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736 <div id="header">
737 <h1>
738 git-archive(1) Manual Page
739 </h1>
740 <h2>NAME</h2>
741 <div class="sectionbody">
742 <p>git-archive -
743 Create an archive of files from a named tree
744 </p>
745 </div>
746 </div>
747 <div id="content">
748 <div class="sect1">
749 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
750 <div class="sectionbody">
751 <div class="verseblock">
752 <pre class="content"><em>git archive</em> [--format=&lt;fmt&gt;] [--list] [--prefix=&lt;prefix&gt;/] [&lt;extra&gt;]
753 [-o &lt;file&gt; | --output=&lt;file&gt;] [--worktree-attributes]
754 [--remote=&lt;repo&gt; [--exec=&lt;git-upload-archive&gt;]] &lt;tree-ish&gt;
755 [&lt;path&gt;&#8230;]</pre>
756 <div class="attribution">
757 </div></div>
758 </div>
759 </div>
760 <div class="sect1">
761 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
762 <div class="sectionbody">
763 <div class="paragraph"><p>Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
764 structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard
765 output. If &lt;prefix&gt; is specified it is
766 prepended to the filenames in the archive.</p></div>
767 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>git archive</em> behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
768 given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is
769 used as the modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter
770 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
771 used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
772 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
773 using <em>git get-tar-commit-id</em>. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
774 comment.</p></div>
775 </div>
776 </div>
777 <div class="sect1">
778 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
779 <div class="sectionbody">
780 <div class="dlist"><dl>
781 <dt class="hdlist1">
782 --format=&lt;fmt&gt;
783 </dt>
784 <dd>
786 Format of the resulting archive. Possible values are <code>tar</code>,
787 <code>zip</code>, <code>tar.gz</code>, <code>tgz</code>, and any format defined using the
788 configuration option <code>tar.&lt;format&gt;.command</code>. If <code>--format</code>
789 is not given, and the output file is specified, the format is
790 inferred from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to <code>foo.zip</code>
791 makes the output to be in the <code>zip</code> format). Otherwise the output
792 format is <code>tar</code>.
793 </p>
794 </dd>
795 <dt class="hdlist1">
797 </dt>
798 <dt class="hdlist1">
799 --list
800 </dt>
801 <dd>
803 Show all available formats.
804 </p>
805 </dd>
806 <dt class="hdlist1">
808 </dt>
809 <dt class="hdlist1">
810 --verbose
811 </dt>
812 <dd>
814 Report progress to stderr.
815 </p>
816 </dd>
817 <dt class="hdlist1">
818 --prefix=&lt;prefix&gt;/
819 </dt>
820 <dd>
822 Prepend &lt;prefix&gt;/ to paths in the archive. Can be repeated; its
823 rightmost value is used for all tracked files. See below which
824 value gets used by <code>--add-file</code> and <code>--add-virtual-file</code>.
825 </p>
826 </dd>
827 <dt class="hdlist1">
828 -o &lt;file&gt;
829 </dt>
830 <dt class="hdlist1">
831 --output=&lt;file&gt;
832 </dt>
833 <dd>
835 Write the archive to &lt;file&gt; instead of stdout.
836 </p>
837 </dd>
838 <dt class="hdlist1">
839 --add-file=&lt;file&gt;
840 </dt>
841 <dd>
843 Add a non-tracked file to the archive. Can be repeated to add
844 multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built by
845 concatenating the value of the last <code>--prefix</code> option (if any)
846 before this <code>--add-file</code> and the basename of &lt;file&gt;.
847 </p>
848 </dd>
849 <dt class="hdlist1">
850 --add-virtual-file=&lt;path&gt;:&lt;content&gt;
851 </dt>
852 <dd>
854 Add the specified contents to the archive. Can be repeated to add
855 multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built
856 by concatenating the value of the last <code>--prefix</code> option (if any)
857 before this <code>--add-virtual-file</code> and <code>&lt;path&gt;</code>.
858 </p>
859 <div class="paragraph"><p>The <code>&lt;path&gt;</code> argument can start and end with a literal double-quote
860 character; the contained file name is interpreted as a C-style string,
861 i.e. the backslash is interpreted as escape character. The path must
862 be quoted if it contains a colon, to avoid the colon from being
863 misinterpreted as the separator between the path and the contents, or
864 if the path begins or ends with a double-quote character.</p></div>
865 <div class="paragraph"><p>The file mode is limited to a regular file, and the option may be
866 subject to platform-dependent command-line limits. For non-trivial
867 cases, write an untracked file and use <code>--add-file</code> instead.</p></div>
868 </dd>
869 <dt class="hdlist1">
870 --worktree-attributes
871 </dt>
872 <dd>
874 Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working tree
875 as well (see <a href="#ATTRIBUTES">[ATTRIBUTES]</a>).
876 </p>
877 </dd>
878 <dt class="hdlist1">
879 --mtime=&lt;time&gt;
880 </dt>
881 <dd>
883 Set modification time of archive entries. Without this option
884 the committer time is used if <code>&lt;tree-ish&gt;</code> is a commit or tag,
885 and the current time if it is a tree.
886 </p>
887 </dd>
888 <dt class="hdlist1">
889 &lt;extra&gt;
890 </dt>
891 <dd>
893 This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
894 See next section.
895 </p>
896 </dd>
897 <dt class="hdlist1">
898 --remote=&lt;repo&gt;
899 </dt>
900 <dd>
902 Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
903 retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. Note that the
904 remote repository may place restrictions on which sha1
905 expressions may be allowed in <code>&lt;tree-ish&gt;</code>. See
906 <a href="git-upload-archive.html">git-upload-archive(1)</a> for details.
907 </p>
908 </dd>
909 <dt class="hdlist1">
910 --exec=&lt;git-upload-archive&gt;
911 </dt>
912 <dd>
914 Used with --remote to specify the path to the
915 <em>git-upload-archive</em> on the remote side.
916 </p>
917 </dd>
918 <dt class="hdlist1">
919 &lt;tree-ish&gt;
920 </dt>
921 <dd>
923 The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
924 </p>
925 </dd>
926 <dt class="hdlist1">
927 &lt;path&gt;
928 </dt>
929 <dd>
931 Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories
932 of the current working directory are included in the archive.
933 If one or more paths are specified, only these are included.
934 </p>
935 </dd>
936 </dl></div>
937 </div>
938 </div>
939 <div class="sect1">
940 <h2 id="_backend_extra_options">BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS</h2>
941 <div class="sectionbody">
942 <div class="sect2">
943 <h3 id="_zip">zip</h3>
944 <div class="dlist"><dl>
945 <dt class="hdlist1">
946 -&lt;digit&gt;
947 </dt>
948 <dd>
950 Specify compression level. Larger values allow the command
951 to spend more time to compress to smaller size. Supported
952 values are from <code>-0</code> (store-only) to <code>-9</code> (best ratio).
953 Default is <code>-6</code> if not given.
954 </p>
955 </dd>
956 </dl></div>
957 </div>
958 <div class="sect2">
959 <h3 id="_tar">tar</h3>
960 <div class="dlist"><dl>
961 <dt class="hdlist1">
962 -&lt;number&gt;
963 </dt>
964 <dd>
966 Specify compression level. The value will be passed to the
967 compression command configured in <code>tar.&lt;format&gt;.command</code>. See
968 manual page of the configured command for the list of supported
969 levels and the default level if this option isn&#8217;t specified.
970 </p>
971 </dd>
972 </dl></div>
973 </div>
974 </div>
975 </div>
976 <div class="sect1">
977 <h2 id="_configuration">CONFIGURATION</h2>
978 <div class="sectionbody">
979 <div class="dlist"><dl>
980 <dt class="hdlist1">
981 tar.umask
982 </dt>
983 <dd>
985 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
986 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
987 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
988 archiving user&#8217;s umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
989 details. If <code>--remote</code> is used then only the configuration of
990 the remote repository takes effect.
991 </p>
992 </dd>
993 <dt class="hdlist1">
994 tar.&lt;format&gt;.command
995 </dt>
996 <dd>
998 This variable specifies a shell command through which the tar
999 output generated by <code>git archive</code> should be piped. The command
1000 is executed using the shell with the generated tar file on its
1001 standard input, and should produce the final output on its
1002 standard output. Any compression-level options will be passed
1003 to the command (e.g., <code>-9</code>).
1004 </p>
1005 <div class="paragraph"><p>The <code>tar.gz</code> and <code>tgz</code> formats are defined automatically and use the
1006 magic command <code>git archive gzip</code> by default, which invokes an internal
1007 implementation of gzip.</p></div>
1008 </dd>
1009 <dt class="hdlist1">
1010 tar.&lt;format&gt;.remote
1011 </dt>
1012 <dd>
1014 If true, enable the format for use by remote clients via
1015 <a href="git-upload-archive.html">git-upload-archive(1)</a>. Defaults to false for
1016 user-defined formats, but true for the <code>tar.gz</code> and <code>tgz</code>
1017 formats.
1018 </p>
1019 </dd>
1020 </dl></div>
1021 </div>
1022 </div>
1023 <div class="sect1">
1024 <h2 id="ATTRIBUTES">ATTRIBUTES</h2>
1025 <div class="sectionbody">
1026 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1027 <dt class="hdlist1">
1028 export-ignore
1029 </dt>
1030 <dd>
1032 Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won&#8217;t be
1033 added to archive files. See <a href="gitattributes.html">gitattributes(5)</a> for details.
1034 </p>
1035 </dd>
1036 <dt class="hdlist1">
1037 export-subst
1038 </dt>
1039 <dd>
1041 If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then Git will
1042 expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
1043 See <a href="gitattributes.html">gitattributes(5)</a> for details.
1044 </p>
1045 </dd>
1046 </dl></div>
1047 <div class="paragraph"><p>Note that attributes are by default taken from the <code>.gitattributes</code> files
1048 in the tree that is being archived. If you want to tweak the way the
1049 output is generated after the fact (e.g. you committed without adding an
1050 appropriate export-ignore in its <code>.gitattributes</code>), adjust the checked out
1051 <code>.gitattributes</code> file as necessary and use <code>--worktree-attributes</code>
1052 option. Alternatively you can keep necessary attributes that should apply
1053 while archiving any tree in your <code>$GIT_DIR/info/attributes</code> file.</p></div>
1054 </div>
1055 </div>
1056 <div class="sect1">
1057 <h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES</h2>
1058 <div class="sectionbody">
1059 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1060 <dt class="hdlist1">
1061 <code>git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ &amp;&amp; tar xf -)</code>
1062 </dt>
1063 <dd>
1065 Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
1066 latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
1067 <code>/var/tmp/junk</code> directory.
1068 </p>
1069 </dd>
1070 <dt class="hdlist1">
1071 <code>git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip &gt;git-1.4.0.tar.gz</code>
1072 </dt>
1073 <dd>
1075 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
1076 </p>
1077 </dd>
1078 <dt class="hdlist1">
1079 <code>git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 &gt;git-1.4.0.tar.gz</code>
1080 </dt>
1081 <dd>
1083 Same as above, but using the builtin tar.gz handling.
1084 </p>
1085 </dd>
1086 <dt class="hdlist1">
1087 <code>git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0</code>
1088 </dt>
1089 <dd>
1091 Same as above, but the format is inferred from the output file.
1092 </p>
1093 </dd>
1094 <dt class="hdlist1">
1095 <code>git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0^{tree} | gzip &gt;git-1.4.0.tar.gz</code>
1096 </dt>
1097 <dd>
1099 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
1100 global extended pax header.
1101 </p>
1102 </dd>
1103 <dt class="hdlist1">
1104 <code>git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ &gt; git-1.4.0-docs.zip</code>
1105 </dt>
1106 <dd>
1108 Put everything in the current head&#8217;s Documentation/ directory
1109 into <em>git-1.4.0-docs.zip</em>, with the prefix <em>git-docs/</em>.
1110 </p>
1111 </dd>
1112 <dt class="hdlist1">
1113 <code>git archive -o latest.zip HEAD</code>
1114 </dt>
1115 <dd>
1117 Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
1118 commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
1119 inferred by the extension of the output file.
1120 </p>
1121 </dd>
1122 <dt class="hdlist1">
1123 <code>git archive -o latest.tar --prefix=build/ --add-file=configure --prefix= HEAD</code>
1124 </dt>
1125 <dd>
1127 Creates a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest
1128 commit on the current branch with no prefix and the untracked
1129 file <em>configure</em> with the prefix <em>build/</em>.
1130 </p>
1131 </dd>
1132 <dt class="hdlist1">
1133 <code>git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"</code>
1134 </dt>
1135 <dd>
1137 Configure a "tar.xz" format for making LZMA-compressed tarfiles.
1138 You can use it specifying <code>--format=tar.xz</code>, or by creating an
1139 output file like <code>-o foo.tar.xz</code>.
1140 </p>
1141 </dd>
1142 </dl></div>
1143 </div>
1144 </div>
1145 <div class="sect1">
1146 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
1147 <div class="sectionbody">
1148 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="gitattributes.html">gitattributes(5)</a></p></div>
1149 </div>
1150 </div>
1151 <div class="sect1">
1152 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
1153 <div class="sectionbody">
1154 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
1155 </div>
1156 </div>
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