I have a CI process that runs a build process on my application which does things like minimizing code, obscufating etc and it outputs the result into a /build folder within my project.

I have added the /build path to my .gitignore to avoid duplication of code in the repository.

However I want to zip the /build project and upload it to my server, however when I run: git archive --format=zip HEAD ./build > deploy.zip I get an error message: "fatal: current working directory is untracked"

I've tried:

1. using a more generic zip -r ./deploy.zip . -x "**node_modules**" - this works however I'm wondering if there's a way to use the git archive command instead?
2. using the --add-file option e.g. git archive --format=zip --add-file=build/ HEAD ./build/ > deploy.zip

CodePudding user response：

Since your build/ directory is not versioned in git (note: which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do), it makes sense to use a non git command to create an archive with that content.

You worded, in your comment, your concerns with using a standard command : I would argue that creating a .zip or .tar.gz file is even "more" standard. git simply relies on these standards (and specific libraries that implement them).