howto use gitpython repo.archive() for a tag

Question

I have to export a specific path of a tag. The git command is git archive <tag> but I didn't found a possibility to do this with gitpython

I've tried

repo.archive(tar, "<tag>")

without luck.

Answer 1

import git
import os.path

repopath = '/path/to/repo'
repo = git.Repo(repopath)
repo.git.archive('<tag>', '-o', '<tag>.zip')
if os.path.exists('<tag>.zip'):
    pass

You can translate almost all git commands to repo.git.<cmd>(arg0, arg1, ...). Need to replace - in the command name with _.

git log --oneline    ->    output = repo.git.log('--oneline')
git commit --allow-empty -m "foo bar" ->  output = repo.git.commit('--allow-empty', '-m', 'foo bar')
git ls-tree -r -t HEAD -> output = repo.git.ls_tree('-r', '-t', 'HEAD')