On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 10:23:35 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
## Hacking on a local copy of a package
If your project depends on a package in which you have found a
problem, or you would like to experiment with changes to it,
you can force Dub to use a local copy of the package by
following these steps:
1. Fork the git repository
2. Check out a local clone at `/path/to/the_package`
3. Let Dub know about it:
`dub add-local /path/to/the_package`
4. Make Dub ignore any configured release tag, so you'll see
the effect of current changes:
`dub add-override the_package * /path/to/the_package`
Now you can go ahead and play. Once your PR has been merged and
released, or you want to revert to upstream, undo your changes
by
5. `dub remove-local /path/to/the_package`
6. `dub remove-override the_package *`
-- Bastiaan.
You can also simply to modify the tree in .dub or %appdata% and
afterwards copy-paste the change to a git clone. It's more
dangerous, but I think it's more straighforward too.
