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<refentry id="ostree">

    <refentryinfo>
        <title>ostree export</title>
        <productname>OSTree</productname>

    </refentryinfo>

    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>ostree export</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>

    <refnamediv>
        <refname>ostree-export</refname>
        <refpurpose>Generate a tar archive from an OSTree commit</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>

    <refsynopsisdiv>
            <cmdsynopsis>
                <command>ostree export</command> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg choice="req">BRANCH</arg>
            </cmdsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Description</title>

        <para>
	  This command generates a GNU tar formatted archive from an
	  OSTree commit.  This is useful for cases like backups,
	  converting OSTree commits into Docker images, and the like.
        </para>
    </refsect1>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Example</title>
        <para><command>$ ostree export exampleos/x86_64/standard | gzip > exampleos-standard.tar.gz</command></para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>