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Differences Between Git Repo and Release Archives
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We recently compared source code trees from Git and from a downloaded release archive and found many differences. Is that expected? Or did we miss something? Should we expect to get the same results after either is built?
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@Sam-Thomsen said in Differences Between Git Repo and Release Archives:
and found many differences
Which differences? The git repo e.g. does not create the CamelCase header files - they are created by a perl script when compiling from git.
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There are many files involved, but looking only at directories, here's what we're seeing:
Non-empty dirs in repo, but missing from archive:
qtcharts/tools
qtdatavis3d/tools
qtqa
qtrepotools (makes sense)
qtxmlpatterns/tests/auto/3rdparty/testsuites/XQTSNon-empty dirs in archive, but missing from repo are all include dirs, which makes sense from what you said.
I should add that we're using Qt v5.13.2
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Hi,
One other thing, did you checkout the corresponding tag ?
Otherwise your clone will anyway be more recent, and currently will be checked out on the dev branch which is for Qt 6.
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@Sam-Thomsen what git archive exactly ?
There are many out there.
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Git tag: v5.13.2
Archive: qt-everywhere-src-5.13.2.tar.xz (MD5 7c04c678d4ecd9e9c06747e7c17e0bb9)
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Might be a silly question but are you sure all modules are checked out at that tag ?
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@SGaist I think so.
After cloning the repo, we run the following:
git checkout <TAG>
perl init-repository
git submodule update --recursiveCould we be missing a step?
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Looks good, I would cd in one of the submodule to ensure it's on the correct tag.
Just thought of something, modules like QtWebEngine may have git submodule, did you also check that ?
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@SGaist The 4 modules with differences are:
qtcharts (confirmed correct tag)
qtdatavis3d (confirmed correct tag)
qtqa (wrong tag. module only has one tag v5.0.0.0-beta1)
qtxmlpatterns (confirmed correct tag)
