[CB-8239] Add support for git urls to 'cordova platform add'

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-cli, cordova-lib
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Omar Mefire
• Created: 04/Jan/15 02:26
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:51
• Resolved: 26/Jan/15 18:43

Description

Allow the following scenarios:

• users can issue 'cordova platform add https://github.com/apache/cordova-android.git' and the git repo will be cloned and used.
• users can issue 'cordova platform add android@https://github.com/apache/cordova-android.git' and the git repo will be cloned and used.
• users can issue 'cordova platform add android' and if their config.xml file contains: '<engine id='android' version='https://github.com/apache/cordova-android.git' />, then the git repo pointed to by config.xml will be cloned and used.