TortoiseGit Manual

Exporting a Git Working Tree

Sometimes you may want a snapshot of a specific revision/commit, e.g. to create a zipped tarball of your source, or to export to a web server. for this TortoiseGit offers the command TortoiseGitExport....

Figure 2.70. The Export Dialog

The Export Dialog


Zip File zip file of export

HEAD

Current commit checked out.

Branch

The latest commit of chosen branch.

Tag

The commit of chosen tag.

Commit

Any commit, you click ... to launch log dialog to choose commit. You also can input commit hash, or friendly commit name, such as HEAD~4.

You can find more information at git-archive(1) man-page.

Exporting single files

The export dialog does not allow exporting single files.

To export single files with TortoiseGit, you have to use the repository browser (cf. the section called “The Repository Browser”) or log dialog (cf. the section called “Log Dialog”). Simply drag the file(s) you want to export from the repository browser to where you want them in the explorer, or use the context menu in the repository browser to export the files.