Can't download clean 1.2.4, always downloads nightly

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I'm trying to download stable 1.2.4 from the ionic bower repo using a bower.json file. However, it consistently downloads 1.2.4-nighlty-* (which breaks my layout and cancel modal button styling) instead of just clean 1.2.4 even if I specify the following.

{
    "name": "mypackage",
    "private": true,
    "dependencies": {
        "bower-ionic": "driftyco/ionic-bower#v1.2.4"
    }
}

The problem seems to come from some lines (example line 6) being commented out in the _mixins.scss file:

// Button Mixins
// --------------------------------------------------

@mixin button-style($bg-color, $border-color, $active-bg-color, $active-border-color, $color) {
  border-color: transparent;//$border-color;
  background-color: $bg-color;
  color: $color;

  // Give desktop users something to play with
  &:hover {
    color: $color;
    text-decoration: none;
  }
  &.active,
  &.activated {
    //border-color: transparent;//$active-border-color;
    background-color: $active-bg-color;
    //box-shadow: inset 0 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
  }
}

Note that specifying v1.1.1 gives me a clean 1.1.1 version, not a nightly and doesn't have any problems in terms of layout. Also, I could swear for a while I had v1.2.0 and things were perfect but now even if I specify v1.2.0, the nightly is installed.

I get the following output during install, note the version mismatch bit:

bower bower-ionic#v1.2.4 not-cached git://github.com/driftyco/ionic-bower.git#v1.2.4
bower bower-ionic#v1.2.4 resolve git://github.com/driftyco/ionic-bower.git#v1.2.4
bower bower-ionic#v1.2.4 download https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-bower/archive/v1.2.4.tar.gz
bower bower-ionic#v1.2.4 extract archive.tar.gz
bower bower-ionic#v1.2.4 mismatch Version declared in the json (1.2.4-nightly-1917) is different than the resolved one (1.2.4)
bower bower-ionic#v1.2.4 invalid-meta ionic is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
bower bower-ionic#v1.2.4 resolved git://github.com/driftyco/ionic-bower.git#1.2.4
bower bower-ionic#v1.2.4 install bower-ionic#1.2.4
bower-ionic#1.2.4 bower_components\bower-ionic
├── angular#1.4.3
├── angular-animate#1.4.3
├── angular-sanitize#1.4.3
└── angular-ui-router#0.2.13

The file ionic.js always shows "Ionic, v1.2.4-nightly-1917". Am I doing something wrong or is there something up with the bower repo?

Sorry for the double post from the ionic forum but I haven't received any response and thought it is probably more appropriate to post here.