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I am experimenting with Bootstrap 3 in Drupal 8 and I want to stay on the dev branch of bootstrap.

In my composer.json, I wrote the following line based on Drupal Packagist:

"drupal/bootstrap": "8.3.*@dev",

However, when I run composer update, it downloads 8.3.0-beta2 (2015-Dec-19) instead of the latest dev release (2016-Feb-20).

Gathering patches for root package.
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Gathering patches for root package.
Gathering patches for dependencies. This might take a minute.
  - Installing drupal/bootstrap (8.3.0-beta2)
    Downloading: 100%
    Downloading: 100%

To make sure it wasn't some caching issue, I ran:

composer selfupdate
composer clear-cache
composer update

But it did the same thing-- install beta2.

How do I force it to download the dev release instead?

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While it will install the latest dev release of the Drupal module/theme to simply do the following:

composer require drupal/bootstrap:3.x-dev

I would argue a best practice when installing a dev version of a module is to make sure you are going to get the commit you want (which might not be the latest), so I would do the following:

composer require drupal/bootstrap:3.x-dev#5670922dea05fffb6506a6cd5d53546b9fae8df9

Or you can manually add it to your require in composer.json (as below) and then on the command line run composer install

"drupal/bootstrap": "3.x-dev#5670922dea05fffb6506a6cd5d53546b9fae8df9",

To get the commit you should go to http://cgit.drupalcode.org/bootstrap/log/ and find the commit you want (the commit hash is the id on the commit's page). btw: the above hash is not a real commit on the Bootstrap project

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You can keep the original prefer-stable settings. The @dev in 8.3.*@dev is the stability flag for the given package. The easiest way to force a dev-version of a package is to use a different version constraint. Use 8.3.x-dev instead, this version constraint references to a the 8.x-3.x branch and works independently from prefer-stable and minimum-stability.

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    A composer require command that goes with this would look something like this composer require "drupal/page_manager:1.x-dev"
    – daniels
    Mar 7, 2017 at 22:09
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    @daniels – You don't need the quotes.
    – leymannx
    Jul 10, 2020 at 16:31
  • So the -dev of the branch is like @dev? Is there a rule for that like git branch + suffix? I've seen it as a prefix or suffix (interchangeably) but I don't see a rule dev-4.x or 4.x-dev or 4.x@dev all of the above?
    – wranvaud
    Jul 18, 2022 at 15:54

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