Depend on a branch or tag using a git URL in a package.json?

Question

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

Answer 1

If you want to use devel or feature branch, or you haven’t published a certain package to the NPM registry, or you can’t because it’s a private module, then you can point to a git:// URI instead of a version number in your package.json:

"dependencies": {
   "public": "git://github.com/user/repo.git#ref",
   "private": "git+ssh://git@github.com:user/repo.git#ref"
}

The #ref portion is optional, and it can be a branch (like master), tag (like 0.0.1) or a partial or full commit id.