I have a project with several dependencies on remote repositories (all on github.com at the moment if that helps). The dependencies don't change often. It would be nice if there was a way to keep the existing rebar.conf files the same so that they pointed to the upstream repositories, but to be able to cache the repos (or a snapshot) locally so that clean builds don't need go to the internet.
Is there anyway of doing this? I.e. rebar command line options, environment settings, git options, etc.?
I suppose you could do couple of things:
rebar.config to take this repos from it. On the first look it seems
horrible solution, but it has a lot of advantages. Github is often
not available, clone speed will increase, and the last most valuable
is: projects are evolving and one day you will find that everything
is broken because one of the deps has changed their APi in master branch.