Virtual File Sysytem and BIG Repos

[askerdev]

Description

I work at big company and we have monorepo working with vfs

I use neovim. In project where i work ( not at root of monorepo ) and run telescope

Files work well, because i wrote telescope plugin and there is about 4000 files with ignored things ( we have our own version control system )

But live grep is just broken, it does not work at all

Neovim version

NVIM v0.10.2
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1732813678

Operating system and version

macOS 14.4

Telescope version / branch / rev

telescope 0.1.8

checkhealth telescope

==============================================================================
telescope: health#telescope#check

Checking for required plugins ~
- OK plenary installed.
- OK nvim-treesitter installed.

Checking external dependencies ~
- OK rg: found ripgrep 14.1.1
- WARNING fd: not found. Install [sharkdp/fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) for extended capabilities

===== Installed extensions ===== ~

Telescope Extension: `arc` ~
- No healthcheck provided

Telescope Extension: `fzf` ~
- OK lib working as expected
- OK file_sorter correctly configured
- OK generic_sorter correctly configured

Steps to reproduce

I can't do this, because repo and code under NDA :(
But try like this

1. Create a big VFS repo with 4000 js, css file ( react, vite project )
2. Open neovim and run telescope.builtin.live_grep()

Expected behavior

i don't think the problem is in the VFS because fzf-lua plugin work well at this, i don't know why btw

It's nightmare to configure to use with something other that git, that's why i don't use it

Actual behavior

can't provide images, videos because of NDA

Minimal config

local root = vim.fn.fnamemodify("./.repro", ":p")

-- set stdpaths to use .repro
for _, name in ipairs({ "config", "data", "state", "cache" }) do
	vim.env[("XDG_%s_HOME"):format(name:upper())] = root .. "/" .. name
end

-- bootstrap lazy
local lazypath = root .. "/plugins/lazy.nvim"
if not vim.uv.fs_stat(lazypath) then
	vim.fn.system({
		"git",
		"clone",
		"--filter=blob:none",
		"https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git",
		lazypath,
	})
end
vim.opt.runtimepath:prepend(lazypath)

-- install plugins
local plugins = {
	{
		"nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim",
		dependencies = {
			"nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
			{ "nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim", build = "make" },
		},
		config = function()
			-- ADD INIT.LUA SETTINGS THAT ARE _NECESSARY_ FOR REPRODUCING THE ISSUE
			require("telescope").setup({
				extensions = {
					fzf = {
						fuzzy = true, -- false will only do exact matching
						override_generic_sorter = true, -- override the generic sorter
						override_file_sorter = true, -- override the file sorter
						case_mode = "smart_case", -- or "ignore_case" or "respect_case"
						-- the default case_mode is "smart_case"
					},
				},
			})
			local builtin = require("telescope.builtin")
			vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>sg", builtin.live_grep, { desc = "Find grep string" })
		end,
	},
}

require("lazy").setup(plugins, {
	root = root .. "/plugins",
})