# How to archive repo from sub-directory 2 messages from 2008-03-11 to 2008-03-11. Participants: Bill Lear, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12625 ## Bill Lear, 2008-03-11 00:33 Subject: How to archive repo from sub-directory Message-ID: <18389.54080.211086.922039@lisa.zopyra.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/18389.54080.211086.922039%40lisa.zopyra.com ``` If I have a git repo with several levels of sub-directories, how do I get git-archive to archive the entire tree, and not just the tree from where I am? Example: % cd foo % cat .git/description foo project % cd bar/baz % git archive --format=tar --prefix=foo/ HEAD | bzip2 > foo.tar.bz2 produces a tar file starting only at baz. If I can't conjur this on the command line with a clever argument to git archive (I've tried several), then how would I ask git "What is your top-level directory" so at least I could write a script to do this? Bill ``` ## Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, 2008-03-11 03:22 Subject: Re: How to archive repo from sub-directory Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fcaeb9bf0803102022s3cefd1d0jcea74fcf5ac69f6c%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <18389.54080.211086.922039@lisa.zopyra.com> ``` On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Bill Lear wrote: > If I have a git repo with several levels of sub-directories, how > do I get git-archive to archive the entire tree, and not just > the tree from where I am? Example: > > % cd foo > % cat .git/description > foo project > % cd bar/baz > % git archive --format=tar --prefix=foo/ HEAD | bzip2 > foo.tar.bz2 > > produces a tar file starting only at baz. > > If I can't conjur this on the command line with a clever argument to > git archive (I've tried several), then how would I ask git "What is > your top-level directory" so at least I could write a script to > do this? You can move back to top-level dir with "cd $(git rev-parse --show-cdup)". Another way is take "git rev-parse --show-prefix" result (which would be "bar/baz/") and process it yourself. -- Duy ```