There seems to be a bug in parsing the strings in Pkg. It only happens in a weird subset of cases: specifically, only on 1.6.0, only when using ssh rather than http to clone, and only when trying to add a specific package revision. Some examples of passing and failing cases. The following code fail…

Pkg REPL mode bug in 1.6.0-rc2

lungben March 16, 2021, 6:52am 2

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