Stumbled across this gem: Export all commits into ZIP files or directories whose inital answer met my needs for exporting commits from certain branches (like develop for example) into separate zip files - all done via a simple, yet clever, one-liner:
git rev-list --all --reverse | while read hash; do git archive --format zip --output ../myproject-commit$((i=i+1))-$hash.zip $hash; done
In my version I replaced the --all with --first-parent develop.
What I would like to do now is make the filenames more useful by including the commit date and commit author in the filename. I've Googled around a bit, grokked the git archive documentation, but do not seem to find any other 'parameters' I could use that are readily available like $hash.
I'm guessing I will need to expand the loop and call up the relevant bits individually, save them into bash variables and pass them on to the output option with something like ${author}, unless anyone else knows a cleaner, simpler way to do this, or can point me to documentation or other examples where I could pull the needed info from other parts of git? Thanks in advance for any insights.
