What files are left out of the tagged github zip?

Question

I had some issues with a deploy and has to revert back to a tagged version of the code.

When reviewing the changes between the the tagged code and the git code it had some changes like changelog.

Is there a list of exclusions for a zipped tag version of the code?

Answer 1

Yes. If a file is tagged in .gitattributes as export-ignore, then it will not be included in the archive. This is a feature of git archive, and GitHub uses git archive internally to generate archives.

There is no way to disable this feature, although if you were using git archive by hand, you could use --worktree-attributes to override these values and cause the files to be included.