Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] scripts/make-release: Don't archive .git files

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 06.01.2018 22:56, Cole Robinson wrote:
> As was last done in 379e21c25, we don't want .git files for
> submodules here, which we aren't presently doing for capstone and
> keycodemapdb.
> 
> Rather than delete the offending files before archiving, ask tar
> to --exclude=.git
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
> ---
> v2:
>     Use armbru's --exclude suggestion, requires tweaking
>     existing tar options a bit.
> 
>  scripts/make-release | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/make-release b/scripts/make-release
> index 3917df7142..7cbce29475 100755
> --- a/scripts/make-release
> +++ b/scripts/make-release
> @@ -19,11 +19,10 @@ pushd ${destination}
>  git checkout "v${version}"
>  git submodule update --init
>  (cd roms/seabios && git describe --tags --long --dirty > .version)
> -rm -rf .git roms/*/.git dtc/.git pixman/.git
>  # FIXME: The following line is a workaround for avoiding filename collisions
>  # when unpacking u-boot sources on case-insensitive filesystems. Once we
>  # update to something with u-boot commit 610eec7f0 we can drop this line.
>  tar cfj roms/u-boot.tar.bz2 -C roms u-boot && rm -rf roms/u-boot

What about the above tar command? Shouldn't this get the --exclude=.git
as well?

>  popd
> -tar cfj ${destination}.tar.bz2 ${destination}
> +tar --exclude=.git -cjf ${destination}.tar.bz2 ${destination}
>  rm -rf ${destination}

 Thomas