Pkg.jl: dev gets wrong branch

[moustachio-belvedere]

I'm using Julia 1.0.1, Windows 7, 64 bit.

I have an old Julia 0.6 compatible branch (J0.6) and a master branch that is Julia 1.0 compatible (repo at https://github.com/JuliaRheology/RHEOS.jl). It was all working fine yesterday when I dev'ed in the repo. Today, it tries to get the J0.6 branch for some reason:

(v1.0) pkg> dev "https://github.com/JuliaRheology/RHEOS.jl"
  Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRheology/RHEOS.jl`
[ Info: Assigning UUID 4bf54d18-b41c-58dc-8574-a0581551535a to RHEOS
 Resolving package versions...
ERROR: Unsatisfiable requirements detected for package JLD [4138dd39]:
 JLD [4138dd39] log:
 ├─possible versions are: [0.5.0-0.5.9, 0.6.0-0.6.11, 0.8.0-0.8.3] or uninstalled
 ├─restricted to versions 0.0.0-* by RHEOS [4bf54d18], leaving only versions [0.5.0-0.5.9, 0.6.0-0.6.11, 0.8.0-0.8.3]
 │ └─RHEOS [4bf54d18] log:
 │   ├─possible versions are: 0.0.0 or uninstalled
 │   └─RHEOS [4bf54d18] is fixed to version 0.0.0
 └─restricted by julia compatibility requirements to versions: uninstalled — no versions left

Which obviously doesn't work. When I navigate to the dev/RHEOS folder I find the J0.6 branch there downloaded. This seems bizarre because last week my master branch was 0.6 compatible and a separate branch was 1.0 compatible, and I was trying to figure out how to dev in the 1.0 compatible branch (I discovered you can't via discourse). Now my master branch is 1.0 compatible, and was working yesterday via dev. But today it doesn't load in.

[moustachio-belvedere]

Just to add: JLD is not in the Project.toml or Manifest.toml of the (v1.0 compatible) master branch. And running add "https://github.com/JuliaRheology/RHEOS.jl" works fine.

[moustachio-belvedere]

Playing around some more, running:

dev "https://github.com/JuliaRheology/RHEOS.jl.git"

Seems to work fine. So the difference in behaviour seems to dependent on the .git at the end. But it doesn't need the extra .git when just adding normally.

[KristofferC]

Dup of https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/465. FWIW, you can always clear out .julia/clones to fix this. We are currently not updating the cache there correctly.