From: Lucas Sandery <lucas@wallcann.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:40:40 GMT
Subject: Re: releasing your work
Message-ID: <49E6E0F8.4050506@wallcann.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090416064602.GA3668@lars.home.noschinski.de>


Lars Noschinski wrote:
> * Lucas Sandery [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.
>   
Thanks Lars,

For anyone else out there with the same problem...

I made a .gitattributes file and it contains only 2 lines:
.gitignore export-ignore
.gitattributes export-ignore

I make my release with:
git archive --format=zip -9 master > ../release.zip
(after right-clicking on my repos root folder and selecting "git bash", 
i'm on a windoze machine at work)
the "../" puts the archive next to the repository folder not in it
e.g. for
c:\path\to\repos\
i get
c:\path\to\release.zip