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Issues and Pull Requests

When you find a bug in sbt we want to hear about it. Your bug reports play an important part in making sbt more reliable and usable.

Effective bug reports are more likely to be fixed. These guidelines explain how to write such reports and pull requests.

Preliminaries

  • Make sure your sbt version is up to date.
  • Search StackOverflow and Issues to see whether your bug has already been reported.
  • Open one case for each problem.
  • Proceed to the next steps for details.

Where to get help and/or file a bug report

sbt project uses GitHub Issues as a publicly visible todo list. Please open a GitHub issue only when asked to do so.

  • If you need help with sbt, please ask on StackOverflow with the tag "sbt" and the name of the sbt plugin if any.
  • If you run into an issue, have an enhancement idea, or a general discussion, bring it up to sbt-dev Google Group first.
  • If you need a faster response time, consider one of the Typesafe subscriptions.

What to report

The developers need three things from you: steps, problems, and expectations.

Steps

The most important thing to remember about bug reporting is to clearly distinguish facts and opinions. What we need first is the exact steps to reproduce your problems on our computers. This is called reproduction steps, which is often shortened to "repro steps" or "steps." Describe your method of running sbt. Provide build.sbt that caused the problem and the version of sbt or Scala that was used. Provide sample Scala code if it's to do with incremental compilation. If possible, minimize the problem to reduce non-essential factors.

Repro steps are the most important part of a bug report. If we cannot reproduce the problem in one way or the other, the problem can't be fixed. Telling us the error messages is not enough.

Problems

Next, describe the problems, or what you think is the problem. It might be "obvious" to you that it's a problem, but it could actually be an intentional behavior for some backward compatibility etc. For compilation errors, include the stack trace. The more raw info the better.

Expectations

Same as the problems. Describe what you think should've happened.

Notes

Add an optional notes section to describe your analysis.

Subject

The subject of the bug report doesn't matter. A more descriptive subject is certainly better, but a good subject really depends on the analysis of the problem, so don't worry too much about it. "StackOverflowError while name hashing is enabled" is good enough.

Formatting

If possible, please format code or console outputs.

On Github it's:

```scala
name := "foo"
```

On StackOverflow, it's:

<!-- language: lang-scala -->

    name := "foo"

Here's a simple sample case: #327. Finally, thank you for taking the time to report a problem.

Pull Requests

Whether implementing a new feature, fixing a bug, or modifying documentation, please work against the latest development branch (currently, 0.13). Binary compatible changes will be backported to a previous series (currently, 0.12.x) at the time of the next stable release. See below for instructions on building sbt from source.

All pull requests are required to include a "Notes" file which documents the change. This file should reside in the directory:

<sbt root>
  notes/
    <target release>/
       <your-change-name>.md

Notes files should have the following contents:

  • Bullet item description under one of the following sections:
    • ### Bug fixes
    • ### Improvements
    • ### Fixes with compatibility implications
  • Complete section describing new features.

Documentation

Documentation fixes and contributions are as much welcome as to the source code itself. Visit the website project to learn about how to contribute.

Build from source

  1. Install the current stable binary release of sbt (see Setup), which will be used to build sbt from source.

  2. Get the source code.

     $ git clone git://github.com/sbt/sbt.git
 $ cd sbt

  3. The initial branch is the development branch 0.13, which contains the latest code for the next major sbt release. To build a specific release or commit, switch to the associated tag. The tag for the latest stable release is v0.13.7:

     $ git checkout v0.13.7

    Note that sbt is always built with the previous stable release. For example, the 0.13 branch is built with 0.13.2 and the v0.13.2 tag is built with 0.13.1.

  4. To build the launcher and publish all components locally,

     $ sbt
 > publishLocal

  5. To use this locally built version of sbt, copy your stable ~/bin/sbt script to ~/bin/xsbt and change it to use the launcher jar in <sbt>/target/. For the v0.13.7 tag, the full location is:

     <sbt>/target/sbt-launch-0.13.7.jar

    If using the 0.13 development branch, the launcher is at:

     <sbt>/target/sbt-launch-0.13.8-SNAPSHOT.jar

    Directory target is removed by clean command. Second solution is using artifact stored in local ivy repository.

    The launcher is located in:

           $HOME/.ivy2/local/org.scala-sbt/sbt-launch/0.13.7/jars/sbt-launch.jar

    for v0.13.7 tag, or in:

           $HOME/.ivy2/local/org.scala-sbt/sbt-launch/0.13.8-SNAPSHOT/jars/sbt-launch.jar

    for development branch.

Modifying sbt

  1. When developing sbt itself, run compile when checking compilation only.

  2. To use your modified version of sbt in a project locally, run publishLocal.

  3. After each publishLocal, clean the ~/.sbt/boot/ directory. Alternatively, if sbt is running and the launcher hasn't changed, run reboot full to have sbt do this for you.

  4. If a project has project/build.properties defined, either delete the file or change sbt.version to 0.13.8-SNAPSHOT.

Building Documentation

The scala-sbt.org site documentation is a separate project website. Follow the steps in the README to generate the documentation.