Managed dependencies from Git not updated

As covered by previous issue: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/335

Using SBT 0.13+ and Git dependencies:

  val project = RootProject(uri("git://github.com/...."))
  val root = Project("root", file(".")) dependsOn(project)

The project is checked into an SBT staging area but any subsequent changes to the dependency are not picked up by an ‘sbt update’.

The ticket above suggests this was fixed in 0.12 but there are also comments that this does not work in 0.13 indicating that this is a bug.

Currently it appears the only way to pull updated code is to delete the dependency from the staging area or manually do a git pull from within the staging area but running ‘sbt update’ should update all dependencies.

[doctapp]

@Bladtman242 thanks, but stopped using it as it was just too complex to manage. We just publish locally instead.

[eed3si9n]

I sometimes use sbt-sriracha (http://eed3si9n.com/hot-source-dependencies-using-sbt-sriracha).