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GIT-ARCHIVE(1)                 Git Manual                 GIT-ARCHIVE(1)

NAME         top

       git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree

SYNOPSIS         top

       git archive [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
                     [-o <file> | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
                     [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
                     [<path>...]

DESCRIPTION         top

       Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
       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 as opposed
       to a commit ID or tag ID. When a tree ID is provided, the current
       time is used as the modification time of each file in the
       archive. On the other hand, when a commit ID or tag ID is
       provided, 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 comment.

OPTIONS         top

       --format=<fmt>
           Format of the resulting archive. Possible values are tar,
           zip, tar.gz, tgz, and any format defined using the
           configuration option tar.<format>.command. If --format 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.

       -v, --verbose
           Report progress to stderr.

       --prefix=<prefix>/
           Prepend <prefix>/ to paths in the archive. Can be repeated;
           its rightmost value is used for all tracked files. See below
           which value gets used by --add-file and --add-virtual-file.

       -o <file>, --output=<file>
           Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.

       --add-file=<file>
           Add a non-tracked file to the archive. Can be repeated to add
           multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built
           by concatenating the value of the last --prefix option (if
           any) before this --add-file and the basename of <file>.

       --add-virtual-file=<path>:<content>
           Add the specified contents to the archive. Can be repeated to
           add multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is
           built by concatenating the value of the last --prefix option
           (if any) before this --add-virtual-file and <path>.

           The <path> argument can start and end with a literal
           double-quote character; the contained file name is
           interpreted as a C-style string, i.e. the backslash is
           interpreted as escape character. The path must be quoted if
           it contains a colon, to avoid the colon from being
           misinterpreted as the separator between the path and the
           contents, or if the path begins or ends with a double-quote
           character.

           The file mode is limited to a regular file, and the option
           may be subject to platform-dependent command-line limits. For
           non-trivial cases, write an untracked file and use --add-file
           instead.

       --worktree-attributes
           Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working
           tree as well (see the section called “ATTRIBUTES”).

       --mtime=<time>
           Set modification time of archive entries. Without this option
           the committer time is used if <tree-ish> is a commit or tag,
           and the current time if it is a tree.

       <extra>
           This can be any options that the archiver backend
           understands. See next section.

       --remote=<repo>
           Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
           retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. Note that
           the remote repository may place restrictions on which sha1
           expressions may be allowed in <tree-ish>. See
           git-upload-archive(1) for details.

       --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>
           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         top

   zip
       -<digit>
           Specify compression level. Larger values allow the command to
           spend more time to compress to smaller size. Supported values
           are from -0 (store-only) to -9 (best ratio). Default is -6 if
           not given.

   tar
       -<number>
           Specify compression level. The value will be passed to the
           compression command configured in tar.<format>.command. See
           manual page of the configured command for the list of
           supported levels and the default level if this option isn’t
           specified.

CONFIGURATION         top

       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. If --remote is used then only the configuration of
           the remote repository takes effect.

       tar.<format>.command
           This variable specifies a shell command through which the tar
           output generated by git archive should be piped. The command
           is executed using the shell with the generated tar file on
           its standard input, and should produce the final output on
           its standard output. Any compression-level options will be
           passed to the command (e.g., -9).

           The tar.gz and tgz formats are defined automatically and use
           the magic command git archive gzip by default, which invokes
           an internal implementation of gzip.

       tar.<format>.remote
           If true, enable the format for use by remote clients via
           git-upload-archive(1). Defaults to false for user-defined
           formats, but true for the tar.gz and tgz formats.

ATTRIBUTES         top

       export-ignore
           Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won’t
           be added to archive files. See 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 gitattributes(5) for details.

       Note that attributes are by default taken from the .gitattributes
       files in the tree that is being archived. If you want to tweak
       the way the output is generated after the fact (e.g. you
       committed without adding an appropriate export-ignore in its
       .gitattributes), adjust the checked out .gitattributes file as
       necessary and use --worktree-attributes option. Alternatively you
       can keep necessary attributes that should apply while archiving
       any tree in your $GIT_DIR/info/attributes file.

EXAMPLES         top

       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 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
           Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.

       git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0
       >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
           Same as above, but using the builtin tar.gz handling.

       git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0
           Same as above, but the format is inferred from the output
           file.

       git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0^{tree} | gzip
       >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
           Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
           global extended pax header.

       git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ >
       git-1.4.0-docs.zip
           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.

       git archive -o latest.tar --prefix=build/ --add-file=configure
       --prefix= HEAD
           Creates a tar archive that contains the contents of the
           latest commit on the current branch with no prefix and the
           untracked file configure with the prefix build/.

       git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"
           Configure a "tar.xz" format for making LZMA-compressed
           tarfiles. You can use it specifying --format=tar.xz, or by
           creating an output file like -o foo.tar.xz.

SEE ALSO         top

       gitattributes(5)

GIT         top

       Part of the git(1) suite

COLOPHON         top

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