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From: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: how to git-archive ignore some files?
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On Tue, 06 May 2008 15:15:31 -0300
Victor Bogado da Silva Lins <victor@bogado.net> wrote:

> I want to use git-archive to create source packages, but my git
> repository has a .gitignore that I don't want to be pushed into the
> archive. So is it possible to keep the .gitignore file in the repository
> and create an archive(*) without it? 
> 
> *) using git-archive, off course. 
> 

Hi Victor,

You can do something like:

git archive HEAD  | \
	tar --delete .gitignore .mailmap .gitattributes | \
	bzip2 -c > archive.tar.bz2

HTH,
Sean