How to override version to master using Bower? - angularjs

Question

In my app is using froala/angular-froala plugin which requires froala/wysiwyg-editor plugin.
So I've included all as usual, but I need change version from 1.2.6 to latest commit from master branch, and I do so:
"overrides": {
"angular-froala": {
"main": [
"src/angular-froala.js",
"src/froala-sanitize.js"
],
"dependencies": {
"FroalaWysiwygEditor": "master",
"angular": "~1.2.22"
}
},
"FroalaWysiwygEditor": {
"version": "master",
"main": [
"css/froala_editor.min.css",
]
}
}
but why it didn't work? Why it is still using 1.2.6 (latest release version)? How to specify to use latest commit and override?

Answer 1

Update: Why do you need to change the version of a dependency's dependency? In this case froala/angular-froala's has defined its own dependencies, since it needs those to build.
If you change the dependencies of a package, you do not own, you might actually break the build process. Instead of trying to override this, you can do 2 things:
Propose an change to froala to update their bower.json on the master branch - very unlikely.
Fork froala/angular-froala, update the dependencies in the bower.json and add your fork as a dependency of your current project.
Get the latest version for a dependency
To get the latest commit from a specific branch or commit via bower, use a dependency like this where the string after the hashtag is either the branch name or the git commits SHA:
"dependencies": {
...
"angular-froala": "git://github.com/froala/angular-froala.git#master"
...
}
You can also install it that way:
bower install --save git://github.com/froala/angular-froala.git#master