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git-archive:tldr:020fe
The git archive
command is used to create a compressed archive file containing the contents of a specific commit or branch in a Git repository.
In this command, --output=${filename-tar}
specifies the name of the output archive file. ${filename-tar}
is a variable that should be replaced with the desired name of the archive file, typically ending with the .tar extension.
HEAD:${path-to-directory}
is a reference to the commit or branch and the directory path from where the contents should be included in the archive. HEAD
refers to the latest commit on the current branch. ${path-to-directory}
should be replaced with the actual directory path from which you want to create the archive. It can be a single file or a directory containing multiple files and directories.
To summarize, the command creates a compressed archive file (e.g., tar file) containing the contents of a specific commit or branch, limited to the specified directory path, and saves it with the provided filename.