Archive a repository with all its submodules.

git-archive-all [-v] [-C BASE_REPO] [--prefix PREFIX] [--no-export-ignore] [--force-submodules] [--include EXTRA1 ...] [--dry-run] [-0 | ... | -9] OUTPUT_FILE

Options:

  --version             show program's version number and exit

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  -v, --verbose         enable verbose mode

  --prefix=PREFIX       prepend PREFIX to each filename in the archive;
                        defaults to OUTPUT_FILE name

  -C BASE_REPO          use BASE_REPO as the main git repository to archive;
                        defaults to the current directory when empty

  --no-export-ignore    ignore the [-]export-ignore attribute in .gitattributes

  --force-submodules    force `git submodule init && git submodule update` at
                        each level before iterating submodules

  --include=EXTRA       additional files to include in the archive

  --dry-run             show files to be archived without actually creating the archive

Questions & Answers

Q: How to exclude files?

A: Mark paths you want to exclude in the .gitattributes file with the export-ignore attribute. Read more on git-scm.com.

Q: What about non-unicode filenames?

A: All filenames that particular version of Python can represent and handle are supported. Extra [en|de]coding is done where appropriate.