| --format=<fmt> | Format of the resulting archive: tar or zip. If this options is not given and the output file is specified, the format is inferred from the filename if possible. Otherwise, defaults to tar. |
| -l, --list | Show all available formats. |
| -v, --verbose | Report progress to stderr. |
| --prefix=<prefix>/ | Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive. |
| -o <file>, --output=<file> | Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout. |
| --worktree-attributes | Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working tree. |
| <extra> | This can be any options that the archiver backend understands. For zip backend, using -0 will store the files without deflating them, while -1 through -9 can be used to adjust compression speed and ratio. |
| --remote=<repo> | Retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository <repo> rather than the local repository. |
| --exec=<git-upload-archive> | Used with --remote to specify the path to the <git-upload-archive on the remote. |
| <tree-ish> | The tree or commit to produce an archive for. |
| <path> | Without an optional parameter, all files and directories in the current working directory are included in the archive. If one or more paths are specified, only these are included. |
