`github: 'my/own_branch'` is somehow ignored

[jmuheim]

I have forked BootstrapFormHelpers and added the main directive to it and created a PR.

As long as the PR isn't merged, I'd like to use my own branch.

asset 'bootstrap-formhelpers', github: 'jmuheim/BootstrapFormHelpers'

When installing, it seems that bower uses the correct repo:

bower bootstrap-formhelpers#*       not-cached git://github.com/jmuheim/BootstrapFormHelpers.git#*
bower bootstrap-formhelpers#*          resolve git://github.com/jmuheim/BootstrapFormHelpers.git#*
bower bootstrap-formhelpers#*         download https://github.com/jmuheim/BootstrapFormHelpers/archive/2.3.0.tar.gz

Sadly, in the vendor/assets/bower_components/bootstrap-formhelpers/bower.json file, the main directive is still missing!

But in the used branch it clearly is there, see: https://github.com/jmuheim/BootstrapFormHelpers/blob/master/bower.json

What could have gone wrong here?

[SergeyKishenin]

Seems like it's fetching the latest 2.3.0 release, because branch is not specified.

[SergeyKishenin]

But specifying branch is a bad practice: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15786541/532252.

Try asset 'bootstrap-formhelpers', 'git://github.com/someone/some-package.git#<sha>' unless sha option is supported for bower-rails.

[SergeyKishenin]

Actually, now you can pass SHA as version like:

asset 'bootstrap-formhelpers', '<sha>', github: 'someone/some-package.git'

[jmuheim]

At the time being, I decided to do as described above:

asset 'bootstrap-formhelpers', # A set of JavaScript to help create user friendly forms
      'b69c70158c077449ae2a83f8ac13024944278356',
      github: 'jmuheim/BootstrapFormHelpers' # Use this until https://github.com/winmarkltd/BootstrapFormHelpers/pull/219 is merged

Still, I'd rather just use a branch name. I understand that this is risky, but Bundler allows it, too.