Question

my project directory structure is like this:

my_project/
    .git/
    a_dir/
    another_file.py
    some_file.py

when I run git archive link this:

git archive --format=tar.gz -o ../my_project-0.1.0.tar.gz  v0.1.0

it archives the contents of my_project, but not the my_project directory. When I untar the archive, by default all of the directories and files are extracted in the current working directory. I want my archive to expand to a subdirectory called my_project-0.1.0. Can I do this on the git command line? Did I set up my repository wrong?

Answer 1

Use --prefix. From the docs:

--prefix=<prefix>/
Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.

Thus you can do:

git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=my_project/ -o ../my_project-0.1.0.tar.gz v0.1.0

The trailing / is important.