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Exporting a Git repo as an archive

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I almost always work on projects with a Git repo backing it, even if it's not pushed anywhere and is more for a safer undo/redo functionality.

I've recently been doing some work that's required sending a ZIP of my work, rather than sharing a Git repo.

Although I would usually turn to the GitLab/GitHub UI to export to an archive for me, I remember reading that git-archive command exists, and is in fact used under the hood.

In your Git repo, we can run git archive to do this for us:

$ git archive origin/main -o archive.zip
# or we can be explicit about the file format
$ git archive origin/main --format=tgz -o archive.tar.gz
# defaults to stdout, beware!
$ git archive origin/main > archive.tar

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