Carthage: Question: How to get the very latest (most recent commit) version of a given repository?

[chrislconover]

The Cartfile documentation makes the assertion:

If no version requirement is given, any version of the dependency is allowed.

with the contradictory example:

Use the latest version

github "jspahrsummers/xcconfigs"

Furthermore, it is not stated, but from testing, I infer that latest, is actually the version of the latest tag. Is this interpretation correct? And if so, how does one specify the very latest commit - do you have to manually check and specify the latest commit, or is there a simpler way?

And as a side point, it would help to give an example of checking out based on a commit hash, on my first pass, I didn't realize that the quotes were significant, and this foiled me.

[mdiep]

The latest version refers to something that has an actual _version_—a release or tag. If you want the most latest commit, you need to specify the branch you want to pin to.

[chrislconover]

Closed - thanks for the quick response.

(Though the documentation / example inconsistency could / should still be fixed).

[chrislconover]

Actually, it turns out that you can achieve this by specifying "head" as the version (insert proper nomenclature):

github "jspahrsummers/xcconfigs" "head"

per my cross post to Stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31459847/carthage-how-to-get-the-very-latest-version-of-a-given-repository/31460014#31460014