Cocoapods: Pod dependency in podspec support specifying branch

[zhuhuihuihui]

Hey, currently we can't specify branch for pod dependencies in podspec. It would be great to have that feature.

[dnkoutso]

I don't think the DSL will ever allow this for podspecs. In the meantime you can "override" the dependency in your Podfile.

Like so:

pod 'MyPod', git: 'https://github.com/MyPod/MyPod.git', branch: 'somebranch'

Going to close this.

[zhuhuihuihui]

Hi @dnkoutso, thank you for your response. Will the "override" affect my pod as well? For my case, I have a pod that has some dependencies and an app that use this pod. I can "override" the dependency in my Podfile of my app which will affect my app, but will my pod be able to take that benefit as well? Cause there's code in my pod that use those dependencies.

Thanks,
Scott

[dnkoutso]

Unfortunately not. Your podspec at this time does not support the ability to point to a specific branch. Pods are meant to be "final" when they are public and if developers want to work on a branch of your pod then they can use the method above.

I am sorry but I do not think it will be built into the podspec in the near future.

[zhuhuihuihui]

Make sense, thanks for your clarification.