Create a Repository Archive with git
Everything about git is amazing. And by "everything", I mean almost everything. As someone that used Perforce and SVN before learning git, I'm willing to ignore a few git annoyances since it makes branching and many other simple tasks easier.
One good problem I have with git is that it's so powerful I don't know all of its features.
One feature I recently found out about is its archive feature which allows for exporting an entire repository to a zip or tar file.
# Format: git archive {branchname} --format={compression} --output={filename}
git archive master --format=tar --output=kuma.tar
git archive some-feature-branch --format=tar --output=kuma.tar
Sure you could use any archiving utility to archive a given repo, this feature allows for quick archiving of any branch or repository state!
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The title is misleading, git archive only puts the tree of a single commit into the .tar file, not the entire branch’s history. Useful for creating a tar file to release a version.
git bundle is what should be under this heading.
Hey, wouldn’t that make another nice entry?
Just a small correction:
--formatdoes not mean compression. It is – well – just the format of the archive, but it is not compressed at all.