Documentation/git-archive.txt

   1 git-archive(1)
   2 ==============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 [verse]
  12 'git-archive' --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
  13               [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]
  14
  15 DESCRIPTION
  16 -----------
  17 Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
  18 structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard
  19 output.  If <prefix> is specified it is
  20 prepended to the filenames in the archive.
  21
  22 'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
  23 given a commit ID or tag ID.  In the first case the current time is
  24 used as modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
  25 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
  26 used instead.  Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
  27 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
  28 using 'git-get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
  29 comment.
  30
  31 OPTIONS
  32 -------
  33
  34 --format=<fmt>::
  35         Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'.  The default
  36         is 'tar'.
  37
  38 --list, -l::
  39         Show all available formats.
  40
  41 --verbose, -v::
  42         Report progress to stderr.
  43
  44 --prefix=<prefix>/::
  45         Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
  46
  47 <extra>::
  48         This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
  49         See next section.
  50
  51 --remote=<repo>::
  52         Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
  53         retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
  54
  55 <tree-ish>::
  56         The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
  57
  58 path::
  59         If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
  60         archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
  61
  62 BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
  63 ---------------------
  64
  65 zip
  66 ~~~
  67 -0::
  68         Store the files instead of deflating them.
  69 -9::
  70         Highest and slowest compression level.  You can specify any
  71         number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
  72
  73
  74 CONFIGURATION
  75 -------------
  76
  77 tar.umask::
  78         This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
  79         tar archive entries.  The default is 0002, which turns off the
  80         world write bit.  The special value "user" indicates that the
  81         archiving user's umask will be used instead.  See umask(2) for
  82         details.
  83
  84 EXAMPLES
  85 --------
  86 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
  87
  88         Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
  89         latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
  90         `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
  91
  92 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
  93
  94         Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
  95
  96 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
  97
  98         Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
  99         global extended pax header.
 100
 101 git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip::
 102
 103         Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
 104         into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
 105
 106 Author
 107 ------
 108 Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
 109
 110 Documentation
 111 --------------
 112 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 113
 114 GIT
 115 ---
 116 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite