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 [--output=<file>] 14 [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish> 15 [path...] 16 17DESCRIPTION 18----------- 19Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree 20structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard 21output. If <prefix> is specified it is 22prepended to the filenames in the archive. 23 24'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when 25given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is 26used as the modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter 27case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is 28used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global 29extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted 30using 'git-get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file 31comment. 32 33OPTIONS 34------- 35 36--format=<fmt>:: 37 Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. The default 38 is 'tar'. 39 40-l:: 41--list:: 42 Show all available formats. 43 44-v:: 45--verbose:: 46 Report progress to stderr. 47 48--prefix=<prefix>/:: 49 Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive. 50 51--output=<file>:: 52 Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout. 53 54<extra>:: 55 This can be any options that the archiver backend understands. 56 See next section. 57 58--remote=<repo>:: 59 Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository, 60 retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. 61 62--exec=<git-upload-archive>:: 63 Used with --remote to specify the path to the 64 'git-upload-archive' on the remote side. 65 66<tree-ish>:: 67 The tree or commit to produce an archive for. 68 69path:: 70 If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the 71 archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories. 72 73BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS 74--------------------- 75 76zip 77~~~ 78-0:: 79 Store the files instead of deflating them. 80-9:: 81 Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any 82 number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio. 83 84 85CONFIGURATION 86------------- 87 88tar.umask:: 89 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of 90 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the 91 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the 92 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for 93 details. 94 95ATTRIBUTES 96---------- 97 98export-ignore:: 99 Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be 100 added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. 101 102export-subst:: 103 If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then git will 104 expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. 105 See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. 106 107EXAMPLES 108-------- 109git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -):: 110 111 Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the 112 latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the 113 `/var/tmp/junk` directory. 114 115git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz:: 116 117 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release. 118 119git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz:: 120 121 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a 122 global extended pax header. 123 124git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip:: 125 126 Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory 127 into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'. 128 129 130SEE ALSO 131-------- 132linkgit:gitattributes[5] 133 134Author 135------ 136Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe. 137 138Documentation 139-------------- 140Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 141 142GIT 143--- 144Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite