Documented steps

Tarball of HEAD to a file: `git archive --output=repo.tar HEAD`.
Compressed tarball: `git archive --format=tar.gz -o repo.tar.gz v1.2.0` (also tgz).
Zip: `git archive --format=zip -o latest.zip HEAD` (or rely on the .zip extension).
Prepend a prefix dir so extraction lands under a folder: `git archive --prefix=repo-1.2.0/ -o repo.tar.gz v1.2.0`.
Archive only a subdirectory at HEAD: `git archive --format=zip --prefix=docs/ -o docs.zip HEAD:Documentation/`.
List supported formats with `git archive --list`.

Known gotchas

git archive by default archives only TRACKED files; add untracked ones separately with --add-file=<path>.
Exclude files with an `export-ignore` attribute in .gitattributes; attributes are read from the archived tree by default (add --worktree-attributes to read working-tree file).
Archiving a commit stores commit time in the tar; archiving a raw tree-id ({tree}) uses current time.
git archive does not include submodule contents unless handled separately.

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

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

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