git-archive-with-submodules - create tgz from git repository, including submodules

git-archive-with-submodules [commit-ish]

If you define [commit-ish], the archive will be created based on whatever you define commit-ish to be. Banch names, commit hash, etc. are acceptable. Defaults to HEAD if not specified

• --include-changes
  • include staged and unstaged changes in the archive
  • NOTE: this flag makes sense only when archiving HEAD
• -t | --tag
  • Indicates that the [commit-ish] argument is a tag that should
  • be passed to the submodules for use as well.
• -o | --output-file <output_file>
  • write archive to <output_file>.
  • Defaults to directory name of this git repository with .tgz suffix
• --prefix /
  • Prepend / to each filename in the archive.
• -v | --verbose
  • be verbose