dub / use git branch

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 2/16/20 9:01 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote:
> I want to use a specific branch version if a package. I specified the 
> branch version in a dub.selections.json file.
> 
> But it seems that dub requires a ZIP file that can be downloaded from 
> code.dlang.org, which of course fails because the branch is only 
> available on github.
> 
> Fetching rtree ~fix-#3 (getting selected version)...
> Downloading https://code.dlang.org/packages/rtree/~fix-#3.zip failed 
> with 404 (Not Found).
> 
> How am I supposed to switch to a branch version of a package to try a 
> bug-fix version for example?
> 

git clone that branch to a local repository.

dub add-local . in that repository. It will say something like "adding 
v1.0.1+commit..." then you mark your project as requiring ~> v1.0.1, and 
it will pick your local repository.

When you are done, make sure to dub remove-local that repository so it 
stops trying to grab your local copy.

-Steve