From: Lars Noschinski <lars-2008-2@usenet.noschinski.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:46:02 GMT
Subject: Re: releasing your work
Message-ID: <20090416064602.GA3668@lars.home.noschinski.de>
In-Reply-To: <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.