How to download zipped source code from Bitbucket repository?

[Hozen Shi]

Like Github/Download link, after click, you will get a tarball file named with repository name, and inside the file, it also has a root-dir also named by repository name and followed with the version information.

I know I can get this tarball file by git-archive command, but I don't know how to create a root-dir like what Github did.

git archive --format=tar --remote=ssh://git@xx.com:7999/xx_prj/xx_repo.git feature/beta --output="xx-1.3.tar.gz"

What I want is a xx-1.3.tar.gz file, inside it:

xx-1.3/

  -- file1

  -- file2

  -- folder1

  -- ..

But now what I get is a file without root-dir:

-- file1

-- file2

-- folder1

-- ..

Please help, thanks.

[Rambabu Patina _Appfire_ · Accepted solution]

Try with "--prefix" parameter in your command with the root-dir name what you want.

For more details and example see git-archive --prefix.