RE: transitive dependency override

[Shawn Castrianni <Sh...@halliburton.com>]

I am using ivy settings files heavily to completely configure the behavior of ivy by just switching out different settings files.  Therefore, if I run into something that I can't fix or configure via a settings file, it hurts my plan to rely on settings files only.  Past posts about this subject suggest a workaround that involves editing ivy.xml files to make indirect (transitive) dependencie direct but, again, I want to be able to fix this issue via the settings file.  I would like the flexibility to override the default behavior of ivy's dependency mechanism and explicitly specify the revision of the dependency of a given module to use in the module override tag of the settings files.  For example, let's say I have A which depends on B latest.integration, and B which depends on C latest.integration.  Let's say I have 1 revision of C in the repository, rev 1.  Let's say I have 1 rev of B in the repository, rev 1, that was built against rev 1 of C.  Now I build and publish a new C, rev 2.  Now I want to build A but use rev 2 of C without having to build a new B.  So it would be nice if I could use the module tag in the settings file to specify that module C should use rev 2 no matter what when dependencies are being resolved.  I can see that the module tag already has a revision attribute, but that apparently is used for matching the rule and not used AS a rule.  Can you add a new attribute, like overrideRevision, to the module tag such that anytime a dependency is resolved that matches the module tag, the overrideRevision is used?

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