How to ignore '.git' folder when clone the project from github and zipping it from my local

Question

Here is what i am doing.

1) Cloning my project from github to local machine.

"git clone https://github.com/xxxxxx/QACODE.git"

2) Then i am trying to zip my project through commandline.

"7z a QACODE C:/Users/Administrator/Desktop/workbench/*"

3) And this is what i am seeing in the compressed folder.

Answer 1

yeah it did works git archive --format zip --output /full/path/to/zipfile.zip master