# Add vs dev at a local path

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-vs-dev-at-a-local-path/58150>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** package, development\
**Created:** [March 29, 2021, 7:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-vs-dev-at-a-local-path/58150 "2021-03-29T07:55:20Z")\
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If you `dev` the path it will load whatever code is at the path at the load time.

If you `add` the path it will ask `git` for a snapshot of the commited code in your working copy at the add time and store that among your packages. Then it will keep loading that snapshot.

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