How do you force 'pub get' to get latest from git?

Question

I have a git dependency in my pubspec.yaml file, how can I force it to be updated when new changes occur in the git repo?

flutter pub get / pub get

It does not get the latest, as it is in .pub-cache/git/

Is there a way to force a specific dependency to update from a git repo referenced in pubspec.yaml?

Answer 1

In your pubspec.yaml, you can specify a particular git commit:

dependencies:
  http2:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/dart-lang/http2.git
      ref: c31df28c3cf076c9aacaed1d77f45b66bb2e01a6

Or if you specify only a branch in "ref":

dependencies:
  http2:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/dart-lang/http2.git
      ref: master

You need to force the update with flutter packages upgrade

Answer 2

Use

flutter packages upgrade

to get latest.

flutter packages get

only gets latests the first time and writes the resolved versions into pubspec.lock Subsequent flutter packages get runs then try to get the versions listed in pubspec.lock,
while flutter packages upgrade always ignores pubspec.lock