git archive inside subdirectory

Question

I am trying to archive my project regardless of my current directory.

Project structure

main_folder/
    sub1/
    sub2/
        sub3/

Answer 1

Currently, the answer is no. You can use

(cd `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`; git archive -v --format zip HEAD) > file.zip

as a workaround.

git-archive has a second parameter to specify a path. The only reason why it can't be used to achieve what you ask for is that, in contrast to many other places in git, this path is interpreted as a relative path rather than a pathspec, which would recognize / and :(top) as a repository's root. Maybe they'll add this to git-archive someday.