Why the extraneous default git urls?

[oblitum]

Why use git urls like https://git::@github.com/mileszs/ack.vim.git for the repositories?
There're some personal repositories which I push directly from the plugins directory, but I have to change remote urls to standard for the push to work on GitHub, and then, change it back to this non-conventional url so that vim-plug doesn't think there's a problem with the plugin when I run :PlugUpdate.

[oblitum]

By the way, thanks for the plugin, very nice! (although sometimes it struggles with some big plugins with long commit history, on my 1MB connection I have to clone them from terminal first, because vim-plug doesn't finish them and it keeps retrying)

[junegunn]

See: #109

It's a little trick to avoid username/password prompt from git when the repository doesn't exist. (Such thing can happen when there's a typo in the argument, or when the repository is removed from GitHub) It looks kind of silly, but doing so is the only way I know that works on various versions of git. If you're aware of a better way to handle this, please let me know.

As explained in the linked issue, there are two ways to override the default url pattern:

1. Using full git url: Plug 'https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim.git'
2. Or define g:plug_url_format

(By the way, vim-plug will not complain even if you manually remove git:: part from the default url. See https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/blob/2ee153d/plug.vim#L1165-L1169)

Regarding the retrials, you might want to increase g:plug_timeout to a very large number so that it doesn't interrupt the process ever.

[oblitum]

Thanks for all the info.

[oblitum]

By the way, I'm not aware.

[junegunn]

Okay, thanks. It's something I've wanted to fix too. Too bad, there's no easy solution.
I think I should put this on the FAQ page.

[oblitum]

Indeed, as it's a hack, I guess it's not well known, and may bring more duplicates like this one.

[oblitum]

Regarding it not complaining even if git::@ is taken out of the standard http url... I've not tried it, since I generally use git urls (hence it complained). Would it be a good idea to make it not complain with the two kinds of url formats (git and http)?

[junegunn]

That's a possibility. Yeah, we know that the following two URLs are equivalent on GitHub,

• https://github.com/junegunn/seoul256.vim.git
• git@github.com:junegunn/seoul256.vim.git

But does the same apply to the other git servers as well? Is it possible that they use some different URL scheme? I don't know the answer though, but you see what I'm worried about.

I suggest that you use g:plug_url_format for the moment. Please check out the updated FAQ page.

https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/faq#whats-the-deal-with-git-in-the-url

[oblitum]

Ok, I guess it has come the time for me to change my habits and adopt http urls for good.