MRU on Branch

[guilhermeprokisch]

It's possible to alpha-stratify be aware of MRU files in the current branch?

[goolord]

does git track this information? i think maybe you could write something that lists files in a directory sorted by their modified by date, which would track with each branch, but then it wouldn't track files which were opened but not modified.

[marcelarie]

This command all the files that were edited in the last 5 commits.

{ git diff --name-only && git log --pretty=format: --name-only HEAD~5..HEAD; } | sort | uniq

Is there a way to pipe this to alpha ? So it shows the list of files like the MRU ones?

[marcelarie]

I sort of found a way with easypick, telescope and alpha combined:

return {
    "axkirillov/easypick.nvim",
    dependencies = {"nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim"},
    config = function()
        local easypick = require "easypick"

        easypick.setup {
            pickers = {
                -- Show changed files in the last 5 commits
                {
                    name = "changed_files",
                    command = "{ git diff --name-only && git log --pretty=format: --name-only HEAD~5..HEAD; } | sort | uniq",
                    previewer = easypick.previewers.branch_diff {
		        base_branch = "HEAD~5",
		    },
                }
            }
        }
        vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>cf", "<cmd>Easypick changed_files<CR>")
    end
}

And then in alpha.nvim I have a button like this:

startify.button("cf", "changed files", "<cmd>Easypick changed_files<cr>")

But it would be nice to pipe command, or the results of lua functions, directly to alpha and show the result like the MRU list.

[bezhermoso]

@marcelarie Adding this action to your snippet makes it work in cases where Neovim's cwd is not Git's root dir (e.g. you primarily work in a sub-directory of a huge monorepo):

action = function(prompt_bufnr, _)
    telescope_actions.select_default:replace(function()
        telescope_actions.close(prompt_bufnr)
        local selection = telescope_action_state.get_selected_entry()
        local git_root_path = require("plenary.job"):new({ command = "git", args = { "rev-parse", "--show-toplevel" } }):sync()[1]
        vim.cmd(string.format("e %s/%s", git_root_path, selection[1]))
    end)
    return true
end,

Thanks for sharing your snippet, I find myself use it often!