request: Untracked, local additions to pubspec_overrides.yaml

[hacker1024]

Is there an existing feature request for this?

• I have searched the existing issues.

Command

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Description

An untracked file called melos_overrides.yaml can be placed in the monorepo alongside the melos.yaml file. Melos will add the packages listed in this file to all generated pubspec_overrides.yaml files.

Reasoning

It's convenient sometimes to use local copies of packages that are outside a monorepo, but being developed concurrently.

dependencyA/
dependencyB/
project/
├─ packageA/
├─ packageB/
├─ melos.yaml

These dependencies could be added to each monorepo package's pubspec_overrides.yaml.
Melos generates this file, and provides no option at the moment to add external packages in this fashion.

melos_overrides.yaml

dependency_overrides:
  - ../dependencyA
  - ../dependencyB

Additional context and comments

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[blaugold]

I think this feature request makes sense.

Maybe the following info helps meanwhile:

• You can add dependency_overrides to pubspec.yaml files of individual packages and those will be merged into the generated pubspec_overrides.yaml file.
• You can directly add dependency_overrides in pubspec_overrides.yaml files in addition to those added by Melos. Melos will only touch those dependencies listed in the # melos_managed_dependency_overrides: comment.

[hacker1024]

I have made a PR mostly implementing the feature discussed here. The one difference is that external paths cannot be used due to the design of the glob expression resolver, but this can be resolved with a symlink.