Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@nepsilon

nepsilon/export-repo-git-archive-tips.md

Last active January 12, 2025 11:14
Show Gist options

  • Select an option

    Learn more about clone URLs
  • Save nepsilon/44a2587a086f15d742c6 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Select an option

Learn more about clone URLs
Save nepsilon/44a2587a086f15d742c6 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP
Export your repo with git archive — First published in fullweb.io issue #16
Raw
export-repo-git-archive-tips.md

Export your repo with git archive

See how to use git archive to export your repository. For instance to get a copy of the code at a given commit, tag or branch. Note: it will not include the .git folder, just the code.

Create a Zip archive of the latest commit on the current branch:

$ git archive -o latest.zip HEAD

Exporting the branch pouet as a tarball:

$ git archive -o branch_pouet.tar pouet

The filetype is inferred from the filename, one of .tar, .tgz, .tar.gz, .zip.

By default git outputs on stdout convenient for piping to anything:

$ git archive master | bzip2 | ssh user@host "cat > master.bz"
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment