release tarballs don't include submodules about materialx HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi Zach,

If there's a straightforward way to include submodules in GitHub releases, I'd support making this change, but I haven't yet encountered a good solution for this. Here's a related post on the GitHub community forum, which puts this in the category of feature requests for GitHub:

https://github.community/t5/How-to-use-Git-and-GitHub/Create-Release-that-contains-submodule/td-p/12073

All the best,

-Jonathan

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Hi Jonathan,

So after some digging around and finding a ton of other people wanting the same feature, you are correct, there is no straightforward way to do it.

So I made a way (which hopefully proves good+easy+standalone) to do it here (including the module's source):
https://github.com/nzanepro/git-archive-submodules
(cd to your repo root, run git-archive-submodules.sh from the repo above, voila!)

I've forked this repo and tested adding the resultant tar.gz here:
https://github.com/nzanepro/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.36.4-including-submodules

It's simple to add the tar.gz that is output from the git-archive-submodules to the release on the web interface of GitHub. This looks like a great way to automate the upload with the tagged release:
https://github.com/itchio/gothub

This is the piece I needed to get the homebrew formula for MaterialX working, which is now available here:
https://github.com/nzanepro/homebrew-usd
(install homebrew on macOS, then brew install nzanepro/usd/materialx)

I'm working my way through all the usd dependencies so we can have a full homebrew install of the usd stack. If you decide to incorporate this into your release system, please let me know and I'll delete my fork of MaterialX and repoint homebrew to your release. Maybe I can see if I can work this into GitHub somehow... :-)

Thanks
Zach

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Thanks for this excellent follow-up, Zach, and we'll give your script a try for our next release!

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Fixed in MaterialX v1.36.5:
https://github.com/materialx/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.36.5

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