[CB-4622] Allow git URLs to contain tags / hashes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-plugman
• Assignee: Braden Shepherdson
• Reporter: Andrew Grieve
• Created: 19/Aug/13 18:51
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:29
• Resolved: 03/Sep/13 20:00

Description

plugman.fetch allows you to pass in a git ref to checkout after fetching. It's not currently exposed by the command-line though (only exposed through CLI)

Instead of having this as a separate argument to the fetch function, we should build it into the URL.

NPM (refer to https://npmjs.org/doc/install.html): uses <protocol>://[<user>@]<hostname><separator><path><commit-ish>

We also need to specify a sub-directory, so let's use:

<protocol>://[<user>@]<hostname><separator><path><commit-ish>[:subdir]

subdir does not start with a /.

Our 3.0 instruction could then look like:
"Install via plugman install http://.../cordova-plugin-geolocation.git#stable"

Note that we'll also need to update <dependency> tag handling to allow this format of URIs (might just be a docs update)

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CB-4715 Allow adding a plugin from cli in a git subdirectory