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dependencies and devDependencies automatically pull the latest commit when url has #latest suffix ? #54

Closed vikikamath closed 8 years ago

vikikamath commented 9 years ago

For example in bower.json for devDependency or dependency one could have a following entry:

{
...
"xyzlib": "git+https://example.com/path/to/xyzlib.git#<SHA-1>"
....
}

upon bower update or bower install, bower.json pulls the xyzlib specified by as expected.

If the xyzlib has additional commits, to refer to the latest commit, the bower.json pointing to xyzlib requires to be updated everytime.

Instead if a tag like #latest is available (as shown below), then irrespective of number of commits xyzlib moves ahead, the #latest will always refer to the most recent commit.

{
...
"xyzlib": "git+https://example.com/path/to/xyzlib.git#latest"
....
}
sheerun commented 8 years ago

Tags are assumed to be not changing. If latest is branch, then bower re-fetches it each time (try for example #master).