Question

I installed the table_builder plugin from https://github.com/p8/table_builder, followed the directions at the bottom titled For a pre rails 3.0 table_builder: which works great.

The problem is since I checked out a branch of it, when I try to commit this to MY GIT repo, it doesnt think there are files even there.. git status diplays nothing, git add wont add the files..

Any suggestions as to how I can get this committed?

Answer 1

Maybe you cloned the plugin directly into your own repository and you now have the plugin repository within your repository?

A git repository will by default ignore any other repositories and their working directories that are located within it.

If so, you have (at least) two options:

• Clone the plugin elsewhere, and then
  copy the necessary files into your
  repository
• Clone the plugin into your repository
  and then delete the plugin’s .git
  folder

There are other ways to manage this with git-submodule but I’m not an expert on that so I defer to someone with more knowledge.