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