Hi Robert, Robert Clausecker wrote: > There are two things git archive is missing that are needed in my use > case: > > First, git archive in combination with tar won't remove unneeded files. > You have to run rm -rf before manually which brings me to the next > point; git archive can't really make incremental updates. My advice is to keep a separate index file for your exported files. Like this: GIT_DIR=$(readlink -f $(git rev-parse --git-dir)) GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_DIR/index-for-deployment export GIT_DIR GIT_INDEX_FILE cd $dest git read-tree -m -u <tree> Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html