1 git-archive(1)
2 ==============
4 NAME
5 ----
6 git-archive - Creates an archive of files from a named tree
9 SYNOPSIS
10 --------
11 [verse]
12 'git-archive' --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
13 [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]
15 DESCRIPTION
16 -----------
17 Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
18 structure for the named tree. If <prefix> is specified it is
19 prepended to the filenames in the archive.
21 'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
22 given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is
23 used as modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter
24 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
25 used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
26 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
27 using 'git-get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
28 comment.
30 OPTIONS
31 -------
33 --format=<fmt>::
34 Format of the resulting archive: 'tar', 'zip'... The default
35 is 'tar'.
37 --list, -l::
38 Show all available formats.
40 --verbose, -v::
41 Report progress to stderr.
43 --prefix=<prefix>/::
44 Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
46 <extra>::
47 This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
48 See next section.
50 --remote=<repo>::
51 Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
52 retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
54 <tree-ish>::
55 The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
57 path::
58 If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
59 archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
61 BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
62 ---------------------
64 zip
65 ~~~
66 -0::
67 Store the files instead of deflating them.
68 -9::
69 Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any
70 number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
73 CONFIGURATION
74 -------------
75 By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777 in tar
76 archives. It is possible to change this by setting the "umask" variable
77 in the repository configuration as follows :
79 [tar]
80 umask = 002 ;# group friendly
82 The special umask value "user" indicates that the user's current umask
83 will be used instead. The default value remains 0, which means world
84 readable/writable files and directories.
86 EXAMPLES
87 --------
88 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
90 Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
91 latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
92 `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
94 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
96 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
98 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
100 Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
101 global extended pax header.
103 git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip::
105 Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
106 into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
108 Author
109 ------
110 Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
112 Documentation
113 --------------
114 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
116 GIT
117 ---
118 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite