Is it possible to fetch git repository from bower, not just tag or specific commit?

Question

If you try to install via bower install or bower update package with no tags, or you define repo#branch branch, it will fetch just files without .git folder, so you can't use it for example for development. Is it possible to force bower to download whole git repository so you can alter the code and then commit and push, checkout another branch and so on?

Answer 1

So the solution is to use bower link .

First clone repository with your development package.

git clone your-repo-url bower-package-name
cd bower-package-name
bower link

Now go to main project and link your package.

cd project-name
bower link bower-package-name