tsc --watch changes shell's current directory to ~ in Terminal.app while running

[verhovsky]

🔎 Search Terms

watch current directory

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• I was unable to test this on prior versions because it's too much work

⏯ Playground Link

No response

💻 Code

tsc --watch -p ./

🙁 Actual behavior

When running the above command in macOS's Terminal.app and pressing Cmd+t to open a new shell it opens a new shell at my home directory

🙂 Expected behavior

Terminal.app should open the new shell in the same directory that I ran the command from.

Additional information about the issue

webpack --watch

works the way I expect.

[RyanCavanaugh]

We never call chdir or equivalent as far as I can tell -- I don't know how Terminal.app decides what the new shell directory logic is, but maybe it's something else?

[verhovsky]

Yea, it's something to do with Terminal.app. iTerm2 does the right thing after enabling Profiles → Working Directory → Reuse previous session's directory and so does Alacritty.

[RyanCavanaugh]

If you can point to what we're doing wrong I'm happy to fix, but we don't have a realistic way to reverse engineer what Terminal.app is looking for / doing.

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