[yocto] Source Code provision without full git repository history

[Daniel.]

There are some tools to automate the testing and delivery that may
make the deployment less painfull. Jenkins and Buildbot are examples

Regards,

2017-03-09 13:28 GMT-03:00 Daniel. <danielhilst at gmail.com>:
> I'm not trying to be simplistic here, but, why not package the source
> releases to a tarball (with git archive or somthing) and provide it
> through a FTP server?
>
> Regards,
>
> 2017-03-09 11:29 GMT-03:00 Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 5:02 AM Waldvogel, Sebastian
>> <Sebastian.Waldvogel at vector.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As alternative I tried to use the archiver class. 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone has an idea how to extract the concrete source files without
>>> git repository and history?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your help
>>>
>>> Sebastian Waldvogel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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