CocSearch in parent directory or current workspace

[GodefroyClair]

From what I understand, if I do a simple :CocSearch some_pattern, the search will be done on directory of the current file in buffer and its subdirectories.
What if I want to search on the parent directory? I tried various way based on the documentation but nothing would work.
Also, would there be a way to search on current workspace?

[fannheyward]

CocSearch uses rg to search, in cwd. There's no way to change the path to search in workspace for now.

You can add workspace root to make rg search from, :CocSearch some_pattern -- /full/path/to/your/workspace

Note the must-have -- .

[GodefroyClair]

Thanks great ! Would there be a way to add that to the documentation ?

[fannheyward]

I'll add this to document.

[GodefroyClair]

after trying I found something weird...
Imagine the following dir substructure :
foo
├── bar
│   └── baz.c
└── qux.c
with the word "hello" in baz.c and qux.c

If I do
vim foo/bar/baz.c
and then
:CocSearch hello
I get :

Save current buffer to make changes
Files: 1 Matches: 1 Duration: 43ms

baz.c 1:2
hello

But if I do:
:CocSearch hello -- ..
the result is:

Save current buffer to make changes
Files: 3 Matches: 3 Duration: 37ms

/Users/xxxxx/test/foo/qux.c 1:1
hello
　
baz.c 1:2
hello

baz.c 1:2
hello

Hence it seems like I have a duplicate : it seems like it returns the result of both requesting the current directory and the directory after --

Whereas, from command line, there are no duplicate:

$ cd foo/bar
$  rg -i hello
baz.c
1:hello
$ rg -i hello -- ..
../bar/baz.c
1:hello

../qux.c
1:hello