Remove all git files from a directory?

Question

I have a folder under version control. I want to make a copy of it to send around, but don\'t want to include all the .git directories and the files underneath it.

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Answer 1

In case someone else stumbles onto this topic - here's a more "one size fits all" solution.

If you are using .git or .svn, you can use the --exclude-vcs option for tar. This will ignore many different files/folders required by different version control systems.

If you want to read more about it, check out: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/exclude.html