Due to the fact that Travis uses a shallow clone of Pico's Git repo, composer has no chance to detect on which branch it currently is. This was no big deal with Pico 1.0, however, Pico 2.0 depends on picocms/pico-deprecated and picocms/pico-theme. We use composer's `self.version` version constraint to sync the version numbers of these separate Git repos. Thus composer must know Pico's current version to resolve these dependencies. We try to guess the current version either using known branch aliases in Pico's `composer.json`, or using the `Pico::VERSION` constant (see `_build/install.sh`).
Daniel Rudolf