Zipping all relevant files in a git repo

2020-126-61 1 min read

This will skip all the unnecessary stuff, like .git directory, and files ignored in the git repo itself:

git archive --format=zip -o archive-name.zip HEAD

You can omit --format.zip when you specify output files via -o, the format will be inferred.
Add --prefix subdir-name to have all files in the archive be put into a folder inside the archive, e.g:

git archive --prefix subdir-name/ -o archive-name.zip HEAD

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