Specifying Plugin URL For Dependencies

[thomasbellio]

I have a plugin configuration that looks like this:

return {
  {
    -- fuzzy file search
    "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim",
    url = "git@github.com:nodezeroio/telescope.nvim",
  },
    {
    "yetone/avante.nvim",
    dependencies = {
      { "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim" }, 
-- other dependencies ...
    },
  },
}

When I load the plugins I expected Lazy to merge the plugins and recognize that the dependency is already defined with a specific url, in my case: git@github.com:nodezeroio/telescope.nvim, but instead it loads the plugin from the default url: 'https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim.git'.

When I explicitly set the url on the dependency like this:

return {
  {
    -- fuzzy file search
    "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim",
    url = "git@github.com:nodezeroio/telescope.nvim",
  },
    {
    "yetone/avante.nvim",
    dependencies = {
      { "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim", url="git@github.com:nodezeroio/telescope.nvim" }, 
-- other dependencies ...
    },
  },
}

It works as expected, but I am curious if there is a way to ensure that all the dependencies are configured with the custom url without having to explicitly set it for all dependencies, which is obviously tedious and error prone.

Is this the expected behavior, or is this a bug?
How could I configure the plugins to have a custom url even for dependencies of other plugins?

[dpetka2001]

Do it like this

return {
	{
		-- fuzzy file search
		"nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim",
	},
	{
		"yetone/avante.nvim",
		dependencies = {
			{ "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim", url = "git@github.com:nodezeroio/telescope.nvim" },
			-- other dependencies ...
		},
	},
}

lazy.nvim parses the files alphabetically and each plugin spec in each file from top to bottom. If it finds only { "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim" } it will assume it's just the default plugin spec and overwrite all previous fields that have been customized in a previous spec. Only the fields keys, cmd, event, ft, opts and dependencies will be merged. All other spec properties will just get overwritten. So, the last spec should have the final changes in the fields that won't get merged, like url in your example, that you want to make.

That is my understanding of how it works. Taken from LazyVim docs.

So, if you have multiple files where you have Telescope as a dependency, you should only define url in the last file (a.lua will get parsed first, then b.lua etc and z.lua last). In the last file you should define url in the last Telescope plugin spec from top to bottom.