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. Possible values are `tar`,
38 `zip`, `tar.gz`, `tgz`, and any format defined using the
39 configuration option `tar.<format>.command`. If `--format`
40 is not given, and the output file is specified, the format is
41 inferred from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to `foo.zip`
42 makes the output to be in the `zip` format). Otherwise the output
47 Show all available formats.
51 Report progress to stderr.
54 Prepend <prefix>/ to paths in the archive. Can be repeated; its
55 rightmost value is used for all tracked files. See below which
56 value gets used by `--add-file` and `--add-virtual-file`.
60 Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
63 Add a non-tracked file to the archive. Can be repeated to add
64 multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built by
65 concatenating the value of the last `--prefix` option (if any)
66 before this `--add-file` and the basename of <file>.
68 --add-virtual-file=<path>:<content>::
69 Add the specified contents to the archive. Can be repeated to add
70 multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built
71 by concatenating the value of the last `--prefix` option (if any)
72 before this `--add-virtual-file` and `<path>`.
74 The `<path>` argument can start and end with a literal double-quote
75 character; the contained file name is interpreted as a C-style string,
76 i.e. the backslash is interpreted as escape character. The path must
77 be quoted if it contains a colon, to avoid the colon from being
78 misinterpreted as the separator between the path and the contents, or
79 if the path begins or ends with a double-quote character.
81 The file mode is limited to a regular file, and the option may be
82 subject to platform-dependent command-line limits. For non-trivial
83 cases, write an untracked file and use `--add-file` instead.
85 --worktree-attributes::
86 Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working tree
87 as well (see <<ATTRIBUTES>>).
90 Set modification time of archive entries. Without this option
91 the committer time is used if `<tree-ish>` is a commit or tag,
92 and the current time if it is a tree.
95 This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
99 Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
100 retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. Note that the
101 remote repository may place restrictions on which sha1
102 expressions may be allowed in `<tree-ish>`. See
103 linkgit:git-upload-archive[1] for details.
105 --exec=<git-upload-archive>::
106 Used with --remote to specify the path to the
107 'git-upload-archive' on the remote side.
110 The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
113 Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories
114 of the current working directory are included in the archive.
115 If one or more paths are specified, only these are included.
117 BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
118 ---------------------
123 Specify compression level. Larger values allow the command
124 to spend more time to compress to smaller size. Supported
125 values are from `-0` (store-only) to `-9` (best ratio).
126 Default is `-6` if not given.
131 Specify compression level. The value will be passed to the
132 compression command configured in `tar.<format>.command`. See
133 manual page of the configured command for the list of supported
134 levels and the default level if this option isn't specified.
140 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
141 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
142 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
143 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
144 details. If `--remote` is used then only the configuration of
145 the remote repository takes effect.
147 tar.<format>.command::
148 This variable specifies a shell command through which the tar
149 output generated by `git archive` should be piped. The command
150 is executed using the shell with the generated tar file on its
151 standard input, and should produce the final output on its
152 standard output. Any compression-level options will be passed
153 to the command (e.g., `-9`).
155 The `tar.gz` and `tgz` formats are defined automatically and use the
156 magic command `git archive gzip` by default, which invokes an internal
157 implementation of gzip.
159 tar.<format>.remote::
160 If true, enable the format for use by remote clients via
161 linkgit:git-upload-archive[1]. Defaults to false for
162 user-defined formats, but true for the `tar.gz` and `tgz`
170 Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
171 added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
174 If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then Git will
175 expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
176 See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
178 Note that attributes are by default taken from the `.gitattributes` files
179 in the tree that is being archived. If you want to tweak the way the
180 output is generated after the fact (e.g. you committed without adding an
181 appropriate export-ignore in its `.gitattributes`), adjust the checked out
182 `.gitattributes` file as necessary and use `--worktree-attributes`
183 option. Alternatively you can keep necessary attributes that should apply
184 while archiving any tree in your `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file.
188 `git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)`::
190 Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
191 latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
192 `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
194 `git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
196 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
198 `git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
200 Same as above, but using the builtin tar.gz handling.
202 `git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0`::
204 Same as above, but the format is inferred from the output file.
206 `git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0^{tree} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
208 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
209 global extended pax header.
211 `git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip`::
213 Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
214 into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
216 `git archive -o latest.zip HEAD`::
218 Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
219 commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
220 inferred by the extension of the output file.
222 `git archive -o latest.tar --prefix=build/ --add-file=configure --prefix= HEAD`::
224 Creates a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest
225 commit on the current branch with no prefix and the untracked
226 file 'configure' with the prefix 'build/'.
228 `git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"`::
230 Configure a "tar.xz" format for making LZMA-compressed tarfiles.
231 You can use it specifying `--format=tar.xz`, or by creating an
232 output file like `-o foo.tar.xz`.
237 linkgit:gitattributes[5]
241 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite