Code coverage: cover.cov location is not based on the current file's path

[maruel]

Related to issue #526.

lua/go/coverage.lua hardcodes "cover.cov" in the current working directory and not in the directory containing of the active buffer's file path.

Ref:

• go.nvim/lua/go/coverage.lua

  Line 185 in 6368756

  local cov = pwd .. utils.sep() .. 'cover.cov'

• go.nvim/lua/go/coverage.lua

  Line 308 in 6368756

  local cov = pwd .. utils.sep() .. 'cover.cov'

This is problematic for two reasons:

• When opening a file in a subdirectory, the file is not in the right location. E.g. nvim foo/bar.go will create cover.cov in the current directory, not under foo/.
  • Similar wrong behavior if running nvim ../foo/bar.go
• This file has to be ignored in git.

Solution

One of:

• Default to a temporary file that is automatically cleaned up upon editor exit
• Use a well known location in ~/.cache/
• Use the file's current directory