support git refs via pub global activate

[DartBot]

<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/17034?v=3" align="left" width="96" height="96"hspace="10"> Issue by kevmoo
Originally opened as dart-lang/sdk#23524

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pub global activate --source git [path] only supports the primary branch it seems.

No way to specify another rev/ref/etc

[sh4869]

Any updates on this?

[daniel-v]

I up this, would be a nice feature.

[PiN73]

If one is using some package for Dart/Flutter project, there is a workaround:

Instead of

$ flutter pub global activate package_name
$ executable_name

do this:

• In your project's pubspec.yaml file:

dev_dependencies:
  package_name:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/munificent/kittens.git
      ref: commit / branch / tag / etc

$ flutter pub get

$ flutter pub run package_name:executable_command

What is executable_command? You can find it out in the package_name's pubspec.yaml where it will be

executables:
  executable_name: executable_command

[mrverdant13]

Still a pretty interesting feature.

[sigurdm]

This has worked for a while.

eg:

dart pub global activate --source git https://github.com/dart-lang/pub --git-ref=75c671c7d65db43f197b55419a8519906a611730

Works