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

Question

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 fet

Answer 1

Yes, you can point to the git url, or use name/repo shorthand (for github repos):

bower.json

{
  "name": "bower-test",
  "dependencies": {
    "dpm": "git@github.com:okfn/dpm.git",
    "docker-nmpjs": "terinjokes/docker-npmjs"
  }
}

More in the docs

As @roi noted in the comments, you can use the --save flag to automatically add dependencies to bower.json, e.g. bower install terinjokes/docker-npmjs --save