NAME
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-git-archive - Creates an archive of files from a named tree
+git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
SYNOPSIS
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+[verse]
'git-archive' --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
- [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]
+ [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
+ [path...]
DESCRIPTION
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Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
-structure for the named tree. If <prefix> is specified it is
+structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard
+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
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--format=<fmt>::
- Format of the resulting archive: 'tar', 'zip'... The default
+ Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. The default
is 'tar'.
--list, -l::
Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
+--exec=<git-upload-archive>::
+ Used with --remote to specify the path to the
+ git-upload-archive executable on the remote side.
+
<tree-ish>::
The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
CONFIGURATION
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-By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777 in tar
-archives. It is possible to change this by setting the "umask" variable
-in the repository configuration as follows :
-
-[tar]
- umask = 002 ;# group friendly
-The special umask value "user" indicates that the user's current umask
-will be used instead. The default value remains 0, which means world
-readable/writable files and directories.
+tar.umask::
+ This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
+ tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
+ world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
+ archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
+ details.
EXAMPLES
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