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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 <file> | --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 files in the working tree as
51 well (see the section called “ATTRIBUTES”).
52 <extra>
54 This can be any options that the archiver backend understands. See
55 next section.
56 --remote=<repo>
58 Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository, retrieve
59 a tar archive from a remote repository. Note that the remote
60 repository may place restrictions on which sha1 expressions may be
61 allowed in <tree-ish>. See git-upload-archive(1) for details.
62 --exec=<git-upload-archive>
64 Used with --remote to specify the path to the git-upload-archive on
65 the remote side.
66 <tree-ish>
68 The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
69 <path>
71 Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories of
72 the current working directory are included in the archive. If one
73 or more paths are specified, only these are included.
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76 zip
77 -0
78 Store the files instead of deflating them.
79 -9
81 Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any number
82 from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
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85 tar.umask
86 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar
87 archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world
88 write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving
89 user’s umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details. If
90 --remote is used then only the configuration of the remote
91 repository takes effect.
92 tar.<format>.command
94 This variable specifies a shell command through which the tar
95 output generated by git archive should be piped. The command is
96 executed using the shell with the generated tar file on its
97 standard input, and should produce the final output on its standard
98 output. Any compression-level options will be passed to the command
99 (e.g., "-9"). An output file with the same extension as <format>
100 will be use this format if no other format is given.
101 The "tar.gz" and "tgz" formats are defined automatically and
103 default to gzip -cn. You may override them with custom commands.
104 tar.<format>.remote
106 If true, enable <format> for use by remote clients via git-upload-
107 archive(1). Defaults to false for user-defined formats, but true
108 for the "tar.gz" and "tgz" formats.
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111 export-ignore
112 Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won’t be
113 added to archive files. See gitattributes(5) for details.
114 export-subst
116 If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then Git will
117 expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
118 See gitattributes(5) for details.
119 Note that attributes are by default taken from the .gitattributes files
121 in the tree that is being archived. If you want to tweak the way the
122 output is generated after the fact (e.g. you committed without adding
123 an appropriate export-ignore in its .gitattributes), adjust the checked
124 out .gitattributes file as necessary and use --worktree-attributes
125 option. Alternatively you can keep necessary attributes that should
126 apply while archiving any tree in your $GIT_DIR/info/attributes file.
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129 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf
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131 Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest
132 commit on the current branch, and extract it in the /var/tmp/junk
133 directory.
134 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip
136 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
137 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
138 git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0
140 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
141 Same as above, but using the builtin tar.gz handling.
142 git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0
144 Same as above, but the format is inferred from the output file.
145 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0^{tree} | gzip
147 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
148 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
149 global extended pax header.
150 git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ >
152 git-1.4.0-docs.zip
153 Put everything in the current head’s Documentation/ directory into
154 git-1.4.0-docs.zip, with the prefix git-docs/.
155 git archive -o latest.zip HEAD
157 Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
158 commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
159 inferred by the extension of the output file.
160 git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"
162 Configure a "tar.xz" format for making LZMA-compressed tarfiles.
163 You can use it specifying --format=tar.xz, or by creating an output
164 file like -o foo.tar.xz.
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167 gitattributes(5)
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170 Part of the git(1) suite
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