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I was able to get this working today. It only took two changes.

Here's my setup and use case:

Git clones of the contributed projects I have ever worked on live on my computer (MacOS) at ~/_backdrop/_contributions. When I am working on one of these modules from an active development site, I remove the module from that site's codebase, and replace it with a symlink to the git clone of contrib:

rm -r metatag
ln -s ~/_backdrop/_contributions/metatag

Then I do all the work for metatag on the site where I had the problem or want the feature, until I'm done. At this point I have a patch/PR (or new release) for the module. So I restore the previous module to the site, apply the patch (or update to the lates version), and commit the change.