ccollins476ad 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-381838866 @davidzuhn - OK, I think I finally see what you mean. That does seem like an important use case, and one I hadn't considered. I believe my original idea would address your need. I was considering a different use case, though, so it may not be ideal. My proposed solution would work as follows: * mynewt-core's `master` and your fork's `master` are identical. * Instead of pointing to a version of the official mynewt-core repo, your `project.yml` file points to a commit, branch, or tag on your fork: ``` repository.apache-mynewt-core: type: git vers: myownrelease-1.2 url: 'g...@github.com:davidsfork/mynewt-core.git' ``` *Note:* `project.yml` is not part of `mynewt-core` or your fork; it is local to your Mynewt workspace. `myownrelease-1.2` is a branch, tag, or commit in your fork. We would probably want some special notation to distinguish git commits from version numbers here, but let's ignore that for now. Each package in the project still depends on packages in `apache-mynewt-core`, but because of the customized entry in your `project.yml` file, newt translates the dependencies to use your special branch instead of the official repo. I do think that your idea--specifying a branch in the app's `pkg.yml` file--would work, but I think we would have difficulty fitting that behavior into newt. By the time newt parses the `pkg.yml` files, it has already determined which branches of each repo it should be using. As newt is currently implemented, it is the `project.yml` file which determines which branches / tags / commits of each repo are used by the project.
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