Import a git dependency by specifying a url and filepath _not_ at the repo's root.

[iAmMichaelConnor]

Problem

Currently, to use our standard library of Aztec contract helper functions and structs, you need to develop your contract inside aztec-packages, by specifying the relative path to the library, in the contract's Nargo.toml.

Alternatively, Nargo also allows a GitHub url of the dependency to be provided, but the Nargo.toml of the dependency must be at the top level of the repo (whereas our noir lib is currently nested inside yarn-project/).

Is there a way to specify a filepath to the Nargo.toml, from the git repo's root?

Happy Case

A user can specify a url and filepath to the Nargo.toml file of our noir contracts library.

Alternatives Considered

We could, potentially:

• Move the Nargo file to the root of aztec-packages, but that would go against our filing structure.
• Move the noir contracts library into a separate repo, but that would go against our monorepo approach.

Additional Context

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[kobyhallx]

We would need to add an option to specify dir for where search of Workspace/Package spec begins. Eg.
github:AztecProtocol/aztec-packages?dir=zktoken

[phated]

For the Nargo.toml file, I think we can support this by adding a field to the DependencyConfig, such as

dep = { git = "https://repo-url", tag = "v1", directory = "relative-subdir-path" }