git archive

Create an archive of files from a tree. More information: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-archive.

  • Create a tar archive from the contents of the current HEAD and print it to stdout:

git archive -v|–verbose HEAD

  • Use the Zip format and report progress verbosely:

git archive -v|–verbose --format zip HEAD

  • Output the Zip archive to a specific file:

git archive -v|–verbose -o|–output path/to/file.zip HEAD

  • Create a tar archive from the contents of the latest commit of a specific branch:

git archive -o|–output path/to/file.tar branch_name

  • Use the contents of a specific directory:

git archive -o|–output path/to/file.tar HEAD:path/to/directory

  • Prepend a path to each file to archive it inside a specific directory:

git archive -o|–output path/to/file.tar --prefix path/to/prepend/ HEAD