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Re: releasing your work

From
LNLars Noschinski <lars-2008-2@usenet.noschinski.de>
Date
Apr 16, 2009, 06:46 UTC
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<20090416064602.GA3668@lars.home.noschinski.de>
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<49E6B9E3.30707@wallcann.com>
* Lucas Sandery <lucas@wallcann.com> [09-04-16 06:53]:
> How do I make a "release" a copy (not a clone) of the repository that contains 
> only tracked files without .gitignore files? I am using git archive but the 
> resulting zip file still contains .gitignore files.

Have a look at the git-archive man page. You can exclude such files by adding the export-ignore attribute to gitattributes.

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