git folder not being recognized

This is with jupyterlab 0.31.1 and the latest master of jupyterlab-git.

In the terminal I’m seeing 404 messages of the form:

[W 15:45:45.040 LabApp] 404 POST /git/API?1516772745105 (10.200.18.81) 4.00ms
[W 15:45:52.422 LabApp] 404 POST /git/API?1516772752486 (10.200.18.81) 4.00ms 
[W 15:45:52.851 LabApp] 404 POST /git/API?1516772752917 (10.200.18.81) 3.99ms 
[W 15:46:00.031 LabApp] 404 POST /git/API?1516772760098 (10.200.18.81) 4.00ms 

[leafty]

@dunjoye4real I made a PR(#210) which uses the server server_root_dir setting instead of os.getcwd().

This worked for me when launching using the --notebook-dir option.

[dunjoye4real]

I have the same issue with Git tab looking in the wrong folder. I tried to use open terminal from Git menu and i figured out jupyter-lab is referencing from /home/username/ which apparently, i started jupyterlab from that path, fine. I did a git init in this same folder /home/username/ but jupyterlab-git could not still recognise the folder as a git repository even after multiple restart. I could do all git task in this repository but jupyterlab-git extension can’t recognise it as a git repository. Kindly, @zzhangjii @AmadeusSG @hjalmarlucius does anyone know a fix for this issue?

Also is there anyway to point jupyterlab-git to --notebook-dir if i had specify my --notebook-dir when starting jupyterlab?