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matlo / GIMX

The GIMX software.
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Include git submodules in archive releases #532

Closed amak79 closed 6 years ago

amak79 commented 6 years ago

The 7.1 release archive doesn't include the Git submodules, because GitHub doesn't support it. This makes it somewhat useless for distro packaging.

I have attempted to create a release archive manually with git archive, but it also doesn't include Git submodules because git archive doesn't have a --recursive option.

git checkout v7.1
git submodule update --init
git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=GIMX-7.1/ --output=GIMX-7.1.tar.gz v7.1

I was able to use GNU tar (1.29) to create a release archive, although the top level directory in the archive is "GIMX" and not "GIMX-7.1":

git checkout v7.1
git submodule update --init
tar -cvaf GIMX-7.1.tar.gz --exclude-vcs ../GIMX
amak79 commented 6 years ago

If you decide to provide a complete release archive, it would be helpful to have the release version set in info.h. It's currently set to 0.00.

matlo commented 6 years ago

Ok I uploaded a source archive with release v7.2. I plan to provide source archive for further versions. Let me know if there is anything wrong with it.