Option to limit scope to dir for large projects...

[patniemeyer]

Love lazygit but one feature would make it useful to me on more projects -

On very large codebases it can take forever to do a git status and I normally limit the scope of my requests to the current directory. I was a little surprised that lazygit can't be launched with a 'dir' argument that does something like this...

I would propose that:

`lazygit <dir>`

Would do the equivalent of git status <dir> to populate the Files panel.

thanks!

[stefanhaller]

While this sounds doable, I'm very skeptical if it's a good idea. I could see this as quite confusing and error-prone if you are in lazygit for a while and maybe forget that you started it with a subdirectory; especially when all other parts of lazygit besides the Files panel (e.g. commit diffs) would still show you everything.

It seems that the canonical way to deal with this problem is sparse checkouts, maybe you want to look into that instead?