Strange artifacts when using git archive
I'm currently trying to retrieve a single file from a GitLab Repo with the following command (I'm on Windows):
git archive --remote=git@git.myrepo.de:path/to/repo.git HEAD dir1/dir2/MyFile.xml > MyFile.xml
Essentially it works, but there are some strange artifacts in front and after the actual content of the file. This is how the command prompt shows them:
The XML version tag at the bottom of the image is the start of the actual file content. Does anyone have an idea how to get rid of this?
Solution
git archive creates tar archives even for 1 file. And that's exactly what you see at the screen — a content of a tar archive. Perhaps you ran the command without redirection or tried to cat MyFile.xml which is not an XML but a tar file.
To clear the screen run clear. To extract files from the archive use tar:
git archive --remote=git@git.myrepo.de:path/to/repo.git HEAD dir1/dir2/MyFile.xml | tar xvf -
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