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How to create a tarball of a git repository using "git archive"
@forty
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forty commented Nov 15, 2022

This works on git repositories that are not Github

git archive --format=tar.gz -o my-repo.tar.gz --remote=git://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git master

Note that it doesn't work on Github as it appears it doesn't support it isaacs/github#554

@amidevous
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for subfolder not work please solve download github subfolder project

example

wget https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master/folder.tar.gz

not work return 404 error please solve or propose solution for work

download github subfolder project in tarball

thank you

@yskelg
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yskelg commented Jun 30, 2024

This solution available.

wget https://github.com/torvalds/linux/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

This previous solution was not available(why?)

$ wget https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master.tar.gz
--2024-06-30 15:22:42--  https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master.tar.gz
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 20.200.245.247
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|20.200.245.247|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2024-06-30 15:22:42 ERROR 404: Not Found.

@winston0410
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Git 2.44 or above support HTTP protocol for git archive, so you can probably create an archive from remote directly.

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