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