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Niki Guldbrand <niki.guldbrand@gmail.com> writes:

> git-archive --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
> [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]
>
> <extra>
>         This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
>         See next section.
>         
> I want to git tar the "--exclude=option", but i can't get it through.
> Is this option only valid for the zip format with the options "-0" and
> "-9" ?

The "next section" that sentence refers to is "BACKEND EXTRA
OPTIONS" section, which lists -0 and -9 for zip backend.  There
is no --exclude=option in either tar or zip backend.

Note that we do not use GNU tar or zip as archiver backends.