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   1git-archive(1)
   2==============
   3
   4NAME
   5----
   6git-archive - Creates an archive of files from a named tree
   7
   8
   9SYNOPSIS
  10--------
  11[verse]
  12'git-archive' --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
  13              [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]
  14
  15DESCRIPTION
  16-----------
  17Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
  18structure for the named tree.  If <prefix> is specified it is
  19prepended to the filenames in the archive.
  20
  21'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
  22given a commit ID or tag ID.  In the first case the current time is
  23used as modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
  24case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
  25used instead.  Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
  26extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
  27using 'git-get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
  28comment.
  29
  30OPTIONS
  31-------
  32
  33--format=<fmt>::
  34        Format of the resulting archive: 'tar', 'zip'...  The default
  35        is 'tar'.
  36
  37--list, -l::
  38        Show all available formats.
  39
  40--verbose, -v::
  41        Report progress to stderr.
  42
  43--prefix=<prefix>/::
  44        Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
  45
  46<extra>::
  47        This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
  48        See next section.
  49
  50--remote=<repo>::
  51        Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
  52        retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
  53
  54<tree-ish>::
  55        The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
  56
  57path::
  58        If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
  59        archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
  60
  61BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
  62---------------------
  63
  64zip
  65~~~
  66-0::
  67        Store the files instead of deflating them.
  68-9::
  69        Highest and slowest compression level.  You can specify any
  70        number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
  71
  72
  73CONFIGURATION
  74-------------
  75By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777 in tar
  76archives.  It is possible to change this by setting the "umask" variable
  77in the repository configuration as follows :
  78
  79[tar]
  80        umask = 002     ;# group friendly
  81
  82The special umask value "user" indicates that the user's current umask
  83will be used instead. The default value remains 0, which means world
  84readable/writable files and directories.
  85
  86EXAMPLES
  87--------
  88git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
  89
  90        Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
  91        latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
  92        `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
  93
  94git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
  95
  96        Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
  97
  98git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
  99
 100        Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
 101        global extended pax header.
 102
 103git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip::
 104
 105        Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
 106        into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
 107
 108Author
 109------
 110Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
 111
 112Documentation
 113--------------
 114Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 115
 116GIT
 117---
 118Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite