How to build latest source from Git using OBS and source services

OBS provides source services which can download/compress/extract/verify files before actually building a package. There is only small documentation here, but you can find two interesting blog posts here and there.

Create an archive from your repository

A service called tar_scm is available to create a .tar archive from Subversion, Git, Mercurial and Bazaar source code management systems.

Extract build-control files

Change archive compression

Update build-control files