Hi Ken Git will not add directories - but you can add a file in those directories for them to be created. If you want to ensure those directories exist, just add an empty .gitignore file within the dir.
As for ignoring plugins - if you've installed Thinking Sphinx using git itself (instead of script/plugin install), it keeps it as a separate git repository, and so there is a .git directory in vendor/ plugins/thinking_sphinx/.git. If you want to ignore the git history of the plugin, and just keep all the files in your own repo (which is what script/plugin install does), just remove that .git folder (in vendor/plugins/thinking_sphinx - not your own .git folder in RAILS_ROOT), and you should be able to add those files. If you'd rather Thinking Sphinx as a separate git repository, then 'git submodule' is what you should read up on. Personally, I'd recommend installing Thinking Sphinx as a gem instead, and add the relevant lines to your environment.rb file -- see the last section on this page: http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/installing_thinking_sphinx.html Keep in mind the latest version of TS is 1.1.20 though. Hope this is at least somewhat understandable, given it's a Friday evening. Cheers -- Pat On 05/06/2009, at 6:18 PM, Ken Hudson wrote: > > Good Friday Afternoon, > > I'm using git for the first time on my new project and I just > installed Thinking Sphinx. How do I best handle getting the Vendor > directory into my local git repository? I've read that git doesn't > track directories and there's an issue with empty directories but it > doesn't look like there are any empty directories in Vendor. So... > can I just enter "git add Vendor"? What if there were empty > directories in Vendor? > > Thanks, Ken > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list sdruby@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
