hg archive

create an unversioned archive of a repository revision

By default, the revision used is the parent of the working directory; use -r/–rev to specify a different revision.

The archive type is automatically detected based on file extension (to override, use -t/–type).

Examples:

• create a zip file containing the 1.0 release:

  hg archive -r 1.0 project-1.0.zip
  

• create a tarball excluding .hg files:

  hg archive project.tar.gz -X ".hg*"
  

Valid types are:

files:

a directory full of files (default)

tar:

tar archive, uncompressed

tbz2:

tar archive, compressed using bzip2

tgz:

tar archive, compressed using gzip

txz:

tar archive, compressed using lzma (only in Python 3)

uzip:

zip archive, uncompressed

zip:

zip archive, compressed using deflate

The exact name of the destination archive or directory is given using a format string; see `hg help export` for details.

Each member added to an archive file has a directory prefix prepended. Use -p/–prefix to specify a format string for the prefix. The default is the basename of the archive, with suffixes removed.

Returns 0 on success.