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hg archive [OPTION]... DEST

create an unversioned archive of a repository revision

By default, the revision used is the parent of the working directory; use -r/--rev to specify a different revision.

The archive type is automatically detected based on file extension (to override, use -t/--type).

Examples:

create a zip file containing the 1.0 release:
```
hg archive -r 1.0 project-1.0.zip
```
create a tarball excluding .hg files:
```
hg archive project.tar.gz -X ".hg*"
```

Valid types are:

"files": a directory full of files (default)
"tar": tar archive, uncompressed
"tbz2": tar archive, compressed using bzip2
"tgz": tar archive, compressed using gzip
"txz": tar archive, compressed using lzma (only in Python 3)
"uzip": zip archive, uncompressed
"zip": zip archive, compressed using deflate

The exact name of the destination archive or directory is given using a format string; see 'hg help export' for details.

Each member added to an archive file has a directory prefix prepended. Use -p/--prefix to specify a format string for the prefix. The default is the basename of the archive, with suffixes removed.

Returns 0 on success.

options ([+] can be repeated):

	--no-decode	do not pass files through decoders
-p	--prefix PREFIX	directory prefix for files in archive
-r	--rev REV	revision to distribute
-t	--type TYPE	type of distribution to create
-S	--subrepos	recurse into subrepositories
-I	--include PATTERN [+]	include names matching the given patterns
-X	--exclude PATTERN [+]	exclude names matching the given patterns
	--mq	operate on patch repository

global options ([+] can be repeated):

-R	--repository REPO	repository root directory or name of overlay bundle file
	--cwd DIR	change working directory
-y	--noninteractive	do not prompt, automatically pick the first choice for all prompts
-q	--quiet	suppress output
-v	--verbose	enable additional output
	--color TYPE	when to colorize (boolean, always, auto, never, or debug)
	--config CONFIG [+]	set/override config option (use 'section.name=value')
	--debug	enable debugging output
	--debugger	start debugger
	--encoding ENCODE	set the charset encoding (default: UTF-8)
	--encodingmode MODE	set the charset encoding mode (default: strict)
	--traceback	always print a traceback on exception
	--time	time how long the command takes
	--profile	print command execution profile
	--version	output version information and exit
-h	--help	display help and exit
	--hidden	consider hidden changesets
	--pager TYPE	when to paginate (boolean, always, auto, or never) (default: auto)