On May 9, 2008, at 6:43 AM, Mark H. Wilkinson wrote:

I want to start using RSpec in an existing project that uses git for
SCM, and I was planning on using git submodules to pull in known- stable
releases of the rspec and rspec_on_rails plugins. The current
repositories on github don't seem to be set up to help with this at the
moment though, so I'm looking for some advice. Here're the issues, I
think:
     * The last stable release is 1.1.3, but there's no tag in the git
       repository to indicate the revision that makes that release. I
       think the equivalent commit is
       11d7cc9d9a45c957f7a9215b41aa0b9c3d5c236b but...
     * The rspec.git repository for the last stable revision actually
includes rspec (and rspec_on_rails) as subdirectories, so if you
       check them out as submodules in vendor/plugins the plugins
       themselves aren't in the right place (they finish up in
       vendor/plugins/rspec/rspec
       and vendor/plugins/rspec/rspec_on_rails).

I can see that both of these issues will disappear when the first real
release from git happens, but in the meantime I feel a bit stuck. Is
there a specific revision of rspec.git (and rspec_on_rails.git) that is actually pretty stable, or is master pretty stable and I could just pick
any revision and find it works fine?

Unfortunately you *are* stuck for the moment. We broke up the repositories as we did because git doesn't support partial clones (i.e. you can't just clone one subdirectory of a repo) the way you can checkout subdirectories of a subversion repository. There's no way for us to go back and tag the correct commit without you grabbing the full repository at that time.

I can tell you that I use the current master with no issues, BUT, there have been some changes to internals that might break your monkey patches (if you have any). I don't have time to doc them right now (part of why there has been no release), but if I were in your shoes I'd grab the latest and see what happens. It's an inexpensive experiment.

David




Cheers,

-Mark.

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