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   1git-archive(1)
   2==============
   3
   4NAME
   5----
   6git-archive - Create 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> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
  14              [path...]
  15
  16DESCRIPTION
  17-----------
  18Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
  19structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard
  20output.  If <prefix> is specified it is
  21prepended to the filenames in the archive.
  22
  23'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
  24given a commit ID or tag ID.  In the first case the current time is
  25used as modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
  26case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
  27used instead.  Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
  28extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
  29using 'git-get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
  30comment.
  31
  32OPTIONS
  33-------
  34
  35--format=<fmt>::
  36        Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'.  The default
  37        is 'tar'.
  38
  39--list, -l::
  40        Show all available formats.
  41
  42--verbose, -v::
  43        Report progress to stderr.
  44
  45--prefix=<prefix>/::
  46        Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
  47
  48<extra>::
  49        This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
  50        See next section.
  51
  52--remote=<repo>::
  53        Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
  54        retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
  55
  56--exec=<git-upload-archive>::
  57        Used with --remote to specify the path to the
  58        git-upload-archive executable on the remote side.
  59
  60<tree-ish>::
  61        The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
  62
  63path::
  64        If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
  65        archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
  66
  67BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
  68---------------------
  69
  70zip
  71~~~
  72-0::
  73        Store the files instead of deflating them.
  74-9::
  75        Highest and slowest compression level.  You can specify any
  76        number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
  77
  78
  79CONFIGURATION
  80-------------
  81
  82tar.umask::
  83        This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
  84        tar archive entries.  The default is 0002, which turns off the
  85        world write bit.  The special value "user" indicates that the
  86        archiving user's umask will be used instead.  See umask(2) for
  87        details.
  88
  89EXAMPLES
  90--------
  91git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
  92
  93        Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
  94        latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
  95        `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
  96
  97git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
  98
  99        Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
 100
 101git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
 102
 103        Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
 104        global extended pax header.
 105
 106git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip::
 107
 108        Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
 109        into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
 110
 111Author
 112------
 113Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
 114
 115Documentation
 116--------------
 117Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 118
 119GIT
 120---
 121Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite