Poetry add git+ does not respect git repos default branch. Assumes master is default branch.

[avnes]

• I am on the latest Poetry version.
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS version and name: macOS Big Sur 11.4. Darwin Kernel Version 20.5.0
• Poetry version: 1.1.6
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your pyproject.toml file: N/A

Issue

According to the https://python-poetry.org/docs/cli/ you can use poetry add with a git repo. I know it is possible to specify a branch or a tag in the call, but I had assumed that would not be needed if the default branch was something other than master.

poetry add git+https://github.com/avnes/python-template-project.git


CalledProcessError

  Command '['git', '--git-dir', '/var/folders/x8/yxw7dnh10z57gqjpzr4bm55m0000gn/T/pypoetry-git-python-template-projecavjjt1j2/.git', '--work-tree', '/var/folders/x8/yxw7dnh10z57gqjpzr4bm55m0000gn/T/pypoetry-git-python-template-projecavjjt1j2', 'checkout', 'master']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

  at ~/.poetry/lib/poetry/utils/_compat.py:217 in run
      213│                 process.wait()
      214│                 raise
      215│             retcode = process.poll()
      216│             if check and retcode:
    → 217│                 raise CalledProcessError(
      218│                     retcode, process.args, output=stdout, stderr=stderr
      219│                 )
      220│         finally:
      221│             # None because our context manager __exit__ does not use them.

Steps to reproduce:

1. poetry add git+https://github.com/avnes/python-template-project.git (will fail becase the default branch is main instead of master)
2. poetry add git+https://github.com/avnes/python-template-project.git#main works fine. So minor issue, but a bit annoying.

[kyleflan]

The workaround above is fine for a single dependency, but in the event where a dependency itself has a dependency on a project in e.g. GitHub, there's not a straightforward solution to specify the branch for the sub-dependency.

In my situation, the sub-dependency has the dependency defined in setup.py so I would have to modify that project's setup.py to use poetry.

Attempting to specify and install the dependencies separately, e.g define the sub-dependency first in pyproject.toml, install, then define the dependency in pyproject.toml fails with the following:

  SolverProblemError

  Because car (rev master) depends on engine (branch master)
   and poetry-demo depends on engine (branch main), car is forbidden.
  So, because poetry-demo depends on car (branch master), version solving failed.

[finswimmer]

Hello,

this is a duplicate of #3366

fin swimmer

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