[yocto] Source Code provision without full git repository history

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 5:02 AM Waldvogel, Sebastian <
Sebastian.Waldvogel at vector.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
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> I am searching for a way in Yocto/BitBake to extract the source codes of
> the software applications developed by my company for delivery to our
> customers.
>
> The source codes shall be delivered as archive containing only the source
> files without the whole git repository history.
>
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> Setup is that we have own Yocto layers/recipes referencing the company
> internal git repository (SRC_URI=”git://git.company.url”) and the concrete
> SRCREV to be used. Basic idea was to use the option
> BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" which generates an archive file with the
> application source code. Unfortunately the generated tarball contains the
> full bare cloned git repository with full history and not only the source
> files of the concrete SRCREV.
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> As alternative I tried to use the archiver class
> <http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.0.1/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#providing-the-source-code>.
> The generated tarballs contains the concrete source files but in addition
> the full git repository with history is contained too.
>

I am not sure if it is intended to keep SCM history though you might want
to file a bug

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> Does anyone has an idea how to extract the concrete source files without
> git repository and history?
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> Thank you very much for your help
>
> Sebastian Waldvogel
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