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Description of the Change

Modify the way that active pane item paths are used to influence the active context paths. Specifically:

• If the item path is not within a beneath one of the open project roots, use that project root instead.
• If the item path is not a directory, use its containing directory.

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Alternate Designs

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Benefits

The "repository path" derived from paths within non-git-working-directory project roots will behave more predictably. (This path is used by the "create repository" blank state of the git and GitHub tabs, for example.)

Previously, if you:

• Opened a (non-git) project root /some/root
• Opened a file within a subdirectory of it (/some/root/subdir/a.txt)
• Opened the Git tab.

The Git tab would previously prompt you to initialize a repo at /some/root/subdir/a.txt, which doesn't make any sense and would fail. After this change, it would prompt you to initialize at /some/root instead.

Similarly, if you opened a path /a/long/path/b.txt that was outside of any git working directory, you'd be prompted to initialize at /a/long/path/b.txt, but now you'll be prompted to initialize at /a/long/path`.

Possible Drawbacks

We don't officially support submodules... but this will likely mess them up further, by preventing you from ever having a submodule as an active path if its parent repo was a project root. I'll investigate how badly it fails before I merge this.

Update: it did indeed break the ability to perform operations within submodules. I've rewritten it to only normalize workdir candidate paths that don't map to git workdirs, which lets us have the best of both worlds.

Applicable Issues

Fixes #2407.

Release Notes

• The GitHub package will no longer offer to initialize git repositories at non-directory paths.

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Codecov Report

Merging #2426 into master will decrease coverage by 0.17%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##           master    #2426      +/-   ##
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- Coverage   93.25%   93.07%   -0.18%     
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  Files         235      235              
  Lines       13163    13178      +15     
  Branches     1889     1892       +3     
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- Hits        12275    12266       -9     
- Misses        888      912      +24     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
lib/github-package.js	75.16% <100.00%> (+0.92%)	⬆️
lib/shared/keytar-strategy.js	38.75% <0.00%> (-8.53%)	⬇️
lib/models/file-system-change-observer.js	88.00% <0.00%> (-8.00%)	⬇️
lib/git-temp-dir.js	96.77% <0.00%> (-3.23%)	⬇️
lib/git-prompt-server.js	97.29% <0.00%> (-2.71%)	⬇️
lib/helpers.js	86.41% <0.00%> (-1.24%)	⬇️
lib/git-shell-out-strategy.js	99.23% <0.00%> (-0.58%)	⬇️

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