# How does one specify plugin versions under git? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 5, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-specify-plugin-versions-under-git/136641 "2008-05-05T02:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-specify-plugin-versions-under-git/136641/1 "2008-05-05T02:09:09Z")
Hi all, I’m looking to migrate all my plugins to git in the near future, just got a couple of questions I’ve not been able to find answers to: First, will users need git installed in order to install git-hosted plugins? How long does Rails plan to maintain svn for freezing to edge? Has anyone had issues installing git-managed plugins under Windows? (I’m also in the process of migrating from Windows to Ubuntu and still need to do some work on Windows.) Second, how do you specify versions to install? With svn, I can tell people to script/plugin install [http://svn.jcoglan.com/packr/tags/1.0.2/packr](http://svn.jcoglan.com/packr/tags/1.0.2/packr) but with git all I’ve seen is script/plugin install git://github.com/jcoglan/packr.git Is there any way of installing a specific branch or tag, without cloning the project yourself and extracting the version you want? ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-specify-plugin-versions-under-git/136641/2 "2008-05-05T03:19:54Z")
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:08 PM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > and still need to do some work on Windows.) > Is there any way of installing a specific branch or tag, without > cloning the project yourself and extracting the version you want? It looks like script/plugin install git://…/foo.git clones the plugin’s git repository into vendor/plugins/foo. Remember that git works by putting the complete history on each machine. git clone fetches the entire repository, and then checks out the latest branch. So you can actually get any version after you install the plugin, just check it out. $script/plugin install git://github.com/jcoglan/packr.git $cd plugin/install/packr $git co version-x Assuming that the plugin has tagged versions. packr doesn’t seem to. Of course you can get any commit version as long as you know how to name it, even if the name is a (partial) sha-1 value. – Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/) ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-specify-plugin-versions-under-git/136641/3 "2008-05-06T11:46:35Z")
This it is not working for me. It seems that I only get source files from the main branch and not the complete git repository cloned. Juanma C. Rick Denatale wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:08 PM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > and still need to do some work on Windows.) > > Is there any way of installing a specific branch or tag, without > > cloning the project yourself and extracting the version you want? > > It looks like script/plugin install git://…/foo.git clones the > plugin’s git repository into vendor/plugins/foo. > > Remember that git works by putting the complete history on each > machine. git clone fetches the entire repository, and then checks out > the latest branch. > > So you can actually get any version after you install the plugin, just > check it out. > > $script/plugin install git://github.com/jcoglan/packr.git > $cd plugin/install/packr > $git co version-x > > Assuming that the plugin has tagged versions. packr doesn’t seem to. > > Of course you can get any commit version as long as you know how to > name it, even if the name is a (partial) sha-1 value. > > – > Rick DeNatale > > My blog on Ruby > [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/) ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-specify-plugin-versions-under-git/136641/4 "2008-10-09T02:30:23Z")
Are there any simple instructions for installing a plugin hosted on github? ./script/plugin install git://github.com/latimes/craken.git This doesn’t seem to work for me, as I’m using svn locally. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-specify-plugin-versions-under-git/136641/5 "2008-05-07T15:39:41Z")
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Juanma C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > This it is not working for me. > > It seems that I only get source files from the main branch and not the > complete git repository cloned. You might not be seeing it, it should be in the .git directory in the directory for the plugin. Git works differently than SVN, you don’t checkout a version from a remote repository, the working directory is a view of your local repository which changes when you checkout a branch. git clone which is the command which the plugin script uses (at least the version of the source code I looked at does) makes a local copy of the entire remote repository in the .git directory of the target, and then checks out the master branch to the working directory. Peepcode recently released a new pdf on git which starts with a description of how git actually works and not from the usual perspective of git for svn/cvs… users. Well worth the $9 IMHO. – Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/)