On Tuesday, 21 June 2016 at 07:44:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
global cache. And if you checkout from git directly, you'd have to modify the DUB configuration of any projects you want to make use of your changes so that they use paths for their dependencies rather than versions. dub fetch + dub add-local is so much simpler. A
Although, I forgot about dub add-override, which allows you to specify a path and version number for a package to be preferred over something in the global cache. Using that with git clone actually looks to be just as easy as dub fetch/dub add-local, and is probably better if you want to submit PRs.
