FZF ignores nested files from $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='fd' but not when piping fd into FZF

[64-bitman]

Checklist

• I have read through the manual page (man fzf)
• I have searched through the existing issues
• For bug reports, I have checked if the bug is reproducible in the latest version of fzf

Output of fzf --version

0.52.0 (bcda25a)

OS

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows
• Etc.

Shell

• bash
• zsh
• fish

Problem / Steps to reproduce

Download this source archive and extract test.tar.gz test.tar.gz.sig.gz

change directory to src/rxvt-unicode-9.31/

export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND=fd and run fzf
Enter something like xdefaults.c (located in the src/ directory)
There should be no matches

run fd | fzf
Do the same thing above
There should be matches

If you run fd alone it should list the files located in the src/ directory, but FZF for some reason ignores those files when using $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND.

The only thing that fixed this is by deleting .gitignore in the top level folder,
but I couldn't find anything about FZF handling .gitignore in the man page.

[LangLangBart]

Not reproducible so far.

When you execute fd | grep 'xdefaults.C', do you see the file?

Please share your FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS as well, if set.

[64-bitman]

When you execute fd | grep 'xdefaults.C', do you see the file?

I get:

src/xdefaults.C
src/xdefaults.C.orig

Please share your FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS as well, if set.

FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS: -bind=alt-k:up,alt-j:down,tab:accept,alt-e:abort,ctrl-e:abort,alt-x:cancel,ë:up,ê:down,ø:cancel

Setting it to nothing doesn't do anything either

[LangLangBart]

fzf is essentially an interactive grep tool, with the search performed solely by fd. Since deleting .gitignore in the top-level folder resolved the issue, the command below should also reveal the file.

FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND="fd --unrestricted" fzf --filter 'xdefaults.C'
# src/xdefaults.C

I assume your .gitignore contains a line to ignore .C files or the entire src/ folder?