Documentation/git-archive.txt

   1 git-archive(1)
   2 ==============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-archive - Creates a archive of the files in the named tree
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 'git-archive' --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
  12               [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]
  13
  14 DESCRIPTION
  15 -----------
  16 Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
  17 structure for the named tree.  If <prefix> is specified it is
  18 prepended to the filenames in the archive.
  19
  20 'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
  21 given a commit ID or tag ID.  In the first case the current time is
  22 used as modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
  23 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
  24 used instead.  Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
  25 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
  26 using 'git-get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
  27 comment.
  28
  29 OPTIONS
  30 -------
  31
  32 --format=<fmt>::
  33         Format of the resulting archive: 'tar', 'zip'...
  34
  35 --list::
  36         Show all available formats.
  37
  38 --prefix=<prefix>/::
  39         Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
  40
  41 <extra>::
  42         This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
  43         See next section.
  44
  45 --remote=<repo>::
  46         Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
  47         retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
  48
  49 <tree-ish>::
  50         The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
  51
  52 path::
  53         If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
  54         archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
  55
  56 BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
  57 ---------------------
  58
  59 zip
  60 ~~~
  61 -0::
  62         Store the files instead of deflating them.
  63 -9::
  64         Highest and slowest compression level.  You can specify any
  65         number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
  66
  67
  68 CONFIGURATION
  69 -------------
  70 By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777 in tar
  71 archives.  It is possible to change this by setting the "umask" variable
  72 in the repository configuration as follows :
  73
  74 [tar]
  75         umask = 002     ;# group friendly
  76
  77 The special umask value "user" indicates that the user's current umask
  78 will be used instead. The default value remains 0, which means world
  79 readable/writable files and directories.
  80
  81 EXAMPLES
  82 --------
  83 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
  84
  85         Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
  86         latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
  87         `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
  88
  89 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
  90
  91         Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
  92
  93 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
  94
  95         Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
  96         global extended pax header.
  97
  98 git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip::
  99
 100         Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
 101         into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
 102
 103 Author
 104 ------
 105 Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
 106
 107 Documentation
 108 --------------
 109 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 110
 111 GIT
 112 ---
 113 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite