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Problem: There are two fairly common workflows that involve lockfile and
can be made more straightforward in `vim.pack`:
1. Revert latest update. Like if it introduced unwanted behavior.
2. Update to a revision in the lockfile. Like if already updated
on another machine, verified that everything works, `git add` +
`git commit` + `git push` the config, and want to have the same
plugin states on current machine.
Solution: Make `update` allow `opts.target`. By default it uses
`version` from a plugin specification (like a regular "get new changes
from source" workflow). But it also allows `"lockfile"` value to
indicate that target revision after update should be taken from the
current lockfile verbatim.
With this, the workflows are:
1. Revert (somehow) to the lockfile before the update, restart, and
`vim.pack.update({ 'plugin' }, { target = 'lockfile' })`. If Git
tracked, revert with `git checkout HEAD -- nvim-pack-lock.json`.
For non-VCS tracked lockfile, the revisions can be taken from the
log file. It would be nicer if `update()` would backup a lockfile
before doing an update, but that might require discussions.
2. `git pull` + `:restart` +
`vim.pack.update(nil, { target = 'lockfile' })`.
The only caveats are for new and deleted plugins:
- New plugins (not present locally but present in the lockfile)
will be installed at lockfile revision during restart.
- Deleted plugins (present locally but not present in the
lockfile) will still be present: both locally *and* in the
lockfile. They can be located by
`git diff -- nvim-pack-lock.json` and require manual
`vim.pack.del({ 'old-plugin1', 'old-plugin2' })`.