Create a tarball or zip of a git tree with git archive

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Documented steps

  1. Create a tarball of HEAD to a file: `git archive -o release.tar HEAD`.
  2. Compressed release tarball: `git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=app-1.0/ v1.0 -o app-1.0.tar.gz` (format inferred from the file extension when --format is omitted).
  3. Zip archive: `git archive -o latest.zip HEAD`.
  4. Archive just a subdirectory: `git archive --format=zip --prefix=docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > docs.zip`.
  5. Exclude files from the archive by setting the export-ignore attribute on them in .gitattributes.
  6. Stream to stdout and unpack: `git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /tmp && tar xf -)`.
  7. Official docs: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-archive

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