Chase Colman

Unit tests aren't running on GH actions for some reason, but they work locally with `make test` Need to resolve merge conflict

Finally getting around to finishing this up

> > Finally getting around to finishing this up > > We should implement this fail-safe as well: [#2093 (comment)](https://github.com/LunarVim/LunarVim/pull/2093#issuecomment-1000167885) This fail-safe should probably be implemented and merged before this...

> Oh, nice idea with the branches, but let's do it the other way around. If neovim-0.5 is detected, then we check out the "compat-0.5x" branch, which is basically just...

> > I would agree, but we cannot do this for old versions that expect `rolling` or `master` to be the branch. That's the primary reason I suggested it in...

> Okay, I see what you mean, but that should hopefully(?) be fine as long as the validation is done in the `post_update` hook. I considered something like this, but...

> This just nuked my site folder without asking me, I guess I should've read the code more carefully 😢 That's unfortunate, by "this" do you mean "lvim --update" or...

I think that I put everything in the right places, but let me know @kylo252 A few things left that I need to do: - [ ] Test and fix...

> The base-repo update logic should be moved into a specialized updater script: > > 1. it would make it easier to work on and debug without worrying about updating...

After much consideration and testing, I have reverted the part of this PR that implements a custom downloader and Packer plugin type. At this point, it is hardly the most...