Setting branches does not work and :Lazy log looks broken.

[matu3ba]

Describe the bug
I get a bunch of

    ● cmp-cmdline 0.26ms  start
      │ Fatal: Could not find remote reference refs/heads/master.

even though I have set { 'hrsh7th/cmp-cmdline', branch = 'main' }, inside my plugins.lua file.

Which version of Neovim are you using?
Gui(specify which GUI client you are using)? Nightly? Version? NVIM v0.9.0-dev-546+g98daaa798

To Reproduce
Make sure to read https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim/wiki/Minimal-%60init.lua%60-to-Reproduce-an-Issue
The reproduction script should contain instructions how to create a file from verbatim string for the used plugins.

A minimal config is:

return {
  { 'hrsh7th/cmp-cmdline', branch = 'main' },
}

and init.lua

-- git clone --filter=blob:none --single-branch https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git $HOME/.local/share/nvim//lazy/lazy.nvim
local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy/lazy.nvim"
local has_lazy = vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath)
if not has_lazy then
  print 'Please install lazy, instructions in init.lua'
else
  vim.opt.runtimepath:prepend(lazypath)
  require("lazy").setup("my_plugins", {})
end

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run :Lazy sync

Expected Behavior
Correct cloning or git fetch + git merge --ff-only.

Screenshots
If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem.

Log
:Lazy log execution fails with the following error:

Error executing vim.schedule lua callback: .../.local/share/nvim/lazy/lazy.nvim/lua/lazy/view/text.lua:89: end_col val
ue outside range
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
        .../.local/share/nvim/lazy/lazy.nvim/lua/lazy/view/text.lua:89: in function 'render'
        ...local/share/nvim/lazy/lazy.nvim/lua/lazy/view/render.lua:73: in function 'update'
        .../.local/share/nvim/lazy/lazy.nvim/lua/lazy/view/init.lua:129: in function <.../.local/share/nvim/lazy/lazy.
nvim/lua/lazy/view/init.lua:126>

[matu3ba]

Sidenode: github has predefined text areas for filling multiple windows: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/new?assignees=&labels=error+message&template=error_message.yml

Other observation: I dont see many tests. Might be useful to add a procedure to collect them. For example I could not spot tests for branch.

[olimorris]

Just came to report :Lazy log being broken. I'm seeing the same thing

[folke]

I can't reproduce this with the below:

local root = vim.fn.fnamemodify("./.repro", ":p")

-- set stdpaths to use .repro
for _, name in ipairs({ "config", "data", "state", "cache" }) do
  vim.env[("XDG_%s_HOME"):format(name:upper())] = root .. "/" .. name
end

-- bootstrap lazy
local lazypath = root .. "/plugins/lazy.nvim"
if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then
  vim.fn.system({
    "git",
    "clone",
    "--filter=blob:none",
    "--single-branch",
    "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git",
    lazypath,
  })
end
vim.opt.runtimepath:prepend(lazypath)

-- install plugins
local plugins = {
  -- do not remove the colorscheme!
  "folke/tokyonight.nvim",
  -- add any other pugins here
  "hrsh7th/nvim-cmp",
  { "hrsh7th/cmp-cmdline", branch = "main" },
}

require("lazy").setup(plugins, {
  root = root .. "/plugins",
})

-- add anything else here
vim.opt.termguicolors = true
-- do not remove the colorscheme!
vim.cmd([[colorscheme tokyonight]])

[folke]

@olimorris I just added some extra details to the error message about extmarks. Would be great if you could update and post back the error message you got

[olimorris]

Yeah I'm still getting an error. If I happen to be in the README.md file from my dotfiles, with the minimal config you supplied above, I get the following error message:

Failed to set extmark. Please report a bug with this info:
{
  line = { {
      hl = {
        end_col = 13,
        hl_group = "Title"
      },
      str = ""
    }, {
      hl = {
        end_col = 12,
        hl_group = "Italic"
      },
      str = ""
    }, {
      hl = {
        end_col = 22,
        hl_group = "@text.literal.markdown_inline"
      },
      str = ""
    }, {
      hl = {
        end_col = 36,
        hl_group = "@text.literal.markdown_inline"
      },
      str = ""
    }, {
      hl = {
        end_col = 49,
        hl_group = "@text.literal.markdown_inline"
      },
      str = ""
    }, <1>{
      hl = {
        end_col = 106,
        hl_group = "@text.literal.markdown_inline"
      },
      str = ""
    }, {
      hl = "Comment",
      str = " (11 hours ago)"
    } },
  segment = <table 1>
}

Additional Info:

NVIM v0.8.1
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Compiled by brew@Ventura-arm64.local

Features: +acl +iconv +tui
See ":help feature-compile"

   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/neovim/0.8.1/share/nvim"

{
  machine = "arm64",
  release = "22.1.0",
  sysname = "Darwin",
  version = "Darwin Kernel Version 22.1.0: Sun Oct  9 20:15:09 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8792.41.9~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000"
}

[olimorris]

@folke latest commit has fixed the log issue 👍🏼

[folke]

@matu3ba the error you're getting is from git fetch. We do not supply a branch there. We also never do a fallback to master, so that should not be possible.

I suspect a bad internet connection made the initial clone/checkout fail?

Closing this. Doesn't seem right

[matu3ba]

@folke Some weird cache issue.

rm -fr $HOME/.cache/nvim/lazy
rm -fr $HOME/.local/share/nvim/lazy
rm -fr $HOME/.local/share/nvim/size/pack

solved my problems.
I suspect not adding the branch tag for repos that need it on cloning breaks things, but cleaning everything sounds simpler to me.

[folke]

you dont need to specify a branch at all