git-archive behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used as modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case 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.

--format=<fmt>

Format of the resulting archive: tar, zip

--list

Show all available formats.

--prefix=<prefix>/

Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.

<extra>

This can be any options that the archiver backend understand. See next section.

--remote=<repo>

Instead of making a tar archive from local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.

<tree-ish>

The tree or commit to produce an archive for.

path

If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.

-0

Store the files instead of deflating them.

-9

Highest and slowest compression level. You can specify any number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.

umask = 002     ;# group friendly

git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)

Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in /var/tmp/junk directory.

git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz

Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.

git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0^{tree} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz

Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a global extended pax header.

git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip

Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into git-1.4.0-docs.zip, with the prefix git-docs/.