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6 git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
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9 git archive [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
10 [-o | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
11 [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
12 [<path>...]
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16 Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
17 structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard output.
18 If <prefix> is specified it is prepended to the filenames in the
19 archive.
20 git archive behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given
22 a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used as
23 the modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case
24 the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is used
25 instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax
26 header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted using git
27 get-tar-commit-id. In ZIP files it is stored as a file comment.
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30 --format=<fmt>
31 Format of the resulting archive: tar or zip. If this option is not
32 given, and the output file is specified, the format is inferred
33 from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to "foo.zip" makes the
34 output to be in the zip format). Otherwise the output format is
35 tar.
36 -l, --list
38 Show all available formats.
39 -v, --verbose
41 Report progress to stderr.
42 --prefix=<prefix>/
44 Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
45 -o <file>, --output=<file>
47 Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
48 --worktree-attributes
50 Look for attributes in .gitattributes in working directory too.
51 <extra>
53 This can be any options that the archiver backend understands. See
54 next section.
55 --remote=<repo>
57 Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository, retrieve
58 a tar archive from a remote repository.
59 --exec=<git-upload-archive>
61 Used with --remote to specify the path to the git-upload-archive on
62 the remote side.
63 <tree-ish>
65 The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
66 <path>
68 Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories of
69 the current working directory are included in the archive. If one
70 or more paths are specified, only these are included.
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73 zip
74 -0
75 Store the files instead of deflating them.
76 -9
78 Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any number
79 from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
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82 tar.umask
83 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar
84 archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world
85 write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving
86 user’s umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details.
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89 export-ignore
90 Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won’t be
91 added to archive files. See gitattributes(5) for details.
92 export-subst
94 If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then git will
95 expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
96 See gitattributes(5) for details.
97 Note that attributes are by default taken from the .gitattributes files
99 in the tree that is being archived. If you want to tweak the way the
100 output is generated after the fact (e.g. you committed without adding
101 an appropriate export-ignore in its .gitattributes), adjust the checked
102 out .gitattributes file as necessary and use --worktree-attributes
103 option. Alternatively you can keep necessary attributes that should
104 apply while archiving any tree in your $GIT_DIR/info/attributes file.
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107 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf
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109 Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest
110 commit on the current branch, and extract it in the /var/tmp/junk
111 directory.
112 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip
114 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
115 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
116 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0^{tree} | gzip
118 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
119 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
120 global extended pax header.
121 git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ >
123 git-1.4.0-docs.zip
124 Put everything in the current head’s Documentation/ directory into
125 git-1.4.0-docs.zip, with the prefix git-docs/.
126 git archive -o latest.zip HEAD
128 Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
129 commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
130 inferred by the extension of the output file.
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133 gitattributes(5)
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136 Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
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139 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
140 <git@vger.kernel.org[1]>.
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143 Part of the git(1) suite
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147 mailto:git@vger.kernel.org
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