How do I refresh updated Git dependency artifacts in SBT?

Question

I've configured SBT (0.11.0) to pull in a GitHub project as a dependency, as per my answer on this question here.

It works fine except that I can't seem to get SBT to re-compile my Git dependency when it gets updated. In other words: if I make an update to the dependency, push to Git and reload my project's SBT and run package, then SBT does not recompile the external Git dependency when compiling my project.

I've tried creating a new branch in my Git dependency (say, forcenew) and updating the branch in my SBT project configuration to use this:

lazy val depProject = RootProject(uri("git://github.com/me/dep-project.git#forcenew")) 

But even this doesn't force a refresh. I'm a bit stumped - I can't even find where SBT puts the Git project to compile it (it doesn't seem to be in ~/.sbt/ or ~/.ivy2/)...

Any help greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

From: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/335

this should be fixed in 0.12.0, just call "sbt update"

It was fixed in 0.12.0 so sbt update is enough, but got back in 13.0 -- for now, you have to wipe dependency from ~/.sbt/staging/ manually

Answer 2

You likely want to clear out ~/.sbt/staging/