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how to git-archive ignore some files?

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Victor Bogado da Silva Lins <victor@bogado.net>
Date
May 6, 2008, 18:15 UTC
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I want to use git-archive to create source packages, but my git repository has a .gitignore that I don't want to be pushed into the archive. So is it possible to keep the .gitignore file in the repository and create an archive(*) without it?

*) using git-archive, off course. 
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