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Format of the resulting archive. Possible values are , , , , and any format defined using the configuration option . If is not given, and the output file is specified, the format is inferred from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to makes the output to be in the format). Otherwise the output format is .
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Show all available formats.
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Report progress to stderr.
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Prepend <prefix>/ to paths in the archive. Can be repeated; its rightmost value is used for all tracked files. See below which value gets used by .
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Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
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Add a non-tracked file to the archive. Can be repeated to add multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built by concatenating the value of the last option (if any) before this and the basename of <file>.
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Add the specified contents to the archive. Can be repeated to add multiple files.
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Look for attributes in gittar .gitattributes files in the working tree as well (see ATTRIBUTES).
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Set modification time of archive entries. Without this option the committer time is used if is a commit or tag, and the current time if it is a tree.
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This can be any options that the archiver backend understands. See next section.
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Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. Note that the remote repository may place restrictions on which sha1 expressions may be allowed in . See git-upload-archive[1] for details.
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Used with --remote gittar to specify the path to the git-upload-archive on the remote side.
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The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
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Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories of the current working directory are included in the archive. If one or more paths are specified, only these are included.
