# git archive

> Create an archive of files from a tree.
> More information: <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-archive>.

- Create a tar archive from the contents of the current HEAD and print it to `stdout`:

`git archive {{--verbose|-v}} HEAD`

- Use the Zip format and report progress verbosely:

`git archive {{--verbose|-v}} --format zip HEAD`

- Output the Zip archive to a specific file:

`git archive {{--verbose|-v}} {{--output|-o}} {{path/to/file.zip}} HEAD`

- Create a tar archive from the contents of the latest commit of a specific branch:

`git archive {{--output|-o}} {{path/to/file.tar}} {{branch_name}}`

- Use the contents of a specific directory:

`git archive {{--output|-o}} {{path/to/file.tar}} HEAD:{{path/to/directory}}`

- Prepend a path to each file to archive it inside a specific directory:

`git archive {{--output|-o}} {{path/to/file.tar}} --prefix {{path/to/prepend}}/ HEAD`