Minor bug when launching from a dir with deleted files

[artfulrobot]

lazygit crashes like so:

% mkdir -p lgtest/aDir && cd lgtest 
% echo hi >aDir/file
% git init; git add .; git commit -m "initial"
  [main (root-commit) 848bf5c] initial
   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
   create mode 100644 aDir/file
% gs
  On branch main
  nothing to commit, working tree clean
% cd aDir 
% git rm file
  rm 'aDir/file'
% lg
2022/09/22 08:59:45 An error occurred! Please create an issue at: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/issues

*os.SyscallError getwd: no such file or directory
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/app/app.go:52 (0xa39416)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/main.go:154 (0xa46e70)
/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.18.4/x64/src/runtime/proc.go:250 (0x4363d2)
/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.18.4/x64/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1571 (0x463bc1)

Version info:

commit=367b0d331836c90c015bf0c45f88612f3d94d08a, build date=2022-07-20T09:27:56Z, build source=binaryRelease, version=0.35, os=linux, arch=amd64

git version 2.30.2

[mark2185]

Reproducible on v0.35, but not on latest master. Please try building from source.

[Craftplacer]

Problem still exists on commit=, build date=, build source=voidlinux, version=0.36.0, os=linux, arch=amd64, git version=2.38.1

[mark2185]

Please try building from source, I cannot reproduce it.

[artfulrobot]

Yep, following same steps at top, I still get this today:

2022/12/13 13:00:36 An error occurred! Please create an issue at: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/issues

*os.SyscallError getwd: no such file or directory
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/app/app.go:57 (0xa620dc)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/pkg/app/entry_point.go:146 (0xa641ab)
/home/runner/work/lazygit/lazygit/main.go:23 (0xa660fe)
/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.18.8/x64/src/runtime/proc.go:250 (0x4365d2)
/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.18.8/x64/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1571 (0x463f41)

• commit=d1a8b05401ccda1e52215203139a252eb3be3b79,
• build date=2022-11-14T09:22:31Z,
• build source=binaryRelease,
• version=0.36.0
• os=linux, arch=amd64,
• git version=2.34.1

[ChrisMcD1]

/close

I am able to reproduce with latest 0.49.0, but I don't think that this is a bug in LazyGit.

$ mkdir -p lgtest/aDir && cd lgtest
$ echo hi >aDir/file
t$ git init; git add .; git commit -m "initial"
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/chrismcdonnell/linux-repos/lgtest/.git/
[master (root-commit) 62790b3] initial
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 aDir/file
t$ cd aDir
$ git rm file
rm 'aDir/file'
$ lg
2025/04/27 14:09:57 Error: the current working directory does not exist
$ git status
fatal: Unable to read current working directory: No such file or directory
$ cd ..
$ ls

So the entire aDir directory was removed by git by git rm file. Whether or not this is intended behavior is a question for git folks, but since that command didn't just delete the file but deleted the directory, it's proper to say that "the current working directory doesn't exist"

Feel free to re-open if you are still being inconvenienced by this issue. It seems that if you just do a rm instead of a git rm, you just delete the file, and lazygit can open properly.