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GIT-UPLOAD-ARCHIVE(1)                        Git Manual                        GIT-UPLOAD-ARCHIVE(1)



NAME
       git-upload-archive - Send archive back to git-archive

SYNOPSIS
       git upload-archive <directory>


DESCRIPTION
       Invoked by git archive --remote and sends a generated archive to the other end over the Git
       protocol.

       This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user. The UI for the protocol is on
       the git archive side, and the program pair is meant to be used to get an archive from a
       remote repository.

SECURITY
       In order to protect the privacy of objects that have been removed from history but may not
       yet have been pruned, git-upload-archive avoids serving archives for commits and trees that
       are not reachable from the repository’s refs. However, because calculating object
       reachability is computationally expensive, git-upload-archive implements a stricter but
       easier-to-check set of rules:

        1. Clients may request a commit or tree that is pointed to directly by a ref. E.g., git
           archive --remote=origin v1.0.

        2. Clients may request a sub-tree within a commit or tree using the ref:path syntax. E.g.,
           git archive --remote=origin v1.0:Documentation.

        3. Clients may not use other sha1 expressions, even if the end result is reachable. E.g.,
           neither a relative commit like master^ nor a literal sha1 like abcd1234 is allowed, even
           if the result is reachable from the refs.

       Note that rule 3 disallows many cases that do not have any privacy implications. These rules
       are subject to change in future versions of git, and the server accessed by git archive
       --remote may or may not follow these exact rules.

       If the config option uploadArchive.allowUnreachable is true, these rules are ignored, and
       clients may use arbitrary sha1 expressions. This is useful if you do not care about the
       privacy of unreachable objects, or if your object database is already publicly available for
       access via non-smart-http.

OPTIONS
       <directory>
           The repository to get a tar archive from.

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite



Git 2.34.1                                   02/26/2026                        GIT-UPLOAD-ARCHIVE(1)