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
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