Packer fails to install packages from Gitlab on Windows

wbthomason / packer.nvim

A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

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Packer fails to install packages from Gitlab on Windows #858

Open ashencone opened 2 years ago

ashencone commented 2 years ago

nvim --version: NVIM v0.6.1
git --version: git version 2.35.1.windows.2
Operating system/version: Windows 11
Terminal name/version: Windows Terminal

Steps to reproduce

Run :PackerUpdate from nvim.

Actual behaviour

fatal: could not create leading directories of 'C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\nvim-data\site\pack\packer\start\https://gitlab.com/__tpb/monokai-pro.nvim': Invalid argument

Expected behaviour

monokai-pro.nvim installs correctly, like on Linux

pidgeon777 commented 2 years ago

I also confirm this bug:

 ✗ Failed to install https://gitlab.com/yorickpeterse/nvim-window.git
  Errors:
    fatal: could not create leading directories of 'C:\NVIM\data\lunarvim\site\pack\packer\start\https://gitlab.com/yorickpeterse/nvim-window.git': Invalid argument

cutey-none commented 2 years ago

Is there any way to fix this?

Joaq33 commented 2 years ago

Try running in powershell as admin

joaocsf commented 2 years ago

I've recently run into this issue as well. As a workaround, you can specify an alias using the as option.

use {
  'https://gitlab.com/__tpb/monokai-pro.nvim',
  as = 'monokai-pro.nvim'
}