Differences Between Git Repo and Release Archives

Sam Thomsen

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?

Christian Ehrlicher

@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.

Sam Thomsen

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/XQTS

Non-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

SGaist

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.

J.Hilk

@Sam-Thomsen what git archive exactly ?
There are many out there.

Sam Thomsen

Git tag: v5.13.2
Archive: qt-everywhere-src-5.13.2.tar.xz (MD5 7c04c678d4ecd9e9c06747e7c17e0bb9)

SGaist

Might be a silly question but are you sure all modules are checked out at that tag ?

Sam Thomsen

@SGaist I think so.

After cloning the repo, we run the following:

git checkout <TAG>
perl init-repository
git submodule update --recursive

Could we be missing a step?

SGaist

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 ?

Sam Thomsen

@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)