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Description
Problem
From time to time I need to submit a PR to a lib and then want to rely on that PR in my local code.
Every time I do this I have to search the docs to work out the specific syntax that I need.
It would be nice if I could just use GitHub's PR syntax for this (or at the very least the error message should point me in the right direction)
Proposed Solution
Option 1. Support this as-is:
[dependencies]
foo = { version = "1", git = "https://github.com/bar/foo/pull/123" }I understand why this might not be ideal even if it's the most developer friendly fix for this. So alternatively:
Option 2. Provide a better error message for this scenario that provides the right syntax:
Current error message:
Updating git repository `https://github.com/bar/foo/pull/123`
warning: spurious network error (3 tries remaining): unexpected http status code: 404; class=Http (34)
warning: spurious network error (2 tries remaining): unexpected http status code: 404; class=Http (34)
warning: spurious network error (1 tries remaining): unexpected http status code: 404; class=Http (34)
error: failed to get `foo` as a dependency of package `some-package v0.1.0 (/Users/joshka/local/some-package)`
Caused by:
failed to load source for dependency `some-package`
Caused by:
Unable to update https://github.com/bar/foo/pull/123
Caused by:
failed to fetch into: /Users/joshka/.cargo/git/db/161-9e1cf949600a4ac3
Caused by:
network failure seems to have happened
if a proxy or similar is necessary `net.git-fetch-with-cli` may help here
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#netgit-fetch-with-cli
Caused by:
unexpected http status code: 404; class=Http (34)
Expected error message (something like):
The git dependency for `foo` points at the pull request url. Fix this by changing to `foo = { version = "1" git = "https://github.com/bar/foo" rev = "refs/pull/123/head"
Notes
I understand that there's other code forges than GitHub, but it's reasonable to fix the 99% case even when other cases are not fixed.