zip and tar

Learn to create archives in zip and tar formats.

Supported Formats

Git natively supports tar and zip archive formats. You can run git archive --list to see all supported formats.

$ git archive --list
tar
tgz
tar.gz
zip

To explicitly specify the format, use the --format=zip or --format=tar option.

--format and Extension Inference

Git automatically infers the format from the file extension when you pass -o file.zip or -o file.tar. However, when piping to standard output, the --format flag must be specified explicitly.

git archive --format=tar HEAD | gzip > paket.tar.gz
git archive --format=zip -o dagitim.zip HEAD

This allows you to build pipelines with compression tools for custom compression steps.

Exercise Archive with Format Specification

Archive the HEAD commit in the repository using the --format=tar and --output=paket.tar options. Then print the contents with tar -tf paket.tar.

Show example solution

git init -q
git config user.name "Dev"
git config user.email "dev@example.com"
echo "console.log('calisiyor');" > index.js
git add index.js
git commit -q -m "Uygulama kodu"

git archive --format=tar --output=paket.tar HEAD
tar -tf paket.tar

Test yourself

Which command is used to list archive formats supported by Git in the terminal?
- git archive --show-types
- git config --get archive
- git archive --formats-all
- git archive --list
Show answer

git archive --list — The `git archive --list` command outputs formats supported by Git on the system, such as tar and zip.

Specify Zip Format

git archive --format=____ -o paket.zip HEAD

Show answer

git archive --format=zip -o paket.zip HEAD

Formats and Options

--list

Lists supported formats
--format=tar

Produces standard tar archive
--format=zip

Produces compressed zip archive
-o paket.zip

Infers zip format from extension

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