Cannot load my colorscheme plugin from local dev-folder

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I’m trying to point Lazy.nvim to a local checkout of my personal colorscheme (goerz) so that I can develop it.

I have the Lazy setup in my init.lua file. Also, installing the colorscheme from Github works fine with the following configuration:

  { -- goerz color scheme
    'goerz/goerz-colors.nvim',
    lazy = false,
    priority = 1000, -- make sure to load this before all the other start plugins
  }

Now I’ve modified this with a dir and dev options:

 { -- goerz color scheme
    'goerz/goerz-colors.nvim',
    dir = "/home/goerz/Documents/Programming/goerz-colors.nvim/",
    dev = true,
    lazy = false,
    priority = 1000, -- make sure to load this before all the other start plugins
  }

I’ve made sure that the directory in dir exists and is accessible. Still, when I start nvim, I get an error like

Error detected while processing /home/goerz/.config/nvim/init.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: /home/goerz/.config/nvim/init.lua:304: Vim:E185: Cannot find color scheme 'goerz'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'colorscheme'
        /home/goerz/.config/nvim/init.lua:304: in main chunk

I’ve also tried commenting out the reference to GitHub ( 'goerz/goerz-colors.nvim',).
How exactly do I tell Lazy.nvim to load a plugin from a local path? It seemed to me like I was following the instructions in the Lazy documentation. Is there something specific to colorschemes that would mess this up?

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Also posted in Cannot load my colorscheme plugin from local dev-folder · neovim/neovim · Discussion #29412 · GitHub, since I didn’t realize this “Discourse” is somewhat deprecated in favor of GitHub Discussions.