Zip folder ignoring files listed on .gitignore

gitzip.sh

#...

function gitzip() { 
	git archive -o $@.zip HEAD
}

#... gitzip ZIPPED_FILE_NAME

#if you want the file to have the name of the current folder if you're lazy about typing the zipfile name
git archive HEAD -o ${PWD##*/}.zip

#if you want the file to have the name of the current folder if you're lazy about typing the zipfile name
git archive HEAD -o ${PWD##*/}.zip

This works well. Thanks

Amazing alias. Thanks~

Careful - this only zips what you've checked in to git. Any changes you haven't committed won't appear in the archive.

Err, HEAD includes local commits, but not files / changes in the working directory that haven't been committed locally.

sephbook:g josephg$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/josephg/temp/g/.git/
sephbook:g josephg$ echo 'hi there' > foo.txt
sephbook:g josephg$ git add foo.txt 
sephbook:g josephg$ git commit -m 'Added foo'
[master (root-commit) aa502e5] Added foo
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 foo.txt
sephbook:g josephg$ echo 'changes' > bar.txt # <------ Will this make it into the zip file??
sephbook:g josephg$ git archive -o stuff.zip HEAD
sephbook:g josephg$ unzip -l stuff.zip 
Archive:  stuff.zip
aa502e5d1bef684d9af8b7bbd95fdf04f09be1be
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        9  10-26-2019 22:12   foo.txt # <------ Nope! Only foo.txt!
---------                     -------
        9                     1 file

Notice that foo.txt is in the archive, but bar.txt is missing because it hasn't been committed.

Good point. I actually want to accomplish exactly what the title says. I'm using a .gitignore file simply because it has a preselected list of items to ignore. There would be no commits in this repo.

If you require the files in the archive to be nested within the repo folder, and not in the root of the zip ie:
Not:

[
  file1
  file2
  ...
]

But:

[
  repo-folder
    [
      file1
      file2
      ...
     ]
]

Use something like this -

git archive --prefix ${PWD##*/}/ HEAD -o ../${PWD##*/}.zip

Thank you very mutch, it's very helped

if you find it useful to include the time of the backup/archive:

sudo git archive --prefix ${PWD##*/}/ HEAD -o ../${PWD##*/}-$(date "+%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S").zip

@sadernalwis That's a good idea.

I use one time

git config --global alias.zip 'archive HEAD -o' 

and then when you want..

git zip test.zip 

Ah sorry repost, sorry..

used this one for windows Powershell:

git archive HEAD -o ../$(Split-Path -Path ${PWD} -Leaf)-$(Get-Date -UFormat "%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M").zip

I got here when i looked for a command do backup the whole (local) repository including .git.

Here it is:

7z.exe a -bd ../archive.7z * '-xr@.\.gitignore'

Based on this answer: https://superuser.com/questions/28162/how-do-i-use-7-zip-to-backup-files-but-exclude-some-directories