How can I email someone a git repository?

Question

I have tried:

git archive HEAD --format=zip > archive.zip

:and then I email archive.zip and at the other end they unzip archive.zip into

Answer 1

As previous answer said, git bundle is the way.

If you want to create a bundle from using only one branch (I prefer bundling only master) and sending over e-mail, you can do something like below:

$ git bundle create /tmp/mygitbackup.bundle master