How to use local git repository as a dependency?

[lolgear]

How to use local git repositories as a dependency?

Tries:

• github "../../"
• github "../../" master
• github "/Users/user/Projects/Github/etc/MyProjectFolderWithGit"
• github "/Users/user/Projects/Github/etc/MyProjectFolderWithGit" master
• github "file:///Users/user/Projects/Github/etc/MyProjectFolderWithGit"
• github "file:///Users/user/Projects/Github/etc/MyProjectFolderWithGit" master

Errors:

• invalid GitHub repository identifier

Please, update Cartfile reference with solution.

[lolgear]

Forgot about git and github.

[SandeepAggarwal]

@lolgear How you have solved this issue?

[tmspzz]

@SandeepAggarwal use
git "file://path/to/git/repo.git" "branch or tag"

see: https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage/blob/master/Documentation/Artifacts.md#example-cartfile

[SandeepAggarwal]

@blender If I use
git "file://path/to/git/repo.git" "branch or tag"
I get following error:
Parse error: unexpected trailing characters in line:

If I use
git "file://path/to/git/repo.git"
I get following error:
Parse error: invalid GitHub repository identifier

[tmspzz]

Can you paste your actual Cartfile and Cartfile.resolved?

[SandeepAggarwal]

Cartfile:

github "https://github.com/netguru/ResponseDetective.git" "develop"
github "marmelroy/PhoneNumberKit"
github "nickoneill/PermissionScope" ~> 1.0
github "andreamazz/BubbleTransition"
github "Alamofire/Alamofire" ~> 4.1.0
github "https://github.com/SandeepAggarwal/cloudinary_ios.git" "master"
github "danielgindi/Charts" ~> 3.0.2
github "file:///Users/SandeepAggarwal/My Applications/LiquidFloatingActionButton.git"

Cartfile.resolved:

github "Alamofire/Alamofire" "4.5.0"
github "andreamazz/BubbleTransition" "2.0.2"
github "danielgindi/Charts" "v3.0.2"
github "Quick/Nimble" "v7.0.1"
github "nickoneill/PermissionScope" "1.1.1"
github "marmelroy/PhoneNumberKit" "1.2.3"
github "Quick/Quick" "v1.1.0"
github "netguru/ResponseDetective" "7f7a1a8c09f42d666cf7d1286bbf5830275fbdda"
github "SandeepAggarwal/cloudinary_ios" "ea77a5a6f13bfe867c2bf987295de7095926f195"

[tmspzz]

I can see that you are specifying github and not git for your local repo

Change this:

github "file:///Users/SandeepAggarwal/My Applications/LiquidFloatingActionButton.git"

to this

git "file:///Users/SandeepAggarwal/My Applications/LiquidFloatingActionButton.git"

github should only be use if the repo it hosted on... GitHub. If it's on your local file system it's clearly not on GitHub.

[SandeepAggarwal]

Oh! I am sorry I didn't realised that but it is still not working

fatal: '/Users/SandeepAggarwal/My Applications/LiquidFloatingActionButton.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

[tmspzz]

Try removing the .git extension

Make sure that /Users/SandeepAggarwal/My Applications/LiquidFloatingActionButton is actually under version control.

[SandeepAggarwal]

@blender Thank you so much.

[1oo7]

Note that if you switch from using a github link to a local file link, Carthage will now think it's a completely different dependency, and will not be able to resolve upstream dependencies upon the same thing if they normally refer to the remote link. This is because unlike CocoaPods, Carthage does not let you give a unique identifier (e.g., a name, such as "Alamofire") to each dependency, so therefore it has no way to know whether git "file:///path/to/my/sick/repo" is supposed to be an alternate source for github "https://github.com/mySick/repo" or a different, new dependency. Sad.