git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
git archive [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
[-o <file> | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
[--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
[<path>...]
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.
--format=<fmt>
Format of the resulting archive. Possible values are
tar, zip, tar.gz, tgz, and any format defined
using the configuration option tar.<format>.command. If
--format 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 paths in the archive. Can be
repeated; its rightmost value is used for all tracked files. See below which
value gets used by --add-file and --add-virtual-file.
-o <file>, --output=<file>
Write the archive to <file> instead of
stdout.
--add-file=<file>
Add a non-tracked file to the archive. Can be repeated to
add multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built by
concatenating the value of the last --prefix option (if any) before
this --add-file and the basename of <file>.
--add-virtual-file=<path>:<content>
Add the specified contents to the archive. Can be
repeated to add multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built
by concatenating the value of the last
--prefix option (if any) before
this
--add-virtual-file and
<path>.
The <path> argument can start and end with a literal
double-quote character; the contained file name is interpreted as a C-style
string, i.e. the backslash is interpreted as escape character. The path must
be quoted if it contains a colon, to avoid the colon from being
misinterpreted as the separator between the path and the contents, or if the
path begins or ends with a double-quote character.
The file mode is limited to a regular file, and the option may be
subject to platform-dependent command-line limits. For non-trivial cases,
write an untracked file and use --add-file instead.
--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. Note that the
remote repository may place restrictions on which sha1 expressions may be
allowed in <tree-ish>. See git-upload-archive(1) for
details.
--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.
-<digit>
Specify compression level. Larger values allow the
command to spend more time to compress to smaller size. Supported values are
from -0 (store-only) to -9 (best ratio). Default is -6 if
not given.
-<number>
Specify compression level. The value will be passed to
the compression command configured in tar.<format>.command. See
manual page of the configured command for the list of supported levels and the
default level if this option isn’t specified.
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).
The tar.gz and tgz formats are defined automatically
and use the magic command git archive gzip by default, which invokes
an internal implementation of gzip.
tar.<format>.remote
If true, enable the 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.
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.
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 archive -o latest.tar --prefix=build/ --add-file=configure
--prefix= HEAD
Creates a tar archive that contains the contents of the
latest commit on the current branch with no prefix and the untracked file
configure with the prefix build/.
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.