Can't ignore relative paths

[bdoms]

Absolute and regex (**) paths included in the config options are properly ignored, but relative paths never work. e.g.:

ignored: ['build', 'tests'']

Won't ignore those folders and will continue to watch them.

The issue is that relative paths are combined with the cwd but the cwd defaults to an empty string. Using the empty string means relative paths will never work, unless you happen to be in the root directory. You can see this in several places in index.ts, such as the normalizeIgnored function: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/blob/main/src/index.ts#L182

Possible solution: use process.cwd() as the default instead. I can create a pull request if this is acceptable.

This is happening on all platforms with the most recent published version, 4.0.3, though this issue has existed since at least October, 2023: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77355876/vite-not-respecting-server-watch-ignored-option-laravel/79724226

I would hazard to guess that there are a lot of projects out there thinking they're ignoring relative folders, but actually aren't because of this bug. They just won't know it until they hit the file watcher limit.

[43081j]

interesting, i wonder if the cwd should just be process.cwd() in the initial options

im surprised its not already that actually 🤔

that seems like the way to fix this rather than changing the deeper functions like normalizeIgnore