That should work. :)

-- Leah


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Spencer Lyon <[email protected]>
wrote:

> That's what I thought. I'm happy to do that
>
> To do this I just need to do
>
> `Pkg.tag("PDMats")`
>
> Then push that commit to my fork of METADATA and submit a PR, right?
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:13:06 AM UTC-7, Spencer Lyon wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to specify that a package depends on the current master
>> branch of another package.
>>
>> My problem is the following:
>>
>>    - I am developing a package that samples from the MultivariateNormal
>>    distribution in Distributions.jl.
>>    - This pacakge calls unwhiten! from PDMats.jl.
>>    - unwhiten! tries to access the uplo field of the Cholesky type in
>>    base/lingalg/cholesky.jl
>>    - The way this field is accessed was recently changed an PDMats.jl
>>    just updated the unwhiten! method 2 days ago (https://github.com/
>>    JuliaStats/PDMats.jl/commit/53cb7f5a182755e141bed5fb1c9c683d1283d304
>>    
>> <https://github.com/JuliaStats/PDMats.jl/commit/53cb7f5a182755e141bed5fb1c9c683d1283d304>
>>    )
>>
>> I would like to make my package require the current master branch of
>> PDMats.jl. I know I can do this manually via Pkg.checkout("PDMats"), but
>> I don’t want to force users to do this.
>>
>> In the REQUIRE file can I specify that I need to “checkout” PDMats?
>> ​
>>
>

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