optionally find files in another repo

[mstorus]

Hi,
Firstly, thanks for writing this package, I enjoy using it every day.

I would like to propose adding the ability to find files in another repo that the current buffer is not part of.

The use-case is that I often have buffers open across many repos. While I'm editing a buffer whose file is part of repo A, I might want to find a file in repo B. But I'd rather not have to switch to a buffer in repo B first in order to invoke helm-ls-git-ls.

Perhaps a new command could be added such as helm-ls-git-ls-specify-directory that would be 2 steps: first prompt for the directory (with the current directory as default), and then invoke helm-ls-git-ls from within that directory.
Or alternatively, there could be a way to pass a prefix to helm-ls-git-ls that would prompt for a directory to search within.

[thierryvolpiatto]

Mark Storus <notifications@github.com> writes:

Hi, Firstly, thanks for writing this package, I enjoy using it every day. I would like to propose adding the ability to find files in another repo that the current buffer is not part of. The use-case is that I often have buffers open across many repos. While I'm editing a buffer whose file is part of repo A, I might want to find a file in repo B. But I'd rather not have to switch to a buffer in repo B first in order to invoke helm-ls-git-ls.

First, instead of calling directly `helm-ls-git-ls`, use instead `helm-browse-project`, your helm-ls-git sessions will be recorded and you will be able to retrieve them from M-x helm-projects-history. Otherwise from buffer A, navigate with helm-find-files to repo B and hit C-x C-d, that's all. You can also bookmark your repos with C-x r m from helm-find-files.

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