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Version

4.1.0

Description

The _updateDependencies method in the bootstrap command checks if two DependencyReferences are equal to decide if it should update the dependencies of the modules:

https://github.com/invertase/melos/blob/ed826b39761039ba545d3ae7b18f491726d7ebe1/packages/melos/lib/src/commands/bootstrap.dart#L335C1-L362C1

However, the GitReference equals operator considers only the url and ref fields. As a consequence, if you change the path without changing the url or the ref in melos.yaml, the references are not going to be updated in the modules.

I actually lost some hours of work trying to understand why my references were not being updated.

Running melos clean before the bootstrap does not solves the problem.

Thus, Melos should consider the path field when the DependencyReference is a GitReference.

Steps to reproduce

In any Melos project that has at least one git dependency on melos.yaml:

1. Run melos bootstrap
2. Change the reference path to something else
3. Run melos bootstrap again

Expected behavior

The modules references should be updated accordingly to the new path.

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Additional context and comments

Workaround: currently, you can workaround this by changing either the url or the ref to something different (it may not exist), run melos bootstrap, revert the changes and run melos bootstrap again.