Update.install not working with zip installs

[FredrikM97]

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Describe the issue

Hi!

I have an integration called hass-surepetcare and for testing I previously used the update.install on the dev/main branch. However, after switching to zip installs it is no longer possible to fetch from branch.

Unsure if this is a feature or not but would be nice to still Install branches of manually selected instead of force zip. I have set hide default branch to false but does not matter.

The logs show:

websocket_api script: Error executing script. Error for call_service at pos 1: Downloading FredrikM97/hass-surepetcare with version dev failed with (Could not download, see log for details)

And

<Integration FredrikM97/hass-surepetcare> Failed to download https://github.com/FredrikM97/hass-surepetcare/releases/download/dev/surepcha.zip

It might not be a bug but would be nice to allow manually installing branches/tags even if default is zip releases for testing instead of forcing to curl and replace the integration manually.

Reproduction steps

1. Create a integration that use zip releases
2. Try use install.update to fetch a branch

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Debug logs

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[bakroistvan]

same here

[whyscream]

@FredrikM97 Did you see this? #3513
As it's your own repo, can't you cut a dev release?

[ludeeus]

As noted by @whyscream this is intended, if you need branch installs, you need to remove the zip parts, if you want the zip parts, you loose out on branch installs.
Closing.