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How to create a tarball of a git repository using "git archive"

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git archive --format=tar.gz -o /tmp/my-repo.tar.gz --prefix=my-repo/ master

More detailed version: https://til.simonwillison.net/git/git-archive

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 commented Jan 11, 2025

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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