6 git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
12 'git archive' [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
13 [-o | --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.
70 --exec=<git-upload-archive>::
71 Used with --remote to specify the path to the
72 'git-upload-archive' on the remote side.
75 The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
78 Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories
79 of the current working directory are included in the archive.
80 If one or more paths are specified, only these are included.
88 Store the files instead of deflating them.
90 Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any
91 number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
98 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
99 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
100 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
101 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
102 details. If `--remote` is used then only the configuration of
103 the remote repository takes effect.
105 tar.<format>.command::
106 This variable specifies a shell command through which the tar
107 output generated by `git archive` should be piped. The command
108 is executed using the shell with the generated tar file on its
109 standard input, and should produce the final output on its
110 standard output. Any compression-level options will be passed
111 to the command (e.g., "-9"). An output file with the same
112 extension as `<format>` will be use this format if no other
115 The "tar.gz" and "tgz" formats are defined automatically and default to
116 `gzip -cn`. You may override them with custom commands.
118 tar.<format>.remote::
119 If true, enable `<format>` for use by remote clients via
120 linkgit:git-upload-archive[1]. Defaults to false for
121 user-defined formats, but true for the "tar.gz" and "tgz"
129 Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
130 added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
133 If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then Git will
134 expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
135 See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
137 Note that attributes are by default taken from the `.gitattributes` files
138 in the tree that is being archived. If you want to tweak the way the
139 output is generated after the fact (e.g. you committed without adding an
140 appropriate export-ignore in its `.gitattributes`), adjust the checked out
141 `.gitattributes` file as necessary and use `--worktree-attributes`
142 option. Alternatively you can keep necessary attributes that should apply
143 while archiving any tree in your `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file.
147 `git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)`::
149 Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
150 latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
151 `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
153 `git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
155 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
157 `git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
159 Same as above, but using the builtin tar.gz handling.
161 `git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0`::
163 Same as above, but the format is inferred from the output file.
165 `git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0^{tree} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
167 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
168 global extended pax header.
170 `git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip`::
172 Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
173 into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
175 `git archive -o latest.zip HEAD`::
177 Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
178 commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
179 inferred by the extension of the output file.
181 `git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"`::
183 Configure a "tar.xz" format for making LZMA-compressed tarfiles.
184 You can use it specifying `--format=tar.xz`, or by creating an
185 output file like `-o foo.tar.xz`.
190 linkgit:gitattributes[5]
194 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite