/lua/fzf-lua/path.lua

Line 546 in 96d0aeb

local cmd = M.git_cwd({ "git", "rev-parse", "--show-toplevel" }, opts)

But I coulnd't figure out how to use that. Where do I get the opts from? Looking at the example you provided, I should be able to do something like this if I had opts:

require("fzf-lua").live_grep({
  cmd = "git grep -i --line-number --column --color=always",
  cwd = path.git_root(opts)
})

[pinpox]

Nevemind, I found out that I can just pass empty options here. In case someone comes across this, this is my solution:

	function()
		local path = require("fzf-lua.path")
		require("fzf-lua").live_grep({
			cmd = "git grep -i --line-number --column --color=always",
			cwd = path.git_root({}),
		})
	end

[ibhagwan]

Nevemind, I found out that I can just pass empty options here. In case someone comes across this, this is my solution:

	function()
		local path = require("fzf-lua.path")
		require("fzf-lua").live_grep({
			cmd = "git grep -i --line-number --column --color=always",
			cwd = path.git_root({}),
		})
	end

You can skip cwd = …, since you’re using git grep you’re already searching the git repo root, or you can skip the git grep cmd:

require("fzf-lua").live_grep({cwd = path.git_root({})})