From 410e921979424a339504aa71bbcc0ef6e2a9b396 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Falko Schmidt <scf@panter.ch>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:17:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Use guessProjectRoot from rking/ag.vim.

---
 plugin/side-search.vim | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugin/side-search.vim b/plugin/side-search.vim
index 563ae49..2d953ad 100644
--- a/plugin/side-search.vim
+++ b/plugin/side-search.vim
@@ -151,6 +151,24 @@ function! SideSearchWinnr()
   return s:my_buffer_winnr()
 endfunction
 
+function! s:guessProjectRoot()
+  let l:splitsearchdir = split(getcwd(), "/")
+
+  while len(l:splitsearchdir) > 2
+    let l:searchdir = '/'.join(l:splitsearchdir, '/').'/'
+    for l:marker in ['.rootdir', '.git', '.hg', '.svn', 'bzr', '_darcs', 'build.xml']
+      " found it! Return the dir
+      if filereadable(l:searchdir.l:marker) || isdirectory(l:searchdir.l:marker)
+        return l:searchdir
+      endif
+    endfor
+    let l:splitsearchdir = l:splitsearchdir[0:-2] " Splice the list to get rid of the tail directory
+  endwhile
+
+  " Nothing found, fallback to current working dir
+  return getcwd()
+endfunction
+
 " The public facing function.
 " Accept 1 or 2 arguments which basically get passed directly
 " to the `ag` command.
@@ -173,8 +191,10 @@ function! SideSearch(args) abort
 
   call s:append_guide()
 
+  " determine root directory
+  let l:cwd = s:guessProjectRoot()
   " execute showing summary of stuff read (without silent)
-  let b:cmd = g:side_search_prg . ' ' . a:args
+  let b:cmd = g:side_search_prg . ' ' . a:args . ' ' . l:cwd
   " Thanks: https://github.com/rking/ag.vim/blob/master/autoload/ag.vim#L154
   let query = matchstr(a:args, "\\v(-)\@<!(\<)\@<=\\w+|['\"]\\zs.{-}\\ze['\"]")
   let b:escaped_query = shellescape(query)

From ff37de53704eb94c799a2c31b6eff192ab25153e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Falko Schmidt <scf@panter.ch>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:49:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Use relative directory.

---
 plugin/side-search.vim | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugin/side-search.vim b/plugin/side-search.vim
index 2d953ad..1f96a32 100644
--- a/plugin/side-search.vim
+++ b/plugin/side-search.vim
@@ -153,16 +153,19 @@ endfunction
 
 function! s:guessProjectRoot()
   let l:splitsearchdir = split(getcwd(), "/")
+  let l:searchdir = ''
 
   while len(l:splitsearchdir) > 2
-    let l:searchdir = '/'.join(l:splitsearchdir, '/').'/'
     for l:marker in ['.rootdir', '.git', '.hg', '.svn', 'bzr', '_darcs', 'build.xml']
+      let l:dir = l:searchdir.l:marker
       " found it! Return the dir
-      if filereadable(l:searchdir.l:marker) || isdirectory(l:searchdir.l:marker)
+      if filereadable(l:dir) || isdirectory(l:dir)
         return l:searchdir
       endif
     endfor
-    let l:splitsearchdir = l:splitsearchdir[0:-2] " Splice the list to get rid of the tail directory
+    " Splice the list to get rid of the tail directory
+    let l:splitsearchdir = l:splitsearchdir[0:-2]
+    let l:searchdir = '../'.l:searchdir
   endwhile
 
   " Nothing found, fallback to current working dir

From 589a5f44db2fcf5a050a01905d92b8027b72c52a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Falko Schmidt <scf@panter.ch>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:10:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Refactor function.

---
 plugin/side-search.vim | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugin/side-search.vim b/plugin/side-search.vim
index 1f96a32..6b4f7a7 100644
--- a/plugin/side-search.vim
+++ b/plugin/side-search.vim
@@ -152,24 +152,21 @@ function! SideSearchWinnr()
 endfunction
 
 function! s:guessProjectRoot()
-  let l:splitsearchdir = split(getcwd(), "/")
+  let l:cwd = getcwd()
+  let l:maxdistance = len(split(l:cwd, '/')) - 2
   let l:searchdir = ''
 
-  while len(l:splitsearchdir) > 2
+  while len(split(l:searchdir, '/')) < l:maxdistance
     for l:marker in ['.rootdir', '.git', '.hg', '.svn', 'bzr', '_darcs', 'build.xml']
       let l:dir = l:searchdir.l:marker
-      " found it! Return the dir
       if filereadable(l:dir) || isdirectory(l:dir)
         return l:searchdir
       endif
     endfor
-    " Splice the list to get rid of the tail directory
-    let l:splitsearchdir = l:splitsearchdir[0:-2]
     let l:searchdir = '../'.l:searchdir
   endwhile
 
-  " Nothing found, fallback to current working dir
-  return getcwd()
+  return l:cwd
 endfunction
 
 " The public facing function.