How to install latest (untagged) state of a repo using bower?

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Johnny picture Johnny · Jun 5, 2013 · Viewed 67.1k times · Source

I have a very small repo in which I do all dev work in the master branch and use tags as "stable" points in history.

I guess by default Bower seems to fetch the latest tagged version of a repo. I'm trying to get the most recent commit in the master branch.

I've tried running all these, in every conceivable order:

bower cache-clean mypackage
bower install mypackage --force-latest
bower install mypackage --force --force-latest
bower install mypackage --force

I've also tried adding latest to my bower.json file:

"dependencies": {
  "mypackage": "latest"
}

And then running:

bower update mypackage

No matter what it seems to always get the latest tagged state.

How do I get the latest, most up-to-date, untagged state of the project?

Answer

Sindre Sorhus picture Sindre Sorhus · Jun 6, 2013

Specify a git commit SHA instead of a version:

bower install '<git-url>#<git-commit-sha>'

Example:

bower install 'git://github.com/yeoman/stringify-object.git#d2895fb97d'

You can also specify a branch instead of a SHA, but that's generally not recommended unless it's in development and you control all the parts.

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