git-archive(1)
NAME
git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
SYNOPSIS
git archive [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
[-o <file> | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
[--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
[<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard output.
If <prefix> is specified it is prepended to the filenames in the
archive.
git archive behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given
a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used as
the modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case
the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is used
instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax
header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted using git
get-tar-commit-id. In ZIP files it is stored as a file comment.
OPTIONS
--format=<fmt>
Format of the resulting archive: tar or zip. If this option is not
given, and the output file is specified, the format is inferred
from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to "foo.zip" makes the
output to be in the zip format). Otherwise the output format is
tar.
-l, --list
Show all available formats.
-v, --verbose
Report progress to stderr.
--prefix=<prefix>/
Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
-o <file>, --output=<file>
Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
--worktree-attributes
Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working tree as
well (see the section called "ATTRIBUTES").
<extra>
This can be any options that the archiver backend understands. See
next section.
--remote=<repo>
Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository, retrieve
a tar archive from a remote repository. Note that the remote
repository may place restrictions on which sha1 expressions may be
allowed in <tree-ish>. See git-upload-archive(1) for details.
--exec=<git-upload-archive>
Used with --remote to specify the path to the git-upload-archive on
the remote side.
<tree-ish>
The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
<path>
Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories of
the current working directory are included in the archive. If one
or more paths are specified, only these are included.
BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
zip
-0
Store the files instead of deflating them.
-9
Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any number
from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
CONFIGURATION
tar.umask
This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar
archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world
write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving
user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details. If
--remote is used then only the configuration of the remote
repository takes effect.
tar.<format>.command
This variable specifies a shell command through which the tar
output generated by git archive should be piped. The command is
executed using the shell with the generated tar file on its
standard input, and should produce the final output on its standard
output. Any compression-level options will be passed to the command
(e.g., "-9"). An output file with the same extension as <format>
will be use this format if no other format is given.
The "tar.gz" and "tgz" formats are defined automatically and
default to gzip -cn. You may override them with custom commands.
tar.<format>.remote
If true, enable <format> for use by remote clients via git-upload-
archive(1). Defaults to false for user-defined formats, but true
for the "tar.gz" and "tgz" formats.
ATTRIBUTES
export-ignore
Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
added to archive files. See gitattributes(5) for details.
export-subst
If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then Git will
expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
See gitattributes(5) for details.
Note that attributes are by default taken from the .gitattributes files
in the tree that is being archived. If you want to tweak the way the
output is generated after the fact (e.g. you committed without adding
an appropriate export-ignore in its .gitattributes), adjust the checked
out .gitattributes file as necessary and use --worktree-attributes
option. Alternatively you can keep necessary attributes that should
apply while archiving any tree in your $GIT_DIR/info/attributes file.
EXAMPLES
git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf
-)
Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest
commit on the current branch, and extract it in the /var/tmp/junk
directory.
git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip
>git-1.4.0.tar.gz
Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0
>git-1.4.0.tar.gz
Same as above, but using the builtin tar.gz handling.
git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0
Same as above, but the format is inferred from the output file.
git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0^{tree} | gzip
>git-1.4.0.tar.gz
Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
global extended pax header.
git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ >
git-1.4.0-docs.zip
Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into
git-1.4.0-docs.zip, with the prefix git-docs/.
git archive -o latest.zip HEAD
Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
inferred by the extension of the output file.
git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"
Configure a "tar.xz" format for making LZMA-compressed tarfiles.
You can use it specifying --format=tar.xz, or by creating an output
file like -o foo.tar.xz.
SEE ALSO
gitattributes(5)
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