6 git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
12 'git archive' [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
13 [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
18 Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
19 structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard
20 output. If <prefix> is specified it is
21 prepended to the filenames in the archive.
23 'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
24 given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is
25 used as the modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter
26 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
27 used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
28 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
29 using 'git-get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
36 Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. The default
41 Show all available formats.
45 Report progress to stderr.
48 Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
51 This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
55 Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
56 retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
58 --exec=<git-upload-archive>::
59 Used with --remote to specify the path to the
60 'git-upload-archive' on the remote side.
63 The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
66 If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
67 archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
75 Store the files instead of deflating them.
77 Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any
78 number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
85 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
86 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
87 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
88 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
95 Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
96 added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
99 If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then git will
100 expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
101 See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
105 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
107 Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
108 latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
109 `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
111 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
113 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
115 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
117 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
118 global extended pax header.
120 git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip::
122 Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
123 into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
128 linkgit:gitattributes[5]
132 Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
136 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
140 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite