output. If <prefix> is specified it is
prepended to the filenames in the archive.
-`git-archive` behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
+'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is
used as modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter
case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
-using `git-get-tar-commit-id`. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
+using 'git-get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
comment.
OPTIONS
--exec=<git-upload-archive>::
Used with --remote to specify the path to the
- `git-upload-archive` on the remote side.
+ 'git-upload-archive' on the remote side.
<tree-ish>::
The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
details.
+ATTRIBUTES
+----------
+
+export-ignore::
+ Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
+ added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+export-subst::
+ If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then git will
+ expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
+ See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
EXAMPLES
--------
git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:gitattributes[5]
+
Author
------
Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.