16th November 2022
TIL
How to create a tarball of a git repository using "git archive"
— I figured this out in [a Gist in 2016](https://gist.github.com/simonw/a44af92b4b255981161eacc304417368) which has attracted a bunch of comments over the years. Now I'm upgrading it to a retroactive TIL.
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