[CB-8634] `cordova platform add git_url` should accept custom branches and check them out

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.0
• Component/s: cordova-lib
• Assignee: Omar Mefire
• Reporter: Omar Mefire
• Created: 08/Mar/15 22:09
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:52
• Resolved: 16/May/15 01:25

Description

Currently, adding a platform via a git_url, always checks out the master branch. It would be great if we could also checkout custom branches (i.e: pluggable_webview branch) :

`cordova platform add https://github.com/apache/cordova-android.git#pluggable_webview`