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This make sure that we either use existing users's neovim databases or actually create a new database

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  • New Features

    • Added configurable frecency and history database locations through CLI options and environment variables.
    • Automatically reuses existing fff.nvim databases when available, with pi-local directories as fallback.
    • Supports independent path configuration and read-only database usage.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Database initialization now falls back to non-persistent operation with a warning when opening a database fails.
  • Documentation

    • Updated setup and data-storage documentation to explain path resolution, overrides, and fallback behavior.

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Pi-fff now resolves independent frecency and history database paths from overrides, existing fff.nvim databases, or pi-local defaults. Shared picker creation handles database failures and falls back to non-persistent mode.

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Pi database path handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Database path resolution
packages/pi-fff/src/paths.ts
Adds platform-aware path resolution with explicit overrides, existing fff.nvim database discovery, pi-local fallback paths, and safe directory checks.
Finder initialization fallback
packages/pi-fff/src/file-picker.ts, packages/pi-fff/src/index.ts, packages/pi-fff/src/aux-finders.ts, lua/fff/core.lua
Centralizes picker creation, scan waiting, database fallback, failure reporting, and auxiliary finder creation. The Lua integration passes configured paths directly.
Validation and documentation
packages/pi-fff/test/*, packages/pi-fff/README.md, README.md
Tests path resolution, picker failure handling, auxiliary pool behavior, and updated finder expectations. Documentation describes flags, environment variables, fallback paths, and read-only behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 974cf

The PR changes database path handling, but one asynchronous error-path test assertion is not awaited, so a regression in that path could pass unnoticed; add the missing await before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PiExtension
  participant PathResolver
  participant FilePickerFactory
  participant UI
  PiExtension->>PathResolver: resolve database paths
  PathResolver-->>PiExtension: return frecency and history paths
  PiExtension->>FilePickerFactory: create picker with database paths
  FilePickerFactory-->>PiExtension: report database failure
  FilePickerFactory->>FilePickerFactory: retry without database paths
  FilePickerFactory->>UI: report persistence fallback
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Possibly related PRs

  • dmtrKovalenko/fff#775: Enables multiple in-process finders to share the same LMDB environments, while this PR centralizes finder and database initialization.

Suggested reviewers: gustav-fff

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lua/fff/core.lua (1)

170-170: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document the public function type.

Add a concise LuaLS type annotation for M.ensure_initialized. Use the existing fuzzy-module type alias.

As per coding guidelines: “Document the types of public functions in every module.”

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In `@lua/fff/core.lua` at line 170, Add a concise LuaLS type annotation for the
public M.ensure_initialized function, reusing the existing fuzzy-module type
alias and preserving its current implementation behavior.

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In `@packages/pi-fff/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 414-432: Extend the database fallback handled near ensureFinder to
AuxFinderPool and its auxiliary finder creation path, so a failed
database-backed initialization retries with createOptions without
frecency/history paths and preserves a shared disabled state. Ensure subsequent
path-constrained find or grep operations use the fallback configuration, and add
coverage that exercises an auxiliary finder after the initial database failure.

In `@packages/pi-fff/src/paths.ts`:
- Around line 39-53: Update nvimCacheDir() to use the Windows
temporary-directory nvim path, and update nvimDataDir() to honor NVIM_APPNAME
with the platform-specific app-data suffix while preserving XDG behavior. Add
coverage in the existing db-paths tests for Unix, Windows, and custom
NVIM_APPNAME cases.

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In `@lua/fff/core.lua`:
- Line 170: Add a concise LuaLS type annotation for the public
M.ensure_initialized function, reusing the existing fuzzy-module type alias and
preserving its current implementation behavior.
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This make sure that we either use existing users's neovim databases or
actually create a new database

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In `@packages/pi-fff/test/aux-pool.test.ts`:
- Around line 194-200: Await the asynchronous rejection assertion in the test
covering create failure when the picker cannot be opened, so the test does not
complete before the matcher runs.
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Comment on lines +194 to +200
test("create throws when the picker cannot be opened at all", async () => {
makePool();
failAllCreates = true;

expect(makePickers().create({ basePath: "/nope" })).rejects.toThrow(
"Failed to create FFF file picker for /nope: db locked",
);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Await the rejection matcher.

Line 198 starts an asynchronous assertion but does not await it. The test can finish before the assertion runs.

Proposed fix
-    expect(makePickers().create({ basePath: "/nope" })).rejects.toThrow(
+    await expect(makePickers().create({ basePath: "/nope" })).rejects.toThrow(
       "Failed to create FFF file picker for /nope: db locked",
     );
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test("create throws when the picker cannot be opened at all", async () => {
makePool();
failAllCreates = true;
expect(makePickers().create({ basePath: "/nope" })).rejects.toThrow(
"Failed to create FFF file picker for /nope: db locked",
);
test("create throws when the picker cannot be opened at all", async () => {
makePool();
failAllCreates = true;
await expect(makePickers().create({ basePath: "/nope" })).rejects.toThrow(
"Failed to create FFF file picker for /nope: db locked",
);
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In `@packages/pi-fff/test/aux-pool.test.ts` around lines 194 - 200, Await the
asynchronous rejection assertion in the test covering create failure when the
picker cannot be opened, so the test does not complete before the matcher runs.

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