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B.2. Using packages on your machine or from GitHub

Finally, you can use packages that aren’t hosted on Pub. This is good if you’re developing a package or don’t want to open source your package.

B.2.1. Git

To use packages from Git, import packages similarly to the following code example in your pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  cool_package:
    git: git://github.com/cool_company/cool_packages.git

Or you can use a specific branch of the Git repo:

dependencies:
  kittens:
    git:
      url: git://github.com/munificent/kittens.git
      ref: some-branch

And you can use subfolders of a repo (useful if you have mono-repo-style projects):

dependencies:
  kittens:
    git:
      url: git://github.com/munificent/cats.git
      path: path/to/kittens

B.2.2. Local packages

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