Exporting / Archiving changed files only in Git
archive, export, git, msysgit
Solution
I don't think there's any need to involve git-archive. Using `--name-only`, you could tar up the files:
tar czf new-files.tar.gz `git diff --name-only [diff options]`
Since you're new to Linux, this might need some explanation:
The backticks in the command line cause the shell to first execute the command within the backticks, then substitute the output of that command into the command line of `tar`. So the `git diff` is run first, which generates a list of filenames, one on each line. The newlines are collapsed to spaces and the whole list of files is placed on the `tar` command line. Then `tar` is run to create the given archive. Note that this can generate quite long command lines, so if you have a very large number of changed files you may need a different technique.
Problem
Is there a simple way to export / archive only the changed files from a given commit or series of commits in git? I can't seem to find clear instructions to do this (and I'm new to Linux/Git). I am using msysgit, and for the most part I'm fine with deploying entire repositories but in many cases it is much more efficient to deploy small fixes a few files at a time. Pushing/pulling/installing git on the remote servers isn't really an option as my level of access varies between projects and clients. Is there a straight-forward way to (rough guess): ``` pipe 'diff --names-only' to 'git-archive'? ```