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