Re: git-archive not working correctly ?

Niki Guldbrand [off-list ref] writes:

git-archive --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
[--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]

<extra>
        This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
        See next section.
        
I want to git tar the "--exclude=option", but i can't get it through.
Is this option only valid for the zip format with the options "-0" and
"-9" ?

The "next section" that sentence refers to is "BACKEND EXTRA
OPTIONS" section, which lists -0 and -9 for zip backend.  There
is no --exclude=option in either tar or zip backend.

Note that we do not use GNU tar or zip as archiver backends.