GIT-ARCHIVE(1) Git Manual GIT-ARCHIVE(1) NAME git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree SYNOPSIS git archive [--format=] [--list] [--prefix=/] [] [-o | --output=] [--worktree-attributes] [--remote= [--exec=]] [...] DESCRIPTION Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard output. If is specified it is prepended to the filenames in the archive. git archive behaves differently when given a tree ID as opposed to a commit ID or tag ID. When a tree ID is provided, the current time is used as the modification time of each file in the archive. On the other hand, when a commit ID or tag ID is provided, 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. OPTIONS --format= Format of the resulting archive. Possible values are tar, zip, tar.gz, tgz, and any format defined using the configuration option tar..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=/ Prepend / 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. -o , --output= Write the archive to instead of stdout. --add-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 . --add-virtual-file=: Add the specified contents to the archive. Can be repeated to add multiple files. The 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. Note that unlike --add-file the path created in the archive is not affected by the --prefix option, as a full can be given as the value of the option. --worktree-attributes Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working tree as well (see the section called "ATTRIBUTES"). --mtime=