I'm trying to checkout part of remote git repository. As recommended here, with help of command git archive --format=zip --remote=http://path_to_repository But I'm getting error message: fatal...

I'm using git-archive to archive a subdirectory in a git repo, like so: git archive -o ../subarchive.zip HEAD subdir/* However the resulting archive maintains the subdir/ directory structure, i....

I have a website directory versioned with git. I use submodules for required libraries like Twitter Bootstrap, colorbox and lessjs because I should not track the sourcecode but only the version of ...

Given a simple test repository with a single commit with two files, a and b, I can get a list of specific files: $ git ls-files a a Or a list of all files excluding specific files: $ git ls-fil...

When I know I won't use a branch any more is it possible to close or lock it? Actually I would like to close a branch but I don't think it is possible to close a branch with GIT. what about the del...

I'm building my own rpm's. Usually I use git archive to get a tarball from the commit or tag I'm interested in (suppose I have put a tag 1.0): git archive --format=tgz --prefix=product-1.0 1.0 &gt...

I'm very confused about how to use git archive. I have a git repository with folder Foo, Bar and Baz at the top level. I need to export folder Foo in a SVN-ish sort of way for quick test deploymen...

I've been wondering whether there is a good "git export" solution that creates a copy of a tree without the .git repository directory. There are at least three methods I know of: git clo...

TL;DR: The git archive command seems to only either archive a single subdirectory or adhere to .gitattributes and exclude files/directories from the resulting ZIP, but cannot do both. Say I have t...

Can git archive include the directory that the .git project lives in? For example, let's say my directory structure is like this: -- /my-project-dir ----- /.git ----- /css ----- index.html ----- ...

I have a git repository with this .gitattributes: my_script.py export-subst Makefile export-ignore README.md export-ignore .gitattributes export-ignore .gitignore export-ignore hooks/ export-ignor...