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               [-o | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
  14               [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
  15               [<path>...]
  16
  17 DESCRIPTION
  18 -----------
  19 Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
  20 structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard
  21 output.  If <prefix> is specified it is
  22 prepended to the filenames in the archive.
  23
  24 'git archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
  25 given a commit ID or tag ID.  In the first case the current time is
  26 used as the modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
  27 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
  28 used instead.  Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
  29 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
  30 using 'git get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
  31 comment.
  32
  33 OPTIONS
  34 -------
  35
  36 --format=<fmt>::
  37         Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. If this option
  38         is not given, and the output file is specified, the format is
  39         inferred from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to "foo.zip"
  40         makes the output to be in the zip format). Otherwise the output
  41         format is `tar`.
  42
  43 -l::
  44 --list::
  45         Show all available formats.
  46
  47 -v::
  48 --verbose::
  49         Report progress to stderr.
  50
  51 --prefix=<prefix>/::
  52         Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
  53
  54 -o <file>::
  55 --output=<file>::
  56         Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
  57
  58 --worktree-attributes::
  59         Look for attributes in .gitattributes in working directory too.
  60
  61 <extra>::
  62         This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
  63         See next section.
  64
  65 --remote=<repo>::
  66         Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
  67         retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
  68
  69 --exec=<git-upload-archive>::
  70         Used with --remote to specify the path to the
  71         'git-upload-archive' on the remote side.
  72
  73 <tree-ish>::
  74         The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
  75
  76 <path>::
  77         Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories
  78         of the current working directory are included in the archive.
  79         If one or more paths are specified, only these are included.
  80
  81 BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
  82 ---------------------
  83
  84 zip
  85 ~~~
  86 -0::
  87         Store the files instead of deflating them.
  88 -9::
  89         Highest and slowest compression level.  You can specify any
  90         number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
  91
  92
  93 CONFIGURATION
  94 -------------
  95
  96 tar.umask::
  97         This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
  98         tar archive entries.  The default is 0002, which turns off the
  99         world write bit.  The special value "user" indicates that the
 100         archiving user's umask will be used instead.  See umask(2) for
 101         details.
 102
 103 ATTRIBUTES
 104 ----------
 105
 106 export-ignore::
 107         Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
 108         added to archive files.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
 109
 110 export-subst::
 111         If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then git will
 112         expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
 113         See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
 114
 115 Note that attributes are by default taken from the `.gitattributes` files
 116 in the tree that is being archived.  If you want to tweak the way the
 117 output is generated after the fact (e.g. you committed without adding an
 118 appropriate export-ignore in its `.gitattributes`), adjust the checked out
 119 `.gitattributes` file as necessary and use `--worktree-attributes`
 120 option.  Alternatively you can keep necessary attributes that should apply
 121 while archiving any tree in your `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file.
 122
 123 EXAMPLES
 124 --------
 125 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
 126
 127         Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
 128         latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
 129         `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
 130
 131 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
 132
 133         Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
 134
 135 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
 136
 137         Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
 138         global extended pax header.
 139
 140 git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip::
 141
 142         Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
 143         into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
 144
 145 git archive -o latest.zip HEAD::
 146
 147         Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
 148         commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
 149         inferred by the extension of the output file.
 150
 151
 152 SEE ALSO
 153 --------
 154 linkgit:gitattributes[5]
 155
 156 Author
 157 ------
 158 Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
 159
 160 Documentation
 161 --------------
 162 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 163
 164 GIT
 165 ---
 166 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite