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 in working directory too.
62 This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
66 Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
67 retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
69 --exec=<git-upload-archive>::
70 Used with --remote to specify the path to the
71 'git-upload-archive' on the remote side.
74 The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
77 If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
78 archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
86 Store the files instead of deflating them.
88 Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any
89 number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
96 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
97 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
98 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
99 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
106 Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
107 added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
110 If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then git will
111 expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
112 See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
116 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
118 Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
119 latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
120 `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
122 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
124 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
126 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
128 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
129 global extended pax header.
131 git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip::
133 Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
134 into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
136 git archive -o latest.zip HEAD::
138 Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
139 commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
140 inferred by the extension of the output file.
145 linkgit:gitattributes[5]
149 Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
153 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
157 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite