cloneonly

Summary

cloneonly downloads (clones) a plugin or snippet without loading (sourcing) it. The plugin is available on disk but not active in the current shell.

Syntax / Usage

zi ice cloneonly

Details

cloneonly is a flag ice — it takes no value. It prevents the plugin from being sourced or initialized. The plugin directory exists and can be used by other means (e.g. referencing files directly).

Useful for pre-fetching a plugin for later use, or for plugins that are only needed as data sources (e.g. completions installed via zinit creinstall separately).

Works with both plugins and snippets.

Examples

# Pre-fetch a completion file without activating the plugin
zi ice cloneonly
zi light user/completions-repo

See Also

• as
• nocompletions