A sbt 0.13 plugin to create lock.sbt file which explicitly specifies versions of all dependent libraries.

Your application or dependent libraries might contain loose version dependencies, like [1.0,) (means version 1.0 or later), latest.release, etc. In this case, builds might become different by a newer release of dependent libraries.

This plugin strictly specifies versions by dependencyOverrides.

Add the following line to ~/.sbt/0.13/plugins/sbt-lock.sbt for sbt 0.13.x, ~/.sbt/1.0/plugins/sbt-lock.sbt for sbt 1.0.x or project/plugins.sbt.

addSbtPlugin("com.github.tkawachi" % "sbt-lock" % "0.8.0")

• lock to create lock.sbt file. lock.sbt includes dependencyOverrides for all dependent library versions. Manage it with version control system.
• unlock to delete lock.sbt file.
• checkLockUpdate to print whether the lock file needs an update.

• excludeDependencies could be used to exclude some dependencies from locking. This could be required for platform-specific dependencies (e.g. Netty native)

  import com.github.tkawachi.sbtlock._
  
  val settings: Seq[Setting[_]] = Seq(
    excludeDependencies in SbtLockKeys.lock := Seq(
      "org.reactivemongo" % "reactivemongo-shaded-native"
    )
  )
  

• sbtLockIgnoreOverridesOnStaleHash := true (default: false) makes libraryDependencies changes to take effect on reload, even without a ;unlock;reload;lock cycle.

  Enabling is useful to match expectations of 1. update library dependencies, 2. reload, 3. see changes immediately.