Christian, You could install Thinking Sphinx as a submodule and then track the latest changes as described in the following article:
http://woss.name/2008/04/09/using-git-submodules-to-track-vendorrails/ You can then also make local changes to the repository and merge them with Pat's changes if you'd like. On Aug 14, 8:50 pm, Christian Aust <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, almost: > > christ...@macbookpro:~/Documents/Aptana Studio Workspace/metajob\ > script/plugin install git://github.com/freelancing-god/thinking-sphinx.git > already installed: thinking-sphinx (git://github.com/freelancing-god/ > thinking-sphinx.git). pass --force to reinstall > > Now please don't try that --force option because it will happily > delete the thinking-sphinx dir along with all its subdirs, including > (and that's the problem) the subversion .svn directory. On next commit > svn won't recognize this as already existing, but instead will try to > add it and fail. > > Using git itself isn't much help, because "script/plugin install" > doesn't give you a full git repository but instead something like a > svn export. > > So, the question remains: How do you update an installed rails plugin, > once it has been installed? The only way I found so far is to manually > overwrite the files. Not very elegant... Regards, > > Christian > > On 14 Aug., 20:43, Alejandro Riera <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Christian, > > > What I just did is: > > script/plugin install git://github.com/freelancing-god/thinking-sphinx.git > > > And it worked for me ; ) > > > Cheers, > > > Alex > > > On Aug 9, 12:54 pm, Christian Aust <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I found that there's not automatic update of plugins installed via > > > git. "script/plugin update" will only check for subversion changes, > > > right? Also, "script/plugin install git://..." doesn't give me a full > > > git repository but instead something a like a svn export. > > > > So, how exectly do you update TS from git once Pat releases new > > > versions? > > > > Regards, > > > > Christian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
