bug: lazy.nvim plugin does not respect version = '*' when updating itself.

[tysonliddell]

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Neovim version (nvim -v)

NVIM v0.8.1

Operating system/version

MacOS 12.8

Describe the bug

With theversion = '*' option is set, running :Lazy update results in the lazy.nvim plugin updating to the latest (potentially unstable) commit, rather than the latested tagged commit. This only happens for the lazy.nvim plugin itself. All other plugins where I have specified version = '*' remain at the latest tagged releases as expected.

Steps To Reproduce

require("lazy").setup({
    { 'folke/lazy.nvim', version = '*' }
})

Expected Behavior

At the time of writing, I would expect :Lazy update to update lazy.nvim to version a2f5c51 (v7.6.0) when version = '*' is set for the plugin, but it instead updates to the newer, unstable commit d02a10d.

My current workaround is to use tag = 'stable' instead of version, which causes lazy.nvim to remain at the stable commit a2f5c51.

Repro

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[folke]

Good catch!!

I didn't support packed-refs yet, so other version might've also been broken. Although weirdly enough, specifying --single-branch on clone fetched the real tags instead of the packed-refs. The bootstrap command did not include that.

Anyway, this is no longer needed, since I now also read packed-refs.

I'll make a new release so that from then on, version will be properly respected in all cases.