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I was recently asked to export as a .zip file one of my projects on my Git repository.

I have actually never had to do this in the 4 years I have been using Git.

I would prefer an answer that is all done inside command line terminal.

Jonathan Hall
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git archive --format=zip --output /full/path/to/zipfile.zip master

Abel Callejo
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EncryptedWatermelon
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    By the way, the command that I used was `git archive --format=zip --output project.zip HEAD`, but I still checked the answer off as it did bring me dramatically closer to the solution. – Daniel Apr 04 '19 at 12:25
  • I'm considering editing the answer with the `HEAD` parameter at the tail-end. What is the difference between having `HEAD` with not? – Abel Callejo Jan 17 '23 at 03:59
  • @AbelCallejo HEAD is your current branch vs specifying a branch to export – EncryptedWatermelon Jan 17 '23 at 19:56
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    `git archive` will infer format from the output file, reducing the command to `git archive -o project.zip master`. – young_souvlaki Feb 08 '23 at 03:47
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Shorthand examples

# zip archive
git archive -o output.zip master

# tape archive
git archive -o output.tar master

# tarball
git archive -o output.tar.gz master

According to the official documentation, the -o option is capable of identifying the target compression format through the extension file name.

Any other unidentified format will be defaulted to the tape archive which is equivalent to:

--format=tar
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Following code might help if you want to include .git/ too and don't want to include other extra files which haven't been tracked by git. Suppose the path of your git project is /opt/helloworld/, commit whatever are left, then you can do as the following:

git clone /opt/helloworld/  folder2
cd folder2
tar -czf helloworld-latest.zip folder2
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    The biggest issue in this setup is that you also add the `gitignore`d files, and there might be some secrets in it. – strboul Feb 20 '23 at 21:05
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    Including `.git` usually isn’t a good idea, since it could have arbitrary leftover state in it (maybe secrets too?). You should use `git bundle` to transfer a repository in most cases. – Ry- May 06 '23 at 00:59