Git - export archive with commit history

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How do I archive export a git repository at a specified commit with commit history?

Using git archive --output=test.zip 898a4ca exports the files but there is no .git, and hence no commit history or branches.

Basically I want to be able to export a git repo at a certain point in time - including the commit history and branches to that point.

This is useful for giving clients a copy of the repo up until the milestones they have paid for.

Is this possible?

1615903 · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-02 05:48:29Z

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You can use git bundle to do that:

git bundle create <filename> <commit you want>

See the documentation for more details: http://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-bundle

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Ike348 Apr 22 at 16:16

Is there any way to export a bundle as a .zip object?

1615903 Apr 24 at 14:52

@Ike348 use - as the filename and pipe it to zip, using - as the input as well: git bundle create - <commit you want> | zip bundle.zip -

Ike348 Apr 25 at 15:59

Ah, I didn't specify my question well. This will still produce a pack object and then zip it. I am looking for something that unzips to a proper file directory (like zips produced with git archive) but still includes the entire git history.

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