Installing from GitHub pull request not working

[hacknug]

I have the feeling there's something I'm missing but I wasn't able to find any issues mentioning this specific use-case so here we go…

pnpm version:

pnpm v3.8.1

Code to reproduce the issue:

Try to add a dependency given a PR in a public GitHub repo:

pnpm add --save-dev bradlc/tailwindcss-alpha#pull/7/head # npm syntax
pnpm add --save-dev bradlc/tailwindcss-alpha#7/head # yarn syntax

Expected behavior:

pnpm should be able to install a dependency from a given PR, matching the way both npm and yarn work. It would also be great if pnpm could accept both npm and yarn's syntax for this (they're different).

Actual behavior:

 ERROR  Could not resolve pull/7/head to a commit of git://github.com/bradlc/tailwindcss-alpha.git.
at resolveRefFromRefs         ../../../../../usr/local/pnpm-global/2/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/3.8.1/node_modules/pnpm/lib/node_modules/@pnpm/git-resolver/lib/index.js:75      throw new Error(`Could n…
at resolveRef                 ../../../../../usr/local/pnpm-global/2/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/3.8.1/node_modules/pnpm/lib/node_modules/@pnpm/git-resolver/lib/index.js:66      return resolveRefFromRef…
at processTicksAndRejections  internal/process/task_queues.js:93                                                                                                                                                     
at async resolveGit           ../../../../../usr/local/pnpm-global/2/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/3.8.1/node_modules/pnpm/lib/node_modules/@pnpm/git-resolver/lib/index.js:11      const commit = await res…
at resolve                    ../../../../../usr/local/pnpm-global/2/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/3.8.1/node_modules/pnpm/lib/node_modules/@pnpm/default-resolver/lib/index.js:13  || await resolveFromGit(…
at async run                  ../../../../../usr/local/pnpm-global/2/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/3.8.1/node_modules/pnpm/lib/node_modules/p-queue/dist/index.js:246
Resolving: total 81, reused 64, downloaded 0

 ERROR  Could not resolve 7/head to a commit of git://github.com/bradlc/tailwindcss-alpha.git.
at resolveRefFromRefs         ../../../../../usr/local/pnpm-global/2/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/3.8.1/node_modules/pnpm/lib/node_modules/@pnpm/git-resolver/lib/index.js:75      throw new Error(`Could n…
at resolveRef                 ../../../../../usr/local/pnpm-global/2/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/3.8.1/node_modules/pnpm/lib/node_modules/@pnpm/git-resolver/lib/index.js:66      return resolveRefFromRef…
at processTicksAndRejections  internal/process/task_queues.js:93                                                                                                                                                     
at async resolveGit           ../../../../../usr/local/pnpm-global/2/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/3.8.1/node_modules/pnpm/lib/node_modules/@pnpm/git-resolver/lib/index.js:11      const commit = await res…
at resolve                    ../../../../../usr/local/pnpm-global/2/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/3.8.1/node_modules/pnpm/lib/node_modules/@pnpm/default-resolver/lib/index.js:13  || await resolveFromGit(…
at async run                  ../../../../../usr/local/pnpm-global/2/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/3.8.1/node_modules/pnpm/lib/node_modules/p-queue/dist/index.js:246
Resolving: total 102, reused 75, downloaded 0

Additional information:

• node -v prints: v12.11.0
• Windows, OS X, or Linux?: macOS

[btecu]

I'm also running into this issue.

[wclr]

Too bad. Though install from commit hash is working.

[armenr]

Same issue here. Does anyone have a fix?

[apteryxxyz]

Has this ever been fixed?

[heyarne]

I still ran into this issue today, installed the dependency via owner/repo#commit-hash instead.