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I just tested this, the parallel updates and installs are fantastic, however, I have "YouCompleteMe" as a plugin, and it consistently fails to install, and when it tries it seriously lags out. Vim will freeze for 4 or so minutes, and it fails with an error "fatal: destination path '~/.vim/plugged/YouCompleteMe' already exists and is not an empty directory"

Something strange there. Trying to resolve it, I don't doubt that there is maybe something I neglected to do, but that's not a black mark on me, vundle has no trouble with this, and doesn't complicate it either.

So cool project, young project, if I can resolve the issue I'll definitely be using it.

edit: Wait a minute, miiiight just be YouCompleteMe.

Doing more testing!

edit2: noooope, vim-plug installed YouCompleteMe in such a way as to mess up the repository. Manual installations work fine.



As I answered in the issue [1] the problem is likely caused by the task timeout. Maybe vim-plug should delete the repo directory if timeout occurs during the installation. A workaround at the moment is to increase `g:plug_timeout` so that it never times out.

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/issues/75#issuecomment-...




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