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Making a release on GitHub

August 20, 2019 — Jesse Harris

Today's journey is using git and github to release PwshBlog The following are my notes on the matter.

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Making an archive

Normally when you make a release, you want to make an archive of the release available for people to download. You could use git's built-in tags feature alone, but that will include other bits of your repository that you probably don't want to include.

Enter git archive

The following are steps to creating the archive

• Create a .gitattributes file

• Add lines like the following

```

.gitignore export-ignore

appveyor.yml export-ignore

```

• Add and commit the .gitattributes file for it to work

• Create a tag

```

git tag -a v0.9.0

```

• Now create the archive

```

git archive --format=zip --prefix=PwshBlog/ v0.9.0 -o v0.9.0.zip

```

• Go create your release on github and drag in the created archive!

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