davidzuhn commented on issue #157: Make it easier to pin a version to a specific tag URL: https://github.com/apache/mynewt-newt/issues/157#issuecomment-380927976 > To clarify, it is repository.yml that needs to come from master. This is the root of my problem. if I could specify (in the pkg.yml file for the application) a branch of the repository that I want to be checked out initially and where the repository.yml file should be scanned from, I think my use case would be met. So to restate what I want to do (and I'll be the first to believe that there's a different or better way to do things): I am a big fan of Continuous Integration. To me, CI builds *have* to come from clean, newly checked out repositories. Which means that I cannot use upstream/master directly, since it's not updated on the same pace that I can do (case in point: the changes you suggested for the BAS service, which I want to use but aren't committed upstream yet). So I go and update the apps pkg.yml to point to my fork of mynewt-{core,nimble,etc}. I could maintain my local changes in master on that fork, but my github use patterns say that I should keep my changes in a different branch that's unique to me. So I work on the 'mystuff' branch. I will pull from upstream/master on my pace, or add my own changes, etc. I can have repository.yml in the mystuff branch point to the right values that I want for "0.0.0" or "myownrelease-1.2" or "bob". With this, my app still references "@apache-mynewt-core" with version "0-dev", but with my local copy. The problem is that newt only reads repository.yml from master. Since I want to keep master updated with upstream/master, without any local changes, my own repository.yml (in "mystuff") is never used. If I could put one more field in app/pkg.yml, and use that argument as a "-b <argument>" option to "git clone", then I think the rest of the processing would do the expected thing (since the values in repository.yml in the branch that I want is parsed, and further branch/tag/commit processing can occur).
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