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Proposal: ability to specify subdirectory containing vim plugin
Some color schemes have their vim plugins within a subdirectory of the repo. For instance, vim plug has the rtp option, which allows you to specify the subdirectory containing the vim plugin.
This seems to be a duplicate of #10.
I read #10, but I found another method for this, maybe also work in Windows?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/600079/how-do-i-clone-a-subdirectory-only-of-a-git-repository/52269934#52269934
I figured out a workaround for this that works for my use cases.
First, install the main repository with some as = alias, then symlink or copy/install the desired subdirectory to the desired location using build =. Example:
require("paq") {
p {"vlime/vlime", as = "_vlime", build = "ln -fnrs vim ../vlime"}
}
You could use install or rsync here instead of ln, as desired. Note also that ln on Mac doesn't support -r (unless you install the GNU version), and of course this doesn't work on Windows.
(I know that this isn't actually necessary for Vlime anymore, but it's the first example I came up with).
As for the broader use case, would you be open to a patch that implements a subdir = option using git sparse-checkout? No manual runtimepath modification would be needed in that case.
