CocoaPods: point to a branch in pod spec

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DZenBot picture DZenBot · Aug 5, 2014 · Viewed 22.2k times · Source

I'm trying to install code from a repository's branch on a pod spec, and based on the documentation, this should work:

s.dependency 'repository_name',
:git => 'https://github.com/account_name/repository_name.git',
:branch => 'experimental_branch'

But I get an error with something like [!] Unsupported version requirements. Updating CocoaPods might fix the issue.

It works when installing from a pod file directly:

pod 'ObjectiveRecord', :git => 'https://github.com/supermarin/ObjectiveRecord.git', :branch => '2-0-experimental'

Does anyone know? Thanks!

Answer

orta picture orta · Aug 5, 2014

You can't use a pod dependency like that, it only supports "name", "version". Source: guides.cocoapods.org. It is expected that the :git and :branch metadata will come from the podfile.

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