Telescope repo cached_list unusable on Mac OS

[cljoly]

When the use of the locate command was initially introduced, we have not been able to confirm that the locate command worked. @molleweide kindly volunteered to check this particular message. The purpose of this thread is to continue the discussion started in the PR to get locate to work on Mac OS.

As I don’t have a Mac to test on, I used this GitHub action workflow to get the extension to work on a bare bone system. So the following command executed on a setup similar to the workflow should yield a list of repositories on the system:

nvim +'lua require"telescope".extensions.repo.cached_list{bin="glocate", locate_opts={"-d", "/Users/runner/locatedb"}}'

Anyone feel free to report problems using the cached_list command here. Thanks!

EDIT: I’ve added support for :checkhealth telescope, the output might be further indication of anything going wrong.

[molleweide]

Yo!!!

Now I believe that I am getting some more time to work on repo and test.

I have to get glocate to work on my m1 macbook air.
The regular list command is really fast on m1.

[molleweide]

This is what checkhealth shows.

telescope._extensions.repo: require("telescope._extensions.repo.health").check()
========================================================================
- WARNING: Install `glow` for a better preview of markdown files
- OK: Will use `bat` to preview markdown READMEs
- OK: Will use `bat` to preview non-markdown READMEs
- OK: locate: found `glocate`
locate (GNU findutils) 4.8.0
Packaged by Homebrew
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Eric B. Decker, James Youngman, and Kevin Dalley.
- ERROR: `:Telescope repo cached_list` was unsucessful. Exit code: 1
glocate -r /\.git$ -l 2

- OK: fd: found `fd`
fd 8.3.0
- INFO: Repos found for `:Telescope repo list`:
/Users/hjalmarjakobsson/code/plugins/nvim/telescope-repo.nvim...

[molleweide]

This is the command I had stored for loading the database to ~/locatedb.
Is there anything that stands out to you in it? And am I storing the DB in
the right location for it to work with repo?

# https://egeek.me/2020/04/18/enabling-locate-on-osx/
if which glocate > /dev/null; then
  alias locate="glocate -d $HOME/locatedb"
  [[ -f "$HOME/locatedb" ]] && export LOCATE_PATH="$HOME/locatedb"
fi
alias loaddb="gupdatedb --localpaths=$HOME --prunepaths=/Volumes --output=$HOME/locatedb"

[molleweide]

IT WORKS!!!

The problem was that I forgot to reload shell after loading the database. I have to figure out a better way of doing this.
The $LOCATE_PATH variable needs to exist.

[cljoly]

Cool, thanks for figuring it out!

[molleweide]

Yeah now I'll be able to focus more on what you have done and help with new functionality.