Hoping someone can help,
I have a repository for a web application. It has lots of testing files and also others from caching and dynamic content generation (they are gitignored).
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.
Cheers, Lucas.
Re: releasing your work
* 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.
Re: releasing your work
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