Git: How to Archive from remote repository directly?

Question

I usually use the command below inside my project.git to get an archive in the specified destinations:

git archive master | tar -x -C /home/kave         


        

Answer 1

Another option, specifically for GitHub, is github-backup. It has options to capture GitHub-specific features like issues, wikis, and so on. Here is an example command-line I used recently to make archives of some other people's repositories:

github-backup --all --pull-details --prefer-ssh --repository REPO REPO-OWNER -u mhucka

In the command above, REPO-OWNER stands for the owner of the target repository and REPO is the repository name.

Answer 2

From git help archive:

   --remote=<repo>
       Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.

Command should end up like:

$ git archive --remote=https://kave@dndigital.git.cloudforge.com/myoproject.git master

But, if you would just extract the repo, you can make a shallow clone using --depth parameter of git clone:

   --depth <depth>
       Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions. A shallow repository has a number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in the recent history of a large project with a long history, and would want to send in fixes as patches.

So you have something like this:

$ git clone --depth=1 https://kave@dndigital.git.cloudforge.com/myoproject.git