Bower not updating to latest commit

[sartaj]

Currently, when using bower install angular-ui-utils, it installs the the original commit, not the latest commit, for 0.0.4. Here is the generated .bower.json from the folder:

{
  "author": "AngularUI Team",
  "name": "angular-ui-utils",
  "description": "AngularUI Utilities - Companion Suite for AngularJS",
  "version": "0.0.4",
  "homepage": "http://angular-ui.github.com",
  "main": "./modules/utils.js",
  "dependencies": {
    "angular": ">= 1.0.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "angular-mocks": "~1.0.5",
    "jquery": ">=1.6",
    "angular-ui-docs": "angular-ui/angular-ui-docs"
  },
  "_release": "0.0.4",
  "_resolution": {
    "type": "version",
    "tag": "v0.0.4",
    "commit": "fa7e14e6cb254b3166ff36060f30ed69b54e7152"
  },
  "_source": "git://github.com/angular-ui/ui-utils.git",
  "_target": "*",
  "_originalSource": "angular-ui-utils"
}

As you can see the commit installed is fa7e14e6cb254b3166ff36060f30ed69b54e7152, which is not the latest commit and doesn't have the latest bugfixes.

Is this intended behavior? If so, isn't that not good for critical bugfixes that need to be pushed to peoples bower components?

If it's unintended behavior, I presume it's because bower's version probably just looks for the first commit of a version it is looking for.

Perhaps the angular-ui-utils project should follow Semantic Versioning and append every bug fix with a number to avoid this issue?

[ianwalter]

Yea, a lot of modules are missing from the version installed with bower.

[douglasduteil]

Is this intended behavior? If so, isn't that not good for critical bugfixes that need to be pushed to peoples bower components?
If it's unintended behavior, I presume it's because bower's version probably just looks for the first commit of a version it is looking for.

Yes but you can ask bower to directly follow the master. So if you want the last version use

bower install angular-ui-utils\#master

[ianwalter]

Whoa, how is not using versioning a solution to this problem? Following master means that users on the same project can have different versions if they bower install at different times. Not to mention, this opens the possibility that there can be an update that you don't want which will be installed the next time you or someone else on your project does a bower install

[douglasduteil]

Normal versioning still works like :

bower install angular-ui-utils\#~0.1.0

[ianwalter]

Ok, it looks like new tags were created. Thank you.