NAME
----
-git-archive - Creates an archive of files from a named tree
+git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-archive' --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
- [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]
+[verse]
+'git archive' [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
+ [-o | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
+ [--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
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
+used as the 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
-------
--format=<fmt>::
- Format of the resulting archive: 'tar', 'zip'...
-
---list, -l::
+ Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. If this option
+ is not given, and the output file is specified, the format is
+ inferred from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to "foo.zip"
+ makes the output to be in the zip format). Otherwise the output
+ format is `tar`.
+
+-l::
+--list::
Show all available formats.
---verbose, -v::
+-v::
+--verbose::
Report progress to stderr.
--prefix=<prefix>/::
Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
+-o <file>::
+--output=<file>::
+ Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
+
+--worktree-attributes::
+ Look for attributes in .gitattributes in working directory too.
+
<extra>::
- This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
+ This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
See next section.
--remote=<repo>::
- Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
+ Instead of making a tar archive from the 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' on the remote side.
+
<tree-ish>::
The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
path::
- If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
- archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
+ Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories
+ of the current working directory are included in the archive.
+ If one or more paths are specified, only these are included.
BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
---------------------
CONFIGURATION
-------------
-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
+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.
+
+ATTRIBUTES
+----------
+
+export-ignore::
+ Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
+ added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
-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.
+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 -)::
Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
- latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
+ latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
`/var/tmp/junk` directory.
git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
+git archive -o latest.zip HEAD::
+
+ Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
+ commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
+ inferred by the extension of the output file.
+
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:gitattributes[5]
+
Author
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Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite