Can I re-open .xcarchive on Xcode?

Question

Is it possible to re-open an .xcarchive file on Xcode?

I know this is not common, but I would like to open a project exactly as it was submitted to the App Store. I

Answer 1

A xcarchive is a folder containing a (compiled) app bundle, a dSYM (debug file) for the app, and an Info.plist containing metadata about the archive (such as the name of the app and the date the archive was created). You can look inside a `xcarchive by control-clicking or right-clicking it in the Finder and choosing “Show Package Contents”.

The archive does not contain your app's source code (unless you have made a serious mistake in your project configuration).

You should use a version tracking system like git to store your source code. When you create an xcarchive for distribution, you should tag the current version of the source code in your build system, so that you can easily extract the source code used to build that archive.