obs_scm source service

Over in the Open Build Service, more and more we find ourselves using Source Services. The greatest of these is obs_scm, which brings a number of advantages over schlepping tarballs around.

With obs_scm, it's no longer necessary to maintain certain files, such as the spec file and the changes file, in OBS, while maintaining the rest of your project in git. Now you can maintain everything in git, and you can also eliminate the tarball, and link OBS with your source forge (github, gitlab, and gitea are supported) with a webhook so your project will get built in OBS automatically whenever you push commits to a branch you define.

Since this is a pretty big deal for a guy like me, last week I wrote up a detailed howto, which you can access at https://github.com/smithfarm/obs_scm_demo.