How can a highlight group combine custom attributes and a link?

Hello!

I am aware of one way for a highlight group to contain both custom attributes and a link to another group:

:hi Foo guifg=red
:hi! link Foo Comment

:hi Foo
Foo xxx guifg=red
links to Comment

Are there any other ways to do this?

The context is I have a plugin which defines a default highlight group:

:hi default link Foo Comment

In a user's vimrc, they specify the attributes they actually want:

:hi Foo guifg=red

However instead of seeing this:

:hi Foo
Foo xxx guifg=red

...they see this:

:hi Foo
Foo xxx guifg=red
links to Comment

And I cannot figure out why this is happening. (https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter/issues/176)

Thanks in advance!

Yours,
Andy Stewart

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