How to create a tarball of a git repository using "git archive"

how-to.md

git archive --format=tar.gz -o /tmp/my-repo.tar.gz --prefix=my-repo/ master

More detailed version: https://til.simonwillison.net/git/git-archive

Just putting this here, it's not ideal but if you have a private repo and just want to fetch it:
Generate GitHub access token: https://github.com/settings/tokens
And use token like this:
https://<personal_token>:@github.com/<your_repo>/archive/main.tar.gz

It's no ideal solution as you will have to recreate the token over time and each dev who wants to use the repo needs their own token.

This works on git repositories that are not Github

git archive --format=tar.gz -o my-repo.tar.gz --remote=git://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git master

Note that it doesn't work on Github as it appears it doesn't support it isaacs/github#554

for subfolder not work please solve download github subfolder project

example

wget https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master/folder.tar.gz

not work return 404 error please solve or propose solution for work

download github subfolder project in tarball

thank you

This solution available.

wget https://github.com/torvalds/linux/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

This previous solution was not available(why?)

$ wget https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master.tar.gz
--2024-06-30 15:22:42--  https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master.tar.gz
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 20.200.245.247
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|20.200.245.247|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2024-06-30 15:22:42 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Git 2.44 or above support HTTP protocol for git archive, so you can probably create an archive from remote directly.