Problem: Some environment variables which are useful when working inside
a bare repository can affect any Git operation.
Solution: Explicitly unset problematic environment variables.
Problem:
Force resolve `spec.version` overrides the information about whether
a user supplied `version` or not. Knowing it might be useful in some use
cases (like comparing to previously set `spec` to detect if it has
changed).
Solution:
Do not resolve `spec.version`. This also improves speed when triggering
events and calling `get()`.
- Place default branch first when listing all branches.
- Use correct terminology in `get_hash` helper.
- Do not return `{ '' }` if there are no tags.
Problem:
There is no way to get more information about installed plugins, like
current revision or default branch (necessary if resolving default
`spec.version` manually). As computing Git data migth take some time,
also allow `get()` to limit output to only necessary set of plugins.
Solution:
- introduce arguments to `get(names, opts)`, which follows other
`vim.pack` functions. Plugin extra info is returned by default and
should be opt-out via `opts.info = false`.
- Examples:
- Get current revision: `get({ 'plug-name' })[1].rev`
- Get default branch: `get({ 'plug_name' })[1].branches[1]`
- `update()` and `del()` act on plugins in the same order their names
are supplied. This is less surprising.
- default `opts.info` to `true` since this simplifies logic for the
common user, while still leaving the door open for a faster `get()` if
needed.
Problem: Progress reports use plain `nvim_echo()` with manually
constructed messages and populate history on every call.
Solution: Use `nvim_echo()` with newly added `kind=progress` which (at
least for now) is meant to be a unified interface for showing progress
report. Also save in history only first and last progress report
messages.
Problem:
The load function in opts was difficult to use if you wished to
customize based on the plugin being loaded.
You could get the name, but without some way to mark a spec, that was of
limited usefulness unless you wanted to hardcode a list of names in the
function, or write a wrapper around the whole thing
Solution:
Allow users to provide an arbitrary data field in plugin specs so that
they may receive info as to how to handle that plugin in load, get() and
events, and act upon it
Co-authored-by: BirdeeHub <birdee@localhost>
Co-authored-by: Evgeni Chasnovski <evgeni.chasnovski@gmail.com>
Problem: No way to skip install confirmation in `add()`. Having install
confirmation by default is a more secure design. However, users are
usually aware of the fact that plugin will be installed and there is
currently no way to skip confirmation.
Plus it can introduce inconvenience on the clean config initialization
if it is modularized with many `vim.pack.add()` calls (leads to
confirming installation many times in a row).
Solution: Add `opts.confirm` option that can skip install confirmation.
Problem: No way to have full control over how plugin is loaded.
Although `:packadd!` has small side effects (only adds plugin
directory to 'runtimepath'; and maybe its 'after/' subdirectory), it
still has side effects. For example, 'plugin/' directories are still
loaded during startup (as part of `:h load-plugins`).
Solution: Allow function `opts.load` that has full control over how
plugin is loaded.
Problem: the `load=true` in `vim.pack.add()` means that `:packadd` is
executed even during startup. This leads to force source of 'plugin/',
which breaks the intended loading order (`:h load-plugins`) and
results into sourcing them twice. This also makes it ignore
`--noplugin` argument.
Using `:packadd!` during startup is more appropriate, while `:packadd`
afterwards is still more favorable to actually force 'plugin/' source
(as there is no pre-defined mechanism that will load them later).
Solution: have `load=false` default during startup, `true` - afterwards.
Problem:
Error when adding a plugin will make all following plugins not
`:packadd`ed
Solution:
- add() should handle errors from :packadd with pcall()
Co-authored-by: Evgeni Chasnovski <evgeni.chasnovski@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
