Zip folder ignoring files listed on .gitignore

gitzip.sh

#...

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

#... gitzip ZIPPED_FILE_NAME

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