1GIT-ARCHIVE(1)                    Git Manual                    GIT-ARCHIVE(1)
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NAME

6       git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
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SYNOPSIS

9           git-archive --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
10                         [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]
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DESCRIPTION

13       Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
14       structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard output.
15       If <prefix> is specified it is prepended to the filenames in the
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18       git-archive behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given
19       a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used as
20       modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case the
21       commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is used
22       instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax
23       header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted using
24       git-get-tar-commit-id. In ZIP files it is stored as a file comment.
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OPTIONS

27       --format=<fmt>
28           Format of the resulting archive: tar or zip. The default is tar.
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31           Show all available formats.
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34           Report progress to stderr.
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37           Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
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39       <extra>
40           This can be any options that the archiver backend understand. See
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44           Instead of making a tar archive from local repository, retrieve a
45           tar archive from a remote repository.
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48           The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
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50       path
51           If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
52           archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
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BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS

55   zip
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57           Store the files instead of deflating them.
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60           Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any number
61           from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
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CONFIGURATION

64       tar.umask
65           This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar
66           archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world
67           write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving
68           user´s umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details.
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EXAMPLES

71       git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf
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73           Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest
74           commit on the current branch, and extracts it in /var/tmp/junk
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77       git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip
78       >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
79           Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
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81       git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0^{tree} | gzip
82       >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
83           Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
84           global extended pax header.
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86       git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ >
87       git-1.4.0-docs.zip
88           Put everything in the current head´s Documentation/ directory into
89           git-1.4.0-docs.zip, with the prefix git-docs/.
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AUTHOR

92       Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
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DOCUMENTATION

95       Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
96       <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT

99       Part of the git(7) suite
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104Git 1.5.3.3                       10/09/2007                    GIT-ARCHIVE(1)