6 git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
12 'git archive' [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
13 [-o <file> | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
14 [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
19 Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
20 structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard
21 output. If <prefix> is specified it is
22 prepended to the filenames in the archive.
24 'git archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
25 given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is
26 used as the modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter
27 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
28 used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
29 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
30 using 'git get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
37 Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. If this option
38 is not given, and the output file is specified, the format is
39 inferred from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to "foo.zip"
40 makes the output to be in the zip format). Otherwise the output
45 Show all available formats.
49 Report progress to stderr.
52 Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
56 Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
58 --worktree-attributes::
59 Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working tree
60 as well (see <<ATTRIBUTES>>).
63 This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
67 Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
68 retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. Note that the
69 remote repository may place restrictions on which sha1
70 expressions may be allowed in `<tree-ish>`. See
71 linkgit:git-upload-archive[1] for details.
73 --exec=<git-upload-archive>::
74 Used with --remote to specify the path to the
75 'git-upload-archive' on the remote side.
78 The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
81 Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories
82 of the current working directory are included in the archive.
83 If one or more paths are specified, only these are included.
91 Store the files instead of deflating them.
93 Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any
94 number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
101 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
102 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
103 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
104 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
105 details. If `--remote` is used then only the configuration of
106 the remote repository takes effect.
108 tar.<format>.command::
109 This variable specifies a shell command through which the tar
110 output generated by `git archive` should be piped. The command
111 is executed using the shell with the generated tar file on its
112 standard input, and should produce the final output on its
113 standard output. Any compression-level options will be passed
114 to the command (e.g., "-9"). An output file with the same
115 extension as `<format>` will be use this format if no other
118 The "tar.gz" and "tgz" formats are defined automatically and default to
119 `gzip -cn`. You may override them with custom commands.
121 tar.<format>.remote::
122 If true, enable `<format>` for use by remote clients via
123 linkgit:git-upload-archive[1]. Defaults to false for
124 user-defined formats, but true for the "tar.gz" and "tgz"
132 Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
133 added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
136 If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then Git will
137 expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
138 See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
140 Note that attributes are by default taken from the `.gitattributes` files
141 in the tree that is being archived. If you want to tweak the way the
142 output is generated after the fact (e.g. you committed without adding an
143 appropriate export-ignore in its `.gitattributes`), adjust the checked out
144 `.gitattributes` file as necessary and use `--worktree-attributes`
145 option. Alternatively you can keep necessary attributes that should apply
146 while archiving any tree in your `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file.
150 `git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)`::
152 Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
153 latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
154 `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
156 `git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
158 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
160 `git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
162 Same as above, but using the builtin tar.gz handling.
164 `git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0`::
166 Same as above, but the format is inferred from the output file.
168 `git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0^{tree} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
170 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
171 global extended pax header.
173 `git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip`::
175 Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
176 into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
178 `git archive -o latest.zip HEAD`::
180 Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
181 commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
182 inferred by the extension of the output file.
184 `git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"`::
186 Configure a "tar.xz" format for making LZMA-compressed tarfiles.
187 You can use it specifying `--format=tar.xz`, or by creating an
188 output file like `-o foo.tar.xz`.
193 linkgit:gitattributes[5]
197 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite