NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       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 versus when given a commit ID or tag
       ID. In the first case the current time is 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 using git get-tar-commit-id. In ZIP
       files it is stored as a file comment.

OPTIONS

       --format=<fmt>
           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.

       -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 files in the working tree as well (see the
           section called “ATTRIBUTES”).

       <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.

       --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

   zip
       -0
           Store the files instead of deflating them.

       -9
           Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any number from 1 to 9 to
           adjust compression speed and ratio.

CONFIGURATION

       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"). An
           output file with the same extension as <format> will be use this format if no other
           format is given.

           The "tar.gz" and "tgz" formats are defined automatically and default to gzip -cn. You
           may override them with custom commands.

       tar.<format>.remote
           If true, enable <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

       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

       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 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

       gitattributes(5)

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite