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Say I've forked a node module with a bugfix and I want to use my fixed version, on a feature branch of course, until the bugfix is merged and released.
How would I reference my fixed version in the dependencies of my package.json?
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To npm install a public project that is hosted on Github, and not the NPM registry, add the Github repo to package. json dependencies using the username/repo#branch-name format. Run npm install and npm will download the project and save it into your /node_modules/ folder.
You can clone a specific branch from a Git repository using the git clone –single-branch –branch command. This command retrieves all the files and metadata associated with one branch. To retrieve other branches, you'll need to fetch them later on.
A ref is an indirect way of referring to a commit. You can think of it as a user-friendly alias for a commit hash. This is Git's internal mechanism of representing branches and tags. Refs are stored as normal text files in the .git/refs directory, where .git is usually called .git .
You can find repos in two ways: Type “14ers-git” in the github.com search bar to find the repository.
From the npm docs:
git://github.com/<user>/<project>.git#<branch> git://github.com/<user>/<project>.git#feature\/<branch> As of NPM version 1.1.65, you can do this:
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