How to override a transitive dependencies version?

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I am currently trying to use OhSnap, which depends on pretty, but I get a compilation error because zig 0.14 changed some internals, and pretty only fixed this in the main branch, not in the release OhSnap depends on. How can I override the version of pretty that OhSnap gets to use?

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I’d fork OhSnap and make a change that updates the pretty dependency and send a PR upstream. Meanwhile, you can point your own project to use your own fork OhSnap with

zig fetch --save git+https://github.com/<your fork url>#<your commit ID>

I’ve recently had to do this for a few deps and the fact that you can simply point to a GitHub URL in the build zon file is genius while still encouraging developers to send build fixes upstream.

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Thank you for the answer! This is also what I’ve done in the meantime, although I would wish there was a way to override transitive dependencies without having to manually patch them.