Allow pull with --force

[spapanik]

As there are plugins that clobber the latest or stable or similar tags, they fail at update (for example catppuccin/nvim). The solution is for me to go to ~/.local/share/nvim/plugged/, find the offending plugin, and do a git pull --force. I was wondering if there is the option to do it from :PlugUpdate, and if not I would like to make a feature request for this.

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" Main plugins
Plug 'dense-analysis/ale'
Plug 'jiangmiao/auto-pairs'
Plug 'jlanzarotta/bufexplorer'
Plug 'catppuccin/nvim', {'as': 'catppuccin'}
Plug 'github/copilot.vim'
Plug 'Shougo/deoplete.nvim', {'do': ':UpdateRemotePlugins'}
Plug 'bogado/file-line'
Plug 'junegunn/fzf', {'dir': '~/.fzf', 'do': './install --bin'}
Plug 'jparise/vim-graphql'
Plug 'autozimu/LanguageClient-neovim', {'branch': 'next', 'do': 'bash install.sh'}
Plug 'preservim/nerdtree'
Plug 'lambdalisue/suda.vim'
Plug 'ervandew/supertab'
Plug 'leafgarland/typescript-vim'
Plug 'SirVer/ultisnips'
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline'
Plug 'moll/vim-bbye'
Plug 'tpope/vim-commentary'
Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
Plug 'hynek/vim-python-pep8-indent'
Plug 'tpope/vim-repeat'
Plug 'tpope/vim-surround'
Plug 'tpope/vim-speeddating'
Plug 'cespare/vim-toml'
Plug 'editorconfig/editorconfig-vim'
Plug 'zah/nim.vim'

" Plugin extras
Plug 'Xuyuanp/nerdtree-git-plugin'
Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim'
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes'
Plug 'honza/vim-snippets'

NVIM v0.9.5
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1713773202

   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/nvim"

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[junegunn]

As there are plugins that clobber the latest or stable or similar tags, they fail at update (for example catppuccin/nvim).

It's not clear why they fail to update. Can you be more specific? You're not specifying the tag in the Plug command, so they shouldn't affect the git pull process.

[spapanik]

My global git configuration automatically pulls and prunes tags, which is the configuration that makes sense for the repos that I'm working with.

I found an installation that I haven't manually force pulled catpuccin. This is the error I'm getting:

x catppuccin:
    From https://github.com/catppuccin/nvim
     ! [rejected]        stable     -> stable  (would clobber existing tag)

When I go to ~/.local/share/nvim/plugged/catppuccin and I delete the offending tag, it updates fine.

[junegunn]

My global git configuration automatically pulls and prunes tags

Can you show me the config?

[spapanik]

The two parts in the config are:

[remote "origin"]
    tagOpt = --tags
[fetch]
    pruneTags = true

[junegunn]

Thanks for the clarification. I think this is a very rare case; an unorthodox use of tags (they should be maintaining stable branch instead) combined with a non-default global git option of yours.

vim-plug has been extremely stable and is not expected to change much in the near future, so I suggest that you add --force to your local copy of plug.vim, instead we add an option that few people will use.