avoid .git packaging

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1

Easy question I hope: how do I stop the make install process adding my .git directory to the zip file to be uploaded?

thanks
Jonny

2

You could alter the make file (if you are using it) portion that does the zipping, or exclude it manually if manually zipping. We just use a repo with a structure that can contain more than one channel, and the .git dir isn’t at any part where it would be zipped with a channel.

E.g.


REPO_ROOT
  .git/
  source/
    test_channel/
      manifest
      images/
      source/
    other_channel/
      manifest
      images/
      source/
  zips/

In fact, copying the layout of the SDK to some degree may work well, that’s what we did.

3

This is what I do to ignore .git folder


Makefile
ZIP_EXCLUDE = -x .git\*