Re: [PATCH 3/3] scripts/make-release: Remove CI yaml and more git files from the tarball

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2022 at 07:50, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> These files are of no use in a normal tarball and thus should not
> be included here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/make-release | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/make-release b/scripts/make-release
> index 176304f30b..61c0fd0bfb 100755
> --- a/scripts/make-release
> +++ b/scripts/make-release
> @@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ 
> https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/archive/${skibootrev}.tar.gz
>  EOF
>  cd ../..
>
> +rm .*.yml
>  popd
> -tar --exclude=.git -cjf ${destination}.tar.bz2 ${destination}
> +
> +tar --exclude=".git*" -cjf ${destination}.tar.bz2 ${destination}

If the excludes become more elaborate in the future we can use tar
--exclude-from=FILE and keep a separate file with all the patterns
instead of using both rm and --exclude= patterns.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>