Cannot use in Nix environment

[JeanMertz]

Due to the semver submodule, I was unable to include this plugin in my Nixified Neovim setup. This is because Nix doesn't checkout submodules in a Git repository (and the ?submodules=1 argument doesn't work if flake = false is set for a given input).

I had to fork and inline the semver.lua file to make it work as expected.

I know this is a niche case, but wanted to bring this up, in case in-lining that file is something you are open to.

[aarondill]

Is there a way to make the repo include submodules on nix?

[amirbilu]

What other plugins do? inline?

[janonymousm]

I'm not sure about the best way to add submodules in Nix, but you could just add them during the build phase: NixOS/nixpkgs#240176 (comment)